Liquid cooling!! This is such a great complex fluids problem to work on.

Interactive Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine 2025 Semifinalists tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFEng...

DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people. We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16 Pls help push back! Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert... More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects. We the People.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Straining the bounds of propriety is when I gave a talk at an Ivy League med school wearing jeans and a polo. This is extraordinary corruption.

Among the stream of shit over the last four months, the understones of this post from NSF brought me to near tears. This is so profoundly fucking sad.

In 2023 and 2024, I was on the steering committee of the ASEE NSF CAREER workshop. Unfortunately, this program is not offered this year. Therefore, four recent NSF CAREER Winners and I have decided to put together an informal Q&A to support future CAREER winners! Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv

Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Timeline cleanse: Bruges and Interfacial Science (Bubble Nucleation)

Timeline cleanse: Leuven

I've listened/read a lot by Mike Roth and really like his approach. Offering good thoughts here in this interview.

The downright lovely thing about trains and urbanism is that if my flight is delayed I'm stuck sleeping on the floor of IAH for the night, but when a train gets messed up I get rebooked for 2 hrs later, with partial refund, and get to hangout in the city while waiting.

Fuck this

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Don't sit in silence while history repeats itself. On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science. Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🧪

Final note from Bob Brown's "Will the American research university make it to its 100th birthday?" www.elsevier.com/connect/will...

In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...

This is actually true and I learned about it from my dad, who retired from a good career as a civil servant. I'm 100% behind fixing all these weird inefficiencies. Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem.

New diss track just dropped: Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Amongst all the doom and gloom, check out this clever application of Marangoni Flow! youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y

Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

Wow

WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK

The NSF is the US engine of basic science discovery and technology innovation. This decision is a gift to our overseas competitors.

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

The White House website has been wiped clean, but thanks to @erichorvitz.bsky.social , all the Biden #PCAST reports are available below. I want to thank the #PCAST members, all of whom donated their time and expertise to helping policy be science-based. tinyurl.com/2acnv2nh

Congrats to Hairou Yu for recently having a paper accepted in #JCIS! The manuscript concerns surface interactions of microcapsules made of #green materials. This work was funded by multiple grants from the #NSF. Check out the paper below. Congrats Hairou! Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Secret Santa and Holiday Lunch with the group today! Wishing everyone a happy and restful holiday season from our group. We're looking forward to a happy and productive '25! #ColloidsRCool #EverythingFlows

I'd like to express deep #gratitude and #thanks for the wonderful people in our group. I've been away from campus this past year both because of challenges personally and now a (wonderful) sabbatical. Our group has kept pushing forward, doing great work and learning new things! #ColloidsRCool

“two-thirds would not recommend Texas universities to their out-of-state colleagues. More than a quarter plan to interview for jobs elsewhere this year. Half said they have noticed fewer, and less qualified, applicants for open positions.” www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...

This is so incredibly sad: signalakron.org/its-like-cut...

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

I created a starter pack for chemical and biomolecular engineers! Let me know if you want to be added to the list #chemE go.bsky.app/DLGAANj

Hi! Migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky for obvious reasons. Looking forward to learning more about this platform. Testing out posting media with some cool data/result from a recent paper. Check it out! #ColloidsRCool