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

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...

Autumn

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.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week @royalsocietypublishing.org

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.

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.

Ha ha, jokes on them! As a scientist, I don't own the rights to anything I publish!

Well don't I feel stupid

RIP. He was a good man. cyclingmagazine.ca/mtb/edmonton... @drdagly.bsky.social #Alberta #Edmonton

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.

Sand Patterns on the receding tide. County Clare, Ireland.

A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model. www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632

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.

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

Action shot!

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)

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...

Hard to beat the north shore.

A nice day on the bluffs.

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....

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... 🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics

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...

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…

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

Once again, I am close but not close enough...

ESMC2025 even has Green Day, why would you not come to Lyon?

I will be moderating a a discussion with several experts this afternoon on ticks. We will be talking about the rise of these pests and the dangers they pose. It's free and online. Love to see you there! hsph.harvard.edu/events/ticks...

This is fun. Do there exist tetrahedral objects that will only rest stably on one of its four faces, tumbling spontaneously under gravity until it rests on this one? These authors say they have found such an object. www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.19244

🧪🔭 It's conference season, so if you're giving a talk this summer: please check out the "Colour Blindness Simulator" – an accessibility tool where you can upload slides & ensure they will be visually legible to people with different types of colour blindness. It's a quick act but it really helps! ⬇️

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Our first flight yesterday was inside the tornadogenesis and growth phase of a soon-to-be wedge tornado near Spiritwood and Jamestown, ND. Data and more video will be shared as we process material.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Some good storms rolled through last night! Hopefully the hail didn't murder my garden.

I got a new toy for the lab, and it is fuuuuun!

Today is 200 years since Faraday's discovery of benzene! I made these hexies for a maths community quilt (with the maths being in the bond lengths of single and double bonds and the aromatic structure). I don't believe ever got made, so it's nice to have an opportunity to post a picture of them! 🐡

Not a bad day for an ONR review.

Now you don’t see it, now you do! [Video description: erlenmeyer flask full of clear orbeez, though some appear yellowish. When filled with water, orbeez become invisible and a yellow emoji popper toy appears] #iTeachPhysics

SFU invites applications from world renowned researchers for the prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition. The CERC program stands at the centre of a national strategy to foster research excellence in Canada. Applications accepted until June 30. #AcademicSky 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 👩‍🔬 🇨🇦

On stage @frestagn.bsky.social pour le congrès CURIE 2025 !

COVID vaccine 'strongly recommended' during pregnancy, Canadian doctors say (Canada)

📢 The Adaptive Structures Lab is hiring a postdoc! Learn more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/lsmont...

Researchers have shown that the point at which ketchup, toothpaste, and other complex fluids undergo a solid-to-liquid transition can be predicted from the properties of the substance while it is still a solid. The insight could guide the control of this industrially important class of fluids.

When you make working conditions at a university worse the better faculty leave. Shocked face. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Another application for crumpled matter!

This is really bad for everyone.

Soft Matter's 20th anniversary was recently celebrated at the 'Advances in supramolecular gels' Faraday Discussion in Glasgow! Activities included a drinks reception & cake-cutting by former EiC Professor Darrin Pochan Many congratulations to Geoffrey Groslambert and the other poster award winners!

Another two fine Ph.D's on the market!

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.