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APS DSNP @aps-dsnp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📆 Join us next Tuesday, June 9 at 12 PM EST for the next klogW seminar featuring Jonas Veenstra (ENS Lyon) and Matthew Leighton (Yale University). Don’t miss this chance to hear from two outstanding early-career researchers! Please sign up and find more details here: engage.aps.org/dsnp/resourc...

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

cool! what is the signaling wave shown here?

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Happy to share the viewpoint article on recent work by @jackbinysh @ASouslov @CorentinCoulais about interplay between percolation and oddity in robotic metamaterials!

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Happening in 20 mins. We have open positions related to the project, if interested feel free to DM

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

PhD student Ouyang Xuan is going to present our work using representation learning to map developmental flow in morphological landscape: Mon Mar 16 3:30pm 'Morphogenesis' @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social Check it out! #APSGlobalSummit2026

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Looking forward to first day of APS! Going to talk about odd robotic matter and information processing at "Emerging Active Matter" session summit.aps.org/events/MAR-B... Mon Mar 16 12-3pm, @apsdsoft.bsky.social @aps-dbio.bsky.social @aps-dsnp.bsky.social

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Huge kudos to all the amazing members in the lab for making this happen! And a great collaboration with Nick Boechler, Nick Gravish and Hongbo Zhao #UCSD

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Further particle-level chiral and polar symmetry breaking leads to emergent states including phase separation and active translation

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We show how tuning a single control parameter allows us to access an odd elastic solid, an odd viscous fluid, and a chiral inertial active gas

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Inspired by earlier work on living chiral crystal www.nature.com/articles/d41..., we built a "robo-embryo" with controllable symmetry breaking at particle level

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

By unifying physics and robotics, we provide a blueprint for treating robotic swarms as programmable states of matter. A new testbed for nonequilibrium physics! #Robotics #Physics #ActiveMatter

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Are robotic swarms the next state of matter? Excited to share the very first preprint from the lab! "Three phases of odd robotic matter" arxiv.org/abs/2603.09897

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Looking forward to @apsphysics.bsky.social March Meeting next week at Denver to share the lab's ongoing work on emergent dynamics & learning in odd robotic matter + manifold learning in morphogenesis.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy... 🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 📷: syGlass.io

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Our lab has some ongoing data driven/AI/ML in active matter projects that can be supported through postdoc.ucsd.edu/funding/schm.... if you are interested, or if you have some ideas of your own, feel free to reach out!

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Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs Program

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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

@tzerhan29.bsky.social et al show topological defects in cell traction forces underlie emergent chirality They show pancreas derived organoids rotates as an active solid! bsky.app/profile/epim...

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Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us! www.pew.org/en/projects/...

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Pew Latin American Fellows: To Apply

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

LIVE sea urchin larvae for #3DThursday! Catch me at the MIT Museum tonight at AfterDark and see it in person. 🔬: @brukercorporation.bsky.social TruLive3D 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum! 🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Looks amazing! Are these mitochondria

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

✨#FluorescenceFriday brings you a glowing Berghia stephanieae juvenile! This stunning sea slug is lit up with Anti-α-Tubulin 🟢, revealing the dense network of cilia that help it glide across surfaces. 🐌💫 Image taken by @Luiza-O-Saad.bsky.social #Microscopy #DevBio

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Barone Lab @baronelab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Paper alert! We closed the life cycle of the sea star Patiria miniata in the lab! doi.org/10.1002/dvdy...

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Mariona Esquerda Ciutat @marionamec.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Llegeix l'article sencer de @tzerhan29.bsky.social, Aboutaleb Amiri, Irene Seijo-Barandiaran, Michael F. Staddon, Anne Materne, Sandra Tomas, Charlie Duclut, @mrkppvc.bsky.social, @anne-grapin.bsky.social i Frank Jülicher aquí: 📄https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/PRXLife.2.033006

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Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres

Spontaneous rotations of epithelial spheres reveals chiral tissue patterning mechanisms, showing the interplay between geometry, topology, and collective dynamics.

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Always great fun to brainstorm at our UCSD monthly biophysics forum - let's bring the intelligence into active matter

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🧪⚛️ Textbooks: cell is a bag of weirdly shaped stuff. Reality: it's all moving & changing shape. Research on the endoplasmic reticulum by my colleagues Zuben Scott, Lena Koslover, Greg Huber and their experimental collaborators Laura Westrate & Samuel Sheen. scitechdaily.com/scientists-d...

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Scientists Develop Simple Model for an Intricate, Ever-Evolving Cell Structure

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital to cellular life, constantly reshapes and reorganizes itself. As a second-ye...

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 10/04/2025

When two grids with a twist make a pattern exist, that’s a moiré. Listen to this week's episode of Quanta Science Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Very cool! What happens when you cut two wounds - do they waves interact?

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Glad to see this work finally out. Happy to have played a small part in this project with teams @fakhrilab.bsky.social @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social!

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Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD @junlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Ramin Golestanian (Oxford & MPI Göttingen) visited us and gave an inspiring informal seminar yesterday. 🙏🏻

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Four #SPLASHY talks from the lab for #APSphysics March meeting next week at Anaheim, from starfish embryos to robotic active matter - looking forward! #ApsDsoft #ApsDbio #PRX_Life

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

APS March meeting coming up: the fun starts Sun 3/16 with Squishy Science Sunday!

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Exciting opportunity at @CZBiohub SF! Join us as an Optical Scientist developing cutting-edge light-sheet microscopy to map vertebrate development. PhD in Optics/EE/Physics preferred. #ScienceJobs #Microscopy #BioImaging 🧪🔬💻 job-boards.greenhouse.io/chanzuckerbe...

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Stand up for science! Happening this Friday 3/7 - look up for local events near you : standupforscience2025.org most campus nationwide will organize, join if you can, make our voice heard, repost, organize! #standupforscience

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It was great visiting UMich Ann Arbor and Wayne State University! Many thanks to @surajshankar.bsky.social and Zhi-feng for hosting. Great interactions and lots of new ideas to try

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social introducing @ucsd-biophysics.bsky.social to UCSD physics open house - welcome prospective students to sunny San Diego!

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards… What would you do with this? Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵

Schematic overview on how MicroSpit operates. It can split superimposed structures in fluorescent image channels by using a suitably trained AI.

Concrete example for how MicroSplit unmixes four superimposed structures.

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The big 4 of grant writing: 1. Credibility: The topic fits your expertise 2. Narrative: It's clear what is the problem, the solution, and why you’re the right person for it 3. Juicy details: Flex your mastery of the topic 4. The concept: You connect every part to the big question

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Full house! Great way to end the quarter with Kinneret telling us about topological defects and biophysics of Hydra regeneration.

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not too late to apply to UCSD Biophysics PhD program: biophysics.ucsd.edu we have a vibrant cluster of theorists and experimentalists working at the interface of biophysics/soft and active matter. Deadline Dec 18. Feel free to DM me with questions.

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UCSD Biological Physics

Research in the Physics of Life seeks to unravel the physical principles underlying organization and functions in living systems. At UCSD Biophysics, we are at the forefront of this rapidly advancing ...

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Great community building, thanks @sespagnolie.bsky.social ! For fluid/soft/active matter enthusiasts:

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks PRX Life for the honor and for sending the physical copy over, all framed up!

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Tzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Interested in active matter/biophysics? Our lab tzerhan.com is looking for motivated PhD students to join our nonreciprocal robotics active matter/chiral jamming/morphogenesis projects. Apply by Dec 18: physics.ucsd.edu/students/gra...

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