Spending the morning planning the future of Science for Georgia Inc - this non-profit “Improves communication between scientists and the public; Increases public engagement with science; Advocates for the responsible use of science in public policy”. scienceforgeorgia.org/donate/

📢Lab's first paper just out in Nature Communications! Please RT. Actin duels : twinfilin-formin-capping protein multicomponent ecosystem regulates actin assembly at filament barbed ends. By Heidi Ulrichs and Ignas Gaska. Emory University nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/n

#ThrowbackThursday to our Atlanta Science Festival event: The Very Important *Matter* of Ice Cream! It's hot. It's summer break. Queue up this educational, family-friendly sketch for your bored kiddos then take them out for ice cream & ponder the tasty side of science! bit.ly/3XZmCDm

📢(1/n) Please RT! I am hiring a postdoc to work on exciting biophysics and biochemical projects in actin mechanobiology in my lab at Emory University, Atlanta, USA! See lab website: shekharlab.org

New KITP Program! #ACTIVESOLIDS24 Active Solids: From Metamaterials to Biological Tissue Dates: 10/15/24-12/20/24 kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/act…

Excited to have coorganized this program (and associated conference) with DAPHNE KLOTSA, Cristina Marchetti, and Anton Souslov! Apply at the link here!

A great new book on Soft Matter by Wim van Saarloos and coauthors: Concepts, Phenomena, and Applications press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/97… I had the privilege to have a preview. It has been my honor to write down my views on this great book, see my next reply tweet.

Emory University associate professor Dr. Justin Burton was awarded a $1.25 million grant by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative. physics.emory.edu/home/people/bi… #laneygraduateschool #emory #moorefoundationaward #physics

We are growing our already significant footprint in Theory and Modeling of Living Systems livingtheory.emory.edu. The group is anchored in Physics and Biology, with additional faculty in other departments. This year we are hiring a theorist in Biology apply.interfolio.com/131940

Natural many-body systems are complex. The interactions between individuals can be nonreciprocal. In our new preprint we use neural networks as universal approximators to learn these forces in a dusty plasma. Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2310.05273 Ilya Nemenman

1/n APS March Meeting attendees/materials geometry enthusiasts: Gyroid session at march.aps.org meeting in honor of Alan H Schoen: Inviting contributions (deadline Oct 20) APS DSOFT APS DPOLY APS-DBIO

Of course, I'm excited about the science problems we'll tackle with this, but also... did I mention that this is for arbitrary surfaces? Jamming problems on the surface of an elephant, anyone?

🚨 I've not been around X a lot recently so let me tell you about one project we've launched recently called *KIM Review* kimreview.org Kicked off by Ellad Tadmor, Ron Miller, and yours truly. Co-edited by 🌟Daan Frenkel and Steve Plimpton🌟 and a super editorial board!

I will have a great day! Thanks, Emory students!

What a fantastic opportunity to explore the world of soft matter in living systems! My collaborator Haicen Yue 🏳️‍🌈 is hiring a postdoc in her group at UVermont. Check out her work at site.uvm.edu/hyue, and our latest paper on the arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2210.06675

Our paper is finally out! When thinking about the coalescence of biological condensates and other macromolecular assemblies, we show how a "simple liquid" understanding won't cut it. journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs… Daniel Sussman Haicen Yue 🏳️‍🌈

Score!!🎉 Paper just accepted in NATURE PHYSICS! Nature Physics Using Stentor, we show that hydrodynamics could have been a key factor in evolution of multicellularity!If you are a postdoc candidate with background in biological fluid dynamics & like doing experiments -email!