Jared Popowski
@jaredpopo.bsky.social
Getting my PhD in active glasses/plant biophysics from UvA! 🧫🌱
Physics MSc from UBC, 2023
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D18a24AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://jaredpopowski.com/
Physics MSc from UBC, 2023
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D18a24AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://jaredpopowski.com/
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Jared Popowski
@jaredpopo.bsky.social
· Jan 4
Proud to win the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest for my tomato leaf trichome photo! Trichomes break on contact with insects, defending against predation 🐛🌿🔬🧪
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
go.nature.com/47hn0n5
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available
go.nature.com/479Sni6
go.nature.com/479Sni6
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
go.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available
go.nature.com/479Sni6
go.nature.com/479Sni6
How about we don't tie fundamental research funding up with defense in the EU? The push for defense applications could take away spending in other critical areas like medicine or environmental science
It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference
go.nature.com/46UR4DH
go.nature.com/46UR4DH
The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone
It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How about we don't tie fundamental research funding up with defense in the EU? The push for defense applications could take away spending in other critical areas like medicine or environmental science
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Happy to share that our work on active phase separation by photophobic microalgae is now published in PRL!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
When surrounded by multiple light sources, cells hide behind each other, leading to the quick formation of a macroscopic branching pattern.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
When surrounded by multiple light sources, cells hide behind each other, leading to the quick formation of a macroscopic branching pattern.
October 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Happy to share that our work on active phase separation by photophobic microalgae is now published in PRL!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
When surrounded by multiple light sources, cells hide behind each other, leading to the quick formation of a macroscopic branching pattern.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
When surrounded by multiple light sources, cells hide behind each other, leading to the quick formation of a macroscopic branching pattern.
Cool animal that I didn't know existed: this is a crab spider that I saw on a hike in Brittany, strategically positioned amidst the densest group of butterflies that I had seen on the trail
August 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Cool animal that I didn't know existed: this is a crab spider that I saw on a hike in Brittany, strategically positioned amidst the densest group of butterflies that I had seen on the trail
Reposted by Jared Popowski
In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week.
And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
Physics meets fashion: a bioluminescent dress
A very special look was presented earlier this week by fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the Paris Haute Couture Week. The garment: a bioluminescent dress, created from 125 million living algae. Bio...
www.uva.nl
July 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In the last couple of months I helped biodesigner Chris Bellamy in a collaboration with fashion designer Iris van Herpen to make a bioluminescent dress for Paris Haute Couture week.
And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
And the outcome was absolutely stunning!!!!
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
This is the future I want for all active fault zones! Let's get cheap sensors everywhere+statistical modeling to alert us to incoming earthquakes/volcanic eruptions
A freshly installed network of sensors has pinpointed its first hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone
https://go.nature.com/4jUnxhL
https://go.nature.com/4jUnxhL
Sensors pinpoint the exact time of a Yellowstone explosion
Data could help to reveal the warning signs of potentially dangerous eruptions caused by liquid groundwater abruptly turning into gas.
go.nature.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is the future I want for all active fault zones! Let's get cheap sensors everywhere+statistical modeling to alert us to incoming earthquakes/volcanic eruptions
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning.
Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more
📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025
Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u...
Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social
Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more
📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025
Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u...
Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning.
Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more
📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025
Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u...
Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social
Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more
📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025
Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u...
Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social
Reposted by Jared Popowski
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Reposted by Jared Popowski
🧵 Watch closely the waves on the surface as a bird moves through the water! This is one of my favorite videos that I've seen recently - dense collections of fish using collective escape waves that confuse birds 🌊
Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
March 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🧵 Watch closely the waves on the surface as a bird moves through the water! This is one of my favorite videos that I've seen recently - dense collections of fish using collective escape waves that confuse birds 🌊
Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Are you at the #APSGlobalSummit2025?
I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award!
Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊
Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :)
@apsphysics.bsky.social
I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award!
Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊
Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :)
@apsphysics.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Are you at the #APSGlobalSummit2025?
I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award!
Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊
Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :)
@apsphysics.bsky.social
I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award!
Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊
Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :)
@apsphysics.bsky.social
To my friends and colleagues back in the US, my heart aches as I watch the Trump administration dismantle the scientific research that made our country so important on the world stage.
It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience.fr
It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience.fr
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
standupforscience2025.org
March 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
To my friends and colleagues back in the US, my heart aches as I watch the Trump administration dismantle the scientific research that made our country so important on the world stage.
It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience.fr
It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️
standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience.fr
Soft matter physics is either:
1. Fluid does weird thing
2. Granular system does weird thing
3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)
1. Fluid does weird thing
2. Granular system does weird thing
3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Soft matter physics is either:
1. Fluid does weird thing
2. Granular system does weird thing
3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)
1. Fluid does weird thing
2. Granular system does weird thing
3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)
So excited for the week ahead at Les Houches!
February 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So excited for the week ahead at Les Houches!
Went to the wonderful Groote Museum yesterday! Highly recommend for those interested in biology/life sciences and happen to visit the Amsterdam area
January 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Went to the wonderful Groote Museum yesterday! Highly recommend for those interested in biology/life sciences and happen to visit the Amsterdam area
@kpc.bsky.social wrote a nice writeup about my recent preprint about the mechanics of glandular trichome rupture, was a fun interview!
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
Tomato plants are covered in tiny anti-pest booby traps
A more detailed understanding of the natural anti-insect protections of tomato plants can lead to better pest-management strategies
www.newscientist.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@kpc.bsky.social wrote a nice writeup about my recent preprint about the mechanics of glandular trichome rupture, was a fun interview!
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
www.newscientist.com/article/2463...
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Yay! I won the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest alongside two others!
My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes!
My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula!
engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...
My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes!
My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula!
engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...
January 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Yay! I won the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest alongside two others!
My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes!
My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula!
engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...
My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes!
My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula!
engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...
Proud to win the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest for my tomato leaf trichome photo! Trichomes break on contact with insects, defending against predation 🐛🌿🔬🧪
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
January 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Proud to win the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest for my tomato leaf trichome photo! Trichomes break on contact with insects, defending against predation 🐛🌿🔬🧪
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!
Reposted by Jared Popowski
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Reposted by Jared Popowski
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 22, 2024 at 7:01 PM
The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
December 2, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
Reposted by Jared Popowski
"Einstein has once again expressed himself publicly on quantum mechanics...As is well known, this is a catastrophe every time it happens"
- Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935
- Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935
November 30, 2024 at 11:26 AM
"Einstein has once again expressed himself publicly on quantum mechanics...As is well known, this is a catastrophe every time it happens"
- Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935
- Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935
Reposted by Jared Popowski
Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber | PNAS
Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed
dispersal. A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in pl...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...