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JCB @baretjc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nuit de la Recherche à Capscience avec @lauraal.bsky.social ! Cellules Synthétiques 😀 @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Last Friday, Vivien defended her thesis 🥳 Congrats! She is the first PhD of the group, opening the era of the Soft BioCol PhD generations 🎓 Thank you, Vivien, for the hard work, commitment, and such a bright personality. Wish you the best in the new adventure! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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JCB @baretjc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

👏 Let's celebrate women in sciences with a two days delay and focusing on two colleagues from the group ! 👩‍🎓 Huge congrats to Vivien Willems who defended her PhD from @univbordeaux.bsky.social finishing 3 years of her research project in our bio group @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social !

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/12/2025

New research in #ScienceSignaling visualizes how plant cells generate different patterns of calcium ion waves to respond to microbes and wounds, helping to answer how plants generate diverse responses through this elementary signaling mechanism. scim.ag/49NigY0

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Local traveling waves of cytosolic Ca2+ elicited by defense signals or wounding are propagated by distinct mechanisms in Arabidopsis

Defense-inducing Ca2+ waves in leaf epidermis are stimulus specific.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

MAPHEUS16 rocket is almost ready! 🚀 🦠We have 2 experiments #Nymex & #Vesicolos, where we study #lipidvesicles in ugravity. Previous results showed unexpected behavior. Hopefully, we can complete the story in this campaign. @dlr-de.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We’re back in Kiruna for the #MAPHEUS16 #Microgravity campaign 🚀 #SoftMatter This time we’re flying two experiments on giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). #NyMEx #VESICOLOS @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @dlr-en.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Great week at #ISMC2025 in Crete 🇬🇷! First conf for us as @softbiocol.bsky.social group, presenting talks, posters & bringing home 2 #PosterPrizes 🏆. Honored to give a #Keynote on #JanusActiveVesicles 🧫. Thanks to the organizers & great to see friends from #ETHZürich! #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I take enormous pleasure interacting with this stimulating community and sharing our experimental designs of bioinspired out of equilibrium systems. Many thanks to Rosalba, Matteo and Alessandro for putting together the workshop, and inviting me to present.

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

An army of crocheted GUVs just joined the group! Emotional support for tough vesicle experiments. We know working with GUVs can be non-trivial. The backup is welcome ;) Thanks, Ana Cazorla, for this thoughtful present! Amazing student ideas! #SoftMatter #LabLife #lipidvesicles

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This is fantastic research and even better outreach!!

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Bhamla Lab @ Georgia Tech @bhamlalab.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ultrafast elastocapillary fans control agile maneuvering in ripple bugs and robots

Rhagovelia ripple bugs use specialized middle-leg fans with a flat-ribbon architecture to navigate the surfaces of fast-moving streams. We show that the fan’s directional stiffness enables fast, passi...

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Our recent article "Run and tumble dynamics of active Janus vesicles" in @softmatter.rsc.org has been featured on the cover of the journal. Check out the published article: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Congrats to Vivien Willems for this nice work!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We love our science and its artistic side! Check our group website to see the various pictures taken in our group @softbiocol.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A new chapter begins as Associate Professor! Thanks to all the people involved, my local mentors (@baretjc.bsky.social ‬and H.Kellay), former supervisors (special mention to Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces w/ to Lucio Isa), collaborators, my colleagues at CRPP and friends

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

New prepint w/ @demianlevis.bsky.social @natxopago.bsky.social L. Isa and E.Sesé-Sansa. We study active binary mixtures to unveil how two populations of active colloids with different motilities interact with each other. Thanks for the great work!🥳 arxiv.org/abs/2506.15188

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Thank you so much to the @cpjfrance.bsky.social for this Portrait! Very happy to be part of this program as a Chair Junior MdC! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Discover more about our group members!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

New publication from our group @softbiocol.bsky.social led by Vivien Willems. Check the group Twitter thread about it below👇 A step forward on active soft microsystems Thanks to all the colleagues who made this happen! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What a great evening together! A small family inside and outside the lab! Thanks to all the group members for making my PI experience so amazing :) 🥳

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New group article led by J. Fojo in @softmatter.rsc.org @rsc.org on 2D percolated networks of colloidal rods! This article forms part of the collection in honour of our collegue Stefan Egelhaaf. Thank to eveyone who made it possible! @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It was a pleasrue to have @asciortino.bsky.social with us last week at @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Thanks for showing us the beauty of soft interface driven out-of-equilibrium :) - and the best explanation on nematic defects ever!

