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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 09/12/2025
This looks to be a very nice conference, would love to see some of you there! intcha26.sciencesconf.org
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Interdisciplinary challenges in the Physics of Complexity and Life 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
Conference overview
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Scott Coyle @cellraiser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
How do cells adapt morphology to function? In a 🔥 preprint by @zjmaggiexu.bsky.social , with @dudinlab.bsky.social and @amyweeks.bsky.social , we identify a self-organizing single-cell morphology circuit that optimizes the feeding trap structure of the suctorian P. collini. 🧵 tinyurl.com/4k8nv926
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
now i've seen everything... 😱 don't care what anybody says but #protists are cognitive
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 10/11/2025
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The Power of Limit Thinking
To make things better, first prove how good they can possibly be.
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 25/10/2025
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 25/10/2025
Did you hear about the two muffins baking in an oven? One said "Phew, it's hot in here. The other said, "Holy shit a talking muffin!"
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 23/10/2025
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a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a clock with the words " and when everyone 's super "
Alt: Syndrome from the incredibles with the words " and when everyone 's super no one is
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Nikita Frolov 🇺🇦 @nikitaphysics.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨 Late preprint alert! Why do biological process rates scale nonlinearly with temperature, deviating from the straight line on an Arrhenius plot? The key may lie in their inherent complexity! More in thread and here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers
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Careers | Arcadia Science
Evolve with Arcadia.
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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 17/10/2025
Apply for our Master of Science in Physics of Life – training in cutting-edge research at the interface of physics, mathematics, engineering and life sciences. Scholarships available. Application deadline: 30 November. More: www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/education/de... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 16/10/2025
Have you submitted your abstract for #EESCollectivity? No? It's about time! This new event will discuss how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems, from cells to animal groups. 🦠🐾 👉 Join us and submit your abstract by 18 Nov: s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl
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arxiv math.DS @arxiv-math-ds.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Torkel E Loman, Ruth E Baker Functional and parametric identifiability for universal differential equations applied to chemical reaction networks arxiv.org/abs/2510.14140
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Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia. Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS
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Trust Everything, Everywhere
Trust 'building blocks', like encryption, enable digital industries to flourish securely, but they don't extend into the physical world. With emerging technology blurring the line between digital and ...
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Krishna Shrinivas @shrinivaslab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Happy to share our latest in @natcomputsci.nature.com led by (amazing) Ryan Krueger + colab w M. Brenner! We introduce a framework to directly design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations. 🧬 doi.org/10.1038/s435... 📰 www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/article...
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 09/10/2025
Oh this is useful! Can you share the outcome?
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Asimov Press @asimovpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Read and pitch an idea: press.asimov.com/articles/ma...
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Our Next Book: Making the Modern Laboratory
An update on a forthcoming book from Asimov Press, which will delve into the origins of the machines, equipment, organisms, and reagents that have become familiar features of molecular biology laboratories over the last sixty years.
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Asimov Press @asimovpress.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our next book: "Making the Modern Laboratory" An illustrated, coffee table-sized volume, it covers the origins of the machines, organisms and tools used in modern biology research. More importantly, it's a call to imagine the FUTURE of the laboratory. Come help us write it!
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I adored writing this piece. It brings together several of the things preoccupying me right now, like chromatin organization and gene regulation. There's so much more to be said on that. Also, these marine critters look gorgeous. www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna...
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Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex | Quanta Magazine
New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary development.
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Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next. The Beyond the Journal awards honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details: pracheeac.substack.com/p/off-roadin... Nominate or self-nominate here: www.experiment.foundation/beyond
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Cassandra Yang @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809
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Cambridge Biochemistry @cambiochem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
There is still time to apply for an Independent Research Fellowship in our Department. Join us: www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/research/ind...
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Independent Research Fellowships in Biochemistry | Department of Biochemistry
Independent Research Fellowships in Biochemistry
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KunihikoKaneko @kunikaneko.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Universal Biology: The Physics of Life through the Macro-Micro Consistency Principle" will be soon published from Cambridge Univ Press. Brief introduction is here:https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/universal-biology/
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Celja Uebel @celjauebel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hi fellow C. elegans scientists, I've made a few videos that may be of use for new trainees working in worm labs. Hoping to add more in the future, but figured I'd share this resource as is in case it's helpful :) www.youtube.com/@Workingwith...
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Working with C. elegans
This channel provides clear demonstrations of core C. elegans lab skills, including: recognizing life stages and common phenotypes, picking and manipulating worms, and maintaining healthy cultures. De...
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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Excited to share a new pre-print in collaboration with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social, "Using Modern Coexistence Theory to understand community disassembly"! We set out to understand how techniques used to study coexistence can be extended to understand community disassembly. (1/X)
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Using modern coexistence theory to understand community disassembly
Community disassembly examines how species extinction alters ecological communities. Sometimes, the extinction of one species can trigger the loss of others, known as secondary extinction. These secon...
