Fresh off the press! Jeongeun and Yoël’s work on the lightning-fast actuation of the Venus flytrap. 🪴⚡ No muscles. No nerves. So what powers the trap? Cutting the trap suppresses its mechanical amplifier, the snap-through instability, and reveals the active motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The paper is out in Small 🎉🎊: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... See the thread summary below 👇

It’s been too long since I posted some Zoothamnium - a colonial ciliate that contracts when disturbed. So pretty! #marineplankton 🦑

The paper is finally out in JFM 🎉🎊: doi.org/10.1017/jfm.... Below is the thread summary of last year 👇

Did you know you can manipulate hundreds of microparticles using phototactic algae? This is what we show in our last preprint, led by T. Laroussi and J. Bouvard: arxiv.org/abs/2509.08133 🧵👇

Did you know you can manipulate hundreds of microparticles using phototactic algae? This is what we show in our last preprint, led by T. Laroussi and J. Bouvard: arxiv.org/abs/2509.08133 🧵👇

Our article on the junction of slender objects under tension has been published @pmmh-lab.bsky.social! We discuss a cool phenomenon found in numerous systems, from kirigamis, kuttsukigami from @abcroll.bsky.social, and inflatables to more traditional tearing/peeling www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The 🪱 mania continues! In our latest study, led by Rosa, we explored the locomotion and dynamics of living worms—acting as active polymers—navigating a porous environment made of 3D-printed pillar arrays. And we found something surprising...

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.01875 "Dense array of elastic hairs obstructing a fluidic channel" I guess it was time I post something here! Explanations below 🧵👇