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Nick Battista

@mostnerdy.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at TCNJ. Mathlete. Pun enthusiast. he/him

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!
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Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
For #InternationalWomeninEngineeringDay, we're spotlighting MBARI Engineer Kakani Katija, who has been selected as one of @bloomberg.com's “Ones to Watch” for 2025. Kakani's work on @fathomverse.bsky.social has landed her the recognition as a climate champion. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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The 2025 Climate Leaders to Watch
These are climate champions looking for innovative ways to cut carbon and adapt to a hotter world.
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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Here's a new #BulletinMathBio paper by Addie Harrison, Wanda Strychalski, Christina Hamlet, and Laura Miller on Fluid Dynamics of Multiple Fast-Firing Extrusomes. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪
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Fluid Dynamics of Multiple Fast-Firing Extrusomes - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
The contact and puncturing of cells and organisms in fluid at microscales are difficult due to viscous-dominated effects and the interactions of boundary layers. This challenge can be overcome in part...
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Dear NOAA, Thank You. youtu.be/Si-RMlghXWQ
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Dear NOAA: Thank You
YouTube video by Cole Vaughn
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congrats to my research students Manasvi, Joe, and Alberto for giving fantastic poster presentations at @tcnj.bsky.social’s 2025 Celebration of Student Achievement!
Manasvi presenting her poster on investigating fish schooling patterns using computational fluid dynamics!Joe and Alberto presenting their poster on polynomial chaos expansions for surrogate models and global sensitivity analysis!
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This still you?
Screenshot from noaa.gov stating NOAA’s Mission of Science, Service, and Stewardship (taken 4/26/2025).
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Kai (he/him) 🍉 @kaiwalton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My first ever publication!! 🦑🧪 So honored to have the salp work I did in the Sutherland Lab finally published in the Journal of Experimental Biology :) we analyzed how the colonial salp architecture impacts multi-jet propulsion! Check it out: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
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Colonial architecture modulates the speed and efficiency of multi-jet swimming in salp colonies
Summary: Linear arrangements in multi-jet propelled marine colonial invertebrates are faster than less streamlined architectures without incurring higher costs of transport, offering insights for bioi...
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laura-ann-miller.bsky.social @laura-ann-miller.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Excited to announce our team received a grant to study horse biomechanics through math + engineering! 🐎💡 Stay tuned for upcoming research and collab opportunities. Full story via @UAMath: www.math.arizona.edu/news/equine-... #HorseScience #UAZMath #Biomechanics
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Equine Biomechanics Team Awarded Competitive Provost Investment Fund Grant
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Marianne Porter @marianneporter.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Assistant professors in Organismal Biology and Systems Biology needed! FAU is hiring two assistant professors, applications are due April 30th. Please find the ads here: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de... (Req 19892) and here: fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de... (Req 19893)
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Assistant Professor, Organismal Biology
Apply now to join FAU on its race to excellence. For more information on everything FAU has to offer, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs. Note: Current FAU employees must apply as an internal applicant by ...
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Dr. Christopher Strickland @stricklandlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
On the intersection of math and science: understanding how different filter feeders geometries (e.g. seafans) have adapted to their environment in the ocean! The left image is from our dive two days ago.
Diving with seafans
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Great coverage of the Trenton #StandUpForScience rally!! @annikabarber.bsky.social @samwang.bsky.social @rburdine1.bsky.social @barrlab.bsky.social @sunitakramer.bsky.social www.njspotlightnews.org/video/stand-...
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'Stand Up for Science': State House rally against research cuts | Video | NJ Spotlight News
Protesters rallied in Trenton on Friday against proposed cuts to scientific research, part of a nationwide "Stand Up for Science” campaign.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
Useful infographic on the impact of the NSF!
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“Maine Sea Grant’s federal investment of $1.5 million in 2023 “resulted in an economic benefit of $23.5 million. That means that for every dollar spent on Maine Sea Grant, our coastal communities get the value of $15.60.” www.nationalfisherman.com/northeast/tr...
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Trump administration terminates Maine Sea Grant
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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The Oregon Trail Game but in real life. 🤯🧪
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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
NOAA Fisheries is vital for both ocean health & human well-being. It safeguards marine ecosystems & species, ensures sustainable seafood, and supports coastal economies. Without it, overfishing, habitat loss, and food insecurity would threaten us all. Protect our oceans—protect our future!
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A generation of scientists could be lost through the axing of various programs designed to help young people find a path into basic and applied research. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Don't mind me. Just handing out these flyers like candy.... (FYI you can grab the image from the quoted post and print and it turns out great!! Print and post let's get the word out!)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025
The Trump administration has begun firing employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science.
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Mass Layoffs Begin at NOAA
The cuts came just before a separate wave of departures was expected under the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program.
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
A screenshot of a Facebook post from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Found this sign I made in my office 8 years ago. Wish it didn't feel so relevant right now
Poster board that says "Save our scientists" with symbols for 12 US federal agencies where scientists work
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Here’s still from the sim!
Frame a nerdy CFD Valentine’s simulation involving jellyfish, fish, tomopterids, hearts, and letters(spelling TCNJ Math & Stat) swirling round n’ round!
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wishing you all a very nerdy Valentine's Day through fun fluid dynamics using our lab's #IB2d software! youtube.com/shorts/uuwKX... @tcnj.bsky.social
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IB2d Valentine's Day 2025!
YouTube video by Nicholas Battista
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Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Omg it's him 🥹 (comic by @beetlemoses.bsky.social)
Two panel comic by Beetle Moses.

A dark grey angler fish has washed up on the beach. It's thinking to itself, "It's so beautiful" while staring at something in the distance. The second panel is a wide angle of the beach, with cliffs towering over the anglerfish and a sunset/sunrise over the cliffs. The anglerfish thinks, "I might have never known."
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is how you do it. Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social Read their whole email to membership here mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members:
 

The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
*waving and doing the same from the building next door*
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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🧪🌊🌎🦑
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Sad that we’re at the end of #SICB2025 but I always leave knowing *SO MUCH* more than when I arrived! Thanks to all for the great nerdy chats and letting me tell you all about Tomopteris (and polychaete) locomotion!
A CFD visualization of a swimming Tomopteris and the emergent vortex dynamics
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Valentina Di Santo @vdisanto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is hiring an Assistant Professor in Deep-Sea Benthic Biology! Cc: @sicbjournals.bsky.social @sicb-spdac.bsky.social 🧪 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175?fbc...
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Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist - Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Travel awards (up to $5,000) are available to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. Applications are due on 15 January: naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...
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Isa Betancourt @isabetabug.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
*Be my new work supervisor!* Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. *I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!* apply.interfolio.com/159166
Photograph of an open cabinet with insect specimen drawers. One door is closed and has close up images of beetle specimens. There is a "NEON Biorepository" label on the door.
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Each year I make a nerdy fluid dynamics Valentine for my students and TCNJ. Enjoy the snapshot below and check out the full video (and previous years) here: rb.gy/4ql3a1
A snapshot from this year's nerdy, computational fluid dynamics Valentine!
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
(from a contrived computational fluid dynamics simulation snapshot of 82 fish and 25 jellyfish when I was running speed tests in my immersed boundary software, IB2d)
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Nick Battista @mostnerdy.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Enjoy this simulation snapshot of 82 fish and 25 jellyfish!
A contrived computational fluid dynamics simulation snapshot of 82 fish and 25 jellyfish from when I was running speed tests in my immersed boundary software, IB2d.
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