Nice highlight of our recent collaborative paper with the Cheng lab 😀

We have an open PhD position at @pcc-wur.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social on Printing of Complex Fluids. Please follow the link below for further details and application procedure: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Curious about wobbly drops? Check out Shankhadeep's work, "Breaking free: Nontrivial dynamics and complex depinning of ferrofluid droplets", MAR-S64, Thursday 10:36 (Bluebird 2H)

Always wondered about what happens when you squeeze a driven suspension into a tiny channel? Check out Akalanka's great talk, "Patterns in tight spaces: The role of confinement in driven matter", MAR-M70, Wednesday 2:24 (Bluebird 3F)

Are you a early career scientist looking to increase the crosslinking in your polymer? Join the SPLASHY Early Career Meet and Greet at 3 p.m. to network with other SPLASHY students, postdocs, and leadership - there’ll be snacks!👀 summit.aps.org/events/EVT-S04

Holey Sheet - you still haven't made your schedule! Not to worry, come learn about mesostructure in micro gels! Check our Carly Galvin's amazing talk, "Shooting the sheet: high-speed photography of complex fluid sheets reveals material mesostructure", MAR-C64, Monday 4:42 (Bluebird 2H)

Are you a jamming fan? Love shear-thickening fluids, but have questions about how they relax? Check out Charlie Burton's great talk "Jammin' out and Relaxin': Impact and Relaxation Dynamics in Shear-thickening Fluids", MAR-C64, Monday 3:30 (Bluebird 2H)

Making your schedule? Want to learn about evaporation-induced failure in soft gels? Check out Haley Shamah's awesome talk: "All Cracked Up: How Solvents Stress Out Hydrogels", MAR-C70 Monday 4:42 (Bluebird 3F)

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!

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.

Excited to see this published! We show that multiple distinct liquid phases can be engineered within a single sample—and that, when densely packed, they behave collectively as a jammed multicomponent material that undergoes a coalescence-driven unjamming phase transition.

Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in soft matter and statistical physics, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal. aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...

Are you an undergraduate student curious about the intersection of mathematics and biology? Receive mentorship from faculty experts and engage in innovative multidisciplinary research at NITMB’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program! Applications are due Monday, January 26th - www.nitmb.org/surp

I am looking to hire a postdoc to work with me on fluid-structure interactions in complex and active fluids. Ideally the candidate will have a strong background in numerical/asymptotic analysis and fluid mechanics (complex fluids / LCs even better). www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

Dive into complex materials with DSOFT! Learn how to use graphs and networks to describe complex materials, while gaining hands-on experience with new software tools. To register, select the tutorial when signing up for the @apsphysics.bsky.social Summit Meeting! 📅 Sunday, March the 15th, 2026

Best headline ever! Check out this cool new work out of the groups of my grad school classmate Scott and good friend Carl.

Applications for the Northwestern Sustainability and Energy Fellowships are now open through January 2026. Learn more at trienens-institute.northwestern.edu/research/ene... #ClimateTech #Sustainability #PostDocOpportunity

I am … grateful? … that Harvard’s Graduate School Fund reached out to me with a fundraising solicitation yesterday, because it helped me to organize my thoughts on an event near the end of my PhD (2005). Here is my response, just emailed to the fundraisers: (1/9)

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2511.00234 In collaboration with Ryker Fish & Brennan Sprinkle, Akalanka found patterning that emerges in strongly confined microroller suspensions. Surprisingly, the mechanism for the pattern formation is the recirculating flow created by (very) far away boundaries.

PSA: Ghostscript is magic and you should be using it! Using ps2pdf makes your file much smaller (say to fit grant rules), seemingly with no loss of quality. (I do not know how the magic works, but have been told it removes unnecessary Adobe overhead.) web.mit.edu/ghostscript/...

Curious about the latest advancements in soft matter physics by young researchers? Join our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a wide range of topics. Register via the QR code or via tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...

We are happy to announce the DSOFT Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6, 2025 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET! We have a great lineup of 20 speakers covering a diverse range of topics in soft matter physics. Register via the link or QR code to participate! tinyurl.com/DSOFTConfere...

