David Hu

David Hu

@drdavidhu.bsky.social

Scientist and author of HOW TO WALK ON WATER AND CLIMB UP WALLS https://goo.gl/vVHv3d Profile in @nytimes: https://goo.gl/mu2rMT Proud winner of @IgNobel

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David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

Great way to celebrate women’s history month!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social

Discover books by and about women who have pushed boundaries, effected change, redefined roles, and complicated our understanding of what it means to be powerful. Please enjoy 30% off with code PUP30. press.princeton.edu/ideas/books-...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

doi.orgScientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to BlueskySynopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

My kid drew figure 2. Great chance to share @danielecarlesso.bsky.social with the family

Daniele Carlesso@danielecarlesso.bsky.social

Excited to share an awesome piece by @drdavidhu.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social about our latest paper! Curious to know how weaver #ants achieve superefficiency when working together? Check it out! 🐜🐜🐜 www.cell.com/current-biol...

cell.comCooperative behavior: Superefficient weaver antsTeamwork has long faced a dilemma: as team members are added, the effectiveness of each individual decreases — a phenomenon known as ‘Ringelmann’s effect’. A new study shows that weaver ants in pullin...
David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

“The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society” great article

Gretchen Goldman, PhD@gretchentg.bsky.social

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.orgScientists’ role in defending democracyThe United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

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Nathan Harness
@nathanharness.bsky.social

Look. At. This. (!). A fungus spore landed on this weevil. Grew inside and caused it to climb to the top of this plant- while the fungus killed it. Consumed its body. Used that energy to shoot up a red fruiting body to release more spores. To zombify more weevils. A mind controlling killer fungus.

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Hungtang Ko
@hungtangko.bsky.social

Call for contributions to our symposium on animal collective movement in complex environments at SICB 2026 in Portland, OR! Submit your abstract to our complementary sessions and join us for two days of fun discussing and exchanging research on the biomechanics and energetics of animal movement!

David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

“This trabecular bone is highly anisotropic with trabecular orientations reflecting the mechanical load distribution along the limb” very interesting . I didn’t know bone could grow like that

Tori Herridge@toriherridge.bsky.social

lovely to come back from holiday to find this paper is now out -- I really enjoyed collaborating with @camillebader.bsky.social, @houssayecnrs.bsky.social, @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social et al on this 🦣🦴

David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

funding research is not a cost...its an investment!

@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller)@kaytrue.bsky.social

This response by @jeremymberg.bsky.social is powerful. Saying the US does more than its share of scientific research is "like saying we're getting more than our share of economic growth", given our 2 1/2 fold return on every dollar invested in research. Forbes says cuts will cost the US $10bn/yr.

David Hu
@drdavidhu.bsky.social

A figure is worth a thousand words-- especially true for scientific papers. Great article by double major in journalism and biology @mckennasweet.bsky.social . Thanks to @kaytrue.bsky.social for getting me into the UW Daily!

@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller)@kaytrue.bsky.social

Very nice article by UW undergraduate @mckennasweet.bsky.social on @drdavidhu.bsky.social's lecture at @uwchemistry.bsky.social in which McKenna explores how David found inspiration for some of his scientific directions and how he communicates his results effectively: www.dailyuw.com/science/mosq...

dailyuw.com‘Mosquitoes, earwax, and bird baths’: David Hu gives 2025 Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical ChemistryProfessor David Hu educated an audience about where mosquitoes target people, how mammal earwax protects against insects, and the specifics of birds bathing in just under an hour May 6

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