Professor Eric Lauga FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an applied mathematician whose research is in the field of biological physics and fluid mechanics. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/eric-la…

Thrilled to see this work out in PNASNews at pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…! If you like: complex fluid dynamics, 💧 polymer rheology, 🍝 chaotic mixing, 🌪️ porous media flows, 🧽 and/or chemical reaction kinetics, 🧪 please check out the paper and tweetorial below! ⬇️

New concept explains how tiny particles navigate water layers, with implications for marine conservation @ubcnews PNASNews phys.org/news/2024-07-c…

My new article is out. The problem isn't that academic scientists sometimes lie. The problem is that their peers don't care when they do. When scientists are caught making up fake data, universities sweep it under the rug. There are too many examples at the top. 1/

A farce…

The Department of #PennBioengineering at Penn Engineering is engaged in a multi-year effort to fill tenure-track and tenured positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels. Learn more and apply here (applications due November 26, 2024): bit.ly/4du89W0

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New engineering dean has two retractions for authorship manipulation. retractionwatch.com/2024/10/02/new…

By issuing "Corrections" without doing investigation, the publishers are in effect laundering fraud into the literature, cementing misinformation and justifying the existence of papermill and other fraudsters. One could argue that such corrections are worse than fraud.

We have to do something about this. Sooner, rather than later. The public will lose trust in science and then… And we’ll kick ourselves for letting this madness go on unhindered.

Howard Stone, a leading engineering scholar and pioneer in fluid dynamics research, has been named University Professor, Princeton’s highest honor for faculty. bit.ly/3UCpLJ5

Who reviewed this paper? A few days ago Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ tweeted about a paper that had published a remark that it had been forced to cite irrelevant papers. You can see the tweet here: buff.ly/3UMIguf. We remarked that if it was not so serious, it would be funny. Since

The Society of Rheology is sad to announce the passage of 1994 Bingham Medalist Professor Andreas Acrivos. Prof. Acrivos and his numerous students and colleagues have made impactful and lasting contributions to rheology theory and practice.

at a conference where you don’t have to present