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

PhD in Printing of Complex Fluids Do you have a passion for understanding complex, multicomponent fluid flows at the microscale and at very high speeds? Are you driven by the challenge of pushing technology innovation to the next leve...

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:

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"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.

This is great wisdom! My science has definitely benefited from random walking between topics and sub fields.

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.

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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).

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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!
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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...

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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!