Simone Pigolotti

Buribushi Fellowship

Independent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...

Open faculty positions in Physics at OIST

Nobel Lecture: Physics is a point of view The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.

Physics is a point of view: inspiring Nobel lecture by John Hopfield.

I might be biased, but squids are great.

The Secret Disorder of Squids A structural phenomenon traditionally confined to inanimate systems has now been observed in biology.

Physics Magazine writes about our research on hyperdisordered patterns. Thanks @sachinxr.bsky.social for the article and @davidbrueckner.bsky.social for the quotes!

We have a new paper out on an issue that has been discussed for more than a century -- how can fundamental biophysical constraints on nutrient transport be overcome to solve one of the most significant challenges associated with the evolution of multicellularity?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our current Workshop: Extremal Statistics in Biology, organized by Prof. Ariel Amir, @chhdellago.bsky.social & Prof. Ethan Levien, has been great so far—engaging talks and a wonderful group!

📸 Cute group picture on the Strudlhofstiege

🎥 Missed a talk?
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Hyperdisordered Cell Packing on a Growing Surface In rapidly growing oval squid, skin pigment cells form a ``hyperdisordered'' pattern where density fluctuations grow with scale, revealing a novel link between growth and patterning that may apply bro...

Read the full research article in Physical Review X: doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

The OIST Graduate School has opened a Special PhD Admissions Portal for students currently enrolled in, or accepted to, universities in the U.S. #PhDprogram www.oist.jp/admissions/s...

Our paper on hyperdisordered packing is out! Chromatophore arrangement on squid skin reveals an exotic form of disordered packing, caused by the interplay of cell insertion and surface growth journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

New faculty posters at OIST. I have a very distinguished nearest neighbor.

OIST TSVP talk poster for May 15, 15:00-16:00, in presence and via zoom.

I am looking forward to giving a talk at @oistedu.bsky.social this coming week, Thu May 15.

Experimentally dealing with the impacts of an increasing number of factors: global change and soil as a case study

(also delivered via zoom)

groups.oist.jp/tsvp/event/t...

In classic epidemiology, the Euler-Lotka equation links the basic reproduction number R0 with the exponential rate of epidemic spreading. We have now extended this theory to epidemic spreading on complex networks: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Our unit at OIST is hiring two postdocs, one lab manager/technician, and one field technician! If you're passionate about exploring microbial and ecosystem ecology at the international institute on Japan's beautiful island, please apply by April 20! 🍄🦠🌳🌞
www.oist.jp/research/res...

Experimental Postdoc/Lab Technician Positions Biological Complexity Unit The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST; see www.oist.jp) is a dynamic new graduate university of science and technology in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The university ...

Our lab is looking for a talented experimentalist, ideally with a background in biophysics, to study the dynamics of genome replication using sequencing: www.oist.jp/careers/expe...

This will be fun and interesting!

ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru will offer a program on Unifying Theories in High-Dimensional Biophysics, 21 July - 01 Aug. Graduate students, postdocs and faculty are welcome, as are talented undergraduates. Apply here: register1.icts.res.in/uhdb. Deadline: 30 April

The structural stability metric ΔSM for different upper and lowercase English letters. The font used is Cambria Math.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Structural stability and thermodynamics of artistic composition.” In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Actually, you could say that this Nobel Prize went to the Ising model.

Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

"Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants."

www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

Simulating an epidemic model on a network? Your code is too slow? Fear no more arxiv.org/abs/2412.07095

Nice! Can I join please?

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Hyperdisordered cell packing on a growing surface While the physics of disordered packing in non-growing systems is well understood, unexplored phenomena can emerge when packing takes place in growing domains. We study the arrangements of pigment cel...

Things we learned from squids about hyperuniformity (or lack thereof) arxiv.org/abs/2409.15712