📢 Publication alert #rheology #openscience #microscopy We are pleased to share our latest work on ShearView: a compact, open-source rheometer compatible with optical microscopy, designed to enable synchronized rheology–microscopy measurements.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨 NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami.bsky.social Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu 🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026 ⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP! #Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

I am putting together a collection of video-protocols we (will) use in tissue mechanics research🌀 I hope to help consolidate established methods, but also showcase a few up-and-coming ones in our blooming field. Abstract submission by March 2026! Get in touch✨ #JoVETissueMech #ReproducibleTissueMech

The Society of Rheology has a new look! Unveiled at the Santa Fe Annual Meeting last October, our new logo brings a modern edge while honoring nearly a century of advancing the science of flow. #Rheology #NewLogo #EverythingFlows

If you are interested in an interdisciplinary project connecting tissue mechanics, synthetic approaches and dev bio, this is the position for you! we are excited to get this colaboration started!!👇👇🤩🤓👇👇

I am … grateful? … that Harvard’s Graduate School Fund reached out to me with a fundraising solicitation yesterday, because it helped me to organize my thoughts on an event near the end of my PhD (2005). Here is my response, just emailed to the fundraisers: (1/9)

🏅 EPS Early Career Award for Vittoria Sposini 🏆 The former REWIRE Fellow at the group of Prof. Likos and current MSCA Fellow at the University of Padova (Italy), has been awarded the European Physical Society Early Career Award. Learn more about her outstanding work: 🔗 a29.at/p4uJji

🔬 PhD or Postdoc Position in Experimental Biophysics — University of Vienna We are hiring for the WWTF-funded project MechanoSynth — focused on decoding and engineering multiscale mechanoresponses in synthetic and biological tissues. PhD (48 months) or Postdoc (24 months). Vienna, Austria.

The ceremony to award the Erwin Schrödinger Institute 2025 medal to Michele Parrinello has just finished. Thanks to the director @chhdellago.bsky.social and to the staff of @esivienna.bsky.social for the wonderful organization!

Are you interested in using Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM), but found it too difficult to just give it a try? Fear no more. Our new tutorial is now published in J Chem Phys (link below) and it comes with open-source code and Python notebooks to make your life easy!

The ÖPG-SPS conference kicked off yesterday at the University of Vienna with a variety of public events. From Tuesday to Friday, renowned speakers will present the latest advancements in a range of research fields. We are looking forward to three more days full of exciting program items.⚛️ #IYQ2025 ⤵️

Read the latest #JFMPerspectives article in @JFluidMech: "Transport phenomena in microswimmer suspensions: migration, collective motion, diffusion and rheology" by Takuji Ishikawa  📚 https://cup.org/4mWqlgv #JFM #OA

GPT-5 sucks!

Our most recent work is out on OCT flowmetry in organ-on-chip (OoC) devices, see rdcu.be/eytR3. In this work we took on the challenge of measuring very small flow speeds in a OoC device using particle-image velocimetry and number-fluctuation OCT.

Becoming a peer reviewer opens up a lot of opportunities, like building your knowledge and making new connections. We’re looking for experts in materials science to review for us. Learn more➡️ buff.ly/WeUZL2E #ChemSky

Le 2nd tome de "#Rhéophysique" est consacré aux fluides complexes, tels que les fluides viscoélastiques, ainsi que les fluides à seuil, les fluides rhéoépaississants et les cristaux liquides. Plus d'info: bit.ly/4dZHGS7

The honor is all mine, dear @chhdellago.bsky.social

1/ 🚀 New tutorial alert! Ever wanted to use your microscope as a multi-angle light scattering device? Our new preprint is out: 📄 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) arXiv: 2507.05058 (link in the last skeet!) 🧵 Thread ⬇️

A good excuse for posting after a long time is that one of my photos of Simos beach in Elafonissos was chosen for this article. Given my ❤️ for 🇬🇷, this makes me very 😀! www.in2life.gr/article/2010...

University of Vienna @ #Expo2025 in Osaka 🏛️ Internationally renowned experts from the University of Vienna gathered at the "Building Futures" event at #EXPO to highlight the range of innovative research & our joint effort of designing future society. 🧑‍🔬🧪 Read more: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/en/internati...

