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You might expect active matter to become more active if you fire it up. Here the opposite happens! - Prashanth Ramesh has frozen his microswimmers by heating and will tell you all about it here: doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

Thrilled to see this paper published @PNASNews! Check it out at doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…. In it, we describe how swimming bacterial suspensions spontaneously organize themselves in unexpected ways when oxygen starts running out. Summary in the tweetorial below ⬇️

Thanks for the heads-up! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… (weird, it worked for me...)

You might expect active matter to become more active if you fire it up. Here the opposite happens! - Prashanth Ramesh has frozen his microswimmers by heating and will tell you all about it here: doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

Forgot the props! Wouldn't have been possible without the great collaboration between @maxplanckpress @poftwente @mpids @mpi_polymer and the competent people at @advancematerial

Imagine being able to manipulate the movement of #microswimmers. By using electric fields and pressure-driven flow, scientists now developed a navigation system for microswimmers with potential for micro-robotic and biotechnological applications. ds.mpg.de/4071871/241029…

Huge congrats to @AntoineDeblais and Daniel Bonn at @IoP_UvA on the IgNobel. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Let's have a drink ... or two ... or three ... to celebrate!

Our article on Mathematical Billiard with Spatial Memory is now out @PhysRevLett journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… Here is a short thread 🧵on what we have done. Might be of your interest if you like active matter, memory, topology, chaos, etc. or simply mathematical games 👾

@AgudoCanalejo @ucl @UCL_IPLS They're lucky to have you!

Super happy to announce that, in Jan 2024 (very soon!), I'll be joining @ucl @UCL_IPLS as a Lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Biophysics! Very excited to join the biophysics community at UCL, and London&UK as a whole. Looking for future collaborators, so do get in touch!!

Wonderful job of @SGHuisman and @VatsalSanjay making this tough selection of topics from our last 5 years of research, to celebrate 25 years of @poftwente

@AlvaroGMarin That was the *good* piece of poetry :D

Second page of Prof. Andrea Prosperetti‘s, aka “il professore”, PhD thesis 1972 #pof25

We have explored a plethora of topics in the last 5 years . Do you recognise them all? @detlef_lohse

I think there should be a group administrator appreciation day. Especially if they're gardening wizards to boot. (well, we all know that along with techies and lab managers they are the only truly indispensable people around) 💚💚💚

Excited to share our latest work on the captivating "Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets" now published @JFluidMech A great collaboration with @activedroplets, @AJTM_M, and Mitya Pushkin. cambridge.org/core/journals/… @poftwente @maxplanckpress

Now out in @ACSnano! @yogeshpshelke showed how directional interactions and controlled flexibility can be added to colloidal molecules. Great collaboration with @fabriziocamerin, Susana Marin-Aguilar, @RubenVerweij and Marjolein Dijkstra #ERC pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Culinary Fluid Mechanics - now published in #ReviewsOfModernPhysics! Congratulations and thanks to Maciej Lisicki, Vivek Prakash @Viveknprakash, Endre Mossige @eJoeFlow and @APSphysics. #FoodScience #FluidMechanics #SoftMatter. Cheers! journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/1…

Volume 130, Issue 21 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/130… Cover: An initially spherical silicon oil droplet submerged in water gradually deforms into a pendant droplet journals.aps.org/prl/issues/130…

@maziyarj No map is complete without this warning. (see also, "A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting." The American Mathematical Monthly, 45(7), pp. 446–447)

This is amazing 😄🤓 #Map of #Math | #simplelogic #fractallakes (by Martin Kuppe), source: chalkdustmagazine.com/features/an-in…

The latest issue of Scientific American @sciam features an article on our study of chloroplast positioning and their active glassy behaviour in plant cells (with @nicoschramma @CintiaPerugachi) written by @parshallison 🪴+☀️ = 👓 link 👇🏼 scientificamerican.com/article/plant-…

@rjamstevens @poftwente @UTwente @NWONieuws Yep, really enjoyed chairing once I managed to find the room more or less on time (is that chairotaxis?) Great selection of talks and the discussion was pretty much self-organising.

🌟 Enjoying the "Physics of Fluids" session led by Corinna Maas @activedroplets (@poftwente, @Utwente) at the NWO Physics days (@NWOnieuws) in the NH Koningshof, Veldhoven! So inspiring to see such an enthusiastic crowd gathered to learn and share. 🌊 #FluidMechanics #Fluids

This was a pleasure to write (and hopefully fun to read). Special thanks @Taryn_MacKinney for great editorial work, and to friends and colleagues @PRX_Life @FakhriLab @vinsub @SquishyPhysics and others for their kind words. aps.org/publications/a…