Great to see Wathsala Jayawardana's last thesis work published. She was looking at how thin crumpled sheets absorb energy during low speed impact. Fun to think about why we like crumpled paper when we have to move!
doi.org/10.1002/adem...
doi.org/10.1002/adem...
Impact and Energy Absorption with Sticky Crumpled Matter
This study shows experiments and simulations of the low-speed impact of a solid sphere into a sticky crumpled sheet. The manuscript details how the added energy absorption mechanism, due to the inter...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Great to see Wathsala Jayawardana's last thesis work published. She was looking at how thin crumpled sheets absorb energy during low speed impact. Fun to think about why we like crumpled paper when we have to move!
doi.org/10.1002/adem...
doi.org/10.1002/adem...
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APS Meeting abstracts for Denver deadline was extend to October 31! Consider submitting to the "Engineered Biopolymers and Living Materials" focus session organized by Melody Morris and me. We invite abstracts covering research using polymer physics for engineered biopolymers and living materials.
APS Global Physics Summit 2026 abstract submission
Present your physics research to over 14,000 physicists from around the world.
summit.aps.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
APS Meeting abstracts for Denver deadline was extend to October 31! Consider submitting to the "Engineered Biopolymers and Living Materials" focus session organized by Melody Morris and me. We invite abstracts covering research using polymer physics for engineered biopolymers and living materials.
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The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
https://ubadah.substack.com/p/beware-giving-this-site-your-unpublished\
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
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All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week @royalsocietypublishing.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
All Royal Society journal content is freely available this week for open access week @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Just popped into the Royal Institution for a coffee, to discover they have a lovely display on benzene to mark the bicentenary of Faraday's discovery of it. Here are his notes, his paper, and one of his first samples. Glorious.
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Adding polymers to a liquid speeds up its flow through a pipe by reducing the frictional drag at the pipe’s inner surface. Now researchers have found that the polymers also suppress eddy formation and thus reduce the loss of flow energy to heat.
Polymers Tame Turbulent Flow
New experiments show that adding polymers to a fluid can reduce energy dissipation by suppressing small eddies.
physics.aps.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Adding polymers to a liquid speeds up its flow through a pipe by reducing the frictional drag at the pipe’s inner surface. Now researchers have found that the polymers also suppress eddy formation and thus reduce the loss of flow energy to heat.
Ha ha, jokes on them! As a scientist, I don't own the rights to anything I publish!
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Ha ha, jokes on them! As a scientist, I don't own the rights to anything I publish!
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Well don't I feel stupid
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well don't I feel stupid
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to #acetaminophen in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to #acetaminophen in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to #acetaminophen in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
A 2024 study published in JAMA involving 2.4 million children in Sweden, used sibling-control analysis. When comparing siblings—one exposed to #acetaminophen in utero & one not—the researchers found NO increased risk of #autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability.
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Sand Patterns on the receding tide.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sand Patterns on the receding tide.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
Origins of the Ising model
In 1925, Ernest Ising published a paper analyzing a model proposed in 1920 by Wilhelm Lenz for ferromagnetism. The model is composed of constituent units that take only two states and interact only wh...
www.arxiv.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A nice historical look at the origins of the Ising model.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.00632
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No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.
September 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.
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The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n
September 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n
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Okay. I've got admin bits to sort today. So to distract me while i wait on things to run at various points:
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
August 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Okay. I've got admin bits to sort today. So to distract me while i wait on things to run at various points:
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
For every few likes this get, a fact about university websites and how gen z and below interact with information, as proven by testing/data.
(Most of which unis aren't handling well yet)
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These gorgeous origami shapes - an entirely new family called bloom patterns - could be used to design new, more effective space telescopes or solar panels.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Flower-like origami patterns could inspire folding spacecraft
Engineers have developed a class of origami structures that unfold in one smooth motion to create flower-like shapes, which could have applications in space
www.newscientist.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
These gorgeous origami shapes - an entirely new family called bloom patterns - could be used to design new, more effective space telescopes or solar panels.
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
Hard to beat the north shore.
August 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hard to beat the north shore.
A nice day on the bluffs.
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
A nice day on the bluffs.
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This spring I challenged myself to write my first perspective article about ultrathin polymer film mechanics. I had a lot of fun writing it. I think there are some interesting questions that are still out there. doi.org/10.1002/pol....
Influence of Environmental Surroundings on the Mechanical Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Membranes
We review the impact of temperature, pressure, and liquid/gas environments on the mechanical properties of ultrathin polymer films. Understanding how they influence the mechanical properties will be ....
doi.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This spring I challenged myself to write my first perspective article about ultrathin polymer film mechanics. I had a lot of fun writing it. I think there are some interesting questions that are still out there. doi.org/10.1002/pol....
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1/? Ever wanted to understand Einstein's theory of special relativity? I'm feeling remarkably proud of a web page/app I've written that introduces the idea using "spacetime diagrams" (and lets you play with them yourself).
steuard.github.io/spacetime/in...
🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics
steuard.github.io/spacetime/in...
🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics
August 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
1/? Ever wanted to understand Einstein's theory of special relativity? I'm feeling remarkably proud of a web page/app I've written that introduces the idea using "spacetime diagrams" (and lets you play with them yourself).
steuard.github.io/spacetime/in...
🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics
steuard.github.io/spacetime/in...
🎢🧪 #ITeachPhysics
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Thanks @newscientist.com for shining a light on the smear campaign against @toriherridge.bsky.social, @devoevomed.bsky.social, @flintdibble.bsky.social & myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks @newscientist.com for shining a light on the smear campaign against @toriherridge.bsky.social, @devoevomed.bsky.social, @flintdibble.bsky.social & myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
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It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…
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We turn complex science into striking visuals, like this cover we illustrated for Dr. @behnamnabet.bsky.social et al. on FAK inhibitors and PROTACs. 🦋
👩🔬 Know someone doing great research? Tag them, we’d love to help share their story. #JournalCovers #DrawImpacts #SciArt
👩🔬 Know someone doing great research? Tag them, we’d love to help share their story. #JournalCovers #DrawImpacts #SciArt
July 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
We turn complex science into striking visuals, like this cover we illustrated for Dr. @behnamnabet.bsky.social et al. on FAK inhibitors and PROTACs. 🦋
👩🔬 Know someone doing great research? Tag them, we’d love to help share their story. #JournalCovers #DrawImpacts #SciArt
👩🔬 Know someone doing great research? Tag them, we’d love to help share their story. #JournalCovers #DrawImpacts #SciArt