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Greg Stephens @greg_stephens
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Neuromatch@neuromatch
May 25
New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch, in partnership with Connected Minds, is developing a Computational Behaviour course. Learn more: buff.ly/nvxjoL0 #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds
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Thomas G. Dietterich@tdietterich
May 14
Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazine
May 5
The biophysicist Mazi Jalaal finds math and physics problems inside plant cells. “There are so many physics problems that these organisms have to solve during the course of evolution,” Jalaal said. quantamagazine.org/the-hidde…
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Shashi Thutupalli@stpalli
Feb 22
We’re looking for postdocs to join our interdisciplinary group at the @NCBS_Bangalore Please retweet and help get the word out. —— Are you interested in how chemistry transitions to biology — the origins-of-life problem? We have some recent work on this problem and we are excited by the possibilities. From an aqueous mixture of three salts and formaldehyde we get protocells. More about the work are in the thread below ⬇️ We are looking for creative scientists with skilful hands and analytical minds to continue the work. Are you a chemist with analytical (particularly NMR and/or Mass Spectrometry) skills in exploring the biomolecular diversity this system is producing — amino acids, peptides, lipids and more? Are you a materials scientist/experimental physicist interested in understanding the self assembly and self organisation mechanisms of this system? Please reach out if you think you are well suited for this — shashi@ncbs.res.in with your CV and a short write up about why this interests you.
Shashi Thutupalli@stpalli
Feb 13
Protocells from three inorganic salts, some formaldehyde and water? They grow? They synthesise organic molecules of core biomolecular classes: amino acids, sugars, lipid-like motifs? And, there are similar structures in today's oceans? Yes! Read on. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11013
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Beautiful essay! The physics of living systems is a wonderful challenge!
The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic
23 Dec 2025
Many physicists have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human—one that could redefine the field for the next generation, @AdamFrank4 writes. theatlantic.com/science/2025…
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A really interesting initiative!
Laura Ryan
@Lyan82
20 Nov 2025
New from @instituteGC: a proposal for Lovelace Disruptive Invention Labs Is a better science possible, & how can we build it? 🏗️ Britain should pioneer a complementary model for research at the intersection of science & engineering – inverting core assumptions of modern public R&D
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Oh no! Erik's work was profoundly important for us!
SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems@DynamicsSIAM
14 Dec 2025
RIP Erik Bollt (1967–2025): dignitymemorial.com/obituari… Applied mathematician Erik Bollt, a well-known person in the applied dynamical-systems community, died suddenly last weekend. You can read about Erik's research on his web page: webspace.clarkson.edu/~eboll…
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Physics of Behavior comes to the DPG Spring Meeting, Mar 8-13 in Dresden, DE! Co-organized w/Pawel Romanczuk, we welcome submissions on physical approaches to understand biological behavior across scales-from microorganisms to humans, and from individual to collective dynamics.
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During submission choose "SOE: Physics of Socio-economic Systems Division" and on the following page pick the topic "Focus Session: Physics of Behavior". Deadline is Dec 1st, 2025. dpg-tagung.de/dd26/submissio…
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These are excellent exercises in data intelligence!
Adam Kucharski
@adamjkucharski
22 Nov 2025
Can you spot the flaw in the below graph? After all, it suggests New Zealand had much higher cumulative excess mortality in 2020-24 compared to Sweden and US... You can read more on the assumptions behind excess mortality – and how to make the metric tell any story you like – in my recent piece: kucharski.substack.com/p/exc…
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Talmo Pereira 🇧🇷@talmop
15 Nov 2025
Talmo Lab is at @SfNtweets! Come check out our latest work! #SfN2025 #SfN25
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Well this is a very interesting take on the #PhysicsOfBehavior
Quanta Magazine
@QuantaMagazine
21 Oct 2025
🏀A theory for studying how electrons buzz around could help NBA players tighten up their game. 🧵
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Forget the specific anecdotes, the economic evidence is strong that basic research provides a remarkable return on investment technologyreview.com/2025/09…

How to measure the returns on R&D spending

Forget the glorious successes of past breakthroughs—the real justification for research investment is what we get for our money. Here’s what economists say.

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OIST PhD & Research Internship Program - Call for Applications! đź”—Research Internship: shorturl.at/EJMGe (Deadline: 15 October 2025) đź”— PhD program: shorturl.at/lhheq (Deadline: 15 November 2025)
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The core substance of a university is the creation and questioning of new knowledge in every field that touches on human existence, and the commitment to integrating persons at every stage of learning into this process. A beautiful ideal by Clifford Ando.
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He writes specifically about issues at The University of Chicago, but I believe that these challenges are much more universal. compactmag.com/article/the-c…

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it...

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(1/4) I’m happy to introduce our new work led by phd student Akira Kawano (not on X), which explores social behavior as mutual prediction, quantified by the decomposition of information (PID) between the past and future of a multi-organism system: doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.16.6…
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(3/4) We ground our approach in the trajectories of two adult zebrafish engaged in a dominance contest. We find that information flows align with dominance and mirroring, and that asymmetries in self-unique and redundant information reflect the emergent dominance relationship.
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(4/4) In mecp2 mutants, an autism model, predictive information is reduced, but especially for synergistic flows, an indication of difficulties in more complex social behaviors. We look forward to a continuing conversation about what it means to be (quantitatively) social!
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