James Swan

@Gilchrist_Lab Ready for political office.

I will put this out there and let you be the judge. Some people like eggnog. Some people like Butterfingers. I like eggnog flavored ice cream topped with crushed Butterfingers.

The opportunity to know, work with, and mentor such remarkable young people is undoubtedly the best perk of this job.

@Gilchrist_Lab @professor_meh I just like that one solution to the paradox introduces another.

@Jim_Swan @professor_meh Of course, there is no such thing as an infinite fractal in the first place... Does infinity exist?

A room whose walls are fractal with infinite surface area requires an infinite amount of paint, yet the room has finite volume so you simply fill the room with paint and then drain it out.

@professor_meh @Gilchrist_Lab You don't even need surface tension. A layer of paint has finite thickness. To fit into the nooks and crannies, the layer must get ever thinner. So you can paint the room with a finite amount of paint, but you need an infinite number of ever tinier brushes to apply it.

@Gilchrist_Lab Except at some point capillarity wins out and the paint won’t wet the surface, no matter how much more surface area is hiding in them crazy fractal nooks and crannies. #PhysicsWins

@pauldauenhauer What if we did it in 3 yrs? Keep the tuition the same. Reduce the extra expenses by 1/4. Get the students out earning on their education 1 yr. sooner. Pay faculty a 12 mo. salary for the effort. 1 summer is a co-op. The others are "senior year." 25% higher training throughput.

A new @softmatter study by Philippe Bourrianne, Paul Lilin, Gareth McKinley, Irmgard Bischofberger, and collaborators reveals novel crack morphologies that emerge during the drying of drops of nanoparticle suspensions. mitsha.re/n0Ka50GqX41

So long #SOR2021. It was great seeing such interesting talks and visiting with such engaging people. Until next year…

@Gilchrist_Lab @SoRheology I just got here, but I’ll be back when the conference is over.

@Jim_Swan @SoRheology Looks like your family trip was better than that!

Excited for @SoRheology 2021. Sad I’ll have to give up this view of Beech Hill Pond 30 miles away. See you all in Bangor.

@LilianHsiao @PhysRevLett @pradeep_shravan @SafaJamali Cool stuff Lilian. Well done.

Our new @PhysRevLett paper uses confocal rheometry to predict shear thickening using jamming distance. No microscope needed - try it for yourself. Congrats @pradeep_shravan @SafaJamali and coauthors! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

@KWhiteheadLab @GallowayLabMIT I also had that conversation, but we all agreed I was probably careless and should fix it myself. I could be careless. But, he definitely picked it out of the back pocket of my Navy blue Jansport backpack when I was heading from the library to Latin class after lunch.

Postdoc opening joint with @Jim_Swan focused on data analytics for neutron scattering of self-assembled nanocrystal solids. Please share broadly!

@KWhiteheadLab One of mine was engraved too. Someone stole it freshman year of high school. I used money earned at my after school job to replace it. Weeks later a "friend" who was just confirmed in his church "found" the lost one (engraving scratched out). Now I had two and was $125 poorer.

@JodieLutkenhaus I know that @emilykrucker is interested in problems like this. It would be interesting to learn what the important questions are.

Checkout the newly redesigned Rheology Bulletin! You can see at rheology.org/sor/Publicatio…

Emily Krucker-Velasquez and I just published our first paper together on the structure of conc. electrolytes. Emily found that the ratio of steric stabilization length to Debye layer thickness controls underscreening. Also, like-charge clusters abound! aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.…

Very glad to see this paper on wormlike micelles and MAPS rheology with @garethmckinley and Kyle Lennon @doecsgf appear in @RheologicaActa. Kyle was able to use high data density rheology to learn something new about nonlinearities in a micellar solution. rdcu.be/cygGL

#ASAP by Ariel Furst @afurst1 & team @MITChemE FurstLab @FurstLab They report a unique biosensing strategy based on a mixture of engineered S. oneidensis & freeze-dried E. coli to simultaneously degrade and electrochemically detect toxic pesticides: fal.cn/3iyor