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Erica Dinatale @ericadinatale.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So happy to see my first first-author paper published! 🎈 A short thread on how Ectocarpus and its TE secrets have kept me busy lately: rdcu.be/eITQH
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Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome | Genome Biology
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Guillaume Charras @gcharras.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Can pressure gradients persist over long timescales in animal cells? We induced intracellular pressure gradients and examined the resulting flows in single cells. We reveal surprisingly long lasting pressure gradients. More here: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 29/09/2025
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems? Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 25/09/2025
Hi @micromotility.bsky.social!
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Innovator Circles, FROs, and a look into biological computation
The latest from ARIA, including our new Innovator Circles initiative, inside Convergent Research's FRO-Founder Residency, and a Q&A with Nature Computes Better Creator Kirsty Wan.
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 18/09/2025
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Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 16/09/2025
New post! A round up of the latest advances in biotech and medicine by @nikomccarty.bsky.social and me. Prime editing, curing whipworm, a new narcolepsy drug, designing protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of E. coli's genome and more! Read it all here: www.worksinprogress.news/p/whats-new-...
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What’s new in biology: September 2025
Gene therapy, narcolepsy drugs, parasite removal, protein nanoparticles, the 3D structure of genomes, and more.
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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're looking for highly motivated candidates for PhD positions in the physics of living systems. Our group uses theoretical physics to understand how cells collectively self-organize. If you're interested, get in touch & check out the Biozentrum PhD Fellowship program, deadline October 12th!
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 09/09/2025
@micromotility.bsky.social
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Kyogo Kawaguchi @kyogok.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Call for a research scientist position (indefinite-term) in our group. Deadline: October 15 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
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Seeking a Research Scientist (Indefinite-term) at Nonequilibrium Physics of Living Matter Laboratory (25-1294)
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Where are memories stored in the brain? The textbook answer is that memories live in the synaptic connections between neurons. But there's long been a dissenting view, and it's showing signs of revival. From the archive, our interview with @gershbrain.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/of-molecules...
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SeppeKuehnLab @seppekuehnlab.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Center for Living Systems -- seeking strong post docs at the interface of physics and biology. Consider applying by Oct. 13! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 03/09/2025
This looks awesome! #livingphysics
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Just out in press in eLife, a cool and brilliant piece of work by @amywebster.bsky.social: Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits. elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 28/08/2025
Nice! @emiliapsantos.bsky.social
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Janelia Research Campus @hhmijanelia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
📢We're #hiring Group Leaders! Apply to lead a lab at Janelia & advance biology using theory, computational modeling & machine learning. 🔹5-year renewable appointment 🔹Pioneer new tools & approaches 🔹Collaborate across disciplines Apply by Nov. 4👉 janelia.link/groupleader
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The latest issue of Scientific American is the 180th anniversary, and they have a series of articles about "180 degree turnarounds" in science. Here's mine on RNA.
The "Upended" section of Scientific American, Sept 2025Philip Ball's article in Scientific American on the rise of noncoding RNA
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Evelina Tutucci @anilevetu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Beatiful article @tobykiers.bsky.social ! Source: NPR search.app/tP7Ep
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How plants and fungi trade resources without a brain
Fungi and plants have something to teach humans about global trade and cooperation
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 25/08/2025
A) Friend would like you to bring a salad B) Friend is letting you know what they are making and leaving it up to you C) Friend is fine without a salad D) A salad killed your friend's mum and under no circumstances should you bring a salad
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 25/08/2025
What the life in the UK test is: When was the battle of Agincourt? A) 1215 B) 1415 C) 1348 D)1400? What the life in UK should be: You: Shall we bring something? Maybe a pasta salad or a green salad? Friend: That’s fine, we can make fish pie with peas..
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 23/08/2025
You had me at “low dimensional behavioral manifold” 😍 #livingphysics
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 19/08/2025
There was also an iGem project that made E. coli smell like mint in exponential phase and banana in stationary phase www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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BioBuilding: Using Banana-Scented Bacteria to Teach Synthetic Biology
Student interest in synthetic biology is detectable and growing. Each year teenagers from around the world participate in iGEM, a summer long syntheti…
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Living Physics Lab @livingphysics.org · 19/08/2025
I think the link is broken now ☹️
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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A note in here for other science philanthropists… we have a chance rn to help scientists rethink systems, technical & operational. They’re game to take useful risks, let’s help them. Coming soon: more open science research, experimenting outside journals… seemay.substack.com/p/from-syste...
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Chenchen Li @cc-li.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Ccli.substack.com Sixty years later and we still can’t solve it—what’s going on?
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