@uh.edu magazine featured our research in its Fall 2025 issue! stories.uh.edu/magazine/mag...

It is sad to have read that Frank Gehry died today. At some point, I learnt that we both went to Bloor Collegiate Institute, which was a high school in the west end of Toronto. The school building itself has since been demolished as well... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Nikolaos @CornellMAE is giving us @UHEngineering a great talk on sciML!

It was great to host @LaurenDreier from Princeton @UH_Engineering last weekend where we began experimenting with 3D weaving techniques. She gave a great seminar in the department, and gave us a tour of her art pieces at the APS's DFD Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion @nl_longnecker.

We present a unified, multi-scale framework connecting yarn mechanics, stitch geometry, and fabric-level behavior in a new paper published in Extreme Mechanics Letters www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Another great collaboration with Cosima du Pasquier, Allison Okamura and Skylar Tibbits.

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)

This is exciting. Thank you for inviting me!

Concluding our mini-symposium with Julia Greer giving a talk to a full house at ses2025!

On Monday, I am co-hosting three sessions. Come listen to the exciting talks on the advances on mechanical metamaterials!

I am here with my students (Yue Wang and Ilyes Krida) at SES2025 hosted by @gatechengineers.bsky.social in Atlanta, GA! I am co-hosting 6.1: Advances on the Mechanics of Architected Materials, come attend our talks!

This is cool!

📢 I am so excited to share that I joined @cornelluniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this August, and our Scalable MetaStructures Laboratory (SCALE Lab) is starting up! Can’t wait to share more as we grow our team and lab—we are hiring!

Lovely to be attending a workshop on the “mathematics and physics of entangled metamaterials” in at Tohoku forum for creativity in Sendai, Japan. Thanks to Sam Poincloux for the invitation!

Our new ACM SIGGRAPH paper has received the Best Paper honorable mention, placing it among the top 5% of papers in an already very selective program. C-Tubes: Design and Optimization of Tubular Structures Composed of Developable Strips More info on the project: go.epfl.ch/c-tubes

Inverse Geometric Locomotion allows discovering optimal articulations for robots in dissipative media. The 4-triangle robot "learns" how to flap its wings to move forward or to rotate. The snake-like robot automatically adapts its articulation when a joint is broken. More info: go.epfl.ch/igl

Congratulations, great news !!

I love the whistling at the end

HOUSTON IS GOING TO ITS FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SINCE 1984! #FinalFour #ForTheCity

Looking forward to the 2025 SES Meeting in Atlanta, Oct. 12-15, 2025! Please contribute to our symp. "6.1 Mechanics of Architected Materials" before 5/15 - we'll discuss key opportunities+advancements in architected material research. Exp.+Comp.+Theory welcome! @carlosmportela.bsky.social

Please share widely: The Symposium on Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) will be hosted at MIT in Boston this year from Nov. 16-19! More information: www.aag2025.com The conference will be back-to-back with the Symposium on Computational Fabrication (scf.acm.org/2025/)

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

Here you can see all of the positions your PI takes to fund the group

#ChemTogether. Forever. #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

Same!!

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6): "The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE: 1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed. ...

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

I miss snow. But this feels allegorical.

We developed a experimental & numerical framework for programmable CNC knitted fabrics. By tuning stitch length, pattern, and yarn, we can precisely engineer mechanical behavior - leading to the first industrially knit sleeve optimized for fit & function. arxiv.org/abs/2501.07567

Amen.

Jimmy Carter left office in 1981 as one of the most unpopular presidents in modern times, seemingly doomed to be remembered as a failed commander in chief. His presidency is now treated more kindly by many historians, in part because of what he did after leaving office.

We showcase a wearable sleeve that can deliver diverse haptic cues including social touch gestures. Thanks to Cosima, Lavender, Ian, Liana, Skylar Tibbits and Allison Okamura for including me on this! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How about an academic post? Excited to share my solo-authored work published today in Science Robotics (@science.org). I detailed the importance of intentionality in creating diverse and equitable spaces within robotics, drawing from my own experiences. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tim Wick, a meme from my undergrad class.

Mom: What’s it like being a professor? Me: It’s like a merry-go-round Mom: Sounds nice Me: I’m not finished

And where reputable journalists and thinkers go, so do elected officials. I’ve been getting asked lately about a more serious + systemic migration to Bluesky among electeds. Idk the answer but it highlights how much of a breaking point misinfo & throttling has become for Twitter(& other platforms)

Having a coffee at Mercantile. It’s been a nice Thanksgiving.

Advertising Lewis 360: celebrating Jennifer Lewis’s 60th birthday in the afternoon of the 100+1 New England Complex Fluids meeting at Harvard on Friday, December 6th — soft matter and printing enthusiasts encouraged to attend! Register (free) at complexfluids.org/necf/index.php. (1/3)

Two seconds of viral fame thanks to stevemould.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrOj... Can't believe this video amassed 8.2million views in a year.

Please share: Our lab is looking for new PhD students starting 2025! If you are interested in research in geometry, computational design and digital fabrication, join us at EPFL! More info on the lab: epfl.ch/labs/gcm/ More info on how to apply: www.epfl.ch/education/ph...

This is great!

Having a goblet at rice village.

I'll be using this channel mostly to announce news from the EPFL Geometric Computing Laboratory (www.epfl.ch/labs/gcm/). Here is a teaser of some of our recent art and design projects.

I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing. Self-identify and I will add you... See you at APS-DFD! go.bsky.app/8Njfprh

Mechanics starter packs anyone?

Listening to the Koiter medalist Jerry Qi from Georgia tech!

Dept of Mech and Aero Eng at @uhouston.bsky.social, is hiring three faculty members, two in aerospace shorturl.at/XNO6X, and one in Energy Innovations shorturl.at/modyE. Please apply!!

Fresh off the press! We exploit warping in fused filament fabrication to fabricate planar surfaces that deploy to bistable domes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...