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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Today, the Tour de France begins 3 gruelling weeks of sun, scenery & summits, but what's the key to winning in this elite world of small margins? How about appetite for risk? @imgoxford.bsky.social & @javichico.bsky.social lead the breakaway. Read more: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/72427 #TDF2025

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

You've got friends round for coffee and cake. There are seven of you. Trouble is, you've made a square cake. How do you make sure everyone receives an equal share? Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.

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Mathematical Observatory @mathobservatory.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Buckling normally happens when you compress something slender, but 'tug' on a piece of crumpled paper at two points and it also buckles. Read more about how this "localized-TUG folding" occurs in many systems at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2423439122

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Yang Liu @yangliu-mechanics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Excited to share our paper on the mathematical modelling of elephant trunk wrinkles, working with @langelamihai.bsky.social and @alaingoriely.bsky.social. We provide qualitative insight into surface wrinkles in elephant trunks based on nonlinear morphoelasticity. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

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Hadrien Oliveri @hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚨Hot off the press! With Ibrahim Cheddadi, we tackled a key challenge: building a field theory of plant morphogenesis, based on fundamental balance laws and capturing cell wall remodelling and water dynamics in tissues🌿💧Check out our paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Another one for the bucket list: when your paper makes it to Saturday Night Life Here is the paper www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Javier Chico @javichico.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Last night I had the opportunity of sharing some bite size pieces of my research in biological sensing with St John’s undergrads at the Christmas Maths Seminar. Thanks to everyone for the questions and the tutors for setting everything up!

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Mathematical Observatory @mathobservatory.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Read about how the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) disperses its seeds in a high pressure jet here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (or just watch the movie)

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