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The incomparable Shravan Pradeep on flow and failure of soft earth suspensions agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meet…

Showcase your #softmatter #science at APS Global Physics Summit 2025! 🤩Indicate your intent to submit a Gallery of Soft Matter poster or video here before Jan 10, 2025: forms.gle/jFUeD1Qgzwu9iS… (Final submissions due in Feb!)

Science Term of the Day: Soft Matter Soft matter refers to materials like liquids, gels, and foams that don’t have a fixed shape. In space, scientists study soft matter to understand how these materials behave in microgravity, leading to innovations in medicine and technology.

Mars’s ancient atmosphere might be locked in clay trib.al/EFUGQR2

Review article: "Self-Organized Pattern Formation in Geological Soft Matter" (by many authors): arxiv.org/abs/2412.18999 Note: There are also lots of great pictures in this article.

In the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolog…), TRL-1 “identify something new in basic science” precedes TRL-2 “formulate a way to use it in technology”. To make tech progress, we need to be solving basic science that has no technology application yet.

Douglas Jerolmack of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Penn and Penn Arts & Sciences is using Earth-based fracture models to analyze patterns on Mars and Europa, offering new insights into planetary habitability. bit.ly/3Dke5F8

Finally published Science Magazine: Can AI help yield new insights from vast amounts of Earth data? We use large-scale data and neural nets to find the constitutive laws of glacial ice, which differ from commonly assumed forms in conventional models. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/0… NASA Earth data + AI enable us to infer the constitutive models critical for ice dynamics. AI is useful, but no data = no discovery. Below is an example of the training data: a velocity map showing the dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Source: #NASA

Ecstatic to co-chair with James Gilchrist & Shravan Pradeep, the session on "Colloidal Suspensions and Granular Materials" at the 96th SoR Meeting. The abstract submission deadline is May 16, 2025. rheology.org/sorabst/ See you in Mexico! RTs appreciated The Society of Rheology

“Your purpose as a scientist is to make discoveries and gift them to humanity. And those discoveries and that knowledge stays with humanity long after you are gone.” - Carolyn Bertozzi on the scientist's purpose in our podcast episode Listen here: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

Congratulations to our 2025 class of SoR Fellows! Fellows will be inducted in our October Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM #SoR02025. Paulo Arratia Paulo E. Arratia, Randy Ewoldt Randy Ewoldt, Anke Lindner, Joao Maia, Matteo Pasquali, Fernando Pinho, and Patrick Spicer

Just four days before the #abstract deadline for #SoR2025 Annual Meeting of the Society of #Rheology in Santa Fe, NM! Students, make sure you apply for the Rheology Research Symposium for mentoring, networking, and free travel to the meeting.

SoR is excited to announce that Safa Jamali is the Society of Rheology 2025 Metzner awardee for contributions to the understanding of #suspensions, attractive #colloids, and #machine_learning techniques in rheology. We will celebrate Safa at our annual meeting this October!

Yielding and plasticity in amorphous solids nature.com/articles/s4225…

If you agree that everything flows (πάντα ῥεῖ), then consider joining us at the 96th Annual Meeting of the The Society of Rheology, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from October 19-23, 2025. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to May 30, 2025! #SOR2025 rheology.org/sorabst/

The abstract deadline for the Society of Rheology Annual Meeting is extended to May 30th to accommodate requests from speakers who are navigating uncertainties. We received a healthy number of abstracts so far and look forward to a robust meeting in Santa Fe.

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

New publication in Smart Agricultural Technology: fully biodegradable, screen‐printed LC soil‐moisture sensor on cellulose paper 🌿 Battery-free wireless readout (≈10 cm) 📡 113-day stability ♻️ Optimizing irrigation and reducing e-waste. 🔗: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

SoR will offer two courses on powder flow to occur before the Society of #Rheology annual meeting in #SantaFe this Oct. Courses will be offered separately, with a discount for attending both. Virtual and in-person options are available. Registration will open soon on our website