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Jared Popowski

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Getting my PhD in intelligent active glasses/plant biophysics from UvA! 🧫🌱 Physics MSc from UBC, 2023 Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=D… jaredpopowski.com

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm the guy to call during a summer heatwave
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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our work on chloroplast packing was featured by @quantamagazine.bsky.social in @maxlevy.bsky.social's article. It was a fun colab with @mazi1.bsky.social and Eric Weeks during my PhD that led to this work. Article: www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m... Paper in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells | Quanta Magazine
The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/04/2026
These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change. go.nature.com/48vuHGw
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Cephalopods deserve higher welfare standards in research
These highly sentient creatures have weak protections for their well-being. That must change.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/01/2026
Researchers have designed an electrode that allows for a month-long, noninvasive method of studying physiology and health in a diverse array of plants. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/4aay3yP
A tobacco plant showing slight signs of aging after three days of signal-to-noise ratio testing.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Camouflage 😶‍🌫️
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The newspaper headlines. It's insane that he got away with this unpunished.
A collection of newspaper front pages, "Assault on democracy," "Insurrection," and more.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Project 2025 drives policy decisions in the US government, and I expect that to continue over the next year. I (unaffiliated) found this site that tracks their progress: www.project2025.observer/en Already 50% of Project 2025's policy proposals have been implemented in Trump's first year.
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Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🔬🪲 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🔬🪲 Glandular trichomes function as ultra-fast biomechanical defense triggers in tomatoes, rupturing upon contact with insects and exposing them to sticky and toxic secretions - Popowski et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jaredpopo.bsky.social
Fig. 3.Thrips nymphs rupture tomato trichomes. (A) Frames from a microscopy video (Supplementary Video S4) before, during, and after a thrips leg causes type VI glandular trichome rupture on an S. habrochaites tomato stem sample. Zoomed-in panels are shown below each frame, with illustrative labels for the leg, glandular head, and fluid filament formed afterward. The colors assigned to the frames indicate the time of the experiment in the leg position versus time plot of (B) The plot also tracks the formation and length of the filament over the course of the video, as the insect struggles to move.
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
📣 Check out the Journal of Experimental Botany's newest special issue 📣 🍅 Tomato - Issue 21 of 2025 🍅 📘 Guest edited by Yves Gibon, Diane Beckles, Sonia Osorio & Hiroshi Ezura 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social
The cover of Vol 76 | Issue 21 | 2025 of the Journal of Experimental Botany, Special Issue: Tomato. Purple banners border the top and bottom of the page and in the centre is an image of a ripe tomato fruit on its truss (credit: Marine Honoré).
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The JXB Tomato special edition is out, featuring the first publication of my PhD! We found that glandular trichome head rupture in tomato is an ultra-sensitive defense against insect predation. 🧵on plant biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and plant-insect interactions! 🧪 academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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Glandular trichome rupture in tomato plants is an ultra-fast and sensitive defense mechanism against insects
Glandular trichomes function as ultra-fast biomechanical defense triggers in tomatoes, rupturing upon contact with insects and exposing them to sticky and
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Kaare H. Jensen @jensen-research.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Roses don’t just defend themselves. Their prickles are geometrically ideal for gripping surfaces, supporting vertical growth, and, when needed, creating lacerations that deter herbivores. Students - join us to investigate how biological form and physical law work together!
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I've never heard more business bullshitting than while listening to the CEO of Roblox, Dave Baszucki, trying to startup-speak his way around the problem of child predators on his platform during a planned interview on the subject
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Nature @nature.com · 01/11/2025
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government go.nature.com/47hn0n5
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
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Nature @nature.com · 17/10/2025
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6
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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How about we don't tie fundamental research funding up with defense in the EU? The push for defense applications could take away spending in other critical areas like medicine or environmental science
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Isabelle Eisenmann @isabelleeisenmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Happy to share that our work on active phase separation by photophobic microalgae is now published in PRL! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... When surrounded by multiple light sources, cells hide behind each other, leading to the quick formation of a macroscopic branching pattern.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Cool animal that I didn't know existed: this is a crab spider that I saw on a hike in Brittany, strategically positioned amidst the densest group of butterflies that I had seen on the trail
A white crab spider stands prone with arms outstretched on a leaf.
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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week. And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!! www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
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Physics meets fashion: a bioluminescent dress
A very special look was presented earlier this week by fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the Paris Haute Couture Week. The garment: a bioluminescent dress, created from 125 million living algae. Bio...
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is the future I want for all active fault zones! Let's get cheap sensors everywhere+statistical modeling to alert us to incoming earthquakes/volcanic eruptions
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning. Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-...
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Top U.S. Scientists Are Calling Out Trump’s ‘Climate of Fear’
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🧵 Watch closely the waves on the surface as a bird moves through the water! This is one of my favorite videos that I've seen recently - dense collections of fish using collective escape waves that confuse birds 🌊 Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Are you at the #APSGlobalSummit2025? I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award! Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊 Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :) @apsphysics.bsky.social
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
To my friends and colleagues back in the US, my heart aches as I watch the Trump administration dismantle the scientific research that made our country so important on the world stage. It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️ standupforscience2025.org standupforscience.fr
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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Soft matter physics is either: 1. Fluid does weird thing 2. Granular system does weird thing 3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So excited for the week ahead at Les Houches!
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Went to the wonderful Groote Museum yesterday! Highly recommend for those interested in biology/life sciences and happen to visit the Amsterdam area
The front entrance of the Groote museum, with interactive exhibitions and displays.A collection on animal intelligence, including crows, penguins, and octopuses.A display about how salmon navigate to the spawn region through scents.A flamboyance of flamingos at the Artis zoo, outside the Groote museum.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@kpc.bsky.social wrote a nice writeup about my recent preprint about the mechanics of glandular trichome rupture, was a fun interview! www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
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Tomato plants are covered in tiny anti-pest booby traps
A more detailed understanding of the natural anti-insect protections of tomato plants can lead to better pest-management strategies
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Nico Schramma @nicoschramma.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yay! I won the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest alongside two others! My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes! My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula! engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Proud to win the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest for my tomato leaf trichome photo! Trichomes break on contact with insects, defending against predation 🐛🌿🔬🧪 Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/12/2024
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 03/12/2024
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Vodka can propel tiny robots across the water
A popular science classroom demonstration could one day lead to applications in powering tiny robots.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"Einstein has once again expressed himself publicly on quantum mechanics...As is well known, this is a catastrophe every time it happens" - Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935
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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hot off the press A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber | PNAS
Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed dispersal. A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in pl...
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A recent microscopy image of mine showing trichomes on the surface of a tomato leaf (S. Habrochaites). These hair-like structures are powerful defense systems against insects! 🌿🐛
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It's finally oliebollen season in Amsterdam!
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Science isn't about making the data fit your worldview. It's about making your worldview fit the data.
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
Every woman in physics that I've talked to still regularly experiences gender-based discrimination and biases, and the balance of power in academic institutions is overwhelmingly male-dominated. It's time for a more supportive and welcoming system! arxiv.org/abs/2407.02612
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Women for Quantum -- Manifesto of Values
Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. Beyond data, from our shared...
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Jared Popowski @jaredpopo.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
I made a Python GUI that allows you to search through an exported WhatsApp .txt chat history github.com/jspopowski/W...
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GitHub - jspopowski/WhatsApp-Chat-Search: Script that allows you to search through an exported WhatsApp .txt chat history
Script that allows you to search through an exported WhatsApp .txt chat history - jspopowski/WhatsApp-Chat-Search
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