@alexphoover
Assistant Professor of Math at Cleveland State University. Slowly rebuilding my Babel here, but I post about/shoot random likes at: Math / Fluids / Biology / LGBTQ+ in STEM / Ohio + Cleveland / EU + Italy
The Kakapo, which is reclusive and flightless and can live as long as humans, is found only in New Zealand. It feeds on the fruit of the rimu tree. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/s...
I only knew the Tanya Tucker (who I love as a camp icon) version! Thanks for this.
View from my dirty office window as Lake Erie begins to melt.
Walking on ice in Lake Erie.
Sunset on the ice.
Walkers on the ice.
The warm glow of the sun of 36° F to break Cleveland's longest freezing streak since 1899.
Glad I got my yearly frozen lake walk in.
This Is What Drives Axon Growth. Axon growth is powered by the actin cytoskeleton at the growth cone.
Here, filamentous actin dynamics drive fast, directed axon extension in real time. #Fluorescencefriday #science #neuroscience #microscopy 🧪
What makes it worse is that I get suspicious/paranoid of LMS metrics that suddenly shoot up once a pdf is tagged. Could an LMS then feed these into some sort of LLM with sorting done beforehand? If anybody knows more about this I'm all ears!
Dry PowerPoint lectures that somebody downloaded (or had chatgpt generatex) are easily compliant, but any amount of attempt at trying to engage in class on the board is now feeling like a penalization.
I'm starting to pull all of my hair out on the idea that none of my course notes are Title II compliant. My students don't understand why I can't post my tablet notes anymore.
While I get how this is supposed to help with accessibility (which I support!) it is a nightmare in actual implementation.
Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
It's been a long semester but managed to get some epic shots during last week's coronal mass ejection.
Lightfield 4D has landed at the HCBI. If you are in Boston, come check it out!
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu
For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT
1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order.
Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.
There are important caveats though, read on.
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NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Happy to announce a new publication on a project I started at the tail end of my postdoc! Here we use the method of regularized Stokeslets for a single point formulation of a pusher/puller microswimmer.
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to see students present some recent research at Cleveland State's Choose Ohio First poster showcase!
Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.
🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.
Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience
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The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The squirting cucumber catapults its seeds with a force & precision rivalling the mechanics of modern engineering. A groundbreaking study in PNAS, co-authored by Fellow, Dr Dominic Vella, reveals the secrets of this botanical marvel.
FIND OUT MORE 🔗https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8
🦑🧪 Modelling the mechanospace of larvacean pumping and swimming, presented by @alexphoover.bsky.social at
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024
