Ever since I was 19, all I wanted to do was be a scientist at an Israeli university. Today, I learned that I will be able to do it for as long as I wish, in the BEST department, and that I have been promoted to Associate Professor. A dream come true :) youtu.be/pSQk-4fddDI?...

TecSE lab is still around for this last day of SPLASH, come chat with us!

Reliving inspiring moments from our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit with @Caltech. In The Pivot Point, Schmidt Science Fellows and Polymaths shared bold pivots that sparked interdisciplinary science, from nano-neuro tech to intelligent systems. Read more: shorturl.at/ZAW17

What an unexpected and pleasant surprise is receiving the Israel Chemical Society Excellent Young Scientist Prize. Thank you! Would have never happened without my amazing students and incredible department and colleagues. @biosofttau.bsky.social Congrats also to Graham!

We’re recruiting PhD students & postdocs excited about nonlinear dynamics and the physics of living systems. Help us spread the word!

📢 New #preprint alert! Our review "RNA Dynamics and Interactions Revealed through Atomistic Simulations" is now available on arxiv.org/abs/2507.08474 ! Written by @bussigio.bsky.social and @ollyfutur.bsky.social

Very few things make me prouder than having Jacob and @yotamfe.bsky.social's paper published today in JCP in the special issue honoring one of my personal heroes, Abraham Nitzan. Abe is a giant of theoretical chemistry (in Israel and globally) and an inspiration to us all. doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

And paper #2 here: Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/mvrj...

Read open access paper #1 here: Breaking mechanical holography in combinatorial metamaterials doi.org/10.1103/wtgy...

Defect Positioning in Combinatorial Metamaterials combined rigorous mathematical analysis with Yotam Feldman and Guy Cohen’s ability to translate our questions on mechanical incompatibility within the metamaterial to a constraint satisfaction problem.

Breaking Mechanical Holography in Combinatorial Metamaterials started from Naomi Spiro’s undergraduate summer project and Ofri Palti’s highschool final project. Breaking the link between the lattice's boundary & inside allows to design deformation texture on the entire boundary.

Our two sister papers on combinatorial metamaterials published today in @physrevresearch.bsky.social, a result of a fantastic SKCM2 collaboration with Chaviva Sirote-Katz at Tel Aviv and Tamás Kálmán at Tokyo shokef.tau.ac.il

What if mental health support could be as flexible as the lives we lead? Our 2023 Fellow Asim Gazi is building intelligent algorithms to help wearable devices, like smartwatches, provide real-time support, bridging critical gaps in mental healthcare. #mentalhealth www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z59...

I'm going to do some writing today

Driven by her grandmother's experience, our 2023 Fellow Coco Newton’s work is focused on delivering effective dementia treatment to everyone. She pivoted from neuroscience to systems engineering to help build a better healthcare system. 📽️Explore her #research story www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiLT...

Today I learned en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginal...

הקשב מצבו: אבד באמצע פרק של בלואי

I can say from personal experience that this video is not quite as good as listening to Vesna for 14 minutes straight but it's still extremely fabulous

“If we’re able to listen to that conversation, I think we’ll be able to understand what they need and when they need it.” Vesna Bacheva, a 2023 Schmidt Science Fellow, bridges engineering and plant biology to decode how plants communicate. 🎬Watch our latest film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plxs...

Confession to an editor! #tcteac with EMBO editor @tlemberger.bsky.social

Inspired by her family’s roots in sustainable aquaculture in Mexico, our 2022 Fellow Naomi Arita Merino’s interdisciplinary research blends personal passion with cutting-edge science to address food insecurity worldwide. Watch our latest film: youtu.be/EPxaTDhtNLI

Had a great time talking with Martin about the various astonishments I've experienced while thinking hard on invariant inference and finding myself studying learning theory. Also: SAT solving for metamaterials w/ @yairshokef.bsky.social, and the joys of feeling stupid. Hope you'll enjoy it.

A new blog post is out: etaps.org/blog/034-yot... Yotam Feldman, winner of the 2024 ETAPS dissertation award, talks about his PhD research.

Introducing CECAM-US-WEST, a new CECAM node located at UC Berkeley. Programing starting next calendar year! @cecamevents.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/new-int...

"There is no study or sequence of studies, including the infinite sequence, that would convince a person that likes dynamic types to say I have seen the light, I like strong types now." -- @shriram.bsky.social

"Every time someone utters the words 'general purpose' what they mean is 'I've optimized for a thing but I don't know what that thing is'." --David Chisnall

Little demonstration of Brownian motion : a larger and heavier tracer particle moves through a fluid. At about halfway, the smaller particles are faded out, leaving only the tracer particle visible.

On behalf of Dr. Feldman Sr., who will deliver what promises to be an instructive talk on "AI for Code Through the Ages", I'm happy to advertise: AI for Code – Theory Meets Practice IBM Research & Reichman University invite students, researchers and hi-tech professionals to a half-day seminar: >>

Our article, “Trait-space patterning is dictated by the tempo and mode of mutation,” co-authored with Stephen Martis and David Schwab, is out in PNAS! We show how mutation processes shape evolution, with relevance to bacteria–phage interactions. www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

This is what happens if you integrate the equations of motion of the harmonic oscillator with the Euler algorithm.

Our paper is now out in MLST @iopp-mlresearch.bsky.social, the BEST place for stat mech for ML! @biosofttau.bsky.social Response theory of first passage processes and the quasi-steady-state hypothesis helps optimize training protocols for neural nets👇 doi.org/10.1088/2632...

Every seminar in history

Congratulations to Ofir for winning the outstanding student achievement award for 2024. It was awarded to him during the ceremony for the TAU international prize in Biophysics!

Achievement unlocked (great grandmother's recipe)

Today I learned en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather...

כאשר אני מעבירה הרצאת חזרה

Hello Everyone, I’m following up to share the job advertisement for a postdoctoral position in my theory/computational group, starting this fall. The position will focus on non-equilibrium biophysics and soft matter. The job ad is here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern....

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Stochastic resetting for enhanced sampling. Check out our preprint reviewing our work on accelerating molecular dynamics through restarts and inferring unbiased kinetics. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Every Progress Report

Excited to get to learn from 32 more curious, broad, and passionate scientists. Congratulations and welcome!

We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...

It's fine, they said. Overleaf has git integration, they said.

I can imagine now 100 of us at the next major conference wearing, white-letters-on-black-background shirts reading, "Not as successful as Derek" but the bit only reaches Chef's Kiss level if Derek joins us.

Come to the symposium @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social and I organized at the ACS meeting. Phenomenal lineup: @chhdellago.bsky.social @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social @limmerlab.bsky.social @chengbingqing.bsky.social @grouptuckerman.bsky.social @podewitzlab.bsky.social @dhimanray.bsky.social and more!

"If your tool provides output, you're teaching the user something." @shriram.bsky.social on why we're all in the business of education.