Commonly used parametric and non-parametric statistical tests! Image credits: Unknown Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics PhD Voice - Independently Run PhD Friend #Statistics

My take on Ettienne's famous drawing in 1970! Thank you Rebecca for the fun group meeting today!

Our new paper in @elife: Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… Purely theory/simulation-based exploration of (im)possible ways to generate mixing currents inside the ER network

It has been an amazing 5 years with you PrakashLab! Hard to summarize what I learned from you -- from science to curiosity and your commitment to society. The story goes on. Praise the Lord!

Thrilled to announce that I will be joining the faculty of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025 UMass Amherst! And SO grateful for the many friendships/future collabs that budded (across many universities!) this interview season. 1/11

The tiny predator Lacrymaria olor owes its shape-shifting ability to an “origami-like” cellular architecture, a new Science study finds. The results offer a glimpse into geometrical control of behavior in single cells. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/7eu

Congrats to all the Prakazoans who celebrated today with doctoral degrees. @Eliott_Flaum Ray Chang Anton Molina Jerome Nowak Hongquan Li Since I could not do the formal hooding ceremony, we ended up doing a hooding on Kilo Moana (first graduation on a boat I am told)

What if you could deliver molecular tools directly into oocytes without microinjection? In our new paper, online today Development (doi.org/10.1242/dev.20…), we introduce VitelloTag, a new cargo delivery tool to enable injection-free genome editing. 👇Read on for a short 🧵

Most birds use a funny running style: grounded running. It's a paradox: GR costs more energy than normal running, but animals usually minimize costs. Do birds waste energy? We resolve this with a model of the emu (the best bird). 1st PhD chapter, out in Science Advances 1/17

Interested in how cells transport signals and material among their own compartments or to other cells? Join us at the 2025 APS March Meeting Focus Session on Intra- and inter-cellular transport! Abstracts due Oct 25.

Invited talks by Michael Shelley (Michael Shelley) and Senthil Arumugam (senthil arumugam). Session organizers: Koslover Group UCSD, AjayGopinathan, Ray Chang. Submit abstracts to session #04.01.04: summit.aps.org/attend/sorting…

Check self-deployable, adaptive robots (arxiv.org/abs/2410.02974) based on Contracting-Cord Particle Jamming (doi.org/10.1039/D4MH00…). These robots hold potential for exploration in remote, complex areas. Accepted to ISRR2024. #softrobotics #AdaptiveRobotics #ParticleJamming

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Deep sea phytoplankton observed ballooning to 6x their size in order to float to the surface to capture sunlight. Current Biology Learn more: cell.com/current-biolog… @Planktonico Manu Prakash PrakashLab

a very exciting combination of fluid mechanics + thermodynamics, and how physical approach can help infer evolutionary adaptations. Very great work Qing (Andie) Zhang