Madhu Venkadesan
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanC. N. Yang was simply amazing. Incredibly deep and creative. He seemed to remember everything, including all the papers he wrote. So, my story is kinda funny www.ias.edu/news/in-memo...
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanWhy is it that small animals like insects have a landspace body plan when viewed head-on, but larger animals like elephants are taller than wide? With @m-v.bsky.social, we find out in our new preprint titled 'Size and shape of terrestrial animals' - arxiv.org/html/2602.00...
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanTechnology shouts for itself; science is more abstract and subtle. We cannot assume that the value of science is self-evident to the public. In "How Science Speaks", we will hear how scientists and science writers communicate complex ideas about the history and practice of science to non-experts.
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanOur work on solute-mediated colloidal vortices and focusing is now out in PRL. doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
- The incredible Henry Bennet-Clark passed away recently, but his wonderful science will continue to inspire. www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/dr-henry-ben... He wrote numerous amazing papers, including on how fleas jump so high: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=au... #biomechanics #obituary #stcatz
- A paper that adds a crucial piece to our understanding of how biological joints came to be.
- Super excited to share our @plosbiology.org paper with @neilshubin.bsky.social and Yara Haridy, “Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish” Paper: plos.io/3CTC8La Primer by @crumplab.bsky.social: plos.io/4kkhXa6 I hope you enjoy reading it!
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanIt took more than a century to hire the first woman professor in Cornell history department? as.cornell.edu/news/history...
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanThe 12th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines and 2nd LokoAssist Symposium TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, July 8th-11th, 2025 www.tu-darmstadt.de/lokoassist/h...
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanI wrote an invited commentary on the soil plastisphere for the InterPore Journal. The nexus of bacteria, biofilms, and microplastics has significant environmental implications with LOTS of unknowns and opportunities. ipjournal.interpore.org/index.php/in...
- Reposted by Madhu VenkadesanWhat a week, huh?
