Not only I learned a lot about the physics of ice friction teaching in UT's minor Sports Science & Technology, I also learned how much do the Dutch love this topic, specially these days. I talked with Kees Wesselink-Schram about this, and he wrote this nice piece!
www.utwente.nl/en/stories/s...
That’s why I love this meeting: now @mariannebauer.bsky.social is now teaching us how to play scrabble… literally🤓 #softmatterNL #physics
@uddaloksen.bsky.social is the opening speaker of the 38th Dutch Soft Matter meeting Winter edition at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #softmatter #physics
"His words are more relevant than ever" @LFLmagazine talking about Frank Zappa @frankzappa.bsky.social, I couldn't agree more. I often think about him when I see how things are turning out lately... 🫣
Watch the never-boring Pepijn Hoekstra explaining our work on #clogging from our labs! @utwente.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/ZYHiE...
The winners (and almost winners) of the 2025 Burgers Gallery
[i.e., the dutch Gallery of Fluid Motion] are already out! I like to see this competition as the "Golden Globe Awards" are for the Oscars 😂 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The dutch ministry of education wants to make the NL a safe harbour for fleeing american scientists, which would be great news, if at the same time the very same ministry wasn't planning a dramatic cut in funds for dutch science... what some call the #eppocalypse
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Great opinion piece about *the plastic in our brains* from @megha.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social: "this stuff will never go away, and it's slowly building up inside us" ... a scary scientific discovery and an even scarier lack of social response
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
The passing of Andreas Acrivos is a big loss for our @apsphysics.bsky.social #apsdfd community, where we have had a prize with his name for almost 3 decades now. If you are curious about him, here's a nice conversation he recorded talking about his life and career
youtu.be/I_9_3HF_ud4?...
For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.
Jurriaan Huskens perfectly captures what many of us are feeling, thinking and wondering after this awful process we are suffering at the University of Twente. Bravo Jurrian.
www.utoday.nl/opinion/7520...
What a great plenary lecture from @elisabethbik.bsky.social ! #NWOphysics a lot to learn for any scientist, and most importantly, a lot to teach to our students about how to detect and how to avoid scientific fraud. Great job! 👏👏👏🔬🔬🔬
Our Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is now accessible for free! find out how to make a jellyfish smoothy 🪼, or how to cross a river without a bridge 🪵... thanks @annualreviews.bsky.social for make this volume open!
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Cool to see that the most recent entry of #Veritasium is on the strandbeesten of Theo Jansen! always inspiring to hear his story and his work. Here a pic of our own #strandbeest at @poftwente.bsky.social that we keep as a pet 🌊🦖
follow the work here: doi.org/10.1017/jfm....
The duck force is strong in you @nicolesharp.com 😝
I have to confess to @apsphysics.bsky.social and specially to the #PhysicalReviewFluids crew that after the #APSDFD2024 I had a very bad bathing experience with their ducks... none of the PRF ducks can swim! only the PRX Life does! WTF! ... Get your ducks together guys...
So glad to hear that my favourite co-org Liesbeth Janssen has won the Athena Award in NL this year! Restless scientist and wonderful person… congrats to her dog
*Bree* as well! 😍 (pic by Vincent van den Hoogen)
www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...
More of Devaraj vd Meer #APSDFD2024
Thanks #APSDFD for 3 days of drops, bubbles, impacts, slips, slides, squeezes, shakes, bounces and ducks! 🦆
(note the #PRFluids chief editor in the first seconds 👋)
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I wonder what was I saying then 😅
Really tiny duckies this year at the #APSDFD, but cute nevertheless 😏
And here you can see half of my 1-min flash presentation, see the other half tomorrow at the #APS-DFD interact session C6: #Drops & #Bubbles ... as you can see, alcohol messes everything up, but it also makes it more interesting 🤔
It has been a pleasure to work this year with the great Mathieu Souzy on this Annual Review on Clogging of noncohesive suspensions!, you can already check out an advanced preprint here (research.utwente.nl/en/publicati.... below you can find a teaser ;)
Specially nice to see a few #APSDFD 2024 attendees, see you guys in Salt Lake City!
It really feels good over here, Hello BlueSky World!
