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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

From knotted LEGO loops, via sequential yield buckling for shock absorbtion, to mechanical computation using frustrated loops... @physicsmagazine.bsky.social featured our paper with Tomer Sigalov, undergraduate student at Tel Aviv University and Wenfeng Liu and Corentin Coulais, University Amsterdam

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This week at @biosofttau.bsky.social , aSpecial Mini-Symposium! We’re honoring the 2025 @telavivuni.bsky.social International Prize in Biophysics. Featuring Prof. Arvind Murugan (@ucstonecenter.bsky.social ) Wed, Jan 14|11:00–13:00|Kaplun 118, Tel Aviv University Join us!

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Who said a course on Percolation Theory can't include some experiments... Thanks Roi Almog for nicely presenting this paper with Camilla Sammartino & Bat-El Pinchasik on Percolation in Networks of Liquid Diodes doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

New preprint with Priyanka and Cristiano Nisoli in which we explore multi-dimensional memory in the topologically constrained disordered Shakti artificial spin ice arxiv.org/abs/2512.21767

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Introducing the F-Index: Tel Aviv University is introducing a bonus to the salaries of faculty members. It's controversial mainly because it’s based on quantitative measures for excellence in research. The Fakexcellence Metric Calculator has been launched: fakexcellence-production.up.railway.app

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Call for Nominations! 🌟 The 2026 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics is now open. Since 2006, the prize honors outstanding contributions in biophysics. Award: $100,000 Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 🔗 More info: english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics Send in your nominations!

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Postdoc Positions: Computational Molecular & Materials Science @telavivuni.bsky.social Gili Bisker, Guy Cohen, Oswaldo Dieguez, Moshe Goldstein, @barakhirshberg.bsky.social, Oded Hod, Amir Natan, Abraham Nitzan, Shlomi Reuveni, @yairshokef.bsky.social, Michael Urbakh thesacklercenter.sites.tau.ac.il

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🎉 Thank you for joining BioSoft Day #6 at TAU! A day full of inspiring talks, posters, and scientific exchange. 👏 Congrats to our poster prize winners! 📍 See you next year at BioSoft Day #7! #BioSoftDay #Biophysics #SoftMatter

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Our two sister papers on combinatorial metamaterials published today in @physrevresearch.bsky.social, a result of a fantastic SKCM2 collaboration with Chaviva Sirote-Katz at Tel Aviv and Tamás Kálmán at Tokyo shokef.tau.ac.il

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📢 Save the date! BioSoft Day #6. June 29, 2025 at the Steinhardt Museum, Tel Aviv . A full day of science at the physics–biology interface. 🎟️ Free with registration by June 14. 🔗 Details: www.biosoft.sites.tau.ac.il/biosoftday2025 Don't miss it—join us! #BioSoftDay #TelAvivUni #PhysicsMeetsBiology

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Nothing like posting on the arXiv during the APS March Meeting the paper that you're about to present in your talk: Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials (fun work with Wenfeng Liu, Tomer Sigalov & Corentin Coulais) arxiv.org/abs/2503.12867

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Soft Matter @softmatter.rsc.org · 07/03/2025

📣 Who will you nominate for the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship? Nominate an early-career researcher making significant contributions to the soft matter field. Deadline 30th April 2025. Find out more ➡️ rsc.li/SMlec25

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

and more...

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

more work in progress..

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

and ending the first day with lively discussions over our real research posters

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

then preparing posters on the spot and presenting them to everyone...

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

randomly breaking up into groups and coming up with new research ideas and connections...

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Great start of @biosofttau.bsky.social annual retreat, with exciting talk...

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We're excited to annouce this year's winners of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics: Ariel Amir (Weizmann), Arvind Murugan (Chicago), and Julien Tailleur (MIT) english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What do you know and think of the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist Rankings? (aka science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators by John Ioannidis)

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BioSoft@TAU @biosofttau.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It was a pleasure to host Uri Raviv from @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social who told us about Structure and Dynamics of Tubulin Self Organization

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Check out this nice piece yaelha48.wixsite.com/mind2machine... by Yael Hanein describing our recent paper: Breaking mechanical holography in combinatorial metamaterials C. Sirote-Katz, O. Palti, N. Spiro, T. Kálmán, and Y. Shokef arxiv.org/abs/2411.15760

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The Magic of Mechanical Metamaterials: How Tiny Blocks Shape Big Ideas

What if we could design materials that move, bend, and respond to forces in ways nature never intended? Sounds like science fiction, right? But it’s real, and it’s all thanks to something called mecha...

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited to share TWO new preprints: 1) Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials - building blocks that don't induce holographic order allow to build lots of mechanially compatible metamaterials and to design the texture (almost) on their entire boundary arxiv.org/abs/2411.15760

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Yair Shokef @yairshokef.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Check out the 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics - $50,000 to young researcher(s) under the age of 45 for exceptional achievements and contributions to biophysics - Nomination deadline: December 31, 2024 @TelAvivUni english.tau.ac.il/TAU_biophysics

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