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🧪 Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity. @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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"So I am reminded to tell any of them who feel panicky and frightened that they have not yet landed a major NIH award that they are not alone. Many have trod this path before you. Many are walking it now." Like me: Heyyyyyyyyy 👋🏽

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Ever wondered why flamingos eat upside down? 🦩 2023 award winner Saad Bhamla and team @bhamlalab.bsky.social have figured out that the flamingo feeding process is actually an impressive performance in fluid dynamics in a study published in @pnas.org. Learn more: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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A new study for @pnas.org by 2023 #scicomm awards winner Saad Bhamla on the flamingo 🦩 feeding process can also be viewed as a comic at: bhamla.gatech.edu/comics #comics #sciart

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🪱🪱Hooray for the Super Springing worms! 🪱🪱 Thanks to @bhamlalab.bsky.social for commissioning such a fun comic, jam packed with silliness AND #science. To be adding one of my own comics to the Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms collection is really quite awesome too... #sciart #microbiology #scicomm

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How do flamingos eat upside down? A new @bhamlalab.bsky.social study found that the long-legged birds essentially create mini tornadoes. This insight could create new water filtration systems. coe.gatech.edu/news/2025/05...

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The fantastically successful NIGMS MIRA R35 "expired" on May 17, after the most recent deadline--these removals are the most aggressive attack on American science in the current series of devastating actions 🧪

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Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Forget the bellyflop or the cannonball! This is the science-backed way to make the biggest splash in the pool this summer. (Thanks, @bhamlalab.bsky.social!) b.gatech.edu/4j65btG

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Beautiful work as always from the @bhamlalab.bsky.social ! Flamingoes use swirling flows to trap and catch preys!

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🦩💨 Flamingos feed using tornadoes New research shows flamingos create tornado-like vortices using their beak, head, & feet - actively trapping prey in swirling water traps. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #SciComm #Ecology #Flamingos 🧪

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This is the coolest thing you will see today: Flamingos use head retractions, beak chattering, and webbed foot movements to create underwater vortices that capture prey and funnel it directly into their mouths. 🧪🪶 See also the figures and movies in their PNAS paper: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

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Why do flamingos feed with their heads upside down - and what can flamingos teach us about designing water filtration systems? Very cool work in @pnas.org by Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez, Tien Yee, Pankaj Rohilla, Benjamin Seleb, Jake Belair, and Saad Bhamla 🧪

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Yes! The Fantastic Flamingo comic is OUT 🦩It was such an honor to join the @bhamlalab.bsky.social Curious Zoo of Extraordinary Organisms - a real champion of science comics 💪 #scicomm #sciart #biology

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Great article with lots of perspectives from scientists who are scared to speak out — and other scientists who are scared of what will happen if they don't. Trump & Musk & Kennedy are devastating U.S. research and setting progress back decades www.science.org/content/arti... on @science.org

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Wonder why flamingos feed upside down? Check out our new work in @pnas.org that demonstrates how flamingos stir, stomp, and chatter to bend flow and trap prey www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵: Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, with Pankaj and Ben from the Bhamla Lab

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Check out these birds, courtesy of Nami Ha! Nami and the @bhamlalab.bsky.social at Georgia Tech studies the amazing materials that make up living things, including the ultrafast water absorption of sandgrouse feathers.

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How can a cell control the size of its organelles? Excited to share a mechanism to control droplet size we recently found. a 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This is such a cool new paper from the @bhamlalab.bsky.social with a fun discovery of kink instabilities in jumping nematodes. I was also happy to see that my old PhD data on C. Elegans bending stiffness was useful.

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A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports. This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7

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Have you ever wondered what happens when a sea star carries a backpack full of beads? You can now find out: « Tube feet dynamics drive adaptation in sean star locomotion » www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Excited to share our new work in @science.org #Robotics that shows how reversible kinks can help nematodes perform jumps 1000 times faster than you can blink! scim.ag/4iDIa1i 🧵: Work co-led by @chemicalsunnyraj.bsky.social , @itiwari93.bsky.social and Victor Ortega-Jimenez with many other colleagues

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#Sciencecommunication – @bhamlalab.bsky.social (text + podcast 14:48) www.npr.org/2025/04/14/1... #STEM #science #STEMeducation #scicomm #scicom

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It was a very productive week in lab! We now have Naegleria fowleri (brain-eating amoeba) cultures growing, in addition to the Naegleria gruberi (harmless relative) cultures we have been using as a model. Put side-by-side, it is impossible to tell them apart.

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The @bhamlalab.bsky.social is looking to hire a new lab manager! See the flyer below for details!

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