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Do you want to be part of extremely hardcore sensing 2.0 with long hours and high intensity?

Hopefully you enjoy our one to nine rubidium-87 Bose-Einstein condensates generated using painted optical potentials as much as we do! 🤩


Wow. Thanks to galactica.org and the suggestion by @physicssteve, I guess that teaching got a lot easier for the second half of this winter term 🤩🤣


Today, I will opt out of any email communication. Yet another email asking to peer review work that's clearly out of my expertise was the drop that filled the bucket.

Not to speak about the perpetuum mobile giving you vouchers for publishing your own work after you have reviewed something.

Not to speak about the insane amount of "special issues", one of which I was recently asked to co-edit while there's an ongoing one on exactly the same topic edited by a colleague.

No more words needed when you see the attached figure which I shamelessly stole from this fantastic article recommended by a friend.

paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/20

Disclaimer: I'm not saying there's nothing wrong re: publishing culture in science in general but is really pushing it here




Our heavy-duty ion getter pump taking a deep breath during venting (sound on!)

Original and counterfeit logo of our Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry facility.
Can you spot the difference?


One of the downsides of heavy-butt turbo pumps: they only spin up to 650 Hz 👂💥🤯

old physicist explaining the impossibility of gravitational wave detection with atom interferometry to younger students, painted in oil
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If you are looking for chitchat, at times useless trivia, and updates on our work in the field of for inertial sensing: this is where it's at!

Did you know that humankind will likely never laser cool potassium worth the amount in a single 🍌?


All those years I bragged about my 462MHz Yahi-Uda type antenna. Turns out it's resonant for 438MHz and only works well enough for us 😅

What's your signature quirk/habit?

I never returned or dumped a badge. Ever.

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