Searches for third generation and gluino-induced SUSY production

Recent preliminary results from CMS and ATLAS on searches for gluino induced and direct third generation SUSY production, in a variety of complementary final state signatures and methods, are presented using up to $20~\textrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data from the 8 TeV LHC run of 2012. SUSY models with relatively light top and bottom squarks are particularly appealing, especially given the recent Higgs-like boson discovery, as they provide a solution to the hierarchy problem.