and now onto bodies - starting with the experimental exploration of vertebrate gastrulation modes: https://t.co/fSZwIOmU2u, and continuing by recreating a gastrulation morphospace: https://t.co/O8ltMeDRoK
and then continuing with - the beak of the finch - https://t.co/6l7kOM6NET followed by a broader study of beaks across other avian radiations: https://t.co/O0HCxgkbBl ...
At last we are at the beginning! Linking natural history and natural philosophy, an evolutionary approach to developmental questions starts with the ... egg (which did come before the chick!): https://t.co/oA9Zdibekt
"It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life'," said Lewis Wolpert. Can one create a gastrulation phase-diagram linking natural history and natural philosophy?... see https://t.co/nbAfOLP1CF
What is the cognitive basis for visual image categorization into small/large, animate/inanimate, faces/places etc.? Robustness -> invariant measures combining geometry + statistics -> contour curvature histograms that are neurally plausible! For more, see https://t.co/iO77jXdKWb
Continuing the story of growth, form, and function of avian beaks, linking natural history to natural philosophy, from finches to honeycreepers ... https://t.co/SuCQBTeFLS
In multi-agent societies, excessive cooperation -> senescence/aging, while excessive competition -> cheating/cancer. So is there an optimal level of competition to delay (the inevitability of) aging? Yes! For more, see https://t.co/hgCy8XlImM
Tenure Track position in
Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology - focus on Evolution, including experimental, theoretical, or computational approaches - details here https://t.co/jaQJMGGM5N
Tenure Track positions in
(i) Harvard Physics - foci include Theory of Soft/Living Matter, Quantum Information Theory - details here https://t.co/eFsSnNdxKz
(ii) Harvard Applied Math - foci include Generative AI, Deep Learning - details here
https://t.co/wypp8OGMWZ
Artists and scientists of different minds,
Studied coiling jets of similar kinds,
In helices and spirals they'd both prance,
Via a fluidically reinforced romance,
Writing and painting through learning that binds.
For more, see https://t.co/vbP1f46WIi
Postdoc position. Aim: Quantify consumption and waste production in a 450 person residential community. Approach: design/deploy sensors, statistical analysis and math modeling, outreach. Goal: guiding policy for climate change adaptation. Apply here https://t.co/w7dd4a1HfI
Physical intelligence? Emergence of cooperative excavation in ants and r(obotic)ants follows from simple local rules and a malleable environment that is a dynamic communication channel. See https://t.co/8NsztYDY5l
A saw bent into a J sounds dull. But shape it into an S and it can sing! Why? Because of an inflection line in curvature associated with broken (inversion) symmetry - leading to topologically protected modes. For more, see here https://t.co/BmvVmYXnTG
Brushing a hair curl links topology, geometry, mechanics and some pain (hopefully not too much!). A minimal model of the process is that of a single tine combing a double helix. For more, see https://t.co/81z5ZJDhui
How can one reconfigure a compact planar shape into another ? And do so without changing any lengths/angles? Kirigami shows a new way ... and also solves an old problem by cutting a circle to square it. See https://t.co/hmA1AUXGBS
Simple neutrally stable structures can be stitched together into assemblies to create (almost) any shape - totimorphs! See https://t.co/TLAbGvg8Ku and https://t.co/b6hy9d4UC5