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

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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/

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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

Oh, and the requested budget for NSF major facilities is $100M smaller than the budget for Avenger's Endgame 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Just learned that the NSF's 2026 budget request for semiconductors/microelectronics research is smaller than what Microsoft or Apple paid its CEOs in 2024. 🧪 Source for CEO compensation: www.barrons.com/articles/hig...

As of 9.30p, nothing in the @nytimes.com - Looking forward to more updates on Biden's prostate, though 🧪

Proud to say my recent op-ed piece on issues with the for-profit academic publishing industry will appear in the July issue of @physicsworld.bsky.social! Read it now online at: physicsworld.com/a/why-i-stop...

Conferences are abandoning the US “If we held a meeting in the US, we might not get enough people to register.” 🧪

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Remove a letter, ruin a band Sashing pumpkins

Remove a letter, ruin a band Ears for Fears

Wow, even though they target basic research, the impact of research funding cuts is massive www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... 🧪

I feel seen

Three Oklahoma Thunder players share the same name. That must be close to a record for an #NBA team

Cool paper: Experimental Quantum Simulation of Chemical Dynamics | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 🧪

Saturn's Hexagon - From Val Klavans - https://flic.kr/p/dYsXyF

One of the best books ever written, in any genre.

À l’occasion des 150 ans de la Convention du mètre, retour sur la quête d’universalité du Système international : comment les constantes fondamentales redéfinissent nos unités de mesure et ancrent la physique dans l’absolu. ⚖️

🧮 #MathSky

Ok, we live in a world where the Pope has actually written a book on applied statistics: academic.oup.com/book/50039

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV's entrance with the Alan Parsons Project playing:

This week on the blog! A little more Tolkien, this time a long look at how 'magic' and supernatural power function in The Lord of the Rings - and how what gets seen as 'magic' is simply an extension of the greater power of the Unseen spiritual world in Middle-earth. acoup.blog/2025/04/25/c...

Momento de transición en el que las flores de la magnolia estrellada dan paso a las hojas