There is no good experiment without tape

Special thanks to many many colleagues for incredibly useful discussions that helped to shape and strengthen this work: Gareth McKinley, Paulo E. Arratia, Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit, @GrahamFluidDyn, and many others not on twitter! (14/14)

How does the famous filling in the famous boston creme donut stay solid to support the weight of the donut, but flow when you bite into it? #rheology American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Looking forward to the @APSMeetings #APSDFD meeting in a few days in Phoenix! Our group will be giving several presentations on fluids, polymers, gels, colloids, and bacteria. See you all soon!

What do you think these curly strings do for this succulent? @ Grand Canyon National Park instagram.com/p/CWg79CpPqZR/…

I was today years old when I learned you can fill up your car tires with a bike pump 🤯 takes a while but no harder than a bike wheel instagram.com/thescienceclow…

Thrilled to see this work out in PNASNews at pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…! If you like: complex fluid dynamics, 💧 polymer rheology, 🍝 chaotic mixing, 🌪️ porous media flows, 🧽 and/or chemical reaction kinetics, 🧪 please check out the paper and tweetorial below! ⬇️