The first paper from my independent career is out in Soft Matter and featured on the back cover! Thanks to 齊藤研究室 for the great collaboration. Thanks to CWRU Macromolecular Science & Engineering CWRU Engineering for support! Special thanks to Emily Wilson for putting the cover together.

Is it true that if you eat ice cream after getting a vaccine, they kick in faster? In any case, glad the new spikes landed in time for a 24-hour trip to India tomorrow, even if I'll only get the full benefit after I arrive.

Nice tribute to a great writer and intellect. His columns were delightful.

The #OSIRISREx asteroid samples from Bennu are coming back Sunday morning. This is a video of how those samples were taken in October 2020. Wait for the last 16 seconds. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

We've landed in Bangalore for 4 months of Fulbright-ing! I'll be based in engineering depts (w/ Tejas Murthy in Civil & Prabhu Nott in Chemical) instead of physics, which makes this a *double* shift to new cultures. Of course, there are so many soft matter physicists in town, too

Dante Lauretta, the PI of the OSIRIS-REx mission, has one of the most understated and badass out-of-office messages I have ever seen.

TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost four billion kilometres later, the #OSIRISREx mission has successfully and *safely* delivered samples from the very start of Solar System history.

Today's goal is to transfer the capsule from the range to a temporary clean room here at UTTR and put the sample on a nitrogen purge. Avoiding contamination is the priority and the team is taking every precaution to protect the sample. go.nasa.gov/44ZkHRe

This is an awesome photo. Like, literally. I am in awe of the fact that, thanks to the work of thousands of people over millions of hours, humankind has successfully returned a primordial piece of the Solar System that's billions of years old. #OSIRISREx

Our latest research, just published in Nature Physics: slow relaxations and logarithmic aging occur via self-organized avalanches of local instabilities. Splendid work by Yaniv Friedman and Dor Shohat Complex Matter Lab Tel Aviv University nature.com/articles/s4156… rdcu.be/dngVA

Drinking coffee as a beverage is said to have originated in Yemen in the 15th century in Sufi Shrines. It was there that coffee berries were first roasted & brewed in a way similar to how the drink is prepared today For #InternationalCoffeeDay a thread on coffee & Muslim culture

Sorry to be missing Burton Lab 's visit. This, plus a seminar on how to implement lab-rotations for first year grad students. So much great stuff to share with us!

🚨 POSTDOC JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 If you’re a theorist or do simulations on granular materials & want to or already apply your skillsets to the earth and other planetary body processes, I’d love to host you as a postdoc! See details below, including my walk 2 work Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Loving the musical analogy!

Got 2 Rayleigh scattering codes if anybody would like them. It's getting more interesting there than here, and has less hate, but I'd love to see more community I care about there in order to make the switch.