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Analyzing Amazonian jumping spider limb coordination with a novel graph-wavelet method, we found that across genera, take-off involves a stereotyped two-stage "swing-and-fling" sequence. Download the paper.

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We outline six actionable practices to help scientists effectively reach and engage broad audiences, with a focus on leveraging modern media and emerging dissemination channels. Download the paper.

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Combining blackworm experiments with active-polymer simulations, we found that self-propelled filaments escape confined channels fastest. Download the paper.

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Using Mary Somerville's 1834 On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences as a case, I argue that synthesis is important in the progress of physical sciences. Download the paper.

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We reviewed how termites sense, move through, and build their granular environment, and argue that these three processes form a single feedback loop in which the colony as an active matter system continually rewrites the substrate that governs its own future behavior. Download the paper.

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We built an unsupervised accelerometer pipeline and found sprint sled dogs switch between several distinct gallop stride states. Download the paper.

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Tejas is a theoretical soft matter physicist who enjoy thinking about any kind of system that breaks, maintains, or creates generalized symmetries.

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Tianjun is interested in improving the stability and efficiency of insect-scale robots by learning from how insects leverage their body structures to interact with the environment across different interfaces.

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We model how landscape-scale topographic patterns can emerge from the foraging energetic cost and substrate feedback of grazing ungulates. Read the paper here.

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Congrats to former Bhamla Lab postdoc Dr. Ishant Tiwari for starting as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Colorado College!

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