Abby Plummer
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Abby Plummer
@abigailplummer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at BU MechE studying soft mechanics.

sites.bu.edu/plummer/
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Excited to be at ICTS for the school on Geometry, Mechanics and the Physics of Growth, co-organized with Ganga Prasath (IITM) and @joelmarthelot.bsky.social (Aix-Marseille)! Fantastic start with a lecture on continuum elasticity by @abigailplummer.bsky.social (BU)
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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🚀The Scalable MetaStructures Laboratory at Cornell University is hiring!

📅Preferred start: Spring or Fall 2026
📌Deadline for official Cornell application: November 1, 2025

📎Application details at Fani Derveni’s LinkedIn: link post in the comments
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Just back from the 2025 Soft Matter GRC = soft matter summer camp. Talks, discussions & power hour were 🔥! Huge congrats and thanks to Jenny Ross & Meredith Betterton for co-chairing and making it a big success. In 2 yrs I’ll co-chair w/ Eric Dufresne — can't wait!
Photo: with GRC and GRS chairs
August 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking forward to this!
Join us this Fall at ICTS for an advanced course on Geometry, Mechanics & the Physics of Growth: www.icts.res.in/program/Geom... Co-organized with S. Ganga Prasath & @surajshankar.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Gearing up for our upcoming exhibition in the European Cultural Centre’s architecture biennale, Time Space Existence 2025!

Kirigami d’Aria explores how structures based on kirigami (“cut paper”) can be used in architectural settings, adaptively tailoring airflow and shading in public spaces.
March 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM