SUM 41, All Killer No Filler It's not just a clever name.

Semi-autobiographical...

Closing dinner at #MaterialsToday2025

Made some minor edits to this spot on post...

Having a great time at #MaterialsToday2025 in Sitges, Spain.

Excited to join the Biomaterials & Biofabrication conference next week! Join @cranfordmatter.bsky.social's talk"Editors-in-the-Loop: A Publisher’s Perspective in the AI-Driven Science Era." Also, stop by and chat with @elainejeong.bsky.social too—we’d love to connect! #Biofabrication #Biomaterials

Online now... .

Despite the proliferation (and convenience) of meeting via Zoom online, it cannot replace physical face-to-face interactions in science and academia. In this month's editorial I pose that "face-to-face still matters". Science, ultimately, is people... not papers. www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Petty Woman

Pup Fiction.

Ion Man

Materials Today Conference? In Spain? On the beach? In June? WITH AWESOME SPEAKERS? Sign me up! #MaterialsToday2025 #CranfordWillBeThere SEE YOU IN SPAIN! So excited, made this AI-generated song... enjoy! youtu.be/P9390hA-y78?...

Sometimes it's a ton of fun just to bash out an editorial at a bar...

The "reciprocal" tariffs include... checks list... St. Pierre and Miquelon... 🤣

New issue online! My latest editorial is on behalf of the entire editorial team, announcing our new editorial strategy. In a nutshell: Less Editorial Desk Rejections, casting a wider net.

Accurate...

Plastic production of the future:

Just a revision of editors out for dinner in NYC...

Lolz

Our current theme song for rejecting manuscripts... youtu.be/qd9eATB6ugc?...

Did you know that March is our annual Double Issue? Twice the materials science, twice the fun! cell.com/matter/current

Double issue of Matter was an opportunity to write two articles! I had a fun time writing this Matter of Opinion, where I discuss the rate of scientific progress as well as the disruptive nature of a single work through an analogy of catalysis! Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiwk9Cyxd...

A new month, a new issue of Matter, a new editorial! "For Team Matter, each submission is an opportunity to learn—learn a little bit of new materials science and learn how to improve in our role as editor and serve the community." authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiwk9Cyxd...

First issue of Cell Biomaterials is online now! Check it out: www.cell.com/issue/S3050-...

As academics, we need to invent a perfectly cromulent word to replace "next slide please"... Suggestions?

Secret character unlocked...

"Bio-inspired" doesn't always add value to a materials science study. In my latest editorial, I discuss when (and when not) to appropriately use the term...

New promotion!

An ancient, unsolved paradox...

Anyone else checking out RedNote (Xiaohongshu)? I figure China is already keeping tabs on me, so I'm giving it a go...

Hui-Ming Cheng and colleagues present a metal-lattice-heredity strategy for synthesizing ultrathin TMO single crystals in #MatterVolume8Issue1!

Not many people know I’m a bit of a knife nerd (many chef knives and folders). I think it was the materials influence. So I reached out to Larrin Thomas, Ph.D., metallurgist, inventor of MagnaCut, and founder of “Knife Steel Nerds” to contribute a Matter of Opinion. www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

Cell Reports Physical Science is entering its post-Batchelor era, with Andrew Bisette taking the reins... he may humbly use the term "novice editor-in-chief" in his coming out editorial, but it's an oxymoron... there's nothing novice about this team. Check it out: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Coming soon to Netflix...

Matter and Cell Reports Physical Science Editor Yan Li's take (with a minor assist from me) on "Publish or Perish" the game and citations in science publishing... www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

Don't get me started on "Rhythm and Blues"

When the editor rejects the paper but you choose to interpet it as an agreement to see major revisions

I really really hope “Mozzarella Phase” becomes a new standard… arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536

Still getting covered… for all the coffee nerds… www.earth.com/news/coffee-...

Beast Games is just an allegory for academic publishing.

I'd Buy That for a Dollar!

Happy 2025: The Year of the Submission

The true Christmas spirit can only be expressed in a reindeer onesie.

Come and join a growing and exciting effort at the @uoft.bsky.social on #ai for #materialsdiscovery #chemsky as #assistantprofessor Please reshare massively

Working this week... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUk-...

Post your favourite Star Trek character, wrong answers only

First snow of the season and I break my only shovel. Bad omen.

Nicholas A. Kotov and colleagues present a microfluidic chip with gold nanoparticles to detect cancer in #MatterVolume7Issue12!