Side hustle level-up! My book, IN THE BEGINNING, will be published by @harperonebooks.bsky.social in 2027! It's about the human embryo, how it gets built, and what it means for where we come from and where we're going. @harpercollins.bsky.social (1/2) @socdevbio.bsky.social #devbiol #scicomm

Thrilled to announce our FlumeX paper in HardwareX!! 🌊⚙️ 😀🥳 We built an inexpensive, open-source flume for exploring biological 🪸 + environmental flows 🌊. A major collaborative effort, supported by DARPA REEFENSE! @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.oh...

In another exciting development our new preprint is online: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... This is the work of my brilliant graduate student Katerina Kourkoulou in collaboration with Maggie Liu and Arnold Mathijssen. Here is a video of the subject of our study:

Looks like I am late to this party but have exciting news. I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study #XtrmCells! Thankful to @erc.europa.eus for this opportunity, and to my collaborators, mentors, and group for their support. Looking forward to exploring the mechanics of these cells!

Our new collaborative paper with Cyndi Bradham's lab at BU, led by first author @alexandralion.bsky.social is out in @devbiol.bsky.social & featured on the Sept 2025 cover! 😀🥳 PFAS (PFOA & GenX) disrupt sea urchin embryo development! Cover art: embryos + flow fields 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

@sonkejo.bsky.social and I were interviewed by @mdlaplante.bsky.social for his UnDisciplined podcast www.upr.org/podcasts/103... I don’t like hearing myself speak so I haven’t listened back, but my mom “LOVED IT”, so that counts for something. 😉 Support public radio, Utah PR, and @npr.org 🦑🧪🌊

Our science photo book The Radiant Sea is out Sept 2nd!! 30 years of research, 10 years of "we should", and a year of collating pix and writing. Sönke and I show (mostly for the first time) images of how organisms produce, use, and interact with light in the sea. #bioluminescence #fluorescence 🦑🧪🌊

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected]. More info: www.shekharlab.org

A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience

Just under two weeks left to apply for this 3 year postdoc looking at how signalling shapes skeletal development in sea urchins! Please reach out if you’re interested! For lovers of imaging, skeletal development, biomineralization, in situ hybridization, and marine invertebrates!

Excited to share this "Music from Science" project led my postdoc Melissa! Watch the video (with sound)! These are original music compositions created from research data on corals from our lab! 😀🪸🎼 Here is a news article with more details: news.miami.edu/stories/2025... youtu.be/C-JNPIXyKes?...

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of Nature Physics! @natphys.nature.com Here is the original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study originating from the #MBL proposes that physical forces encouraged the evolution of multicellular life! 🦠 Follow the link to read more about Stentor, a single-celled organism that could offer an early model for multicellularity. 📲 More: bit.ly/4cilZvV

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork?

for a little back-story on how this project started in the Physiology course at the @mblscience.bsky.social , including how two of the authors become involved in the project after emerging from the water at "garbage beach" carrying lasers, check this out: wayback.archive-it.org/12248/201508...

Thrilled to be featured in The New York Times! @nytimes.com Fantastic piece by @jack-tamisiea.bsky.social on our discovery of the role of physical forces in evolution! With insightful comments from @wcratcliff.bsky.social!

📢Excited to share our new paper in Nature Physics @naturephysics.bsky.social: Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular Stentor! How do single-celled organisms benefit from teamwork? Let’s dive in! #Multicellularity nature.com/articles/s41...?

And a milestone for the sea urchins too! Congrats to all 🎉

CONGRATULATIONS to my first PhD student Bikram Shrestha for successfully defending his thesis!! 🥳 😃 This marks a major milestone for Bikram, me, and our lab!! @univmiami.bsky.social

Thanks @focalplane.bsky.social for the highlight, great to show an spiralian larva to all this amazing crowd. #WormWednesday #DevBio #EvoDevo

Sad news… A giant in fluid mechanics and particulate flows cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?

