📢 Looking forward to welcoming the #softmatter and materials science communities to #Lyon for SoPhy Days 2026! 📍ENS de Lyon | 📅 December 9-11 🎤 10 invited speakers, contributed talks & posters. Students and postdocs especially welcome! Register now! 🔗 sophy2026.sciencesconf.org/?…

🎉🍾 Warm congratulations to Pierre Lehéricey on successfully defending his PhD @ETH_en on the mechanisms of #plasticity in depletion #gels! Lovely trip to snowy Zürich - grateful to Jan Vermant for the invitation to serve on Pierre’s committee! #everythingflows #excelsior

Ever wondered what the microstructure of opaque colloidal #gels looks like? We obtained beautiful images by X-ray #tomorheoscopy @psich_en that reveal history-dependent, large-scale heterogeneities! Read about it in our new #preprint👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2603.16804 cc @CNRSphysique

🚨Lise's extensive exp. work on #cellulose #nanocrystals in collab w/ S. Manneville is now on @arxiv 👉#Gelation dynamics of charged #colloidal rods: #critical behaviour and time-connectivity superposition principle! Read it now▶️ arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11366 cc @CNRSphysique @lpensl – at Denver, CO

At the @APSphysics Global Physics Meeting in Denver next week?✈️ Join our Focus Session MAR-L65: "New Perspectives on #GelNetworks", co-organized with Guilhem P. Baeza! Don’t miss the great speaker lineup on NMR, rheometry, etc. ➡️summit.aps.org/events/MAR-L6… cc @CNRSphysique @lpensl

Wrapping up a snowy & productive 2-week stay @MITMechE in wonderful #HML with @garethmckinley and Irmgard Bischofberger! Insightful discussions, great seminars… and even a Super Bowl! 😄🏉🌨️ Farewell, #Boston! Big thanks to Région Rhône-Alpes for the support! @auvergnerhalpes

🥳Our review on #Pattern Formation & #Instabilities in Particulate #Suspensions just came out in @AnnualReviews Enjoy the dimensionless jungle🙊 in #openaccess - doi.org/10.1146/annurev-flui… cc @CNRSphysique @CNRS @lpensl @MITMechE @IJMonod @UMNews

🍾🎉 Congratulations to Dr Nikita Goltiakov 👨‍🎓for a rich PhD defense on a novel aggregation framework modeling face-selective #particle assembly with applications to heterogeneous #catalyst design at #IFPEN - thanks to Maxime Moreaud & Manuel Corral Valero for the invitation.

🎉🍾Congratulations to Dr. Louanne Pommier for her excellent #PhD defense @espci on sol-gel transitions in #chitosan-betaGP systems! Truly enjoyed & learned a lot reviewing her manuscript. Many thanks to Michel Cloitre, Laurent Corté & Stefano Aime for the invitation! @psl_univ

🤔What happens when a #colloidal #gel forms under shear? Strong oscillations during gelation carve macroscopic #fracture patterns into the gel, leaving a clean rheological signature captured by a simple #fractional model - and making gels more #ductile!📑👉arxiv.org/abs/2511.19713