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Yuting Irene Li @irene-yuting-li.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’m starting at the Hubrecht Institute at a new group leader from September. I will be hiring a PhD student through the PhD program ⬇️ If you, or anyone you know, is interested in theoretical biophysics, I will be very excited to hear from them — please send inquiries to my ISTA email for now :)

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"If you wanted to cripple science research and were disappointed that Congress continued to fund it, this is the sort of document you would produce. It pulls US scientists out of the international community, leaves them unable to communicate their findings ..." arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Zachary Gao Sun @thezgs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New preprint from my Ph.D.: 'Mechanical organization yields degenerate dissipation beyond linear response' We asked how energy dissipation changes as an active actomyosin material is driven farther from equilibrium. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Nature @nature.com · 27/04/2026

University leaders are facing calls to apologize for their alleged treatment of a tenured neuroscientist who died by suicide after being investigated as part of Donald Trump’s China Initiative go.nature.com/4cKzNQr

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Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged

Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career.

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Zachary Gao Sun @thezgs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Happy to announce that I’m among the 55 awardees for the HFSP postdoc fellowship. Truly honored by HFSP committee’s recognition on the potential of the proposed science 😁. Science continues.

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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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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

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Zachary Gao Sun @thezgs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

So proud of my amazing previous colleague at Yale, Sheng Chen and all the colleagues for this paper on topological control of spontaneous failure in active nematic solids! It's on @natmater.nature.com . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Topological control of spontaneous failure in active nematic solids - Nature Materials

Topological defect quadrupoles orchestrate predictable failure patterns in active nematic solid networks.

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🔬 New paper in Developmental Biology 🐟 Our researchers have now tested a largely ignored hypothesis—that the geometry of an embryo drives its development. Read more in the 🧵below. 📷 Zebrafish in ISTA’s Aquatic Facility.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/11/2025

The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows shared acoustic–phonetic processing in STG across native and foreign speech.

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Ulrich Schwarz @ulrichschwarz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📢 Paper alert 📢 Chirality is known to be important for the movement of microorganisms and active matter. In our new paper out today in @natphys.nature.com, we show that chirality is used by malaria parasites to control their motion patterns: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Here comes a 🧵 ... (1/9)

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Excited to share our @sfiscience.bsky.social collab where we uncover universal scaling laws in thermal performance across the tree of life. We found one trait predicts critical temperature limits from viruses to mammals, which is useful to develop rapid forecasting under climate change.🌍📈

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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/09/2025

For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

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U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown

Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs

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APS DSNP @aps-dsnp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

📌 Join us for the next klogW seminar on October 21st at 12PM EST (register below) by Erwin Frey @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social on "Emergence and Self-organization in Biological Systems". Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Danny Seara @dsseara.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am hiring 2 PhD students to join my group in at University of Illinois, Chicago, starting Fall 2026. We will be studying smart materials, from learning active matter to adaptive sociohydrodynamics, using theory and machine learning. More information found here dsseara.github.io

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The Seara Group

A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/08/2025

A paper in Nature describes tiny, solar-powered floating devices that could support instruments in the high atmosphere. The devices could be used for climate monitoring and Mars exploration, without the need for conventional fuel to maintain their altitude. go.nature.com/3Jfvl0W 🔭 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows description, experimental testing and atmospheric applications of photophoretic levitation mechanisms.

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Zachary Gao Sun @thezgs.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The summer school at Santa Fe Institute has truly been transformative in ways I think about complexity sciences. I’m extremely grateful for all the friendships, mentorships, and connections I’ve made along the way. Lots of valuable conversations, lessons, and loads of lifelong memories!

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Zachary Gao Sun @thezgs.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

More than proud to have learned that this interdisciplinary conference (QBIO2025) has been going on for years and how much Peking University embraces interdisciplinary studies. Honored give a talk about my most recent newborn in research. Complexity Science is a global emergence!

Me giving a talk on Self-Organized Criticality in the Cytoskeleton

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