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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Jul 16

"His words are more relevant than ever" @LFLmagazine talking about Frank Zappa‪ @frankzappa.bsky.social, I couldn't agree more. I often think about him when I see how things are turning out lately... 🫣

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Watch the never-boring Pepijn Hoekstra explaining our work on #clogging from our labs! @utwente.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/ZYHiE...

Waarom wordt er altijd zo gedrongen bij de uitgang van een festival? #HoeZitUT?

YouTube video by University of Twente / Universiteit Twente

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Jun 7

The winners (and almost winners) of the 2025 Burgers Gallery
[i.e., the dutch Gallery of Fluid Motion] are already out! I like to see this competition as the "Golden Globe Awards" are for the Oscars 😂 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Burgers Gallery 2025 - YouTube

Finalists and winners of the 2025 Burgers Movie Gallery, a video competition to illustrate fluid flow phenomena using "moving motion pictures" that took plac...

www.youtube.com

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Apr 27

a poster for ghostbusters shows a group of men running down a street

ALT: a poster for ghostbusters shows a group of men running down a street

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Mar 24

The dutch ministry of education wants to make the NL a safe harbour for fleeing american scientists, which would be great news, if at the same time the very same ministry wasn't planning a dramatic cut in funds for dutch science... what some call the #eppocalypse
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederland rolt rode loper uit voor wetenschappers die VS willen ontvluchten

Er komt zo snel mogelijk een pot geld om ‘enkele tientallen’ topwetenschappers die hun land willen ontvluchten onderdak en toekomst te geven in Nederland. Dat heeft minister Eppo Bruins van Onderwijs,...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Mar 6

Great opinion piece about *the plastic in our brains* from @megha.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social: "this stuff will never go away, and it's slowly building up inside us" ... a scary scientific discovery and an even scarier lack of social response
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Why Aren’t We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains?

New research on microplastics in brains reminds us that while scientists compile safety data, our leaders should still act

www.scientificamerican.com

Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Feb 19

The passing of Andreas Acrivos is a big loss for our @apsphysics.bsky.social #apsdfd community, where we have had a prize with his name for almost 3 decades now. If you are curious about him, here's a nice conversation he recorded talking about his life and career

youtu.be/I_9_3HF_ud4?...

A Conversation with Andreas Acrivos

YouTube video by Annual Reviews

youtu.be

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Feb 12

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Feb 12

Jurriaan Huskens perfectly captures what many of us are feeling, thinking and wondering after this awful process we are suffering at the University of Twente. Bravo Jurrian.

www.utoday.nl/opinion/7520...

‘How will we regain trust in the organisation as a whole?’

In this op-ed piece, Professor Jurriaan Huskens questions the main reasons behind the current reorganisation at the Faculty of Science & Technology. ‘My opinion is that the reorganisation is used to c...

www.utoday.nl

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Jan 25

What a great plenary lecture from @elisabethbik.bsky.social ! #NWOphysics a lot to learn for any scientist, and most importantly, a lot to teach to our students about how to detect and how to avoid scientific fraud. Great job! 👏👏👏🔬🔬🔬

Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Jan 7

I will give an evening plenary lecture at the #NWOPhysics
on Tuesday 21 January, in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
#Physics
Also, check out the duplicates on the Speakers page :-)
nwophysics.nl

Screenshot from the program (download it here: https://nwophysics.nl/programme-booklet-2025) showing the program for Tuesday 21 January.
Text reads:

Programme Tuesday 21 January
3 Programme Tuesday 21 January
09.00 - 10.00 Registration (Limburgfoyer)
10.15 - 10.25 Opening ceremony (Beneluxzaal)
10.25 - 11.10 Plenary lecture: Eric Cornell (Beneluxzaal)
11.10 - 11.30 Break (Kempenzaal)
11.30 - 13.00 Focus sessions (page 6 & 7)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch (Kempenzaal)
14.00 - 15.20 Poster session odd numbers (Kempenzaal) & workshops (page 5)
15.20 - 16.35 Parallel sessions (page 8 & 9)
16.35 - 17.05 Break (Kempenzaal)
17.05 - 18.05 Parallel sessions (page 10 & 11)
18.05 - 18.25 Break (Kempenzaal)
18.25 - 19.55 Dinner (Beneluxzaal)
19.55 - 20.25 Award ceremony (Beneluxzaal)
20.25 - 21.10 Plenary lecture: Elisabeth Bik (Beneluxzaal)
21.10 - 00.30 Festive evening (Brabantzaal)

Screenshots of the featured speakers, showing their headshots and affiliations.

Two men are shown twice (maybe they give two talks each)?

Anne-Florence Bitbol
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Barry Fitzgerald
Moderator NWO Physics 2025

Elisabeth Bik
Science Integrity consultant

Eric Cornell
University of Colorado

Eric Cornell
University of Colorado

Sander Huisman and Rudie Kunnen
University of Twente and Eindhoven University of Technology

Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva

Thierry Giamarchi
University of Geneva

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is now accessible for free! find out how to make a jellyfish smoothy 🪼, or how to cross a river without a bridge 🪵... thanks @annualreviews.bsky.social for make this volume open!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Cool to see that the most recent entry of #Veritasium is on the strandbeesten of Theo Jansen! always inspiring to hear his story and his work. Here a pic of our own #strandbeest at @poftwente.bsky.social that we keep as a pet 🌊🦖

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Physics of Fluids @ UTwente @poftwente.bsky.social · Dec 6

follow the work here: doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Dec 4

The duck force is strong in you @nicolesharp.com 😝

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Dec 3

I have to confess to @apsphysics.bsky.social and specially to the #PhysicalReviewFluids crew that after the #APSDFD2024 I had a very bad bathing experience with their ducks... none of the PRF ducks can swim! only the PRX Life does! WTF! ... Get your ducks together guys...

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Dec 1

So glad to hear that my favourite co-org Liesbeth Janssen has won the Athena Award in NL this year! Restless scientist and wonderful person… congrats to her dog
*Bree* as well! 😍 (pic by Vincent van den Hoogen)

www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 26

More of Devaraj vd Meer #APSDFD2024

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks #APSDFD for 3 days of drops, bubbles, impacts, slips, slides, squeezes, shakes, bounces and ducks! 🦆
(note the #PRFluids chief editor in the first seconds 👋)

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 24

I wonder what was I saying then 😅

Stephane Zaleski @zaleski.bsky.social · Nov 24

Alvaro Marin at #APSDFD2024

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 24

Really tiny duckies this year at the #APSDFD, but cute nevertheless 😏

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 23

#APSDFD

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 23

And here you can see half of my 1-min flash presentation, see the other half tomorrow at the #APS-DFD interact session C6: #Drops & #Bubbles ... as you can see, alcohol messes everything up, but it also makes it more interesting 🤔

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 22

It has been a pleasure to work this year with the great Mathieu Souzy on this Annual Review on Clogging of noncohesive suspensions!, you can already check out an advanced preprint here (research.utwente.nl/en/publicati.... below you can find a teaser ;)

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Alvaro Marin @alvaromarin.bsky.social · Nov 22

Specially nice to see a few #APSDFD 2024 attendees, see you guys in Salt Lake City!