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Polymer Science on the Prairie
Different perspective today! Proud of my biggest little one.
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Man, what a great day for so many! Most of all, the hard working Dr. Leo-Stanley Ndunagum!
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Charles Logan
18 days ago
Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!
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Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00508-w
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Louise Amoore
21 days ago
If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2
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Man the camera guy in the Habs game has no idea what is going on...
about 1 month ago
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Canadian History Ehx
about 1 month ago
Harriet Brooks was one of Canada's first female nuclear physicists. Sir Ernest Rutherford said she was an equal of Marie Curie. She co-discovered radon and helped lay the foundations of nuclear science. Then she left her career when she was 29. This is her story. đź§µ 1/12
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Soft Matter
about 1 month ago
📢The nomination deadline for the 2026 Soft Matter Lectureship is fast approaching! ‼️Deadline: 30th April 2026 Don't miss your chance to nominate an early career researcher who has made major contributions to soft matter research. Learn more about the award:
lnkd.in/eMhN7bEW
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It is always great to run into former grad students in the wild. Here is hoping that there perminant positions for great people like this in the future!
2 months ago
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APS DSOFT
2 months ago
Tonight from 6:45 - 8:30 pm we will have our annual DSOFT business meeting and celebration! Can't wait to catch up with y'all ✨
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APS DSOFT
2 months ago
Come to SPLASHY industry panel to learn about industry careers in soft matter, biological and polymer physics!! Happening today 3 - 4 pm in Meeting Room 210/212
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APS DSOFT
2 months ago
Starting soon, come find us in the Bellco Foyer!
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APS DSOFT
2 months ago
What's a soft matter physicist to do at the APS Global Physics Summit?🤔 We've got some ideas, so we've put together a list of DSOFT activities, starting with Squishy Science Sunday today at Denver Museum of Nature and Science!
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Physgal ⚛️
2 months ago
The Women+ in Physics Canada Conference Steering Committee is seeking proposals to host the 2027 conference. Aimed at physics graduate students and early career professionals, this conference provides an opportunity for participants to present their research, support each other and network. ⚛️🧪👩‍🔬🇨🇦
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Canadian Association of Physicists Women+ in Physics Canada Conference
https://cap.ca/congress-conference/women-in-physics-conference/
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APS DSOFT
3 months ago
Are you ready for the APS Global Physics Summit? For all you soft matter lovers, we’ve gathered a list of the DSOFT invited sessions below. For the full GPS schedule, see
summit.aps.org/schedule/
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APS DSOFT
3 months ago
Squishy Science Sunday is back at the Global Physics Summit! Join us for hands-on activities about physics, including the physics of slime, sand, and cotton candy! Find us at Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Use code APSSQUISHY26 for a discount on general admission tickets!
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Dr. SkySkull
3 months ago
A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image
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APS DSOFT
3 months ago
We are excited to present the finalists for this year's DSOFT Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award! Join us in celebrating the work of these exceptional soft matter physics students, who will present their work in a special DSOFT Awards Session at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit.
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Jeremy Berg
3 months ago
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
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Appropriate for this evening in Blacksburg.
4 months ago
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Lucia Stein-Montalvo
4 months ago
Thrilled to see our work, titled "Architectural swarms for responsive façades and creative expression", published in Science Robotics
@science.org
! Huge congrats to Merihan Alhafnawi, who led this project. Read more:
science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ady7233
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Architectural swarms for responsive façades and creative expression
Architectural swarms fuse swarm robotics and architectural façades to create spaces that adapt to people and the environment.
https://science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ady7233
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The French History Podcast
4 months ago
Map of NATO countries by number of those who died in Afghanistan answering America's call to aid following the 9/11 attacks. 90 French soldiers died out of 23,200 who fought in defense of the United States.
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Alice Auersperg
4 months ago
Our new paper (with
@biotay.bsky.social
) is out and on the cover story of
@currentbiology.bsky.social
!!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Great art on Bluesky
6 months ago
Iryna Kaluyzhna, Ukrainian beauty series Red Bird, 2019 This artwork is a part of the Art of Ukraine fundraiser. All proceeds will go towards supporting Ukrainian efforts 🇺🇦 Buy now
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Great to see Wathsala Jayawardana's last thesis work published. She was looking at how thin crumpled sheets absorb energy during low speed impact. Fun to think about why we like crumpled paper when we have to move!
doi.org/10.1002/adem...
