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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NITMB Fellows Program seeks early-career researchers developing mathematical, theoretical, statistical, or computational approaches to biology. 3 years of full support; a dynamic scientific homebase in downtown Chicago; integration with UChicago+NU Apply by Nov 15: www.nitmb.org/nitmb-fellow...

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The University of Chicago is recruiting faculty through an open-rank search in "AI-Enabled Biology and Medicine," broadly interpreted -- for experimental, computational, and theoretical scientists harnessing statistics & modeling. apply.interfolio.com/190757 Review starts 10/1/2026.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The University of Chicago’s Center for Living Systems, a NSF Physics Frontier Center, invites applications for the 2026-2027 CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship. Link below docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For the looping Drosophila midgut, we predict that early constrictions form stereotyped loops only within a window of remodeling rates—and that rapid growth should widen it.   Shout out again to Nico, whom your department should try to hire!

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The result is a simple design principle: with sufficiently rapid growth, complexity and reproducibility no longer have to compete.   Growth and remodeling rates act as two control knobs determining whether an encoded shape is remembered, simplified, or scrambled.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Growth breaks the trade-off. As the rod lengthens, a fixed pattern becomes less curved, weakening the drive to coarsen. Noise is also averaged over more material. The pattern can, in effect, outgrow both elastic relaxation and fluctuations.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

But remodeling is double-edged if there is noise. When it is too fast, the rod becomes nearly fluid-like: random fluctuations are rapidly baked into its rest shape. Complexity remains, but reproducibility is lost.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At moderate rates, remodeling helps. If the rest shape adapts before elastic coarsening runs its course, the pattern becomes locked in.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

However, living tissues remodel. Their stress-free shape gradually adapts to the shape they currently occupy. We built a minimal growing, remodeling rod model to ask whether this adaptation preserves an encoded pattern—or erases it in a different way.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Elastic buckling seems like a natural route to complexity. But elasticity alone has a poor memory: a confined rod lowers its energy by replacing many small bends with one broad arc. Fine structure is progressively erased—a process we call elastic coarsening.

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We expect to have an opening for a postbacc scholar in developmental biology & biophysics at UChicago -- for brilliant and motivated recent grad/seniors looking to focus on research before your PhD. Feel free to reach out before applying. biosciences.uchicago.edu/graduate-pro...

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University of Chicago Post-Bac Scholars Research Program in Cell, Developmental and Molecular Biology (CDMB)

The post-baccalaureate (post-bac) program in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology (MGCB) at the University of Chicago is designed to provide recent college graduates an immersive and ...

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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Open postbacc positions in developmental biology & biophysics at UChicago! If you're a brilliant and motivated recent grad looking to focus on research before your PhD, this is your community. Feel free to reach out. biosciences.uchicago.edu/graduate-pro...

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University of Chicago Post-Bac Scholars Research Program in Cell, Developmental and Molecular Biology (CDMB)

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