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Check out the Focus by Physics Magazine on our latest work! How Order Emerges in Bendy Beam Bunches physics.aps.org/articles/v16/54

Squeezing on a tight collection of elastic beams leads to a transition from disorder to order—eventually most of them buckle in the same direction. Story by Dan Garisto. Ousmane Kodio Douglas Holmes Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston University physics.aps.org/articles/v16/54

Arman got curious about this problem by watching the way the gills on the underside of a mushroom clump together in waves.

A really nice perspective on our recent work studying granular matter on elastic sheets. Thanks James Gilchrist and Steve Cranford

Check out Arman’s work studying how sticky grains warp elastic sheets!

I'd like to include a lecture in my Structural Mechanics course on origami. These are 4th year MechE's. We will fold the miura and waterbomb base in class. Origami Twitter: What core ideas/concepts in origami should students at this level be introduced to?

#ImWithRivlin

James F. Gilchrist and Samuel R. Wilson-Whitford highlighted the work of Arman Guerra and Douglas P. Holmes about elastogranular sheets in #MatterIssue46! Douglas Holmes, @BostonUniversity Read more: bit.ly/3Vgj8Lp

I am definitely intrigued about Morpho!

It's not everyday your favorite science writer writes about your work... thanks for the great article, @philipcball !

Reading a novel, I feel personally attacked: “Would you by any chance be familiar with certain notions concerning bifurcations in dissipative structures?” “I most certainly would not. In fact if I had to be I hope I’d kill myself.” - Denis Johnson (Already Dead)

The opening of the the Devil’s Finger fungus looks analogous to some work we did with Liquids&Elasticity LAB @Princeton did a while back looking at bilayer bending from swelling vs capillary adhesion.

"My students commented on how the bridge looked almost like a toy as it collapsed," says BU Engineering's Douglas Holmes, who discussed the #FrancisScottKeyBridge disaster with his students. He delves into their class discussion in the Q&A below ⬇️. Doug Most spr.ly/6006Z5W6M

I'm very excited to announce that I will join Northwestern Civil & Environmental Engineering Northwestern as an Assistant Professor in January!