Otti Croze
@otticroze.bsky.social
Biophysicist/math biologist (Newcastle University) working on microswimmers and the physics of microbes 🦠; passionate about nature and sustainability ♻️; mental health advocate; he/him/his; opinions personal.
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🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
What about the 1926 Madelung (hydrodynamic) formulation of quantum mechanics? That doesn't require imaginary numbers either.
For the first time, physicists have formulated quantum theory without imaginary numbers, overturning a 2021 claim that these unreal numbers are essential for describing the quantum world.
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What about the 1926 Madelung (hydrodynamic) formulation of quantum mechanics? That doesn't require imaginary numbers either.
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Frost forms hexagonal columns on a wooden rail in this microphotograph by Gregory B. Murray.
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25392
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25392
November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Frost forms hexagonal columns on a wooden rail in this microphotograph by Gregory B. Murray.
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25392
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25392
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Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM
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interested in mechanobiology and physics of living systems? this is the conference for you! Join us 9-12 June in Heidelberg! with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @xaviertrepat.bsky.social Enrique Rojas & Alba Diz-Munoz
Registration OPEN
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Registration OPEN
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
interested in mechanobiology and physics of living systems? this is the conference for you! Join us 9-12 June in Heidelberg! with @nicolettapetridou.bsky.social @xaviertrepat.bsky.social Enrique Rojas & Alba Diz-Munoz
Registration OPEN
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Registration OPEN
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
I am invariably making other plans when life happens
Wildcard Wednesday Gridogram 2025-11-05 was
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
— Allen Saunders (1899-1986)
John Lennon used a variation in Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (1981), written for his son Sean.
Play today’s grid, Thursday of Thought, at gridogram.com
#wordgame
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
— Allen Saunders (1899-1986)
John Lennon used a variation in Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (1981), written for his son Sean.
Play today’s grid, Thursday of Thought, at gridogram.com
#wordgame
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I am invariably making other plans when life happens
🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Join us to investigate how motility and mixotrophy influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #ecology #PhD pls RT
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026.
This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.
This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.
MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resensitisation of antibiotic-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership: Resensitisation of antibiotic-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Looking for an AMR-themed PhD project? Join us to investigate antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus through a fully funded MRC DTP PhD studentship starting in September 2026.
This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.
This project is close collaboration with @kateduncan.bsky.social and @mycobacterium-ncl.bsky.social.
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(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy.
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
(1/2) A new study from EMBL researchers and their collaborators provides unprecedented insights into the cellular architecture of over 200 species of plankton – tiny but ecologically critical marine organisms – using ultrastructure expansion microscopy.
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Learn more: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
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We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Even more biased: I'm excited about the project 'Turbulent Partners: Unravelling Host-Virus Coevolution in Dynamic Environments' with Adam Monier and Daniel Kattnig. Drop me an email if interested! www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Even more biased: I'm excited about the project 'Turbulent Partners: Unravelling Host-Virus Coevolution in Dynamic Environments' with Adam Monier and Daniel Kattnig. Drop me an email if interested! www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...
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As children, most of us plant a seed or two and watch it sprout, but we never get a view quite like this one. #biology #fluiddynamics #physics #plants #science
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25192
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25192
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As children, most of us plant a seed or two and watch it sprout, but we never get a view quite like this one. #biology #fluiddynamics #physics #plants #science
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25192
fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25192
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Congratulations to Professor Julia Yeomans @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for winning the Paul Dirac Medal & Prize for her contributions to understanding the collective behaviour of active particles, and her work highlighting the relevance of active physics to living matter 👏 #IOPAwards25
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Congratulations to Professor Julia Yeomans @oxfordphysics.bsky.social for winning the Paul Dirac Medal & Prize for her contributions to understanding the collective behaviour of active particles, and her work highlighting the relevance of active physics to living matter 👏 #IOPAwards25
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Tintinnina! These little ciliates have beautiful ‘cups’ called loricae.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Tintinnina! These little ciliates have beautiful ‘cups’ called loricae.
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
PhD or Master's position available for Fall 2026!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
Interested in how actin drives cell crawling, eating, dividing, or osmoregulation? What about pathogenesis of a brain-eating amoeba? Or eukaryotic evolution? If so, apply through my website: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science/cont...
Please share!
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Our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances.
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
September 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships are still open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for outstanding early career scientists who require flexible working circumstances.
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
#RSGrants
https://royalsociety.org/grants/dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
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First paper by @jasonbains.bsky.social (proud supervisor moment!) & @finnegansquark.bsky.social. We predict the drift velocity of bacterial populations in spatio-temporally varying chemical environments, e.g. the rhizosphere 🌱 doi.org/10.1098/rsta... 🧵(1/3)
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
September 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
First paper by @jasonbains.bsky.social (proud supervisor moment!) & @finnegansquark.bsky.social. We predict the drift velocity of bacterial populations in spatio-temporally varying chemical environments, e.g. the rhizosphere 🌱 doi.org/10.1098/rsta... 🧵(1/3)
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
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New preprint! :) : "Insertion space of repulsive active matter". We show that the presence of activity, weak or strong, increases the total insertion volume and its connectedness. Our work extends equilibrium concepts of stochastic geometry to active systems. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.081...
#ActiveMatter
#ActiveMatter
September 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
New preprint! :) : "Insertion space of repulsive active matter". We show that the presence of activity, weak or strong, increases the total insertion volume and its connectedness. Our work extends equilibrium concepts of stochastic geometry to active systems. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.081...
#ActiveMatter
#ActiveMatter
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Our special issue of Phil Trans Roy Soc A on "Biological Fluid Dynamics" Emerging Directions" is officially out now! Originating from discussions at one of our SIG meetings, this special issue has 16 research articles and reviews on all things bioactive! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences: Vol 383, No 2304
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our special issue of Phil Trans Roy Soc A on "Biological Fluid Dynamics" Emerging Directions" is officially out now! Originating from discussions at one of our SIG meetings, this special issue has 16 research articles and reviews on all things bioactive! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202...
First paper by @jasonbains.bsky.social (proud supervisor moment!) & @finnegansquark.bsky.social. We predict the drift velocity of bacterial populations in spatio-temporally varying chemical environments, e.g. the rhizosphere 🌱 doi.org/10.1098/rsta... 🧵(1/3)
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
September 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
First paper by @jasonbains.bsky.social (proud supervisor moment!) & @finnegansquark.bsky.social. We predict the drift velocity of bacterial populations in spatio-temporally varying chemical environments, e.g. the rhizosphere 🌱 doi.org/10.1098/rsta... 🧵(1/3)
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
🙏 #Bioactive #Fluids theme issue editors
It would be nice if in digit.party you could ask to see the optimal arrangement of numbers corresponding to 100% of max. When I score less than 100% I am sometimes left wondering @vatter.bsky.social #MathGames #DigitParty 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣
digit.party
match numbers, score points. daily challenge + random boards
digit.party
September 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It would be nice if in digit.party you could ask to see the optimal arrangement of numbers corresponding to 100% of max. When I score less than 100% I am sometimes left wondering @vatter.bsky.social #MathGames #DigitParty 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