William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Our group discovered that reasoning models produce fractals when asked to solve hard problems. We can use nonlinear dynamics to probe the thinking processes of recurrent depth models on Sudoku, mathematics, and even ARC-AGI (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2609.04963 24010
Reposted by William GilpinAlexandra Weber @toedtoad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My first paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! We found that snake embryos coil due to a mismatch in growth rates between the gut and spine. This tight coil is one of the reasons why snakes are able to get so long. Read the paper here! 215243
Reposted by William GilpinDeepak Krishnamurthy @deepakkrish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 2027! @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social I’ll be launching the Deep Lab for Microbial Biomechanics. 🧵 1/8 3276
Reposted by William GilpinJAX Genomic Education @jaxeducation.bsky.social · 31/08/2026💡 Learn to design behavioral workflows, apply ML approaches to behavioral modeling, and connect behavior to neural and experimental manipulations. Register: www.jax.org/education-an... Organized by: @vivekdna.bsky.social @antihebbiann.bsky.social @gordonberman.bsky.social @goldenneuron.bsky.social 066
Reposted by William GilpinBen Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026pyhctsa is out! A native Python port of the majority of the hctsa feature library (highly comparative time-series analysis). Thousands of interpretable time-series features available via a pip install. Built by Joshua Moore. Paper: doi.org/10.21105/jos... Code: github.com/DynamicsAndN... 0115
Reposted by William GilpinMattia Serra @mattiaserra.bsky.social · 28/05/2025📣 Preprint alert! We developed a framework to uncover Coherent Structures in flows on dynamic surfaces—revealing dynamic attractors, repellers and deformation directions in nematic vesicles, pancreatic spheroids, and beating zebrafish hearts. @sreejithsanthosh.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 36317
Reposted by William GilpinAishik Ghosh @aishikghosh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics School is back! This time bigger and in a new location: Georgia Institute of Technology (@gtsciences.bsky.social)! We can cover the domestic travel and accommodation of most students and ECRs participating. Apply soon! indico.global/event/17000/indico.globalMachine Learning for Fundamental Physics School (ML4FP) 2026The Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics School (ML4FP) 2026 will be held at the Georgia Institute of Technology from June 1 to June 5, 2026. The event is organized with support from Oak Ridge Nat... 042
Reposted by William GilpinSuraj Shankar 🏳️🌈 @surajshankar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Delighted this paper is out! Soft solids fracture in complex ways. Can we control it using structure and activity? Yes, using defects that localize energy injection for targeted failure! Amazing work combining exp, theory & ML by Sheng Chen and collab with Murrell lab (Yale). 0134
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026How do time series foundation models forecast unseen dynamical systems? In new experiments, we find that small transformers learn to approximate transfer operators in-context. (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2602.18679 1288
Reposted by William GilpinResearch Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 12/02/2026RCSA welcomes 24 early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2026 #CottrellScholar Awards. Each awardee receives $120,000. Congratulations to this exceptional class!rescorp.org2026 Cottrell Scholar AwardsResearch Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2026 ... 3185
Reposted by William GilpinEddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I’m very happy to announce that I will joining #Seoul National University’s #SNU #physics department as Assistant Professor in Fall of 2026! 3111
Reposted by William GilpinPrakash 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 03227
Reposted by William GilpinEddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I'm excited to say that one of the most exploratory and thought-provoking papers I've worked on in recent years was just accepted at Physical Review Research. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.21072 #physics #innovation 🧪🦋 @apsphysics.bsky.socialarxiv.orgInnovation-exnovation dynamics on trees and trussesInnovation and its complement exnovation describe the progression of realized possibilities from the past to the future, and the process depends on the structure of the underlying graph. For example, ... 3213
Reposted by William GilpinTexas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Kudos to Edoardo Baldini, William Gilpin & Daehyeok Kim on earning Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation! #NSF #CAREERAwards #EarlyCareerDevelopment #TexasScience @wgilpin.bsky.social @utphysics.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...cns.utexas.eduThree College of Natural Sciences Faculty Win NSF CAREER Awards3 UT faculty in computer science and physics won an NSF award recognizing their potential to serve as academic role models. 021
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Does stability matter in biology? My article on the cover of this month’s @PLOSCompBiol explores how large ecosystems develop supertransients, a manifestation of computational hardness (1/N) doi.org/10.1371/jour... 1223
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025We present Panda: a foundation model for nonlinear dynamics pretrained on 20,000 chaotic ODE discovered via evolutionary search. Panda zero-shot forecasts unseen ODE best-in-class, and can forecast PDE despite having never seen them during training (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.13755 1182
Reposted by William GilpinJustin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New preprint! Population sizes are unknowable for many species... but is low-res information still useful for exploring dynamics? We model species as either high or low in abundance—a useful way to explore how food web structure impacts extinction risk and trophic cascades: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11220arxiv.orgCoarse-Graining Cascades Within Food WebsQuantifying population dynamics is a fundamental challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology, particularly for species that are cryptic, microscopic, or extinct. Traditional approaches rely on conti... 072
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025In biology we measure downstream variables like genes, neurons, or species. But we can’t always measure their underlying causes. In Physical Review X I present a physics-based algorithm for learning causal drivers from time series (1/n) go.aps.org/3PwXhxe 2121
Reposted by William GilpinOskar Hallatschek @ohallats.bsky.social · 06/12/2024After a long and winding odyssey, excited to finally drop anchor in open-access waters. This preprint shows how neutral allele frequency time series can illuminate disease transmission rates between communities— key for epidemic fore- & backcasting. medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 12911
Reposted by William GilpinTzer Han Tan @tzerhan29.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Interested 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...tzerhan.comHOME | Living Matter Lab 065
Reposted by William GilpinClaire Wyart @clairewyart.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Individuality is fascinating. We found how to quantify variability among individuals by identifying long-lasting motor strategies during navigation. Work of Dr. Gautam Sridhar and Dr. Antonio Costa in collab with João Marques @daniobrain.bsky.social out today in #PNAS ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 04414
Reposted by William GilpinTom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024An amazing sight from my recent Brazil trip: bioluminescent termite mounds in Emas National Park. Tiny larvae of click beetles (Pyrearinus termitilluminans) glow steadily, hoping to attract flying insects (like winged termites & ants), which they then grab with their sharp mandibles. #insects 🐙🌿 13542155
William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 15/02/2024Is chaos an analogue sampling scheme? I wrote a Perspective for Nature Reviews Physics discussing connections between classical work on information flow in nonlinear systems, and modern generative ML models www.nature.com/articles/s42... 040
Reposted by William GilpinSiavash Ahrar @siavasha.bsky.social · 03/01/2024If you are attending SICB please stop by our poster. Haley and Bryant are looking forward to co-presenting our work. #SICB2024 021