Chris Wirth
@wirth-lab.bsky.social
ChemE Associate Professor with many, many microscopes | Hypeman for CWRU | #ColloidsRCool | wirthlab.org | he/him | justice is what love looks like in public | views expressed are my own
Liquid cooling!! This is such a great complex fluids problem to work on.
While reading Alex Tullo's fascinating article in @cenmag.bsky.social about the chem of liquid cooling for #AI and data centers, I got distracted wondering: When Neo wakes up from the Matrix for the first time, is the liquid he burst out of a heat exchange fluid?
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Data centers take the plunge
As old-fashioned air cooling reaches its limits, data centers look to immerse their servers in coolants
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August 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Liquid cooling!! This is such a great complex fluids problem to work on.
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Interactive Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine 2025 Semifinalists tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFEng...
July 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Interactive Map of NSF Regional Innovation Engine 2025 Semifinalists tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFEng...
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DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people.
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
Tell the Department of Energy to Stop Attacking Civil Rights and Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
dredf.org
June 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people.
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16
Pls help push back!
Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert...
More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...
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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Straining the bounds of propriety is when I gave a talk at an Ivy League med school wearing jeans and a polo.
This is extraordinary corruption.
This is extraordinary corruption.
"Strains bounds of propriety"?
How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"?
I truly want to know what the headline writers at the
@nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.
How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"?
I truly want to know what the headline writers at the
@nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.
May 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Straining the bounds of propriety is when I gave a talk at an Ivy League med school wearing jeans and a polo.
This is extraordinary corruption.
This is extraordinary corruption.
Among the stream of shit over the last four months, the understones of this post from NSF brought me to near tears. This is so profoundly fucking sad.
April 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Among the stream of shit over the last four months, the understones of this post from NSF brought me to near tears. This is so profoundly fucking sad.
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In 2023 and 2024, I was on the steering committee of the ASEE NSF CAREER workshop. Unfortunately, this program is not offered this year. Therefore, four recent NSF CAREER Winners and I have decided to put together an informal Q&A to support future CAREER winners!
Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv
Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv
March 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In 2023 and 2024, I was on the steering committee of the ASEE NSF CAREER workshop. Unfortunately, this program is not offered this year. Therefore, four recent NSF CAREER Winners and I have decided to put together an informal Q&A to support future CAREER winners!
Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv
Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
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Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.
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March 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump
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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
Timeline cleanse: Bruges and Interfacial Science (Bubble Nucleation)
March 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Timeline cleanse: Bruges and Interfacial Science (Bubble Nucleation)
Timeline cleanse: Leuven
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Timeline cleanse: Leuven
I've listened/read a lot by Mike Roth and really like his approach. Offering good thoughts here in this interview.
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on
@msnbc.com
@msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I've listened/read a lot by Mike Roth and really like his approach. Offering good thoughts here in this interview.
The downright lovely thing about trains and urbanism is that if my flight is delayed I'm stuck sleeping on the floor of IAH for the night, but when a train gets messed up I get rebooked for 2 hrs later, with partial refund, and get to hangout in the city while waiting.
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The downright lovely thing about trains and urbanism is that if my flight is delayed I'm stuck sleeping on the floor of IAH for the night, but when a train gets messed up I get rebooked for 2 hrs later, with partial refund, and get to hangout in the city while waiting.
Fuck this
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
www.nbcnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Fuck this
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This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Don't sit in silence while history repeats itself.
On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science.
Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
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On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science.
Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
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Today's extract from Serving the Reich.
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
February 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Don't sit in silence while history repeats itself.
On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science.
Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
🧪
On March 7th, join a #standupforscience2025 protest against political interference in science.
Rallies will take place in DC and capital cities across the US: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
🧪
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Final note from Bob Brown's "Will the American research university make it to its 100th birthday?" www.elsevier.com/connect/will...
February 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Final note from Bob Brown's "Will the American research university make it to its 100th birthday?" www.elsevier.com/connect/will...
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In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering
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In Memory of Andy Acrivos: CEMS Alum and Titan of Chemical Engineering
Andreas (Andy) Acrivos passed away on February 17, 2025. Born in Greece in 1928, Prof. Acrivos arrived at Minnesota in 1950 following undergraduate studies at Syracuse University, becoming the second...
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February 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
In Memory of Andy Acrivos: University of Minnesota Alumnus and Titan of Chemical Engineering
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This is actually true and I learned about it from my dad, who retired from a good career as a civil servant. I'm 100% behind fixing all these weird inefficiencies.
Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem.
Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem.
Elon Musk: "There's a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. You look at this picture of this mine, this mine looks like something out of the '50s bc it was started in 1955. It's like a time warp. Then the limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move..."
February 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is actually true and I learned about it from my dad, who retired from a good career as a civil servant. I'm 100% behind fixing all these weird inefficiencies.
Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem.
Fixing these weird efficiencies is mostly not what Elon is actually doing though, that's the problem.
New diss track just dropped:
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New diss track just dropped:
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Amongst all the doom and gloom, check out this clever application of Marangoni Flow!
youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y
youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y
Soap opera in the maze: Geometry matters in Marangoni flows
YouTube video by American Physical Society
youtu.be
February 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Amongst all the doom and gloom, check out this clever application of Marangoni Flow!
youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y
youtu.be/Jtd7mMW7-0Y
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Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities
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8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.