The Society of Rheology meeting in Santa Fe has been amazing. Awesome talks and excellent sunsets!

There's still time to submit an abstract for the 2026 #APSGlobalPhysicsSummit @apsphysics.bsky.social. By Thurs, 10/23: summit.aps.org Trevor Jones and I invite submissions to the @apsdsoft.bsky.social focus session on Crafted Matter. Excited for invited talks from Lining Yao & @ttc.bsky.social !

📢📢Rally for Dr. Tom Alter and #FreeSpeech TODAY 11am! Details below! 👇

Still a few more days left to apply for this PhD position at @pcc-wur.bsky.social

Join our panel discussion "Applying for PhD positions in soft matter physics" on October 9th at 12 pm ET! Learn about how to find a program/advisor, get good recommendation letters, and craft a compelling application for graduate school. apsphysics.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

DSOFT invites students and recent graduates to participate in our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th (10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET). The conference aims to discuss the latest advancements in soft matter physics by students. If you wish to present your work, please find details in the post below!

Amazing!

As part of his magnificent M.Sc thesis at @pcc-wur.bsky.social , Christoph shows how to harness viscoelasticity to control spontaneous self-emulsification of multicomponent droplets. More in the open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just like Northwestern

Great opportunity to work on cool science in Germany!

"The freedom to speak becomes meaningless when disconnected from the possibility of being heard." A powerful statement from @alondra.bsky.social on her decision to resign from the National Science Board & the LoC Scholars Council -- read the whole thing time.com/7285045/resi...

Last few spots for this exciting summer school are still open!

New op-ed in @nature.com: The Trump administration's assault on freedoms and the rule of law is an existential threat to US science. We urge scientists to speak out in defense of freedoms, not just funding. With Andrea Liu @upenn.edu and Sidney Nagel of UChicago! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best quote ever from my favorite physicist (and my PhD advisor): “What kind of physicist are you? Weird.”

Gearing up for our upcoming exhibition in the European Cultural Centre’s architecture biennale, Time Space Existence 2025! Kirigami d’Aria explores how structures based on kirigami (“cut paper”) can be used in architectural settings, adaptively tailoring airflow and shading in public spaces.

APSMarch attendees: eat to bed early so you can get to the 8am session on Friday: Bioinspired phase separation, wi the Lorenzo Di Michele and many other great speakers. 8am sharp in the Hilton 4th floor Palos Verdes room summit.aps.org/events/MAR-W64

Check out Shih-Yuan's talk tomorrow afternoon about the strange elastic properties of liquid marbles AKA why it is fun to squish liquid marbles. MAR-S61@14:06pm in Anaheim Hilton, Pacific D

Start you morning off right - come see Shih-Yuan's awesome invited talk! "From Wobble-and-Slide to Rock-and-Roll... and Jump!" MAR-L03, 9:12 in the *Convention Center* Room 203A

APS March meeting coming up: the fun starts Sun 3/16 with Squishy Science Sunday!

Today is the day!! Absolutely in awe about what a bunch of grad students were able to pull off when they looked around and realized no one else was standing up.

I know where I will be tomorrow afternoon - Chicago science friends, I hope to see you all there!!!

I am WAY behind on celebrating this win - I blame it equally on double teaching and the world falling apart. Driscoll lab member Haley Shamah won the top prize for Best Poster at CU*iP recently! I am so proud!!

Re-posts appreciated! We have an open PhD position w/ Prof Harold Auradou on #microswimmers/#protists in complex media! Students get to spend at least 12 months in Paris, and will receive their PhD from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay! Apply by 31st Mar. More details: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

Are you enthusiastic about interdisciplinary research at the interface of physics and biology, and using state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical tools to unravel the biophysical mechanisms of immune cell functioning? Then we might have an open PhD position for you! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

I am so grateful to the leadership of early career folks on this - I call on all of us to stand with them.

Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs! Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/ RSVP (optional) www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social