The #SoR2025 Annual Meeting in #SantaFe is only days away. #Rheologists, prepare yourself for a great trip to #NewMexico! Picture credits: Tourism Santa Fe

Introducing the Society of #Rheology 2025-2026 Executive Committee! President Jeff Morris, Vice President Roger Bonnecaze, Secretary Kal Migler, Treasurer Lisa Biswal, JoR Editor Dimitris Vlassopoulis, and Members at Large Arezoo Ardekani, Charles Schroeder, and Rossana Pasquino

Please join us on Thurs, 9/25 at 1:00 EST for the Future of #Rheology Seminar! Our speakers are: Kalpit Bakal, Extending #Capillary #Micromechanics for Studying #Viscoelastic Behaviour at Microscopic Scales and Mingyang Tan, Structure and Dynamics of Frictional vs Frictionless #Colloidal #Gels

The Future of #Rheology seminar series continues Thursday with two great speakers Barrett Smith (#Alginate #Gelation in #Microfluidic Flow) and Chenxian Xu (Surface Forces Sculpt Nanoscopic Mesas in #Micellar #Foam Films). Join us on zoom at 1pm EST.

Are you a #student of #rheology looking for connections to others? Join the SoRStudent #Slack channel and join the discussion!

Poster abstracts for the Society of #Rheology annual meeting #SoR2025 are due 8/15! Students and postdocs can compete for the best poster and win PRIZES! #Gallery of Rheology images and VIDEOS will also be competing (first time)!

The Society of #Rheology Annual Meeting anticipates a fun-filled social program for rheologists to network and unwind together. Thank you to sponsors Anton Paar and Waters/TA Instruments! Can't wait for our awards banquet honoring our Metzner winner Safa Jamali and Bingham medalist Antony Beris!

SoR is happy to advertise a special focus session on the intersections of #geology and #rheology, to be held as part of the SoR Annual Meeting in October. Following the session will be a networking lunch, and posters on this topic will be celebrated on Thurs' poster session!

Current members of the Society of #Rheology should check their email for ballot information to cast your #vote for the next Society of Rheology executive committee

Registration is open for the Society of #Rheology's Annual Meeting in #SantaFe! Details, banquet tickets, and hotel block information can be found here: tinyurl.com/sdzayxs9 #SoR2025

SoR will offer two courses on #powder #flow to occur before the Society of #Rheology annual meeting in #SantaFe this Oct. Courses will be offered separately, with a discount for attending both. Virtual and in-person options are available. Registration will open soon on our website www.rheology.org

The next Future of #Rheology seminar will take place this Thurs, May 29th, from 1-2pm EST. Jake Song will speak on nonlinear #elasticity and #plasticity of soft #composites, and Yug Chandra Saraswat will speak on #ductile brittle transitions in fiber composite #hydrogels. See you there!

The deadline for the Society of Rheology's Annual Meeting talk abstracts are due tomorrow (again)! Take advantage of our extended deadline and make sure that you get your submissions in if you plan on joining us in October!

Please join us May 29th at 1:00 EST for the next #Future of #Rheology Seminar. We'll be hearing from: Rakan Alrashdan: Rigid particle sedimentation in #yield_stress fluids undergoing #shear_flow and Alice Pelosse: Large intruders in a #shear_thickening #suspension

The abstract deadline for the Society of #Rheology Annual Meeting is extended to May 30 to accommodate requests from people who are navigating uncertainties. We have received a healthy number of abstracts thus far and look forward to a robust meeting in Santa Fe. #CFD #microfluidics #AI #polymers

The Society of #Rheology Annual Meeting talk abstracts are due 5/16 (!). If you are investigating the rheology of #colloids, #polymers, #granular_materials, #foams, #gels, #additive_manufacturing, #biomaterials, #soft_robotics, #microfluidics and more, we want to know about it!

The Society of Rheology's highest honor, the Bingham Medal, goes to Antony Beris for his contributions to the modeling of complex fluids including #viscoelastic flows, #blood #rheology, and #liquid_crystals. We will be so happy to formally recognize Antony at our awards banquet in October. Congrats!

SoR is excited to announce that Safa Jamali is the Society of Rheology 2025 Metzner awardee for contributions to the understanding of #suspensions, attractive #colloids, and #machine_learning techniques in #rheology. We will celebrate Safa with an honorary lecture at our annual meeting this October!

Congratulations to our 2025 class of SoR Fellows! Fellows will be inducted in our Oct Annual Meeting in Santa Fe #SoR02025. Join us there to celebrate Paulo Arratia @arratiapaulo.bsky.social, Randy Ewoldt, Anke Lindner, Joao Maia, Matteo Pasquali, Fernando Pinho, and Patrick Spicer! #everythingflows

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Journal of #Rheology #Publication Award: Michael Burroughs, Yuanyi Zhang, Abhishek Shetty, Christopher Bates, Matt Helgeson and L. Gary Leal. In celebration, the winning publication will be available open-source for all. @professor-meh.bsky.social

Don't miss out this October! Submit an #abstract to the Society of #Rheology 's Annual Meeting to be held in #SantaFe, NM. We've been meeting to discuss #fluidmechanics , #polymer manufacturing, #colloids , #granular materials, #gels and more since 1948! (There are a few more of us today!) #SoR2025

Important submission dates for the Society of #Rheology's Annual Meeting are approaching! Oral presentation abstracts are due May 16th. Join us in Santa Fe this October!

