The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." This Collection celebrates the contributions by the awardees. ⚛️ 🧪

Today was a lot of fun! 😁 #iTeachPhysics Had the first physics lecture with a new class of first semesters, and my usual activity it to have them measure out the area of the lecture room with their own "measurement instrument". This year, we've had dog-leash-squared, pin board-width-squared,

OMG, the lense fell off my cardboard hand spectroscope, so I took it home to glue again. And while playing around to check everything, I found the best line spectrum example I have ever seen with this little thing 😄 🎢 ⚛️ #optics

Some nerve cells are very long, others are not. There are also differences in the length of nerve cells in the eye. Nevertheless, visual stimuli arrive in the brain simultaneously, regardless of this length. A research team from Basel has now discovered why. bsse.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

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It's been a while since i've posted, sorry 😑 Spring semester kinda ran away from me... besides all the usual stuff, i also had one module that we did for the first time after a curriculum reform, and another one that i joined where i have not taught that particular content before 😅 #iTeachPhysics

Went to the dentist today, but ended up studying an old x-ray tube 😁 🎢 #Physics

#PhysicsFactlet Remake of an old animation about quantum tunnelling in the time domain. 🧪⚛️💡 A few details: * The incident and reflected wavefunctions interfere, creating fringes when it hits the barrier. * Even when far away from the barrier, the wavefunction is slowly broadening.

oh gosh, i just received an email from my first ever cohort here, making me all emotional, because they're preparing to graduate in summer 🥹

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating a day early by sharing some of the amazing work of the women within our community we've covered so far in 2025. www.laserfocusworld.com/science-rese... #women #optics #photonics #quantum #scisky @jmurphoton.bsky.social

Researchers have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an artificial crystal lattice in a neighbouring material. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

It can feel like we have made no progress in the fight against climate change. That's not the case. youtu.be/h1jOqyjcO4g?...

🎉 Registrations for YAO 2025 are OPEN! 📅 Join us July 6–11, 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria for talks, poster sessions, industry talks & networking! 🔗 Register by the 31st of March: yao.iqoqi.at Don’t miss out! 🌍⚛ #YAO2025 #QuantumPhysics #AMO @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

She won the Swiss figure-skating championships before developing an interest in quantum computing. ETH Zurich alumna Bettina Heim is optimistic that quantum computers will eventually live up to their potential. Read the portrait here: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Today is the International Day of #Education. To mark the occasion, we’re resharing this article: ETH doctoral student Rolf Imseng, ETH Vice President Julia Dannath, and Professor Ursula Renold discuss how education drives #Social #Mobility in Switzerland. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Wie die Solarenergie ein exponentielles Wachstum hingelegt hat – dies ist der Start einer Daten­serie von @herrfischer.bsky.social über die grossen Entwicklungen der vergangenen 25 Jahre.

first 🎢 exam of this season down, so now i'm enjoying our on-campus restaurant 😋 , before correction hell looms...

Great to see @phetsims.bsky.social have arrived on bluesky. I love using their simulations in my teaching and in my videos. #ITeachPhysics

here we go! 💪💜

I started electromagnetism in one of my classes. This experiment is not all too "jaw-dropping-impressive", but has proven very effective. I start out with the current off to just discuss magnets, compass needles, and magnetic vs geographic poles. 🎢 ⚛️

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

Assessment is uncomfortable. robmcentarffer.net/uncategorize...

Just came across this handy labeller for showing off your STEM subfield. Be sure to give it a try! They also have life sciences, chemistry and engineering 🧪⚛️🎢🔭

we rate dogs has made the jump. it's real now.

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Today some of my students held a presentation discussing mutual learning between the ML model and the pilot for brain-computer-interface races at @cybathlon.bsky.social And they concluded by encouraging their fellow students to go check out all the different diciplines 🤗 cybathlon.ethz.ch/en

Every single base and derived SI unit named after a person is named after a man. There are 19 named SI units, and it is time that we named one after a woman. chng.it/zJZyzxRnjV #physics #AcademicSky

(Admin) 📣Fastest Camera to Capture Electron Dynamics📣 Please welcome Francesca Calegari (@fracala.bsky.social) for a wonderful week of Attosecond Science⚛️ 👩‍🔬 🎙️ 🔬 🧪 #SciComm #Physics #Optics 🎧 Francesca's conversation w/ @pranoti.bsky.social👇 open.spotify.com/episode/6S2P...

This just made me think of a new way to discuss the 1st-class-activity focused on observabes, units and measurement accuracy 😂 #iTeachPhysics

Here we go, my third go-around for the autumn semester! Looking forward to a bunch of new first years, one module with a class of second years, and I get to see one of my first ever classes again in their third year, as a guest during the semester 🤗

And it worked! Since the radio sound can't be "seen" in the picture, I took a photo of the oscilloscope with the 1MHz oscillation nicely displayed. The radio signal can only be heard at (very) close distance, and with lots of static noise, but the song was recogniseable 😂 #iTeachPhysics

Did some last-minute prep for a workshop this coming week 📱📡📻🎶 If all goes well, the students should be able to build their own amplitude modulation radio transmitter 🙏 #iTeachPhysics

BlueSkience Alert! 🧪🌍🛰️ NASA's Earth Observatory has a page where you can generate your name (or any word) using Landsat images. Of course, I chose to generate ✨SCIENCE✨ landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

Interesting to see which factors influence someone to choose to study physics at university. Big shout out for informal science education (museums, camps etc.) and high school physics teachers (especially for women 👩🏻‍🔬). 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 🎢 🍎 #scicomm #AcademicSky

Today is a prep day for the upcoming Science Week, www.zhaw.ch/de/lsfm/dien... where we'll entertain teenagers on campus with various full-day-programs. Our team is offering Arduinos with sensor input and motor control 🤗💡 #iTeachPhysics #WomenInSTEM

For those unit enthusiasts out there... did you know that several fundamental units were redefined? Four of the seven SI base units were redefined in terms of natural physical constants rather than human artifacts, such as the standard kilogram en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_re... 🧪

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Doing experiments on resonance frequencies 🤔

Apparently this is a collection of outdoor webcams from Europe, and - at least at the time of my posting - tonight's aurora is pretty intense on *all* of them www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/luckn...

Have to trot out the obligatory XKCD tonight. No aurora in Hawaii, we've got massive amounts of clouds and rain in any case. :) 🧪

Spent 4 hours taking 150 photos of the sky 🧪

The aurora was truly spectacular. Will it look as good tonight? 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

The release of this video by Simon Clark wonderfully timed with the two week course I just attended, where we eventually talked about modelling digital twins of bioreactor manufacturing processes 😅 youtu.be/w5GmDRW975g?...

Today I managed the most beautiful demonstration of laminar flow around a slender boat shape, but I couldn't move or just my steps would disturb the pattern already, so I didn't get to take pictures 😭 🧪 #iTeachPhysics #Physics

Happy Pi day #iTeachPhysics

🧪 #iTeachPhysics Today's practical demonstration (and hands-on experience for the students was my yoyo from "back when I was in school..." 😅 I'm hoping this will be a more memorable way of conceptualising the centripetal force 🤞

Happy International Women’s Day to all of the amazing #WomenInSTEM out there. Let's keep pushing for systemic change. #InternationalWomenDay 👩🏻‍🔬 🎢 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Another lovely interactive for the EM Spectrum 🙂 #ITeachPhysics viewspace.org/interactives...

Here we go, time scales of the Universe, from fastest possible experiments to the age of the Universe 🧪 #iTeachPhysics