Andrew Schulz, PhD
@schulzscience.bsky.social
Postdoc - @MPI_IS, 🐘🐆🦍🦎🦅 Scientist, #ConservationTech Educator, MechE PhD @GeorgiaTech, Postdoc Rep @SICB_DCB_DVM
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #EDrecovery
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #EDrecovery
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Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis - Communications Biology
Advanced microscopy shows that the skin along the elephant’s trunk is anisotropic; elephant skin has an armor thicker than an Armadillo shell, with entangled protein fibers that provide additional sti...
www.nature.com
New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Excited to have the opportunity to share my perspective on comparative biomechanics in a plenary at this year's SICB meeting. Grateful to my mentors/collabs/students for their support along the way, and very honored to receive the Gans Young Investigator Award!
I wrote a new blog post about being an #AuDHD academic and what life is like with and without wearing a mask...I hope to post blogs more regularly going forward!
An Autistic Academic — Mask Off
Experiencing a day at work with and without masking as an autistic academic has made me realize how much energy it takes to keep that…
medium.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I wrote a new blog post about being an #AuDHD academic and what life is like with and without wearing a mask...I hope to post blogs more regularly going forward!
Recently returned from the Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellows Study Tour across Germany with people spanning six contents visiting over 20 Germany cities in 13 days. It was one incredible trip with friends that will definitely last a lifetime! #myfellowfellows
August 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Recently returned from the Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellows Study Tour across Germany with people spanning six contents visiting over 20 Germany cities in 13 days. It was one incredible trip with friends that will definitely last a lifetime! #myfellowfellows
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‼️ Attention ASB’ers! ‼️
Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm.
Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there!
FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.
Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm.
Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there!
FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
‼️ Attention ASB’ers! ‼️
Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm.
Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there!
FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.
Spread the word: The Postdoc Affinity Group will be at Il Tetto at Sienna Mercato (942 Penn Ave) Wednesday night starting at 7pm.
Swing by to meet up with fellow ASB postdocs. Can’t wait to see you there!
FYI: Senior PhD students interested in postdocing are also welcome.
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✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
July 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
✨Some news✨: after finishing my postdoc, I’ll be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech. Join us in Atlanta to study how joints work and where they come from!
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The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The call for applications has just been released for #CV4Ecology2026!! This three-week intensive program trains ecologists and conservation practitioners to develop their own AI tools for their own data.
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
When: Jan 12-30, 2026
Where: SCBI @smconservation.bsky.social
This week has been tough for several reasons. I have been struggling to put it in words, but finally sat down and did some writing.
An Autistic Academic
This week, I read several articles highlighting the press conference of the HHS secretary declaring that autism is a growing “epidemic.”
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April 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This week has been tough for several reasons. I have been struggling to put it in words, but finally sat down and did some writing.
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Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.
March 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey Bluesky! @sicb.bsky.social 's Divisions of Comparative Biomechanics and Vertebrate Morphology are here! We're here to share any position opportunities and keep you updated on DCB and DVM activities. Give us a follow and feel free to send any postings our way.
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1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature
In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What’s that on your tail?
Sidney Leedham, Roger Kissane & James Charles review an exciting #preprint from @schulzscience.bsky.social & team exploring how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirrels helps them stick to trees.
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...
Sidney Leedham, Roger Kissane & James Charles review an exciting #preprint from @schulzscience.bsky.social & team exploring how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirrels helps them stick to trees.
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...
Scaly-Tail Organ Enhances Static Stability during Pel’s Scaly-tailed Flying Squirrels’ Arboreal Locomotion - preLights
What’s that on your tail? @sidneyleedham @LivEvoBiomech, and @james_charles90 review this exciting preprint which explores how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirr...
prelights.biologists.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What’s that on your tail?
Sidney Leedham, Roger Kissane & James Charles review an exciting #preprint from @schulzscience.bsky.social & team exploring how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirrels helps them stick to trees.
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...
Sidney Leedham, Roger Kissane & James Charles review an exciting #preprint from @schulzscience.bsky.social & team exploring how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirrels helps them stick to trees.
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...
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Thank you @gtpols.bsky.social for the thread on @schulzscience.bsky.social’s recent paper on collagen imaging of elephant skin!
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February 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thank you @gtpols.bsky.social for the thread on @schulzscience.bsky.social’s recent paper on collagen imaging of elephant skin!
