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Account for Oxford's Mathematical Observatory. Posts by Dominic Vella

Mathematical Observatory @mathobservatory.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you're interested in any combination of elasticity, surface tension and biology, please check out the latest issue of Interface Focus on "Capillarity and Elastocapillarity in Biology": royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/202... @royalsocietypublishing.org

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Interface Focus: Vol 15, No 2

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Mingchao Liu @mingchaoliu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Published this week in @pnas.org: A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull. No patterning, no compression — just geometry. We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423439122 @mathobservatory.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

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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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Joel Marthelot @joelmarthelot.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément

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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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