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Impact and Energy Absorption with Sticky Crumpled Matter
This study shows experiments and simulations of the low-speed impact of a solid sphere into a sticky crumpled sheet. The manuscript details how the added energy absorption mechanism, due to the inter...
https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202500777
6 months ago
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Autumn
7 months ago
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KĹŤnane Bay, Ph.D.
7 months ago
APS Meeting abstracts for Denver deadline was extend to October 31! Consider submitting to the "Engineered Biopolymers and Living Materials" focus session organized by Melody Morris and me. We invite abstracts covering research using polymer physics for engineered biopolymers and living materials.
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APS Global Physics Summit 2026 abstract submission
Present your physics research to over 14,000 physicists from around the world.
https://summit.aps.org/attend/abstracts/?utm_campaign=GPS26&utm_medium=email&utm_source=abstracts-extension
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Carl T. Bergstrom
7 months ago
The dark truth behind
FormatMyPaper.com
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Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
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Gaia Vince
7 months ago
All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week
@royalsocietypublishing.org
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Philip Ball
7 months ago
Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.
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Physics Magazine
8 months ago
Adding polymers to a liquid speeds up its flow through a pipe by reducing the frictional drag at the pipe’s inner surface. Now researchers have found that the polymers also suppress eddy formation and thus reduce the loss of flow energy to heat.
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Polymers Tame Turbulent Flow
New experiments show that adding polymers to a fluid can reduce energy dissipation by suppressing small eddies.
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s130
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Ha ha, jokes on them! As a scientist, I don't own the rights to anything I publish!
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8 months ago
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Glen
8 months ago
Well don't I feel stupid
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cm 🇨🇦
8 months ago
RIP. He was a good man.
cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/edmonton...
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#Alberta
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Edmonton mountain bike community grieves tragic loss of Dr. Darren Markland - Canadian Cycling Magazine
Respected cycling and healthcare advocate died riding in Nordegg
https://cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/edmonton-mountain-bike-community-grieves-tragic-loss-of-dr-darren-markland/
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ
8 months ago
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to
#acetaminophen
in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of
#autism
, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich
9 months ago
Sand Patterns on the receding tide. County Clare, Ireland.
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Philip Ball
9 months ago
A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
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Origins of the Ising model
In 1925, Ernest Ising published a paper analyzing a model proposed in 1920 by Wilhelm Lenz for ferromagnetism. The model is composed of constituent units that take only two states and interact only wh...
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
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Joel S.
9 months ago
No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
9 months ago
The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n
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Action shot!
9 months ago
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John Bull
9 months ago
Okay. I've got admin bits to sort today. So to distract me while i wait on things to run at various points: For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data. (Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
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Alex Wilkins
9 months ago
These gorgeous origami shapes - an entirely new family called bloom patterns - could be used to design new, more effective space telescopes or solar panels.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding spacecraft
Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which could have applications in space
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493104-flower-like-origami-patterns-could-inspire-folding-spacecraft/
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Hard to beat the north shore.
9 months ago
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A nice day on the bluffs.
9 months ago
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KĹŤnane Bay, Ph.D.
10 months ago
This spring I challenged myself to write my first perspective article about ultrathin polymer film mechanics. I had a lot of fun writing it. I think there are some interesting questions that are still out there.
doi.org/10.1002/pol....
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Influence of Environmental Surroundings on the Mechanical Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Membranes
We review the impact of temperature, pressure, and liquid/gas environments on the mechanical properties of ultrathin polymer films. Understanding how they influence the mechanical properties will be ....
https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20250562
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Steuard Jensen
10 months ago
1/? Ever wanted to understand Einstein's theory of special relativity? I'm feeling remarkably proud of a web page/app I've written that introduces the idea using "spacetime diagrams" (and lets you play with them yourself).
steuard.github.io/spacetime/in...
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Nic Rawlence
10 months ago
Thanks
@newscientist.com
for shining a light on the smear campaign against
@toriherridge.bsky.social
,
@devoevomed.bsky.social
,
@flintdibble.bsky.social
& myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490643-critics-of-de-extinction-research-hit-by-mystery-smear-campaign/
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Rosemary Mosco
10 months ago
It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…
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DrawImpacts
10 months ago
We turn complex science into striking visuals, like this cover we illustrated for Dr.
@behnamnabet.bsky.social
et al. on FAK inhibitors and PROTACs. 🦋 👩‍🔬 Know someone doing great research? Tag them, we’d love to help share their story.
#JournalCovers
#DrawImpacts
#SciArt
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Once again, I am close but not close enough...
11 months ago
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ESMC2025 even has Green Day, why would you not come to Lyon?
11 months ago
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