Dr. Pierre Kawak بيير قواق

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/pn…

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-portra…

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

@theritzybor @ItsALLEYCVT I'll do anything for one extra ticket 🥲

SELL OUT WARNING! ⛔️ We're at the final tickets remaining for @ItsALLEYCVT's Feel It II Tour in #Tampa on Friday. 🎟 Get yours ASAP! bit.ly/alleycvt0502

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.

@DaniellaFodera @NIH This is so devastating. After all of your hard work, you don't deserve this. I'm inspired by your ability to srsly reply to the idiots in the comments.

Welp. It's official. My F31 fellowship has been terminated by the @NIH 😞

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...

@davidbessis It's not that serious bro

This speech is a disgrace. As a young mathematician, I stopped talking with my physicist friends for the same exact reason: their reply to all my questions was always: "no, no, don't try to understand it intuitively." Nothing is counterintuitive by nature, unless you decide so.

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.

@activedroplets Doi not found?

You might expect active matter to become more active if you fire it up. Here the opposite happens! - Prashanth Ramesh has frozen his microswimmers by heating and will tell you all about it here: doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

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

@sahilkapur @PeterAlexander @kate_santaliz The biggest Ctrl + Z ever. x.com/sahilkapur/sta…

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.