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for pokรฉmon's 30th anniversary, explore a visualization and field guide to 1,000+ pokรฉmon. what inspired them, where they came from, and how they connect.
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, 1,000๊ฐ ์ด์์ ํฌ์ผ๋ชฌ์ ์๊ฐํํ์ต๋๋ค!
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It took me quite some time, but the article following a talk at the DFD 2024 is finally online! Clogging is widespread, but the associated physics remains poorly understood. I am trying to give a (biased) view and some general knowledge here: doi.org/10.1103/rfk8...
Our new paper, led by @ramsudhirsharma.bsky.social (with Alexandre Leonelli, Kevin Zhao, Eckart Meiburg), has been published in @apsphysics.bsky.social PRL. We revisit hourglasses/silos and ask what really sets the discharge rate. See more here: doi.org/10.1103/3g2f-nslz
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Weโve been putting together a small device to study flow through pores, where geometry matters and minor imperfections can make or break the experiment. The goal is simple to state and nontrivial to execute. One early prototype looks, quite unintentionally, like a Picasso: a face, a pair of eyes.
@leakey77.bsky.social and colleagues combined laser confocal microscopy with gas exchange measurements to enable the real-time observation of living plant stomata! ๐งช
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
3D printing meets fluid mechanics! Thrilled to see our Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics article on direct-ink writing featured by @utknoxville.bsky.social. With Brett Compton & @raytyler.bsky.social : tickle.utk.edu/mae/news/com... @annualreviews.bsky.social @univofmaryland.bsky.social
My first PhD paper with Prakash Lab is out in its final form! Here we uncover the many folded forms of Placozoa and how cilia unfold them. Enjoy the paper and our stop motion summary of this story!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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(2/n) In our latest paper in PNAS, led by an incredible graduate student @cbrannon.bsky.social - we show a bizarre world of "cellular plate tectonics". Imagine a self-folding origami with a mind of its own. A living sheet that does not need any instructions to fold.. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reflections #FluidsFriday
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๐งชโ๏ธ A counterintuitive finding:
doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
(Physics-1, John-0)
A nice write up of the Science/Poetry meeting we have every year here at Friday Harbor Labs.
salish-current.org/2025/12/11/w...
William Pickard developed an elegant analytical solution to describe low-Reynolds-number flow in long cylindrical cells. This setup resembles the classic Couette flow, but in this case, the velocity depends on the angle and the radial position (normalized by the cell radius) buff.ly/RcuIAyW
It's #FluidsFriday, and we're featuring another sample from the hydrodramatic toy collection. A rising Taylor bubble generates a swirling flow inside a sealed cylindrical tube.
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Roses donโt just defend themselves. Their prickles are geometrically ideal for gripping surfaces, supporting vertical growth, and, when needed, creating lacerations that deter herbivores. Students - join us to investigate how biological form and physical law work together!
I am looking to hire PhD students to join our Multiphase & Multiscale Flow Lab in Mechanical Engineering @univofmaryland.bsky.social
Background in ME, Physics, ChemE, Civil (or related), interest in fluid mechanics/soft matter, and hands-on lab work are key.
Please help spread the word!
New paper!๐ก Amir Ohad developed this nifty setup to measure weak forces generated by freely moving plants, based on the deflection of a pendulum (straw from the cafeteria ๐), which does not require any tethering of the plant: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Plant-obstacle interactions here we come!
โCellular Olympicsโ our catalog of freeky ultra fast cellular superheroโs is freely available โAnn Rev of microbiologyโ
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
This is a compilation of worldโs fastest single cell organisms - enjoy this buffet of rare delightful protists with mind bending speeds. ๐งช
An intimate conversation about what drives me every day in โsharing experienceโ of science by getting tools of science in hands of kids everywhere.
themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/episodes/man...
Congrats @laurentformery.bsky.social
Often people ask why we chose to work on a certain problems and a simple answer for us in this case - itโs beautiful. If you want to learn the magic of building crystalline ยซย gemsย ยป inside the body - see our latest paper at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sharpen your knives! High-speed video analysis reveals that blunt knives and faster cutting speeds release more eye-irritating droplets from onions by building pressure under the onionโs skin before the ejection of the tear-inducing aerosols. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/5rc750Xcvhj
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus ๐ต straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our new study from Joanne Steinerโs PhD work and with C. Morize, P. Gondret, and I. Delbende has just been published in Phys. Rev. Fluids! We study vortex rings generated when a disk moves toward or away from a wall. doi.org/10.1103/ynxr...
What a great discovery and story!!
๐จDonโt miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org ๐ฑ
๐Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
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