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Hello! Making the jump from X along with many in the #science community. I'm a #biodiversity monitoring and #SciComm professional with a particular love for #conservation, #bioacoustics and #lemurs 🐒🔊🌳💚
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hello! Making the jump from X along with many in the #science community. I'm a #biodiversity monitoring and #SciComm professional with a particular love for #conservation, #bioacoustics and #lemurs 🐒🔊🌳💚
Excited about collaborating with Ayah Ahmad and Maegan Tucker from Dynamic Mobility at Georgia Tech, our submission to #ICRA2025 is accepted.
If you're interested in bio-inspired robotics, modeling multi-materials in MuJoco, and more, check it out: dynamicmobility.github.io/ICRA2025-hop...
If you're interested in bio-inspired robotics, modeling multi-materials in MuJoco, and more, check it out: dynamicmobility.github.io/ICRA2025-hop...
February 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Excited about collaborating with Ayah Ahmad and Maegan Tucker from Dynamic Mobility at Georgia Tech, our submission to #ICRA2025 is accepted.
If you're interested in bio-inspired robotics, modeling multi-materials in MuJoco, and more, check it out: dynamicmobility.github.io/ICRA2025-hop...
If you're interested in bio-inspired robotics, modeling multi-materials in MuJoco, and more, check it out: dynamicmobility.github.io/ICRA2025-hop...
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Stay tuned for news about the next round of the in-situ Jungle Biomechanics Lab! This NSF program brings early-career researchers out to the Amazon Rainforest to learn how to do interdisciplinary research in the field! UGs to postdocs are welcome to apply! bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...
January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Stay tuned for news about the next round of the in-situ Jungle Biomechanics Lab! This NSF program brings early-career researchers out to the Amazon Rainforest to learn how to do interdisciplinary research in the field! UGs to postdocs are welcome to apply! bhamla.gatech.edu/project-blog...
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🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
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Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
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December 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos?
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵
Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections.
Thread👇🧵
New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Second harmonic generation imaging reveals entanglement of collagen fibers in the elephant trunk skin dermis - Communications Biology
Advanced microscopy shows that the skin along the elephant’s trunk is anisotropic; elephant skin has an armor thicker than an Armadillo shell, with entangled protein fibers that provide additional sti...
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Looking forward to #SICB2025! I'm presenting in two symposiums on elephants and bio-inspired materials! The first symposium is Saturday, January 4, from 10:00 am-10:30 am in Marquis C. If you are interested in entanglement, collagen imaging techniques, or biological composites, come by!
January 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Looking forward to #SICB2025! I'm presenting in two symposiums on elephants and bio-inspired materials! The first symposium is Saturday, January 4, from 10:00 am-10:30 am in Marquis C. If you are interested in entanglement, collagen imaging techniques, or biological composites, come by!
Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025
December 24, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Testing out a new feed for @sicb-spdac.bsky.social #SICB2025
Paper accepted :)
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Paper accepted :)
This was difficult to write, but it has been nice to hear such positive feedback from colleagues and scientists across Germany.
17/ Are you thinking about an international career move?
#Neurodivergent postdoc @schulzscience.bsky.social shared four recommendations for preparing for relocating abroad – and what he wished he had known before relocating.
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#Neurodivergent postdoc @schulzscience.bsky.social shared four recommendations for preparing for relocating abroad – and what he wished he had known before relocating.
https://buff.ly/3CWBImz
Being Neurodivergent in Academia: Autistic and abroad
An AuDHD researcher recounts the highs and lows of relocating to Germany for his postdoc.
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November 26, 2024 at 4:27 PM
This was difficult to write, but it has been nice to hear such positive feedback from colleagues and scientists across Germany.
We have a feed for SICB DCB DVM - bsky.app/profile/did:... check it out!
November 22, 2024 at 2:34 PM
We have a feed for SICB DCB DVM - bsky.app/profile/did:... check it out!
Hey we are slowly moving things over, but the #SICB2025 community give @sicb-spdac.bsky.social a follow!
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Hey we are slowly moving things over, but the #SICB2025 community give @sicb-spdac.bsky.social a follow!
Our paper got covered by @npr.org !!
Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly?
It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers.
It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers.
There’s a wrinkle — or many — in the story behind an elephant’s trunk
A bump in the elephant brain stem pointed scientists to the wrinkles on their trunks and the role those folds play in the animal’s life.
www.npr.org
October 13, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Our paper got covered by @npr.org !!