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Saverio E. Spagnolie

@sespagnolie.bsky.social
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Professor of Mathematics; Chemical & Biological Engineering, UW-Madison. I dig biological fluid dynamics, soft matter physics, and numerical methods. APS DSOFT Vice Chair. Vijayanagara (GMT Games). people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie

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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's go time. Let's shape some brains. Seems important.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was just reminded of this neat way to advertise your group's work. "Submissions of your recently published or ongoing work will be considered for highlights on DSOFT's Bluesky, TikTok, website, or blog platforms." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
CHAOTIC BUBBLEWHEEL says good morning, as it fights off your dark thoughts with its playfulness. It glides autonomously through distinct life stages for over an hour, as gas slowly escapes the environment, along the bifurcation diagram of the Lorenz system. (1/10) arxiv.org/abs/2608.17169
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
NCAR. National treasure. I assume the flag is at half staff due to the ongoing assault on scientific excellence.
NSF NCAR
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Great work by the @apsphysics.bsky.social to distill the proposed OMB changes into one clear page: www.aps.org/initiatives/... Comments close July 13. Let's get in there.
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Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance
Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"The "no electronics" policy is genius. I'm used to taking notes on my laptop-it's convenient but a constant temptation for distraction. The class deeply benefited from how firmly Professor Spagnolie stuck to his guns; not just making such a policy but willing to pause lecture to enforce it." (YMMV)
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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Done.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“They are among more than 1,500 biologists, chemists and other experts at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development who have been laid off, reassigned or pressured to retire. Today, only 124 researchers remain,“ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
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How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Beautiful day in Madison to protest one of the most corrupt administrations in the 250-year history of the USA. #NoKings
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The current members of the Madison Applied Math Lab.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is such a nice event! I'm very impressed.
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APS DSOFT @apsdsoft.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Squishy Science Sunday is back at the Global Physics Summit! Join us for hands-on activities about physics, including the physics of slime, sand, and cotton candy! Find us at Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Use code APSSQUISHY26 for a discount on general admission tickets!
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The DSOFT Invited Sessions for next week's Global Summit. Should be fun! Especially Thursday's 'Soft Matter in Active Fluids' session... 👀 😉
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APS DSOFT @apsdsoft.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We are excited to present the finalists for this year's DSOFT Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award! Join us in celebrating the work of these exceptional soft matter physics students, who will present their work in a special DSOFT Awards Session at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A wonderful observation!
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marohgr.bsky.social @marohgr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Ah, a jellyfish cleanse! Excellent. I took this video of spotted jellyfish (Mastigias papua) at the Vancouver Aquarium when I was visiting @gelfring.bsky.social, back when @jeanluct.bsky.social had us thinking about fluid mixing by vortex rings. people.math.wisc.edu/~spagnolie/P...
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Hadrien Oliveri @hadrienoliveri.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Job alert🚨I am advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position to work on the mathematics of plant morphogenesis @mpipz.bsky.social. Candidates with interests in mathematical modelling, mechanics, or biophysics are strongly encouraged to apply. 🌱Reposts are appreciated! jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/4...
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
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Clio's Board Games @cliosboardgames.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Here are the three new-to-me games which I enjoyed most this year (feat. games by @mathieujohnson.bsky.social @sespagnolie.bsky.social @gmtgames and others)! What were yours?
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Farewell 2025 – New-to-Me Games!
As the year comes to a close, I’ll do my usual end-of-year posts: My personal top three in a range of categories. As tradition commands, we’ll begin with the games that I played for the first time …
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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I am looking to hire a postdoc to work with me on fluid-structure interactions in complex and active fluids. Ideally the candidate will have a strong background in numerical/asymptotic analysis and fluid mechanics (complex fluids / LCs even better). www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...
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MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society
Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#APSDFD2025
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Not finding ANYTHING helpful in Batchelor
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Otti Croze @otticroze.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠. Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Aerial view of a toxic plankton bloom of dinoflagellate and zooming in on a part of it a cartoon of the dinoflagellate responding to light and fluid flow
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NSF email to GRFP applicants from TODAY: you MUST submit official academic transcripts with your most recent academic status! First year PhDs often don't get these until the end of this semester. No clarification opportunity because of government shutdown. Application deadline is next week. 🫠
NSF email from TODAY. Excerpt:

Please disregard the previous guidance in the application module that indicated applicants may upload unofficial or official transcripts. The GRFP Solicitation NSF 25-547 states that, “Only official academic transcripts with the applicant’s most recent academic status will be accepted.” All applications submitted for the 2026 GRFP Competition MUST include official transcripts. Applications that include unofficial transcripts will not be considered for review. All applications must be submitted by the field of study deadline specified in the GRFP Solicitation.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Not *one* mention of Plateau-Rayleigh in this article.
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Campàs Lab @campaslab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Really excited to present the results of a fantastic collaboration with Jesse Veenvliet @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social 🤩 We find a unique mechanism for body axis elongation in mammals, different from other vertebrate species ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Maybe you know someone who wants to support state school higher ed? There are many ways. Here's one. uwflamingos.com/campaign/mat...
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Mathematics - Fill The Hill
Ranked 13th globally and seventh nationally, the UW–Madison Department of Mathematics is devoted to research and teaching, and we want to spread our excitement about mathematics to the rest of the wor...
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Solid. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Engineer, physicist, Cedric Villani
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Psst, your students want to hang out in Boulder next July. Application deadline is Jan. 15. www.colorado.edu/conference/b...
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Astounding!! This must have been so much fun to explore. I enjoyed the short Bluetorial as well.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Me: Describes the Ship of Theseus. Wife: "Oh it's Van Halen."
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Metropolitan Wargamers @metrowargamers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some of us had the day off from work so we got Vijayanagara from @gmtgames.bsky.social on the table at the club.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Without describing the experiment (soon!), please just enjoy with me a case where a simple model meets the data this well. Oh man. Math, I tell you. Good stuff.
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Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10
Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date: Sep 19, 2025

Description
The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area.

More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Friends in Canada and Europe are asking me if it's safe to travel to Houston this November for the big annual conference in our field.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a fork in his mouth
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a fork in his mouth
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
What poster did you have hanging in your room as a kid?
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Choose your weapon.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy’s name to the title Tom Clancy’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dublin has been so weird this week.
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Saverio E. Spagnolie @sespagnolie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New York
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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