There's nothing like cold hard experimental data from experimentalists you trust.

Woohoo! Second year on a row I got one right! John Clarke is a giant. it was a privilege to occupy the same building as a grad student, he was always kind to us.

I'll go with John Clarke and two others (Devoret + Martinis? not enough of a historian on the topic) for SQUIDs and superconducting qubits for 2025 Physics Nobel.

Looks like this was quite prescient

Trend: paper reviews that appear to be LLM generated. Used to get reviews like "pg5, 2nd par. You say XYZ but don't back it up/it's confusing" I loved these. Now: "the paper lacks [something vague + not obviously relevant], explain how this will be implemented" (Rev's still polite and unpaid!)

Sounds like an "epiphany" college kids have smoking weed and philosophizing late at night. But I guess now it's NIH policy?

I'm sorry, but the PhD is not just a "training" degree. For me, any definition must include a marker of academic achievement for creating and disseminating new knowledge.

"IONQ CEO Niccolo de Masi sells $103 million in stock. SEC filing confirms full liquidation. Investors question timing. Pump-and-dump concerns rise." citizenwatchreport.com/ionq-ceo-nic...

Here's the published version, which includes some pretty TEM images in the Appendices: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

People on here are need to focus. Bhattacharya appointment is one of the least insane things going on out there. Folks quibbling about his h-index and nunber of R01s...Look who we elected president!

Great review, cool photophysics--I learned something new!

New paper, led by postdoc Janis Smits: -Introduces a “Ramsey-Mz” protocol for NMR spectroscopy using diamond NV centers -In principle, works at arbitrary field. Well suited to moderate fields (0.3-3 T) -Resolved ethanol chemical shift structure with negligble distortion arxiv.org/abs/2503.02140

Please do not use an llm to review my papers. I much prefer you just paste whatever bullet points/notes you were going to put into the llm prompt into a txt file and submit. No flowery verbage needed!

He's not a student of history, is he? As well as being an utter cockwomble.

Watched the oval office meeting. First 40 min is standard Trump BS, Zelensky is used to it and nods along. Then Vance starts bloviating, speaking with entitlement about shit he absolutely has no idea about. Zelensky loses it. Weve all been in Zelenky's shoes, its impossible to bite ur tongue there.

Alright I'll say it. The Microsoft Majorana craziness is what you get when you let theoretical physicists run your device R&D agenda based on the "beauty" of the idea instead of what actually works.

Cool paper!

I'm confused. If IDC rate is now 15% on all existing NIH awards as of now, does the total award amount also change? Or do we now just have more allocated to direct costs? I'm guessing they intended the former, but arent total costs listed in the award documents and public disclosure (ie Reporter)?

Postdoctoral Research Associate (solid-state NMR) The Carbon and Composites Group, the Separations and Polymer chemistry section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Oak Ridge, TN, US jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridg... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

Hate how the favorite US policy argument for science funding is Sinophobia.

Nice. I'm tempted to submit a proposal titled "Spin qubits and Inclusive Excellence come try and triage this I'm ready to fight". Just for fun

Looks a lot like NSF leadership is playing "pick me" to the White House nutjobs.

Would appreciate a RT from the scientists for this one! We have 665 scientists in the spring database and I want to get us to about 1000 before we set the teachers loose on the database for January matches.

So in fact what journal peer review may primarily be doing is ranking papers (by determining where in the journal hierarchy they end up). And most problematically, that lasting quality signal is assigned at a single point in time based on the somewhat subjective opinions of a 3-4 people 4/n

Plenty of other publishers try different models! PLoS, Frontiers, EMBO, Wellcome, Review Commons, all have implemented new models. Let’s not forget to credit them, just because they don’t jump wildly from model to model every couple of years.

Triage is a long and complicated discussion. We tried to deal with it here elifesciences.org/articles/100... But we agree it is complicated and we are open to suggestions. The suggestions can't start "review everything" though. Anyone who suggests that has not seen what gets submitted.

This Thanksgiving I was privileged to go on a Disney Cruise with my wife and five small-ish children (12, 10, 5, 4, 4). Here ‘s a thread nobody asked for explaining why a cruise with 5 kids is essentially a floating psychological experiment gone wrong.

Habtom Samuel is an incredible athlete. One shoe, one barefoot for half a 10k cross-country championship in near-freezing temps and finishes in second place!

Another new paper on diamond magnetic microscopy! This one, led by grad student Bryan Richards and recent grad Nate Ristoff, studies the M-H curves and Neel relaxation of hundreds of single 30-nm nanoparticles in parallel. Some surprising results, e.g. step-like M-H curves: arxiv.org/abs/2411.13087

New paper led by Dr. Andris Berzins & Maziar Saleh Ziabari: -the impact of MW phase noise on NV sensors is important! picotesla-level noise. -accurately predicted with sequence filter function + MW generator spec sheet. -with gradiometry, we realize >10x suppression journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...