📢Call for #ALDALE2026 abstracts -due February 5. Join us in 🌴Tampa, FL for the AVS 26th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition & the 13th Atomic Layer Etching Workshop. #ALDep #ALEtch ald2026.avs.org

A new version of gris, a lightweight parser of RIS reference files is up: gris.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...

This is a remarkable development, and a significant step on the path to clean fusion energy. apple.news/AR-72-2b9Ty-...

❄️Everyone knows no two snowflakes are alike, a fact that stems from the way the crystals cook up in the sky. www.quantamagazine.org/toward-a-gra... (From 2019)

what else is there to say

The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/3MGESjx

Me: At last I have a few hours to work in my paper. My organization: your computer needs to restart, if it takes more than 30 min throw it in the ocean.

I’ll be speaking at the Thin Film Society webinar on Dec 17! “Atomic Layer Innovations: New Pathways for Future Semiconductor Fabrication” • #ASDep for future patterning • AI-driven materials design via #ALDep 🕘 9 PM Seoul / 1 PM CET / 7 AM EST 🔗 voovmeeting.com/dm/xrmEzmbmY...

The U.S. Department of Energy is reorganizing its scientific efforts by establishing new offices for types of research favored by the White House. https://scim.ag/4aonc5S

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

Snow crystals on our car’s windshield, a prelude to the winter storm going through the US midwest right now

Un tutorial sobre cómo usar Python para hacer figuras para publicaciones científicas: cienciaypython.github.io/book/matplot...

Now I need to read this: www.bbc.com/news/article...

¡Chorprecha! El hermano mayor de ‘Eso no estaba en mi libro de Hª de los dinosaurios’ llega la semana que viene: ‘Historia de la Paleontología’ almuzaralibros.com/fichalibro.p...

I rode in one of the UK’s first self-driving cars

🧪

You need to listen to this compilation of ‘80s Spanish ambient and electronic music

What does it mean to be a physicist right now? 🧪https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-physicist-right-now

This is worth a repost. 😅

🧪

Set to run for 25 years, the effort will produce multiomic maps not just for monkeys but for developing, adult, aging, and diseased human brains from diverse populations. https://scim.ag/4o44CDP

3D Ising model simulating a liquid-vapor transition. Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

Visualización de crecimiento por agregación de partículas: youtu.be/g3bIBNstaYU

Las visas H-1B es una de las formas más comunes de contratar extranjeros como profesores en universidades de Estados Unidos, incluyendo aquellos que han hecho el doctorado aquí. Si se mantiene esta orden, todo el mundo de vuelta a casa tras terminar la tesis o como mucho el postdoc.

Zolfagharinejad and coauthors show that analogue hardware can “hear.” Using nonlinear silicon units for cochlea-like feature extraction and in-memory chips for classification, they achieve near-software speech recognition at millisecond latency and ultra-low energy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

By programming the AI to roleplay as villagers growing aware of their debt situation, and giving them a shared memory to track conversations, the modder orchestrated a scenario where the residents began to organize against their shared landlord.

Most industrial reactions happen on catalyst surfaces, but predicting which surfaces actually form is costly. Jun Yin and coauthors present SurFF, a foundation model that predicts surface exposure across intermetallic crystals with DFT-level accuracy, 100k× faster. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Onion @theonion.com is going to have to up their headline game

"I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about." J. R. R. Tolkien, who died on this day in 1973

Beeindruckende Transformation. #Paris

🧪

Un ejemplo de cómo estructurar un repositorio para crear tu propio paquete en Python: codeberg.org/anglyan/ejem...

#ChemSky 🧪

After an in depth analysis, Dumbledore's strategy can be summarized as: "the magic kid will figure things out in the end even if I hide critical information from him"

If you look close, you might just realize this is one of the coolest photos of #Chicago ever

How can we leverage machine learning to accelerate the optimization of new plasma assisted atomic layer deposition processes? Our most recent paper has been selected as a feature article in Physics of Plasmas 🧪⚛️: pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/arti...

One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them — theonion.com/democratic-l...

News in the meniscus front: after an increase in surface tension, capillary forces are moving in #scienceasnews 🧪

*takes notes* #booksky

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

🧪

How can we use machine learning to quickly optimize growth and etching processes in semiconductor manufacturing? Our work has just been accepted for publication and is now available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09313

Love materials? Love materials science but dont want to be an academic? How about working for us and being the science lead for the best Materials Library in the world? www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/blog/we-are-...

The new supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA chips tailored for A.I. calculations, could be the Energy Department's biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models, says @berkeleylab.lbl.gov's Jonathan Carter. @energygov.bsky.social

Great first day of #EuroCVD with several interesting talks: hybrid ALD/MLD, LCA of ALD and CVD processes, novel precursors, etc. We also can’t complain about the venue. #ALDep