Our new paper provides a new proposed leading-order understanding of why nanoparticles reinforce rubber, potentially addressing a 100-year mystery. @PolymerPolymath @EngineeringUSF @USFResearch pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Grateful to @TheScientistLLC for running a short “Postdoc Portrait” on my work in the Simmons Lab @USouthFlorida: modeling how nanoparticle-filled rubber gets tough, and why postdoc community-building matters. You can read it here: the-scientist.com/postdoc-po…

That was straight up gangster performance, Mehdi Damn man, Bravo Ruthless masterpiece dismantling a bunch of Nazis like a cheap furniture

Chat, am I cooked?

Excellent read on findings of a survey of members on how APS can better respond to current crisis. "Advocacy for Physics and for Physicists: Results of an Informal Survey of American Physical Society Members in 2025" by the Physics Advocacy Collaboration. arxiv.org/abs/2506.24043

My office received a report that an international graduate student at the University of Minnesota was arrested by ICE officers on Thursday. We immediately contacted ICE to request information about the nature of this arrest. The University of Minnesota confirmed that they did not have any prior knowledge of or involvement in the arrest. My office is in communication with the individual’s counsel, the University of Minnesota, and other elected officials. I will provide updates as soon as I am able.

It was not what our enemies did, it's what our 'friends' did.

If you're at @APSphysics gps on Friday, you should join @materiologist and I for two back-to-back talks on our investigation of nanoscale toughening mechanisms in filled elastomers.

It's crazy that I tweeted this out when I got my green card interview. Still don't have a green card today, 9 months later...

I have spent 3 years in Florida without a driver's license and unable to register a car. My papers are legal. I have spent countless hours dealing with the DMV, multiple immigration lawyers, my car dealer, and USCIS. Literally no one gives a shit.

Happy International Women's Day! And of somewhat less importance Happy Birthday To Me!

Per @darbysaxbe, from a program officer at the National Science Foundation, federal grants can now be pulled for containing any of these keywords. Absurd and dangerous

The biggest Ctrl Z ever. x.com/sahilkapur/status/1884…

Necrobotics is a study of using carcass as a robotic apparatus AKA Robotic Necromancy

SpiRobs (Octopus-Inspired Logarithmic Spiral Robot) by the University of Science and Technology of China.

I've been watching #DubaiBling and this show is so trash and enjoyable! #TeamFarhaMarha

I'm a little late to the party but political satire TV shows are cringe and stupid. You can't parody a living breathing reality that's already a parody.

No matter how much better I get at being productive through developing healthy habits, routine, medication, etc., I could never shake the most important ingredient: guilt.

Two elections that didn't go my way today #dpoly