First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe.

newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/04/d...

The interactive 360-degree video is truly breathtaking!

🔬 Researchers from @gulliver-lab.bsky.social and SIMM Lab at ESPCI and @cnrs.fr, in collaboration with @univbordeaux.bsky.social, recently published a study titled Swelling and Evaporation Sculpt the Surface of Grafted Hydrogel Films. Their work was featured on the cover of Langmuir last month.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Signature tally is now north of 750. Please keep going so the community can send the strongest possible message to the Royal Society.

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

How about a great international movement to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Mariann Budde? Her courage is exemplary.

(2/2) At this point the experimentalist Fairbank exploded: “Why are you theorists arguing about limits and integrals when the answer is known from experiment?”

Conyers Herring, A biographical Memoir by P.Anderson, T. Geballe, and W. Harrison (2010).

(1/2) In an informal meeting, Conyers .. argued that the Schiff-Barnhill calculation had missed this effect due to an incorrect interchanging of a limit and an integral.

Mathilde Reyssat soutient en ce moment son habilitation à diriger des recherches. Très bel exposé, où recherche et enseignement se côtoient harmonieusement. Bravo Mathilde !

Today Zorana ZERAVCIC receives the CNRS bronze medal! Congratulations to her!

Edith Heard, CNRS 2024 Gold Medalist!

On October 10, 2024, we will organize a scientific day in honor of Maurice Kleman (1934-2021).
There is no registration fee, but registration is required by September 10, 2024.
klemanconference.sciencesconf.org
Organizing Committee: C. Blanc, E. Lacaze, C. Quilliet, E. Raphaël and F. Sorrentino.

A wonderful Christmas gift! The amazing book on Soft Matter by Wim van Saarloos, Vincenzo Vitelli and Zorana Zeravcic has just been published (Princeton University Press). It is accompanied by a very useful website: softmatterbook.online

Today Thomas Salez was awarded the Prix Espoir Fondation Michelin - Académie des Sciences 2023! Congratulations Tom! www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Laureats/...

2nd day of #GFP2023Bordeaux colloquium dedicated to Interfacial Soft Matter GDR opens with invited lecture by Pr @lemondedavant.bsky.social from ESPCI Paris starting by honoring memory of much missed Pr Hélène Montès 🙏before delivering great lecture on surface mobility of thin glassy polymer films!