Please join us on Thurs, April 24th, 2025 @ 1 PM EST for our next Future of #Rheology Seminar. Our speakers are: Alfredo Scigliani, Molecular Origin of Shear Banding in Wormlike #Micelles Hossein Hassanzadeh, When Jets Meet #ComplexFluids: The Battle of #Flow and Forces

The Society of #Rheology is soliciting abstract submissions to our Annual Meeting #SoR2025 in October. We want to hear all about your research on #colloidal suspensions, #granular media, flow in #geoscience, #advancedmanufacturing, #CFD, #microfluidics, #polymers, #foams, #softrobotics, and more!

Please join us on Thursday, Mar 27th, 2025, from 1-2:00 PM EST for the Future of Rheology Seminar. We'll be hearing from Zhouyang Ge: Non-monotonic diffusion in sheared apolar active suspensions of squirmers and Vincenzo Calabrese: Capillary-driven thinning of DNA solutions

If you would like real help (or sympathy) in shifting your polymer master curves, check out the 1995 Bingham Medal Address by Donald Plazek: Oh, thermorheological simplicity, wherefore art thou? Find it in the J. Rheology doi.org/10.1122/1.55...

Join us Thursday, February 27th for another installment of our Future of Rheology seminar series. We will hear about the rheology of real and vegan mayo by Nadia Nikolova and rigid clusters in shear thickening suspensions by Michel Orsi.

The Future of Rheology virtual seminar series has extended its submissions deadline. This platform highlights research from students, postdocs, and professionals advancing rheology. Selected speakers will have the opportunity to present at the Annual Meeting for a chance to win prizes!

SoR is sad to announce the passage of 1994 Bingham Medalist Prof Andreas Acrivos. Prof. Acrivos and his numerous students and colleagues have made lasting contributions to rheology theory and practice. A fuller accounting of Prof. Acrivos's career is available at www.rheology.org/SoR/News/InM...

The Society of Rheology is now accepting proposals for the 2025 Rheology Venture Fund. Past winners include the Student Trivia Night at the SoR meeting, the Soft Matter Kitchen, I am a Rheologist swag, Rheology Comics and others.

Next Wednesday, Christian Coppola (Eni Versalis) will present the next installment of the JNNFM + JoR + RA virtual seminar on the Applications of Nonlinear Polymer Viscoelasticity in Rubber Industry. Check your email for the link!

The 2025 Society of Rheology's Annual Meeting will be held in enchanted Santa Fe, NM on October 19-23. Look for our call for abstracts later this spring and save the dates to discuss everything that flows. We hope to see you there! #SoR2025

Please join us on Thursday, Jan 30th, from 1-3:30 PM EST for the Future of Rheology Seminar. We’ll have a slightly shorter but not less exciting meeting and hear from Anukta Datta (UCSB), Measuring and modeling deformations of a topologically defined polymer using in-situ capillary rheo-SANS.

The Future of Rheology Seminar Series invites abstract submissions to present in this prestigious virtual series which highlights research from students, postdocs, and professionals advancing rheology. Speakers have the opportunity to present at the 2026 Annual Meeting for a chance to win prizes!

Don't forget about Wednesday's JNNFM+JoR+RA virtual seminar where Lisa Biswal will speak on bubble dynamics and #foam #rheology in confined geometries. Check your email for the link!

The abstract submission deadline is today (Jan 13th)! So far, we have contributions on topics ranging from microvasculature, cells and tissues to biofilms! Looking forward to a great session on "Living Porous Media"! lnkd.in/eafFBRE9

In 2023, researchers designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4adU9Qs #ScienceMagArchives

Did you catch all of the 2024 issues of the Journal of Rheology? We had some beautiful cover art, with more to come in 2025!

Reminder: Nominations for the Society of Rheology Metzner and Bingham awards are due February 28th. Visit www.rheology.org/sor/Awards/B... www.rheology.org/sor/Awards/M... for details on the application process.

The next JNNFM+JoR+RA seminar on Large Amplitude Oscillatory Extension by Simon Haward will take place Wednesday, Dec 11th at 10:00 CET/4:00 EST/1:00PST. Read the abstract here: tinyurl.com/ykmdyru4 and find upcoming seminars: tinyurl.com/284yp9p5 Check your email for the Zoom link to join!

Rheologists working on space applications and/or low gravity research are encouraged to submit manuscripts to our special issue in the Journal of Rheology by May 31, 2025. Reach out to our guest editors Olfa D'Angelo, Thomas Voigtmann, and Norman Wagner with any questions. #EverythingFlows

Consider nominating a deserving rheologist for the prestigious Society of Rheology Bingham or Metzner awards. The awards will be given at the SoR Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM in October 2025.

Nominations are open for Society of Rheology Fellows, recognizing distinguished scientific achievement, technical accomplishment, and/or scholarship in the field of rheology. Service to SoR is also an important component. Unsuccessful nominations will be carried over for 2 years.