Aditya Kumar
@adityakr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech studying fracture mechanics and mechanics of soft solids.
https://sites.gatech.edu/adityakumar/
https://sites.gatech.edu/adityakumar/
How do cracks nucleate and grow in elastomers?
In this paper, we clarify how unique mechanisms of crack growth in elastomers have complicated the understanding of crack nucleation.
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In this paper, we clarify how unique mechanisms of crack growth in elastomers have complicated the understanding of crack nucleation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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On failure mechanisms and load-parallel cracking in confined elastomeric layers
Thin layers of elastomers bonded to two rigid plates demonstrate unusual failure response. Historically, it has been believed that strongly-bonded lay…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
How do cracks nucleate and grow in elastomers?
In this paper, we clarify how unique mechanisms of crack growth in elastomers have complicated the understanding of crack nucleation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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In this paper, we clarify how unique mechanisms of crack growth in elastomers have complicated the understanding of crack nucleation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember:
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
NIH was the most extreme:
Trump in 2017: "Please cut NIH's budget by -22%" (yellow bars below)
Republican House: "Nah health research is important...let's increase it by +3%!"
Republican Senate: "How about +6%??"
Final Congress: "Actually...let's do +9%!!"
ww2.aip.org/fyi/fy2025-n...
Trump in 2017: "Please cut NIH's budget by -22%" (yellow bars below)
Republican House: "Nah health research is important...let's increase it by +3%!"
Republican Senate: "How about +6%??"
Final Congress: "Actually...let's do +9%!!"
ww2.aip.org/fyi/fy2025-n...
May 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember:
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS
Today's news is simply just the President's **request**.
Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.
Reposted by Aditya Kumar
I wrote this a little while ago, because I felt like too many scientists were treating this as something to ride out, rather than looking at how authoritarianism has played out for science elsewhere.
laurenkuehne.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/v...
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Vengeance of the Stinking Old Ninth
In 2018, during Trump’s first regime, I had the opportunity to hang out with a visiting scientist from China (nameless, for obvious reasons) at a conference. We talked a lot about the “era of the s…
laurenkuehne.wordpress.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I wrote this a little while ago, because I felt like too many scientists were treating this as something to ride out, rather than looking at how authoritarianism has played out for science elsewhere.
laurenkuehne.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/v...
laurenkuehne.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/v...
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🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations
I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.
*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.
*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Action Plan & Appeal for Illegal NSF Grant terminations
[RedactedProjectName] Action Plan for Response to Illegal NSF Grant termination ***This document - with Background, Action Plan, & Appeal Letter - was compiled by a fellow researcher appealing their N...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations
I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.
*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.
*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Aditya Kumar
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
MIT following Harvard's lead here
Good for Harvard! It was shameful how they fired their president last year, but it's amazing that they are standing up now against even more pressure.
Read Harvard’s response to the Trump Administration.
Read Harvard’s Response to the Trump Administration
Harvard University’s lawyers responded on Monday to the Trump Administration’s letter demanding a series of policy changes, saying the demands were unlawful and that Harvard would not comply.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Good for Harvard! It was shameful how they fired their president last year, but it's amazing that they are standing up now against even more pressure.
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Tremendous piece, best explanation yet of how a few bad regulatory decisions broke the news model. Billions of dollars in revenue that used to go to media companies, which funded journalism, now goes to Google, which lets AI junk blot out the sun.
washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/16/h...
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How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism | Washington Monthly
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already ...
washingtonmonthly.com
February 2, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Tremendous piece, best explanation yet of how a few bad regulatory decisions broke the news model. Billions of dollars in revenue that used to go to media companies, which funded journalism, now goes to Google, which lets AI junk blot out the sun.
washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/16/h...
washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/16/h...