📣 Looking for a creative postdoc with strong computational skills! . Be our go-to person for building simple but powerful simulations that test wild ideas on biological rhythms: from daily cycles of mussel groups at deep sea, to firefly flash synchronization! More info👇

RT @INSTAAR: Decoding 🌟 firefly communication & conservation in Colorado. Join us for a *free* evening talk by @oritpeleg at the Mountain R….

In these chaotic times, I’ve been grounding myself in my mentees’ successes: here’s a beautiful story by PhD candidate Owen Martin on Colorado’s fireflies 🌟✨

RT @NautilusMag: Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies fl….

RT @oritpeleg: Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳 .We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on de….

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Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳 .We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on deep-sea biological rhythms and another on the evolution of biological communication🐚🦗🦋🐙🦉.If you know someone who'd be a good fit, please share!

Our lab @CUBoulder is growing, and we are looking for a part-time lab manager! Please help spread the word 🙏 . We’re excited to welcome someone who can help keep us organized and thriving as we explore collective behavior! 🎉 More info👇

RT @oritpeleg: Excited to co-organize this @APSphysics MM session with @maziyarj & invited speakers @ShengqiangCai + @UCSB_OakleyLab ⚡️. …….

RT @maziyarj: A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to our focus session "On Light & Life" is October 25, 2024!. ⚡️+🦠 =….

RT @maziyarj: With @oritpeleg we are organising an @ApsDbio focus session “On Light & Life”. from energy capture and light production to b….

Excited to co-organize this @APSphysics MM session with @maziyarj & invited speakers @ShengqiangCai + @UCSB_OakleyLab ⚡️. … to explore how light shapes life and how life creates & uses light to sustain itself! . If this sounds like your research, submit your abstract & join us!.

RT @OctoEduardo: We describe how octopus-fish groups can work, can malfunction, and can lead to benefits! Give it a read and don't forget t….

RT @sfiscience: SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (@oritpeleg) has been named a 2024 Schmidt Sciences Polymath @schmidtsciences. The award….

Sometimes life surprises you in the best ways: I’ve been named a 2024 Schmidt Polymath! Deeply grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and students who have been part of this journey with me♥️. Stay tuned for some new, delightfully peculiar animal behaviors😉.

RT @PertzL: just for the pleasure of it, the fine choreography of epithelial cell migration with a PI3K mutation. This is the complex behav….

RT @PhysicsWorld: Physicists discover how sunflowers work together to ensure that no plant is stuck in the shade

RT @APSphysics: See how these sunflowers wiggle? Very demure. Very mindful. Physics is cutesy. A new paper in @PhysRevX shows that sunflow….

RT @newscientist: Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – but those movements ar….

A lovely write up by Dan Strain about our work with reference to Darwin’s illustrations of plant random motion ("The power of movement in plants," 1896)