This 👇 is getting scary. An act of oppression and violation of democracy. Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Impressive. China will soon lead also in space! tecspectrum.com/happenings/c...

Parrinello wins the 2025 ESI medal. Congratulations!

Intriguing application of DDM to the Xenopus cytoplasm!

This is by far one of the most fascinating open questions in science. What means conscience? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Curious how physics makes your coffee taste better? Discover the science behind the perfect pour-over, featuring insights from Arnold Mathijssen’s lab. A delightful and accessible read via @nytimes.com The Physics of the Perfect Pour Over www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/s...

Flocking and active solid behavior of epithelial cells in our new study in @pnas.org Great work of Y. Shen, J. O'Byrne and @andreasschoenit.bsky.social and collaboration with A. Maitra and R. Voituriez! | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚀 The Frey Group is now on Bluesky! 🌐 We explore statistical physics, biophysics, and nonequilibrium systems. From active matter to self-organization in biology, we uncover fundamental principles of complex systems. #Physics #Biophysics #ActiveMatter #ComplexSystems #TheoreticalPhysics

How do hydraulic forces impact critical processes such as tissue integrity, cell fate decisions, and embryo development? Hydraulics studies how fluids move and exert forces. Join me in exploring few articles on hydraulics in #EpithelialMechanics

In Memoriam: Wolfenson, Giannone, and Schwartz recall the life and many contributions of Michael Sheetz, who passed away on January 30, 2025. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

In an act of seasonal rebellion, today—March 28, 2025—I liberated Ludwig Boltzmann from wearing his Christmas hat at the Ludwig Boltzmann Hörsaal in Vienna.

Very interesting study suggesting that heavy rainfall may affect small bodies of water more than large ones, eventually leading to flooding www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unique opportunity to join the CytoMorpho Lab (in Paris ❤️) as a postdoc to work on the self-organization and polarization of reconstituted networks made of microtubules, motors and actin filaments in vitro. Experience required. Please Repost 🙏 thanks !

Re-posts appreciated! We have an open PhD position w/ Prof Harold Auradou on #microswimmers/#protists in complex media! Students get to spend at least 12 months in Paris, and will receive their PhD from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay! Apply by 31st Mar. More details: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Mit dem Nachtzug der ÖBB nach Italien: Da hätte selbst Odysseus die Nerven verloren Fonte: DiePresse.com search.app/BbLa

@polymerchem.rsc.org is now on Bluesky! 🎉🥂 #chemsky

Women in science @ the Faculty of Life Sciences: Our aim is to showcase the diversity within the sciences by highlighting fifty-seven women scientists and their research interests from our faculty. Learn more at the link bellow ⬇️⬇️⬇️ lifesciences.univie.ac.at/innovation-i...

Ben Widom (1927-2025). A gentleman and a giant! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Almost 347 years ago the first woman graduated from a University in this city. Where am I?

Having fun and enjoying @elisabethbik.bsky.social post dinner talk at the nwo physics conference in Veldhoven!

“One- and two-particle microrheology of soft materials based on optical-flow image analysis”. Our new article in Soft Matter shows you a simpler way to microrheology pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

Disturbing and worrying news (as if we needed more) from Iran!

Likewise! 😄

New paper out! We share our experiences from conducting #bioimageanalysis workshops, using open-source software and building a community around training: doi.org/10.1002/jemt... Thanks to the dream team of rockstars, @david-j-barry.bsky.social, @martinjones.bsky.social and Tom Slater

Can restoring vocal fold mechanics combat vocal fold cancer? A recent #preprint by @ivaskalab.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that it can (and how it can)! Check out the #preLight from Teodora Piskova ⬇️👀 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/r...

Also Ludwig feels the festive atmosphere at the Physics Faculty of the University of Vienna!

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know

Mike Cates from Cambridge University reaches the end of his Physics Colloquium at the Physics Faculty of the @univie.ac.at When dealing with active matter, statistical mechanics survives, and can still take us very far!