Searches for direct pair production of third generation squarks with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS experiment has recently searched for evidence of third generation squark production in a variety of final states, using proton--proton collision data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating at $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV. We briefly review the design and result of each analysis, and interpret the results in a series of simplified model scenarios.