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Getting my PhD in plant biophysics/active glasses from UvA! 🧫🌱 Physics MSc from UBC, 2023 Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D18a24AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://jaredpopowski.com/
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Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning. Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social

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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

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🧵 Watch closely the waves on the surface as a bird moves through the water! This is one of my favorite videos that I've seen recently - dense collections of fish using collective escape waves that confuse birds 🌊 Great new paper by David Bierbach et al. : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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Are you at the #APSGlobalSummit2025? I'm extremely honored to be finalist for the @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award! Curious? Come by on Tuesday 8-11am at the Session MAR-F65 (my talk: 10:24am) 😊 Also just message me if you wanna have a chat :) @apsphysics.bsky.social

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To my friends and colleagues back in the US, my heart aches as I watch the Trump administration dismantle the scientific research that made our country so important on the world stage. It's a critical time to speak up, whether at home or abroad. ❤️ standupforscience2025.org standupforscience.fr

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Soft matter physics is either: 1. Fluid does weird thing 2. Granular system does weird thing 3. Physicists playing biologist (identity crisis)

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So excited for the week ahead at Les Houches!

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Went to the wonderful Groote Museum yesterday! Highly recommend for those interested in biology/life sciences and happen to visit the Amsterdam area

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@kpc.bsky.social wrote a nice writeup about my recent preprint about the mechanics of glandular trichome rupture, was a fun interview! www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

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Yay! I won the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest alongside two others! My colleague @jaredpopo.bsky.social is another winner showing the beauty of plant trichomes! My picture shows the chloroplast network of the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Lunula! engage.aps.org/dbio/resourc...

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Proud to win the @apsphysics.bsky.social DBIO Image contest for my tomato leaf trichome photo! Trichomes break on contact with insects, defending against predation 🐛🌿🔬🧪 Congrats to my co-winners, including labmate @nicoschramma.bsky.social for his stunning chloroplast networks in Pyrocystis Lunula!

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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

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Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

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"Einstein has once again expressed himself publicly on quantum mechanics...As is well known, this is a catastrophe every time it happens" - Wolfgang Pauli to Werner Heisenberg after the now-famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper of 1935

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Hot off the press A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A recent microscopy image of mine showing trichomes on the surface of a tomato leaf (S. Habrochaites). These hair-like structures are powerful defense systems against insects! 🌿🐛

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It's finally oliebollen season in Amsterdam!

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Science isn't about making the data fit your worldview. It's about making your worldview fit the data.

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Every woman in physics that I've talked to still regularly experiences gender-based discrimination and biases, and the balance of power in academic institutions is overwhelmingly male-dominated. It's time for a more supportive and welcoming system! arxiv.org/abs/2407.02612

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I made a Python GUI that allows you to search through an exported WhatsApp .txt chat history github.com/jspopowski/W...

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