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

Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!

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. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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!

🧪🚨 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 Thread👇🧵

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