🚨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

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We used Monte Carlo simulations to generate bacterial trajectories in spatial and temporal gradients from which we calculated a chemotactic drift velocity. We then proposed an ansatz for the drift velocity, which well describes the simulations. This ansatz can be used in continuum models... (2/3)

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

Fluid dynamicists of #Bluesky, can you suggest some companies doing exciting fluid dynamics in the UK and worldwide, and who regularly employ maths and physics graduates? #FluidDynamics #FYFD #GraduateCareers #STEM

Marine sunburst lichen (Xanthoria parietina). #microSky #lichens #symbiosis

Today my PhD student Caitlin and I were going through models (agent based and continuum) of the physics of swimming microalgae 🦠. Caitlin's investigating the movement of motile microalgae in snow ❄️ in collaboration with Mel Sandells, Matt Davey and Xanthella. #microswimmers #cryosphere #OnePlanetDTP

@teamfoldscope.bsky.social #AntonievanLeeuwenhoek

Got a #FoldScope microscope kit for s friend's son. Of course couldn't resist getting one for myself too! Here's an image of a fern rhizome cellular matrix (the fixed slide that comes with the kit). Look forward to hunting for protists in the field #microalgae #MicrobialEcology

Accidental representation of a biflagellate on a Newcastle pavement #microswimmers

#blueskyalgae does anyone know if there exists a marine species of Volvox? Many freshwater species have marine correspondents, but I can't find a marine Volvox. If it doesn't exist, why might it not have evolved?

Hi Bluesky, my name is Otti and I am a biophysicist working on the theoretical and experimental biophysics of swimming microbes and microbial interactions. My research is inspired by applications to sustainability and environmental science. #Biophysics #MathBio #Microswimmers #ActiveMatter

Fed a couple of carrions yesterday evening. One was very bold, the other extremely cautious. #crows #carrioncrows #corvuscorone #corvids