Rox Middleton

researcher in optical biomaterials - especially coloured structures in plants!

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

In this week's #SciencePodcast🎙️, @roxmiddleton joins host @boron110 to talk about how blueberries and other blue fruits owe their hue to a trick of the light caused by specialized wax on their surface.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/fdKYFEKEK4

[TU Dresden @tudresden_de]

Weder Pflaumen, Trauben noch Blaubeeren enthalten blaue Farbpigmente. 🫐 Warum Blaubeeren eigentlich rot sind & welche Rolle aufgelagertes Wachs spielt, hat Dr. @roxmiddleton, Geförderte der Maria Reiche Postdoctoral Fellowships @TUD_Science, erforscht.
https://t.co/rkNqCYRwrZ

[The Naked Scientists @NakedScientists]

Friday's news pod is here!

@naserturabi @CR_UK on cancer diagnosis
@SarahLWilliams_ @CERN and @Cambridge_Uni on @FCC_study
Joel Thornton and @RiffellLab at @UW on pollution and pollination
@roxmiddleton on blueberries
Michael Reiss on sex education

https://t.co/pktkc6ZCpo

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

Why are damsons, junipers, blueberries etc. blue? https://t.co/cV6ixzHVFK a new paper by me & the great @SverreAarTun & our friends - read it, or read about it: https://t.co/wWr92UbTBu
punchline is: it's not blue pigments, but we reproduced it anyway💙

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

does the experience of beauty in science have value? Wait, what? 'value'? 'beauty'? you want to evaluate it? What are we even doing here. aah, big questions. I almost cannot believe what a magic project this was, not just for the amazing questions, but also for the answers ⬇️

[Quarantine @QtineMcr]

What is the cultural value of beauty? In collaboration with physicist Rox Middleton & philosopher Lucy Tomlinson, we’ve been engaging in a year-long research experiment called The Beauty Project.

We’re so excited to be able to share our findings with you: https://t.co/xQdBFIUZkW

[Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture]

👀 An artist, a physicist and a philosopher investigate how audiences experience beauty, and start to open up BIG questions about where we place value in the arts.

Discover more about the findings of The Beauty Project in this piece for @ArtsPro.

https://t.co/xrZHZdb9KM

[Arts Professional @ArtsPro]

ACE’s Let's Create strategy doesn't mention beauty once. Artist Sarah Hunter, physicist Rox Middleton and philosopher Lucy Tomlinson have been exploring the cultural value of beauty - here's what they found @valuingculture @QtineMcr @roxmiddleton https://t.co/Cq9doCUXAr

[Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture]

Has beauty become a dirty word in the arts?

In our latest @ArtsPro article, artist Sarah Hunter, physicist @roxmiddleton and philosopher Lucy Tomlinson reflect on the value of beauty – and ask what it means for creativity and evaluation.

https://t.co/xrZHZdb9KM

@QtineMcr

[Barbara Hissa - @barbarahissa.bsky.social @BarbaraHissa]

To start off the 2nd days of talks at the #BeilsteinNanosurfaces2023 symposium, @roxmiddleton sheds light on the #optics and #biology of the rare pigments of #bluefruits and their application on #opticalmaterials and #engineering .

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Multiple origins of lipid-based structural #colours contribute to a gradient of fruit colours in #Viburnum

📖 https://t.co/nhkoDY0nAZ

@MirandaSinnArm @roxmiddleton @OgawaEm @GianniJacca @Edwige_M @Beverley_CUBG @VignoliniLab @wileyplantsci

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

Final day for this! Remember that optical materials physicist you met mentioning they want a job? 👉

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

❗️Do you know an optical / materials postdoc looking for a project?🧐

🥳We want to find someone up for working (with me) on optically modelling plant-y nanostructures!🌱

🌈12 months' funding (starting by January)
➡️ https://t.co/Qf59Xx23hz

please help us find a great person🙏

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

❗️Do you know an optical / materials postdoc looking for a project?🧐

🥳We want to find someone up for working (with me) on optically modelling plant-y nanostructures!🌱

🌈12 months' funding (starting by January)
➡️ https://t.co/Qf59Xx23hz

please help us find a great person🙏

[Animal Behavior Society @AnimBehSociety]

Beetle iridescence induces an avoidance response in naïve avian predators

Article in #AnimalBehavior by @KarinKjernsmo @Annaliminator @roxmiddleton Joanna Hall @LeahMCostello @spiloxene Nicholas Scott-Samuel & Innes Cuthill:

https://t.co/jEnHWnjOkd

#Beetles #iridescence

[Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture]

An opportunity to work on one of the projects supported by the first round of Collaborate funding, working alongside @QtineMcr and @roxmiddleton

[Quarantine @QtineMcr]

***Job klaxon - Research Assistant on Quarantine's Beauty project with @roxmiddleton supported by @valuingculture *** https://t.co/EWbUNnkMAR

[Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture]

Collaborate Spotlight 🔦
How is an audience affected by beauty? Together, @QtineMcr & physicist @roxmiddleton will investigate ways to understand and articulate the value of beauty.
#research #culture @ahrcpress

[Rox Middleton @roxmiddleton]

Thanks for having me @AdReNa_Lab !

[Adaptive & Responsive Nanomaterials Lab at UCL @AdReNa_Lab]

A big thank you 🙏🙏🙏 to @roxmiddleton for stopping by our hybrid group meeting this week to share with us her work on structural colour in fruits. #bioinspired #optics #nanoscience

[Living Light @LivingLightConf]

The #LivingLight2021 conference videos are available now! Catch up with all the excellent vision, coloration and biophotonics research you missed! (12 HOURS of top quality talks)
👁️👁️
👉 https://t.co/FHTg1zAS6A
🦞🪶🦚🦆🌱🌺⚡️🐟🦠🪲🦋🍀🌞🤯🤩

[Quarantine @QtineMcr]

We’re very excited to spend some time researching the value of beauty with @roxmiddleton We felt like we needed some beauty right now….

[Quarantine @QtineMcr]

Thanks for letting us be a part of this @valuingculture - we're excited to be working with physicist @roxmiddleton to think about beauty and its value in live performance.