Enkeleida Lushi

The first talk of the year in the BPPB Seminar series.

🎊 Congrats 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚, Univ. of Amsterdam, recipient of the 𝐃𝐒𝐍𝐏 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 for "𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺" Join and listen to them at the DSNP awards session #APSSummit26
@apsphysics.bsky.social

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MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

I am looking to hire a postdoc to work with me on fluid-structure interactions in complex and active fluids. Ideally the candidate will have a strong background in numerical/asymptotic analysis and fluid mechanics (complex fluids / LCs even better).

www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

Please join the BPPB seminar on Friday November 21 at 11 US ET for a talk by Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social (On the thermodynamics of ternary asymmetric lipid membranes).

I am … grateful? … that Harvard’s Graduate School Fund reached out to me with a fundraising solicitation yesterday, because it helped me to organize my thoughts on an event near the end of my PhD (2005). Here is my response, just emailed to the fundraisers: (1/9)

WOMEN IN PHYSICS DAY! In honor of the pioneering women in physics who broke down barriers to do what they love, we celebrate Women in Physics Day on November 7th, the birthdate of both Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. Marie Skrodowska-Curie (1867-1934) Radioactivity pioneer, two-time Nobel laureate A giant of science, Marie Sktodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, a term she coined. She discovered two elements, founded two medical research centres, won two Nobels, and invented mobile X-ray units (dubbed petites Curies), saving countless lives in World War Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Nuclear physicist When Lise Meitner was a teen, Austria restricted female higher education. She pursued physics anyway, and 25 years later became the first woman in Germany to hold a professorship in physics. She helped discover nuclear fission, but was contentiously not awarded the 1944 Nobel alongside collaborator Otto Hahn. NOVEMBER 7TH

Dear Physicists and Physics fans,

I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.

Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

Congratulations!!!

The call for our 2026 Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellow is now open! Distinguished PKS postdoctoral fellows appear personally along with the departments and groups on the main research page of the institute. You can apply here: www.pks.mpg.de/PKSFellow26
Deadline is the 21st of November

Please join BPPB on Friday Oct 17 @ 11 US ET for exciting talks by Mirna Mihovilovic Skanata (When Senses Agree: Quenching Behavioral Variability) & Amy Rowat (Biophysical Approaches to Understand and Harness Cellular Mechanobiology). For more information visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

The scientific article version and the future grant version can be game changers, especially for scientists neither trained nor talented in writing!
Btw, think of commercializing something like this for corporate reports, software documentation, user manuals, etc. Managers will pay well for it.

Exciting development! Can't wait to try it!
@odedrechavi.bsky.social, can the tool be adapted for thesis and dissertations? Advisors everywhere will thank you for it.

The eligibility criteria change will impact many first generation and minority students that first learn about the GRFP when starting grad school. Already quite busy in those first weeks of classes, they will not have time to identify a research project, a mentor and prepare an application. #NSFGRFP

Alas.

Please join BPPB on Friday September 12 at 11 ET for exciting talks by Hawa Racine Thiam @hawa-racine.bsky.social (Chromatin Biophysics through the lens of NETosis) and Antun Skanata (Mechanisms of chemotaxis on rugged landscapes). For more information please visit sites.google.com/view/bppb-se....

Congratulations Tom!!!

Please join BPPB on Fri June 6 @ 11 US Eastern time for talks by Paul Atzberger (Drift-Diffusion Dynamics of Proteins within Heterogeneous Membranes with Non-Equilibrium Concentration & Temperature Gradients ) & Krešimir Josić (The Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Growing Synthetic Microbial Consortia).

Cats challenge standard biases in evolutionary biology. People have said to me, “What about bats? What about rodents? These groups have so many species doing all kinds of things.” And I'm like, “Yeah, because they suck.” They haven't figured out how to do anything well, so they keep trying different things.

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪

Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆

www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

Hi #AcademicBluesky

I'm prepping a new writing intensive undergrad course & am looking for resources and fun activities to build writing skills.

Any recommendations of what has worked for you? Bonus points for content related to AI, crafting clear arguments, and outlining papers.

Thanks!

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need:

-Paid family leave
-Equal pay
-Universal childcare

(But get your mom flowers, too)

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

I've been on both sides of this. As an author, it sucks to be waiting. As a reviewer, I try to find time to thoroughly read the paper and give a helpful feedback to the authors. Time and effort that is not recognized.
Can't remember the last time I took a break under a tree or a picnic by a lake. 😔