antoinedeblais.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. In love with fluids 💧, Worms 🪱, and 🤖. Ig-Nobel 2024 for racing sober and drunk worms.
Group website: https://www.deb-lab.com/
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Why? Check our preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2407.18805
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(ii) Lowering the worms' activity—whether by getting them drunk 🍺 or chilling them down 🥶—unexpectedly leads to higher diffusion! 🤯
We also compared our experimental findings with the tangentially driven polymer model.
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(i) Unlike their passive counterparts, living polymers spread faster in disordered media than in ordered media. Even more intriguingly, in disordered media, they move faster as the medium becomes denser, defying the common intuition that "the more crowded it is, the slower you go".
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😂
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😂👑
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May I join? 🙏