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Giovanni Volpe @giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In our latest preprint, we introduce GAUDI! GAUDI is an unsupervised geometric deep learning framework for analyzing complex graph-structured data. Work by Mirja Granfors, Jesús Pineda, @cmanzo.bsky.social @joana-b-pereira.bsky.social Blanca Zufiria Gerbolés 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2503.05560

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Synetic Cell MC Doctoral Network PhD offer alert!📌 at @kgoepfrich.bsky.social group in Heidelberg! If you are interested in RNA origami, synthetic cells, & membranes, contact Kerstin with a CV and a transcript of your records! More info goepfrichgroup.de & sigsyncell.crpp.cnrs.fr

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

When you look at the audience trying to guess who your reviewer might be

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Giovanni Volpe @giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Happy to share our Nature Reviews Physics roadmap on how machine learning is transforming our understanding of glassy dynamics! ✨ 👉Shout out to Gerhard Jung for his fantastic job on this project! www.linkedin.com/posts/gvolpe...

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Giovanni Volpe on LinkedIn: Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics - Nature Reviews Physics

Our latest publication, "Roadmap on Machine Learning Glassy Dynamics," published in Nature Reviews Physics! 🎉 In this work, we explore how machine…

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Moitas grazas por o apoio e por dar visibilidade ó noso traballo. A labor que facedes é parte da loita! Thanks a lot for the support! Hopefully many more girls will get motivated to pursue their curiosity into a scientific career! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It is a honour to work around these brilliant and inspiring women! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social @crpp-bordeaux.bsky.social Let’s make this day an everyday matter! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #11F

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Christoph Dellago @chhdellago.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Check out my wonderful colleagues at the Faculty of Physics of @univie.ac.at, featured here for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/wome...

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SXGQuímica @sxgquimica.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Esta semana temos unha programación especial polo Día da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia. Estade atentas!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Waiting for a flight while reading @nytimes.com I stumbled up on this short article about the work of Denis Bartolo and his group on crowds in San Fermins! This is so cool! :) @cnrs.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Save the date!! Great #softmatter Symposium at @univbordeaux.bsky.social This summer! More info soon!👇

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Giovanni Volpe @giovannivolpe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Now hiring 2 PhD students at the Soft Matter Lab at the University of Gothenburg for the EU project SPM4.0 project! Please, spread! 🔍 Focus: AI-driven smart microscopy, machine learning, image analysis 📍 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪 🗓Apply by: 24 Feb 2025 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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PhD student in Physics (with focus on smart microscopy, Soft Matter Lab)

The Department of Physics at the University of Gothenburg is located in the center of

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Christoph Dellago @chhdellago.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Always good to be back at @cecamevents.bsky.social in Lausanne! By the way, check out the new program at www.cecam.org/program

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SoftBio Colloids Lab @softbiocol.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Excited to share the new preprint on reconfigurable colloidal molecules, led by S. Ketzetzi, in collab. with H. Löwen and L. Isa. Congrats to Vivien (first article from her Master’s) & @lauraal.bsky.social for their contribution, and to all for the great work! arxiv.org/abs/2501.00672

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

What started as a final postdoc idea project before leaving #ETH finished up as a beautiful piece of work led by my dear collegue Carlijn V.Baalen. Congrats to Carlijn and thanks for trusting Friday afternoon ideas :) Check our prepint below!👇 arxiv.org/abs/2412.16658

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Careful to follow to many accounts in a row in Blue.sky The group account fot suspended for this reason (red flagged as a spam account) We are working on it to get it restablished!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We are happy to have an official blue.sky account of the SoftBio Colloids Lab. Follow us for more news about the science, the team and our outreach activities! @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cpjfrance.bsky.social @cnrs.bsky.social #SoftMatter #science

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

After a needed 2 weeks Winter holidays in #Mexico, tomorrow we start again in the best way possible #WinterMeeting2025 Looking forward to this exciting statistical physics conference! Thanks for the invitation!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

What an end of the week! It is refreshing to catch up with friends and exchange exciting science! Thanks to @asciortino.bsky.social and Sophie Marbach for showing me around your labs #InstitutePierreGillesGennes and @sorbonne-universite.fr respectively! Gotta love Paris with this company!

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Such a rich and topic diverse first day at the #GDR SoPhy @sorbonne-universite.fr Looking forward for more today! Very exciting talks along between soft and hard matter. We got an amazing view of Paris during the conference cocktail! @devillesy.bsky.social

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New edition of Interdisciplinary challenges (IntCha25) on physics of complexity and life will take place at Heidelberg in 2025 embl.org/about/info/c... #embl So proud the event keeps gathering ECR for rich exchanges Previous Editions👇

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Interdisciplinary challenges in the physics of complexity and life 2025 (IntCha25)

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Sylvain Deville @devillesy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Patience, knowledge of the field and luck meet features of modern camera. Results ensue 😊 (after some photoshop kungfu to merge everything) #birds

action sequence of a black woodpecker flying away from its hole in the tree

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Laura Alvarez @lauraal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thanks to @cerbino.bsky.social for the great delivery of the work of the past months of the Facility Defition for post-ISS in #SoftMatterBiophyics #ESA contributing has been a great experience! Check the session and discussion in the link below www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-qS...

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Alfredo Sciortino @asciortino.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And we are on Le Monde for the frenchies in the audience!

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