My regrets to those of you who did not get bullied by a group of high school cheerleaders who snuck past security into APS

Interested in how we're all measuring polymer dynamics and morphologies these days? Check out "Emerging Experimental Probes in Polymer Characterization" today (Tuesday) from 3-6 pm at #APSSummit25.

I wasn't allowed to accept a $100 poster prize while I did a government postdoc because it might appear I was using the office for personal financial gain. 🫠

LGBTQI people aren’t DEI, we are people

Whole ass human beings

Applications are now open for the NSF-supported Future Faculty Workshop in Soft Matter, to be hosted at UC Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social on July 15-17! Please help us spread the word—mentee applications are accepted until March 31st: shorturl.at/grUek

My student just rolled into my office after his last soft matter physics class with a highly plausible explanation as to why we haven't reproduced an old result. 🙌🏻 How's your Friday?

Urge Congress to Keep the Grad PLUS Program and Accessible Student Loan Funding: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

I care, a lot, about losing our ability to do research at the level we like, but our focus on money and financial aspects is a distraction. I am more worried about concentration camps, deportation of our students, losing LGBTQIA+ folks in our campus, losing all the gains for diversity, segregation

Abstract submission is open for AIChE 2025! This year I'm co-chairing a new 8A session with Bryan Paulsen & @leosapien.bsky.social , Polymer Structural Characterization. Please check it out!
Session info: aiche.confex.com/aiche/2025/p...
Abstract Submission: www.aiche.org/annual/cfa

I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.

I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.

Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.

Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.