What better way to start the NNF Lab's student/postdoc Twitter account than by welcoming to MIT, Dr Squishy himself Datta Lab ...speaking on Life in a Tight Spot... and George and Gareth McKinley seem to have constrained Sujit in a tight space in the corner!

Mary, Patrick S. Doyle, Gareth McKinley and James Swan show using analytical studies that coupled translational & rotational motion is essential to understanding motion of small particles in complex, time-dependent trajectories through viscoelastic fluids. aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.10…

With great sadness, we mourn the passing of our kind and curious friend Tom McLeish, Tom McLeish, our 2010 Bingham medalist and expert in all things fluids, emulsions, foams, religion, and medieval science.

What is a scientific paper? Why do we write it? How? This 3-page handout, created by George Whitesides on 4 October 1989, offers practical answers. Strongly recommended for researchers of all ages. Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper intra.ece.ucr.edu/~rlake/Whitesi…

Las Vegas #APSMarch2023 was a blur… (with ridiculously long lines for food or even coffee!). Great job Jake Song on a wonderful presentation in the new ESME (Emerging Soft Matter Excellence) session sponsored by APS DSOFT

Check out the Gabor transforms applications in rheology. Published in the Mar/Apr 2023 issue of JOR. Gabor transform- a special type of short time Fourier transform named after the Noble prize winner Dennis Gabor.

Seeing a fluid climbing a rotating rod is a classic demo of nonlinear viscoelasticity...but have you ever tried getting quantitative info? Here's how: Rod-climbing rheometry revisited. With Rishabh More and Lubrizol colloborators. ⏳#everythingflows pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Summer is here... and that means the group talks are followed by a trip to the ice cream shop 😋😋

We all tend to use Taylor expansions to construct low-dimensional reduced-order models from equations or data. In reality, the reduced dynamics generically live on spectral submanifolds of limited smoothness that only admit fractional-powered expansions: doi.org/10.1063/5.0143…

Congratulations to NNF alum Anoop Rajappan and fellow MIT MechE alum Daniel J Preston on their #IgNobel prize in Mechanical Emgineering for some fancy necrobotic necromancy 🕷️🤖☠️.