Orit Peleg

In our first review, scientists revisit how physical forces shape collective #AnimalBehavior, revealing how individual-environment coupling underlies group dynamics across taxa — from fish schools to ant rafts. 🐟 🐜 🔗 go.aps.org/4lUbDGv #CollectiveBehavior

📣 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👇

Decoding 🌟 firefly communication & conservation in Colorado Join us for a *free* evening talk by @oritpeleg at the Mountain Research Station (run by @CUBoulder + INSTAAR): 🗓 Wed Jun 18th 🕖 7:00 pm 📍Between Ward & Nederland CO 🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/orit-pel…

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 🌟✨ theconversation.com/fleeting-firef…

Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies flash, only the males synchronize. nautil.us/the-mathematic…

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👇 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

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!

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

With @oritpeleg we are organising an @ApsDbio focus session “On Light & Life” from energy capture and light production to bio-inspired metamaterial design and more. Submission deadline is Oct 25 Please help us spread the word and join us in California next March :)

We describe how octopus-fish groups can work, can malfunction, and can lead to benefits! Give it a read and don't forget to see the videos for punching, displacements, and examples of solo vs collaborative hunting!! 🐙🐠🐟 Out in @NatureEcoEvo!!

SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (@oritpeleg) has been named a 2024 Schmidt Sciences Polymath @schmidtsciences. The award will support her research into the evolution of biological communication. ow.ly/3znA50TlmWV

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😉 schmidtsciences.org/six-professors…

just for the pleasure of it, the fine choreography of epithelial cell migration with a PI3K mutation. This is the complex behavior we have to drug to treat cancer ... Movie from @lhinderling . Switch sound on.

Physicists discover how sunflowers work together to ensure that no plant is stuck in the shade ow.ly/25bw50T7BC2

See how these sunflowers wiggle? Very demure. Very mindful. Physics is cutesy. A new paper in @PhysRevX shows that sunflowers' seemingly random movements, called circumnutation, help them minimize the amount of shade cast on one another. 🔗 go.aps.org/3SUYznU

Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – but those movements are actually surprisingly useful newscientist.com/article/244406…