The best reason to learn history is not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course, this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past – but some freedom is better than none. #quote #homodeus

That's a wrap on VPF9! Thanks to all who came to the mansion at Allerton Park for the great presentations & lively discussions on viscoplastic fluids, coming together as a community to solve problems and identify new areas of investigation. See you at VPF10 in Amsterdam!

This week at VPF9 was a blast! Proud to be part of this community. Thank you Simon Rogers, Randy Ewoldt & Chaimongkol Saengow for organizing this. See you all at VPF10 in Amsterdam :)

I have Two Postdoc openings in my group: Computational Hydrodynamics of Active Matter: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo… Experimental Biophysics: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo… #TheoBiophysicsPosition #ScienceJobs RT is much appreciated 🙏🏼

The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for multiple full-time faculty positions at all ranks. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Professor Charles E. Sing has been awarded the 2024 John H. Dillon Medal by the American Physical Society. Sing was recognized for "pioneering advances in polyelectrolyte phase behavior and polymer dynamics using theory and computational modeling."

Thanks for covering our recent work about how surface viscoelasticity affects the secondary bubble generation from the primary bubble bursting at a protein-laden interface! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

Thursday (1pm EST), the Future of Rheology seminar series continues! Jacob John will talk about phase transitions induced by active particles in 2D colloid crystals and Laurel Kroo on extensional properties of microstructured fluids using a composite harmonic-exponential waveform

Global temperature change (1850-2023) Updated to include October 2023, showing 5 record warm months in a row. #ClimateSpiral

Join us Aug 19-23, 2024 in Minneapolis for our week long Rheology Short Course. Registration now open: rheology.cems.umn.edu with Macosko, Gareth McKinley, Clasen, CalabreseLab, @LWalkerChE, Cari Dutcher , Cheng, barry kudrowitz

Announcing a 1-day short course LAOS Rheology: A Start-to-Finish Guide, to be held in Austin, TX before the Society of Rheology Annual Meeting. Options are also available for virtual participants. Simon Rogers, LAOS virtuoso, will be the instructor.

Announcing a short course on Automated Rheology and Multi-Methods Measurements, to be held in Austin, TX before the SoR Annual Meeting. Options are also available for virtual participants. Instructors are the knowledgeable Jeffrey Richards and Thibaut Divoux Thibaut Divoux.