🚨Fully funded PhD opportunity: Physics, biology & ecology of toxic dinoflagellate blooms 🦠.

Supervisory team from Newcastle university (main supervisors), the University of Stirling and Lancaster University.

Join us to investigate how swimming motility and the flexible utilisation of energy sources influence bloom formation, using experiment🔬and modelling ♾️. #microswimmers #plankton #biophysics #biology #ecology #ActiveMatter #PhD

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Project details: https://iapetus.ac.uk/studentships/physics-biology-and-ecology-of-toxic-plankton-blooms/

gamescom 2025: Active Matter angespielt @amgame_official #preview #vorschau #ActiveMatter #gaming #Koop

https://rushbfast.com/gamescom-2025-active-matter-angespielt/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Joining a stacked field already #ActiveMatter is flipping the script on what an extraction shooter can be, literally. Find out why we are on board with our early access review

Early Access Review: https://www.maxi-geek.com/con/active-matter-early-access-review

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🎮 #ActiveMatter, nowa strzelanka online od Gaijin Entertainment i Matter Team, oferuje rajdy PvPvE, PvE, tryb PvP oraz bogaty arsenał.

https://cat5.pl/active-matter-hardkorowy-shooter-juz-dostepny

Gra #ActiveMatter wystartuje z zamkniętymi testami już we wrześniu. Na graczy czeka całkiem solidna ilość aktywności.

https://cat5.pl/zamkniete-testy-active-matter-wystartuja-9-wrzesnia

Active Matter, FPS tattico con elementi di Tarkov e Titanfall 2, promette scontri frenetici e movimenti acrobatici in zone quanticamente instabili. Closed beta il 9/9/25 tramite Gaijin, versione completa su Steam nel 2026. #GiochiPC #Notizievideogiochi #gamingnews #Videogiochi #ActiveMatter #PCGaming

👉 https://www.absolutegamer.it/active-matter-lfps-militare-hardcore-e-praticamente-un-tarkov-sci-fi-con-il-parkour/

Crowd Vortices

The Feast of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain draws crowds of thousands. Scientists recently published an analysis of the crowd motion in these dense gatherings. The team filmed the crowds at the festival from balconies overlooking the plaza in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Analyzing the footage, they discovered that at crowd densities above 4 people per square meter, the crowd begins to move in almost imperceptible eddies. In the animation below, lines trace out the path followed by single individuals in the crowd, showing the underlying “vortex.” At the plaza’s highest density — 9 people per square meter — one rotation of the vortex took about 18 seconds.

The team found similar patterns in footage of the crowd at the 2010 Love Parade disaster, in which 21 people died. These patterns aren’t themselves an indicator of an unsafe crowd — none of the studied Pamplona crowds had a problem — but understanding the underlying dynamics should help planners recognize and prevent dangerous crowd behaviors before the start of a stampede. (Image credit: still – San Fermín, animation – Bartolo Lab; research credit: F. Gu et al.; via Nature)

#activeMatter #collectiveMotion #crowds #fluidDynamics #physics #science #vortices

Strata of Starlings

Starlings come together in groups of up to thousands of birds for the protection of numbers. These flocks form spellbinding, undulating masses known as murmurations, where the movement of individual starlings sends waves spreading from neighbor to neighbor through the group. One bird’s effort to dodge a hawk triggers a giant, spreading ripple in the flock.

To capture the flowing nature of the murmuration, photographer and scientist Kathryn Cooper layers multiple images of the starlings atop one another. The birds themselves become pathlines marking the murmuration’s motion. The final images are surprisingly varied in form. Some flocks resemble a downpour of rain; others the dangling branches of a tree. (Image credit: K. Cooper; via Colossal)

#activeMatter #biology #birds #collectiveMotion #flocking #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #murmuration #physics #science