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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 🤩🤣


Preserving the twitter follower graph 

Here's how it works: the aim is to create a graph of who follows whom on twitter, keyed to ORCID ID numbers. The data are freely available under the CC0 license.

If you were/are a member of #ScienceTwitter, please add your information by going to opencheck.is/scitwitter and confirming your twitter handle and ORCID. I've done it myself, as have many of my friends, colleagues, followers, and followed.

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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




This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science

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

#PhysicsFactlet (Just made this for a lecture, so I thought I would put it here too)
Three identical harmonic oscillators, starting with different initial conditions, and their phase-space representation (x is displacement from equilibrium, p is the canonical momentum).
#Physics #Visualization #ITeachPhysics

Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.

#PhD students of #Mastodon, I have created a Mastadon group for sharing PhD-related posts using @phdstudents when posting a PhD student toot. Let's help the group to grow and share our PhD student experiences.

#Students #postgraduate #research #connectivity #PhDStudents

Neat work out of 🇫🇷,🇨🇦
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Hybrid quantum inertial sensor that "... emits a steady signal at the rate of a classic sensor but with 50x greater precision made possible by #quantum measurements"

#QuantumTechnology #QuantumSensing

phys.org/news/2022-11-quantum-

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 👂💥🤯

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