For the recent coral reef science arrivals, here are two starter packs so you can find your people! If you want to be added, please let me know. I have been adding people as they come through my feed. go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H go.bsky.app/QSafBeL 🌎🌊🧪🌐🐟🪸🐙🌿

MUSIC from SCIENCE: "Sonic explorations of coral larvae swimming data" 😀 🎵 🪸 (Please repost) Come join a musical recital event on Tue April 29 at 7 pm by my postdoc Melissa Ruszczyk Indigo Knecht and colleagues at St. Bede Episcopal Chapel at @univmiami.bsky.social Coral Gables campus!!

I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science. This helps me remember what this is all about. Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

The evolution of shape diversity through the lens of physics—explored in our new paper! A fruitful collaboration between our lab @EMBL, Salbreux’s lab @unige & others, led by @BailleulRichar1—now independent at @ENS_ULM—& Nicolas Cuny. bit.ly/3WRqdEa

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

On my reading list for tomorrow!! How fun is this?

🚨📢 New paper alert! Our work showing that bilateral cellular flows display asymmetry prior to left–right organizer formation in amniote gastrulation is now published in PNAS!! @pnas.org 🥳😃 🐣 Paper link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... News article: news.miami.edu/stories/2025...

Let's look at some cool bilateral cellular flows videos IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.

Isn't the early chicken embryo the BEST? Check out the latest thread from @epimechfc.bsky.social , with compilation of fantastic videos from @vprakashlab.bsky.social , @jeromegros.bsky.social, Mikawa, and Weijer labs!

Interview re coral reefs with Scientific American: “We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them. The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...

A case for broadening our view of mechanism in developmental biology Read this Perspective Article from B. Duygu Özpolat @biyolokum.bsky.social , Swathi Arur @swathiarur.bsky.social and Mansi Srivastava: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/2/dev204605/365016/

My colleague Bob Goldstein & UNC Art Prof Beth Grabowski teach an amazing course: Art & Science: Merging Printmaking and Biology. Each time it culminates in a wonderful art show. Today's the day-join us 4-6PM IN UNC's Genome Science Building. More about the class is at: bio.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Congratulations, Vivek, Prannoy and team!

📢RT! 🚨New Preprint Alert 🚨😀😀 In collab. with @prannoysuraneni.bsky.social @coralprof.bsky.social and others @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social We showed that local alkalinity enhancement using artificial substrates increases survivorship of early-stage coral recruits www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing list of scientists, engineers and vaccine makers recognized with the NMS and NMTI, thank you for your contributions to the nation and the world 🙏 www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

So important to mention this when talking to politicians or the public: $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of NIH research funding!

Happy New Year!! To celebrate 2025, here is our new pre-print showing a key role for cofilin and actin turnover in embryonic wound healing ... by modulating actin rigidity!! Work led by @anamcarmo.bsky.social, with key contributions by Ji Hong Sayo. 🪰🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An nice and inspiring cartoon about what is a PhD (from Matt Might #OldieButGoldie).

My New Year’s resolution is to berate myself less for things I wish I could have done better, to learn from my mistakes, and give myself more credit for the things I did well but promptly forgot/ignored because academics love to live from crisis to crisis

In the spirit of summaries, simple rules that, if everyone followed, would make academic publishing less painful in 2025. As a reviewer: *Separate major and minor comments *Write your explicit recommendation in the "for authors" section *If co-reviewing with trainees, read the paper yourself 1/2

Brilliant study by @andreasschoenit.bsky.social et al @ @bladoux.bsky.social lab Force competition at the cellular level. #mechanobiology

In Japan, I also enjoyed seminar visits to Kyoto University & Nagoya University!! Thanks for hosting me Prof. Koichiro Maki and Prof. Jeong Kim 😀 I was impressed to see your labs, hear about your research, had really insightful scientific discussions, and yummy food of course 😋🍣🇯🇵🏯

I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...

POSTDOC announcement! I am hiring a postdoc to study owl flight biomechanics. I will be at SICB. Please email me for the full advertisement, screenshot below. Please retweet! Ideal candidate has research experience with wild birds, 3D kinematics and acoustics. #SICB2025

"A dead fish does live fish things." wonderful biomechanics Ig Nobel! biology.ufl.edu/news/2024/ji...