lsmontal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Northwestern University Civil and Environmental Engineering | Adaptive Structures Lab | Shape-shifting mechanics + life-like cities | adaptivestructureslab.com | instagram.com/adaptivestructures_nu
👤 Joined on 25 March 2024
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@lsmontal.bsky.socialRecruiting PhD students for Fall 2027! This fall, I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, where I will launch the Coupled Minds Lab. We will study how conversation shapes the way people connect, coordinate, and change their minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io
Show Post- How do immotile microbes escape confinement? - They ferment, generate biogenic bubbles, and hitch a ride! 🫧 Very excited to release this work: lnkd.in/gwBEr3f7.
Show PostBut my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”
Show PostThe @harvardsalata.bsky.social highlights Amy Whitesides (design critic in landscape architecture at GSD), Max Piana (visiting lecturer in plant science and forest ecology at GSD), and Eric Kramer (principal at Reed-Hilderbrand) in a conversation about urban forests in Boston and Cambridge.
Show PostPutting solar panels on farms sounds like a possible win-win, but the mixed use of space can create competition for access to sun. A modeling study identifies semiarid places in the Midwest where the panels would help by mitigating heat and water stress. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HJmF50YrTTu
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