A new journal "DCDS-Intelligence" aimsciences.org/DCDS-I/ : At the intersection of Complex Dynamical Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computational Neuroscience.
@iics-fudan.bsky.social @csh.ac.at @artificial.bsky.social @networkspapers.bsky.social
#proudPI moment: this afternoon, my first student, Maryam Setoudeh, successfully defended her #PhD thesis @tudresden.bsky.social.
Picture of happy student and inanely grinning PI provided by @zhaoshh.bsky.social.
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
Honoring the life of Chen Ning “Frank” Yang. A profound proponent of symmetry.
Honoring Chen Ning Yang, a pioneering physicist whose insights into symmetry transformed modern particle physics. His work on parity violation and Yang–Mills theory laid essential foundations for the Standard Model of fundamental forces. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/vR2j50Yn1i2
A mechanical puzzle solved: @lepuslapis.bsky.social and @zhaoshh.bsky.social lay the foundations for mechanical instabilities on curved surfaces. @mpi-cbg.de @mpipks.bsky.social @csbdresden.bsky.social, publication in @physrevlett.bsky.social: www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...
How does an elastic line buckle within a curved surface? The answer, by @zhaoshh.bsky.social and @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social, has now been #published @physrevlett.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s
Now #published @physrevlett.bsky.social: the answer to the question that Euler did not solve three hundred years ago*. @zhaoshh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1103/63py-ph5s
* Possible reasons include not having access to Mathematica and predating Riemann (in the non-ecological sense).
#FlatironCCB researchers and collaborators demonstrated how mechanical forces from surrounding tissues can shape the fruit fly gut: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/17/from-ring-to-keyhole-modeling-how-tissues-mold-the-fruit-flys-gut/ #science #biology
🍂 New paper (JMPS, OA): Midveins control how drying leaves curl/fold.
Soft lamina shrinks; stiff vein resists → stress → 3D shapes.
Nonlinear, non-Euclidean mechanics—and bioinspiration for morphable materials.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
#Leaf #Mechanics #Biomimetics
As the march meeting abstract deadline approaches, please check out our session! Please RT/forward
IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems!
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0
Passive morphogenesis of the gut: work by @zhaoshh.bsky.social @lepuslapis.bsky.social @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social and collaborators at Princeton University, @flatironinstitute.org now #published @pnas.org:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505160122
A ring of cells deforms into a triangular keyhole in just 15 minutes. Meet the hindgut, a model for boundary-driven morphogenesis!
Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)
On the way to my new apartment last night with the sofa.
Lucky to see this 🌈~
What does the force required to poke a cyst of cells reveal about cyst mechanics? Research by Shiheng Zhao, Pierre Haas @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social now highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion in Phys. Rev. Lett.!
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.228402
Now #published in Phys. Rev. Lett. as an Editors' Suggestion: "Mechanics of poking a cyst" - the first paper from the PhD work of @zhaoshh.bsky.social.
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
Very nice weather!
This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹
Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design: scim.ag/42DasUT
New #preprint: "Euler buckling on curved surfaces" arxiv.org/abs/2503.04303
@zhaoshh.bsky.social and I ask the question that Euler left open: How does an elastic line buckle within a (general) curved surface?
@mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
New #preprint: "A model for boundary-driven tissue morphogenesis" arxiv.org/abs/2503.03688.
A great collaboration with @danielalber.bsky.social @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alexandre Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman.
@flatironinstitute.org @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social
A group of longhorn crazy ants (top) and a group of people (bottom) tackling scaled versions of the same geometrical maneuvering puzzle. CREDIT: Ofer Feinerman
Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
