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Are there two individuals more obsessed with currently here in sunny Vegas at ? @BEuplotes

Definitions of curiosity through the ages - fascinating talk by @DaniSBassett. What's yours?? 🤔
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RT @TheLHSeries
🌟🌟 Today!! 🌟🌟

@APSMeetings MM goers, please join us *live*

Living Histories of *Ideas*
An APS-GSNP Symposium
Rm 235, 3pm local

Featuring invited talks by:
@micromotility, @DaniSBassett , Rob Phillips, David Krakauer & @SurajShankar92

See you in a short few hours! 🙏🏿🙏🏿 twitter.com/TheLHSeries/status
twitter.com/TheLHSeries/status

All will be revealed....🤔
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RT @TheLHSeries
A picture, a 1000 words, or an intriguing trailer?!

Join us *in person* for the reveal!

Coming Tues at the March Meeting @APSMeetings in Vegas, the Living Histories of Ideas, a special symposium edition of @TheLHSeries

Pls mark calendars, bring friends, feel inspired!

🙏🏿🙏🏿 twitter.com/TheLHSeries/status
twitter.com/TheLHSeries/status

flipbook!! I want one...
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RT @plantbymicro
生物教育学会にて
発売検討中の商品ということでTIME LAPSE VISIONさんの「ぱらぱらミクロ」。
凄い滑らかで美しいです。
購入希望者が多ければ発売だそうです。 twitter.com/i/web/status/16318
twitter.com/plantbymicro/statu

Kirsty Wan boosted

We published a new preprint on the mechanism of hydrostatic pressure sensation in marine .
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20
Click on the toot to see a thread about our findings. 1/9

You went sampling, found a new critter, and want to analyse its behaviour..?
We wrote a primer on querying motility patterns at the microscale - led by the dynamic duo @seeseamic and @hannahscope!
Hope others found it a useful resource (feedback welcome)!
arxiv.org/abs/2303.00068

Interested in (aka flagella)?
It was a pleasure to contribute to the latest edition of the Chlamy Sourcebook - with a new chapter on the physics and mechanics of motile cilia sciencedirect.com/science/arti , great collab with Phil Bayly! Vol3 edited by @DutcherLab

RT @NatashaMhatre
On the TT in Biophysics? Join us for a chat with @nr_forde & @bioactivematter on March 15th! twitter.com/TheIOSeries/status

ooh alert! beautiful specimen...
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RT @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9
これは今回の成果。襟鞭毛虫(えりべんもうちゅう)の1種。壺の形をした殻(ロリカ)の中に細胞が入っているよ。細胞からは長い鞭毛が伸びている。殻の直径は6.6μm。こんな形だけど私たちのような多細胞動物に近い生物らしい。バクテリアを食べるそうだよ。Aulacoseira属の珪藻に付着している。
twitter.com/a1AgqW93RTKPUD9/st

RT @anjali_physics
.@eliochallita et al. @BhamlaLab find insects form pee droplets through as a strategy to conserve energy.
Paper is out now @NatureComms @GTChBE
@MEGeorgiaTech @GeorgiaTech
nature.com/articles/s41467-023

RT @kyz1024
Last call for registration for the MiLS on "Linking Mathematics, Experiments and Data" 8-9th March 2023.

Please register here: tinyurl.com/2trd4emm by Thursday 2nd March so I can make sure we all have enough food, tea & coffee! @LSI_Exeter @HealthcareHubEX

RT @NathalieJuYa
Back from a fantastic @GRC_CMM conference on and mucociliary clearance. It was great to reconnect with the community and make new friends in beautiful settings. It is now time to digest all this exciting science in a slightly different scenery back in Norway!

So long, and thanks for all the (and mucus)! So many interesting discussions and lots to digest! @GRC_CMM

Mary Porter doing the chlamy dance on stage (both breaststroke and photoshock) is the awesome conference content I'm here for 😆 (plus the views of course) @GRC_CMM

RT @historyinmemes
Mongolian farmer discovers hundreds of his sheep have been walking in a circle continuously for 12 Days.

RT @WiringTheBrain
Also, are we really expected to believe to there's a real correlation in these data?

RT @IntuitMachine
3/n What is agency? Agency is the cognitive stance of living beings to preserve their identity. A good dissection of agency can be found in @WiringTheBrain explorations on the subject. mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/472

Naturalising Agent Causation

The idea of agent causation—that a system such as a living organism can be a cause of things in the world—is often seen as mysterious and deemed to be at odds with the physicalist thesis that is now commonly embraced in science and philosophy. Instead, the causal power of organisms is attributed to mechanistic components within the system or derived from the causal activity at the lowest level of physical description. In either case, the ‘agent’ itself (i.e., the system as a whole) is left out of the picture entirely, and agent causation is explained away. We argue that this is not the right way to think about causation in biology or in systems more generally. We present a framework of eight criteria that we argue, collectively, describe a system that overcomes the challenges concerning agent causality in an entirely naturalistic and non-mysterious way. They are: (1) thermodynamic autonomy, (2) persistence, (3) endogenous activity, (4) holistic integration, (5) low-level indeterminacy, (6) multiple realisability, (7) historicity, (8) agent-level normativity. Each criterion is taken to be dimensional rather than categorical, and thus we conclude with a short discussion on how researchers working on quantifying agency may use this multidimensional framework to situate and guide their research.

www.mdpi.com

RT @Giorgio_Volpe
Ever wondered how to steer self-organisation through confinement?

This perspective reports the discussion at a @lorentzcenter workshop organised with @AlvaroGuM, @namaraujo, L. Janssen.

Try and tag all 29 authors!

Read it now in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articl

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