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Prakash Lab @ Miami
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Prof. Vivek Prakash, Biophysics, Marine & Developmental Biology, Depts of Physics, Biology, Marine Biology & Ecology, University of Miami, FL
Prev: @Stanford
Profile: https://people.miami.edu/profile/vprakash@miami.edu
Lab site: www.marinebiophysics.org
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Prakash Lab @ Miami @vprakashlab.bsky.social · Feb 5
🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org
🥳😃 🐣
Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...
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We’re hiring! 🚨
Assistant Professor (TT) in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics @univmiami.bsky.social 😀

Come build the future of interdisciplinary biophysics with us!
Apply by Dec 15 → tinyurl.com/5n9bk836

#Biophysics #PhysicsJobs #AcademicJobs #UMiami
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
vprakashlab.bsky.social
Honored to give the keynote at @frostscience.org.web.brid.gy annual fundraiser, celebrating Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius.

I shared how Leonardo’s curiosity, imagination, and creativity continues to inspire interdisciplinary science, art, and discovery, even in the Age of AI.

#DaVinci500
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!
October 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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markusdeserno.bsky.social
I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪

Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360

PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies!

Let me briefly explain what we're looking for:

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Tenure-track Position in Biophysics at Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Physics Location: Pittsburgh, PA Open Date: Sep 19, 2025 Description The Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics. The appointment is intended to be at the Assistant Professor level, but exceptional candidates at a higher level may also be considered. We seek outstanding candidates with a strong record in cellular and subcellular biophysics. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, uncovering how key characteristics of living systems arise from the interplay between supramolecular cellular structures, how the emergent cellular circuitry defines goals and enables robust decision making, and how metabolic resources are allocated. This encompasses understanding of how information is learned, stored, transduced, and processed across subcellular structures. Applicants with theoretical, data science, or experimental backgrounds within biological physics are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate will strengthen and extend research programs of current biophysics faculty in the Department of Physics and collaborate with broader life science activities across many departments at CMU and the wider Pittsburgh area. More details on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/174360
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going.
@harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2)
@socdevbio.bsky.social
#devbiol
#scicomm
September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️
😀🥳

We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE!
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...
September 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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guille-rochelle.bsky.social
In another exciting development our new preprint is online:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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guille-rochelle.bsky.social
Looks like I am late to this party but have exciting news. I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study #XtrmCells! Thankful to @erc.europa.eus for this opportunity, and to my collaborators, mentors, and group for their support. Looking forward to exploring the mechanics of these cells!
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳

PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development!
Cover art: embryos + flow fields
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
September 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast
www.upr.org/podcasts/103...

I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉

Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org
🦑🧪🌊
September 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!!
30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing.
Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT.

RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to shekhar@emory.edu.

More info: www.shekharlab.org
August 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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nizet.bsky.social
A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University

Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience
Why would anyone want to be a scientist?
It is difficult to fathom why anyone intelligent enough to be a scientist would actually choose to be one. Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently...
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August 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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echinerd.bsky.social
Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!
echinerd.bsky.social Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · May 12
Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
May 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! 😀🪸🎼
Here is a news article with more details:
news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

youtu.be/C-JNPIXyKes?...
Coral Sonification
YouTube video by University of Miami
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May 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com

Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A new study originating from the #MBL proposes that physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life! 🦠 Follow the link to read more about Stentor, a single-celled organism that could offer an early model for multicellularity.

📲 More: bit.ly/4cilZvV
A host of yellow, trumpet-shaped cells gather in a ball shape, with trumpets pointing outward, on a black background. The trumpets move around slightly.
April 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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sshekhr.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics
@naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor!

How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?
April 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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wallaceucsf.bsky.social
for a little back-story on how this project started in the Physiology course at the @mblscience.bsky.social , including how two of the authors become involved in the project after emerging from the water at "garbage beach" carrying lasers, check this out: wayback.archive-it.org/12248/201508...
April 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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sshekhr.bsky.social
Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com

Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!
April 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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sshekhr.bsky.social
📢Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics
@naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor!

How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s41...?
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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And a milestone for the sea urchins too! Congrats to all 🎉
March 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS to my first PhD student Bikram Shrestha for successfully defending his thesis!! 🥳 😃

This marks a major milestone for Bikram, me, and our lab!!

@univmiami.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Thanks @focalplane.bsky.social for the highlight, great to show an spiralian larva to all this amazing crowd.

#WormWednesday #DevBio #EvoDevo
focalplane.bsky.social FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Mar 26
We caught up with @allancarbal.bsky.social, who acquired this beautiful image of an actinotroch which you can view in our image gallery at #biologists100. Keywords from Allan’s research are #spiralia and #evodev.
Picture of Allan Carrillo-Baltodano in a FocalPlane-branded polaroid style selfie frame next to an image of an actinotroch displayed on an easel.
March 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Sad news… A giant in fluid mechanics and particulate flows cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...
In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering
Andreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the  second...
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February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM