Victor Kang

Lead Scientist at Spotta Ltd. Interested in learning about insect form & function and applied science 🐜🛠️. Views are my own.

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

How does a panda chew food? Pretty easy to imagine, right? But what about insects? How do they use their mandibles to bite and cut? Our latest paper (https://t.co/UCA0BhJ7WT) dived into the nitty gritty of insect mandible motion - a 🧵...#biomechanics #mandibles #joints #insects

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

@JeroDelr @MarjorieLienard Nice, congratulations! That's probably because they really need to find warmblooded bodies to feed on ;) bed bugs are similar - they go wild when they are near 37deg!

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

@fabian_plum @EvoBiomech Congratulations Dr Plum!

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

Blast from the past! Thanks for sharing again 👐👐

[Prof Richard Johnston @DrRichJohnston]

Flip-book style visualisation through the body of a net-winged midge larvae. Imaged using X-ray microscopy after iodine staining to reveal the muscle tissue. Part of work with @Hexamour Full paper here: https://t.co/bjWYNQ95WC #TomographyTuesday

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

@samueltfabian Ooooh congrats! Exciting to see it out! Bookmarked for bedside reading :)

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

2 weeks left to apply for a funded 3 year PhD/ Research Assistant position in our lab. Working on the functionality of cuticular lipids in insects @Cambridge_Uni @CamZoology !

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Biomechanics of cutting: sharpness, wear sensitivity and the scaling of cutting forces in leaf-cutter ant mandibles: https://t.co/8VPBbmS4XB @EvoBiomech @LivWalthaus @Hexamour #PhilTransB #biomechanics

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

How do insects use their mandibles to bite and cut? Read 'Three-dimensional kinematics of leaf-cutter ant mandibles: not all dicondylic joints are simple hinges' https://t.co/BoEHSldDSU #PhilTransB #biomechanics @Hexamour

[Jason Tsai @ishengtsai]

I am really excited to report one of the most exciting findings that we found!! 🌿Summary: we identified a fungus that is ecologically dominant and lives on the stalk gland of sundew! And the fungus facilitates its prey digestion!!!
https://t.co/IuFtzTEEyj
thread below⬇️

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

@ESBiomech @NTAurelie @EvoBiomech

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

Bioluminescent snails?? Gosh that's awesome! I wish the garden snails that I kept as pets when I was 8 yo were bioluminescent 🐌💡
https://t.co/1pSPkuRpb6
@LivWalthaus @JeroDelr @MalacSoc

[Evolutionary Biomechanics Laboratory @EvoBiomech]

New paper, hot off the press @RSocPublishing, https://t.co/KBzANbFXUo! We investigated the biomechanics of cutting in leaf-cutter ants – work led by Freddie Pueffel and supported by @HFSP & @ERC_Research. 1/n

[Adrian Richter @Formicadri]

Now published in a food processing special issue at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, @EvanEconomo and my review of ant feeding structure and function. Open access! https://t.co/ywm83lICma

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

@BomphreyRichard Wow this is incredible! Congratulations on this pipeline. @EvoBiomech @fabian_plum @samueltfabian thought you'd enjoy this!

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

Tagging others who might enjoy the tweet and the paper (scroll up) @InsectBiomech @RoyEntSoc @EntsocAmerica @SEBiology @BiomechanicsOOM @royalsociety

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

How does a panda chew food? Pretty easy to imagine, right? But what about insects? How do they use their mandibles to bite and cut? Our latest paper (https://t.co/UCA0BhJ7WT) dived into the nitty gritty of insect mandible motion - a 🧵...#biomechanics #mandibles #joints #insects

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

while I was a postdoc at Imperial ❤️. Last but not least, thank you to my fellow guest editors @Myra__Laird, @KonowLab, and Callum Ross for inviting me and showing me the ropes. Please check out the whole issue - we've packed it full of biomechanics-goodies!