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@alexphoover.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Math at Cleveland State University. Slowly rebuilding my Babel here, but I post about/shoot random likes at: Math / Fluids / Biology / LGBTQ+ in STEM / Ohio + Cleveland / EU + Italy

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Lightfield 4D has landed at the HCBI. If you are in Boston, come check it out!
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu

For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT

23.09.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

Math @ Williams is hiring β€” I hope you consider applying!

12.08.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Admin Begins Processing Some Trans Passport Updates, Though It Will Maintain Data On Requests On Wednesday, at least some transgender people applying for passports in person at passport offices for urgent travel have received updated passports with correct gender markers.

1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order.

Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.

There are important caveats though, read on.

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02.07.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1367    πŸ” 397    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 18

NONE in Life science?! NONE?!

25.06.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2
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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

16.04.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1725    πŸ” 986    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 73
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A regularised force-doublet framework for self-propelled microswimmers | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core A regularised force-doublet framework for self-propelled microswimmers - Volume 1009

Happy to announce a new publication on a project I started at the tail end of my postdoc! Here we use the method of regularized Stokeslets for a single point formulation of a pusher/puller microswimmer.
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

11.04.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy to see students present some recent research at Cleveland State's Choose Ohio First poster showcase!

02.04.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

πŸ§ͺ🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.

Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience

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03.03.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 24
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US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

25.02.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 224    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 51
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The squirting cucumber catapults its seeds with a force & precision rivalling the mechanics of modern engineering. A groundbreaking study in PNAS, co-authored by Fellow, Dr Dominic Vella, reveals the secrets of this botanical marvel.

FIND OUT MORE πŸ”—https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8

09.12.2024 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ¦‘πŸ§ͺ Modelling the mechanospace of larvacean pumping and swimming, presented by @alexphoover.bsky.social at
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024

10.01.2024 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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