I know that the NYT Spelling Bee is bad with scientific/technical terms, but this omission is particularly egregious. #photonics #NYTimes

Will the NYT please use a science dictionary?! This is getting ridiculous.

Fun stuff here in PNAS. Static electric 'microlightning' in micro water bubbles may be the long-sought ignition mechanism for mashy will-o'-the-wisps... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What is going on with the NYT Spelling Bee. This is Canadian erasure.

Is it just me, or is the Spelling Bee particularly frustrating for scientists?

Is the youth cooked? I just found my teen daughter's desk lamp in the recycling bin. When I asked her about it she said "It's broken. I didn't do anything to it! it Just stopped working!". LED bulbs last so long that she didn't know about bulb replacement.

Happy Wordle-in-one day to me! 🎉 Time to find a new starter. Wordle 1,538 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Our new paper asks (and answers) whether a shallow-learning approach (decision trees) can be as useful in (hyper)spectral analysis as advanced deep-learning methods. tldr: Yes it can. Complex ≠ better. doi.org/10.1088/2515... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social #photonics

this is the way

I'm struggling to parse the moral landscape on this one. If this gambit succeeds, who has the greatest moral failing: the authors, the reviewer, or the journal editors?

Let's play Jupiter or River Scum?

"Although fewer women apply for tenure-track jobs, those who do apply are more likely to be interviewed and more likely to get offered the job... These findings run directly counter to the claim that women are discriminated against in STEM hiring." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/rethinking...

Spring has now truly sprung at Trent U. Does your campus have a riverside bench from which you might count new goslings? @trentuniversity.bsky.social

So here is the Heiligenschein raytracing, where we see that retroreflection with a smooth reflectorshows a clear caustic and separation between red and blue! This will be washed out with randomness in reflected angles using a diffuse reflector. @johncnaylor.bsky.social

Roses are red Cacti is plural Small bubbles are turgid from pressure, transmural #iteachphysics ⚛️🧪

I hate nutritionism.

Community exists, to the degree we value it. Especially now, community matters within education, and within the group engaged with the teaching and learning of Physics. I'm just hoping to support the fact that all of us, together, make a difference. #ITeachPhysics

Vive le Canada ✌️❤️🇨🇦

We are truly in the golden age of self-learning physics. Curiosity + 10 seconds of any of of Bertolotti's digital Factlets = anabolic learning! #TeachPhysics ⚛️

#PhysicsFactlet If you put apertures of different shapes in the path of a plane wave, you get different diffraction patterns. And with a bit of experience you can say a lot about the aperture shape just by looking at the diffraction pattern. #Physics #Optics #Photonics #ITeachPhysics

Any science professors in Sweden willing to answer a basic question about grad school letters of recommendation? Please message me! ⚛️🧪

Bad. But how bad? I once asked myself, while finding fakes in the Scientific Report @natureportfolio.bsky.social. So I decide to "do my our research" - I took 100 articles in a row from Physical sciences that contains diffraction. Result - 15 fakes out 100. Details in the 🧵 #ResearchIntegrity 1/x

What's for dinner?

Please everyone, I beg you, abandon this talking point. In fact 100% of the energy we use ends up as waste heat—and that's fine! The problem with fossil fuels is not that in some esoteric sense they're supposedly less efficient. The problem is their emissions. 🔌💡

I've always liked @thecure.com , but they were never in my "top 5". But, boy, what an unexpected gift it was to get such a fantastic new album in 2024! I'm transported to my youth. I'm overcome by the scent of my first girlfriend's bedroom. I'm haunted by longing.

One of the best physics stories of all time. I had not appreciated the distinction between manipulating the neutron reflector shell and the Demon Core itself! ⚛️

Me: The earth isn't flat. Fiat earther: Correct. Me: Huh? Fiat earther: It's the shape of an italian car. Me: What? Fiat earther: You read my name wrong didn't you?

Happy Wordle-in-1 for all who celebrate!

Happy Hannukah from my non-kosher household to yours.

They combined grape dimers with vacancy centres in diamonds. I can't believe they didn't title the paper "Champagne on Ice"...

Terrific illustration of Simpson’s paradox, a not uncommon stumbling block in data analysis, via @tah-sci.bsky.social In the whole dataset, the relationship between X and Y is negative, but the relationship between X and Y is actually positive, once proper subsets of the data are considered.

Trent University as Nordic Noir. Exam season has never been this foreboding. @trentuniversity.bsky.social

This is so cool! God, I love biophotonics. I know how fun and rewarding it is to take this kind of project from WFT?! to "I wonder if" to "holy shit!". enjoy the ride @reallymccoy.bsky.social !

OK @jacopobertolotti.com , what DnD character am I based on this insanity? I hereby challenge any follower/mutual to show a more idiosyncratic spotify wrapped top 5.

What kind of fresh hell is this? Dear Optics Express (@optica): I am not entirely confident that you understand the meaning of "final decision". To be fair, I'm also no longer sure that you know the meaning of "express". jkjk. Please don't Major Revisions this paper. We're sick of looking at it.

A full-colour photograph of flocculated matter flowing down the Otonabee river that runs through Trent University. A fingerprint of a moment of time. A literal watermark.

The microwave oven isn't just for bad cooks! There are some great cooking hacks if you know the science! A minced clove of garlic in a quarter cup of oil, on high for 25 seconds, will yield aromatic garlic-infused oil without any browning or bitterness. 💡🧪 🧵 1/4

So many misconceptions about putting metal in the microwave oven. Yes, you can leave the metal spoon in your tea/coffee/soup/stew. No, it won't spark or burn you! In fact, the metal won't absorb any microwaves. [Pic is before & after, 45s on high. Temp scale on right is useful.] #iteachphysics 💡🧪

When you are wondering how long ago was the kettle boiled and whether you're going to need to fill it, but you're too lazy to get up... #physics #iteachphysics

That's a huge birefringence. Wow.

I am heartbroken by the horrific terrorist actions in Israel this weekend. I have family and friends there, but more so, I left I large piece of my heart there in the 1980s. 🇮🇱 חָזָק

Torn between a pic of food, nature, optics phenomenon, or dumb meme as my first bsky post. I guess optics art wins. Here's polarization-filtered colouration (polage) piece I call Night Flood.