🎨🔬 Can techniques from the arts become tools for scientific discovery?

Our new preprint introduces glass-based physical models for studying tissue mechanics, bridging art, physics, engineering, and biology! @univmiami @MiamiPhysics

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2606.22281

How do corals use microscopic beating cilia to generate complex 3D fluid flows?

Honored to write an @APSphysics @PhysicsMagazine Viewpoint on beautiful new @PRX_Life work by Selvan, Brumley, and colleagues 😀

Viewpoint: physics.aps.org/articles/v19/76
Paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra…

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LIGO Signal May Point to Primordial Black Holes, Say Two Italian Scientists in #Miami.
👉 miamisic.org/ligo-signal-ma…

This is biology. But it is also…material science.

#UMiami researchers are developing new strategies for coral restoration by improving survival rates of young corals. bit.ly/4cCZan3

@MiamiRosenstiel @UMCAS

Alkalinity-enhanced artificial substrates modulate local pH and increase survivorship of early-stage coral recruits dlvr.it/TS772L

New paper out in @CommsEarth!

A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive.

We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×.

Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN

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🎉 Physics Fun takes over Miami! 🚀✨
A day packed with hands-on experiments, mind-blowing demos, and science excitement for students, teachers, and families!
👉 miamisic.org/physics-fun-20…
#ItalianCultureAccelerated

What happens when marine embryos are crowded instead of isolated?

They become materials.

Honored to write a @NaturePhysics News & Views on excitable living solids discovered by @FakhriLab and colleagues at @MIT 😀

N&V: rdcu.be/e5gLm
Paper: nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢 PhD Position Alert!
I’m recruiting a Physics PhD student (Fall 2026) at @univmiami @MiamiPhysics to work on biological fluid mechanics in marine larvae 🌊🪸⭐
Requirements:
• BS/MS in Physics
• Willing to do experiments + theory
Interested? Email CV, statement, 2–3 refs

🚨 POSTDOC OPENING 🚨
NIH-funded Bio-Fluid Mechanics Postdoc in my lab @univmiami
Hofstenia miamia | cilia-driven flows | behavior & neuroscience
Collab w/ Mansi Srivastava (Harvard)
🕒 Start: Jan–Feb 2026
⏳ 1 yr, renewable | Email me ASAP!
#Postdoc #Biophysics #FluidDynamics

We are pleased to have Dr. Damon A. Clark from @Yale give our Physics Colloquium talk tomorrow on Wednesday from 4-5 pm!

Talk title: "Circuits and algorithms to extract visual features from scenes"
(Please join if you are around) 😀

Let's look at some cool bilateral cellular flows videos!
IMHO: this is a goldmine for #EpithelialMechanics

Movie from Asai et al 2024 shows beautiful counter rotating flows.

Come be my colleague at @univmiami! 😃
We’re hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Theoretical or Computational Biological Physics — join our growing biophysics community in sunny Miami ☀️
Apply by Dec 15 🔗
tinyurl.com/5n9bk836

#PhysicsJobs #Biophysics #TheoreticalPhysics

Last Thursday evening, I was honored to give the keynote at @FrostScience's annual fundraiser!😀
Celebrating Leonardo da Vinci — 500 Years of Genius, I spoke about how curiosity, imagination, and creativity drive both art & science—even in the age of AI.
#FrostScience #DaVinci500

The Physics Dept. was proud to join @univmiami #Homecoming2025, sharing our planetarium experience with alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences! 🌌🎓 Great night celebrating science, discovery & #CaneSpirit!

#UMiami #Physics #Planetarium

🌌 Great night at our Planetarium Night! 😀
We screened “Two Small Pieces of Glass” movie on the history of telescopes, followed by “What’s in the Sky”.
Thanks to students Joseph & Sam for running the show!Planetarium open to public every 3rd Thursday of the month!
@univmiami

We are pleased to have Dr. Sruthi Narayanan from the @Perimeter Institute give our Physics Colloquium talk on Wednesday from 4-5 pm!

Talk title: "A Hologram for Quantum Gravity"

(Please join if you are around) 😀

⚛️ The University of Miami @univmiami joins the Florida Alliance for Quantum Technology, uniting universities, government & industry to make Florida a leader in #QuantumScience.

We’re shaping the next quantum revolution!
🔗news.miami.edu/as/stories/202…

🎉 Shout-out to our former PhD student Daniela Bogorin (advised by Prof. Galeazzi), now a Quantum Researcher @IBMResearch ! 😃

Watch Daniela explain how her team tests quantum processors & tracks performance for client deployment readiness: youtube.com/watch?v=sUCK4R…