Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket. aaai.org/aaai-launche... >>

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It seems very in a bit of low of activity here, and Photonics feed recently is mainly announcements💡 Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?

Planmäßige Zugtrennung aber außergewöhnlich im Köln

Ich mag meinen Beruf echt gerne, aber ist natürlich nicht alles Friede Freude Eierkuchen, mit vielen strukturellen Problemen. zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...

Dieser wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs ist etwas rausegewachsen #IchbinHanna

hey photonics people 💡🔬, is anyone in Munich next week? @optica.org @spie.org

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Sieht aus wie eine Koralle, aber es ist tatsächlich eine Gehirnzelle, ein Neuron. Das ist eine 3D-gedruckte Purkinje-Zelle, die man im Kleinhirn einer Ratte gefunden hat. (natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)

Oh, finally, a good duration for a postdoc contract

I count 55 emails back and forth between 8 people to make a simple computer purchase. 35 of those emails concern a $30 difference in price because of a backorder. When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features! github.com/burghoff/Sci...

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Dieses „Freizeit“, das ist, wenn man spült, die Waschmaschine ein- & ausräumt, einkaufen geht, sich Essen zubereitet, putzt, aufräumt usw., und für das die Zeit ständig zu knapp ist, richtig?

1. Pull myself into a crunch 2. Hate it here passionately 3. Repeat!

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!" We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

#PhysicsFactlet Wavefront Shaping is a family of techniques used to control light (or, more generally, a wave) propagating through a scattering medium. A 🧵 1/ 🧪⚛️🎢💡

Do I take this thread and show it to students we discuss AI with? 🤔 Absolutely. What an ouch, a soul lost, tremendous amount of confusion out of nothing and useless suffering, what a "great" result.

one of my fav medieval weapons expert on the internet is on this app and I am so excited, everyone with even a passing interest in the subject should follow this guy

Wir freuen uns mit Alfred Ludwig und Martin R. Hofmann: Die beiden Forscher wurden in die Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste NRW aufgenommen – für ihre Spitzenforschung zu neuartigen Materialien und energieeffizienter Datenübertragung.

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One of my favorite old twitter scientist threads was the “who has a cool science tattoo?” thread. There’s so many new scientists here now, I think we have critical mass. Post your science tattoo! Here’s mine:

I think about this comic at least once a week

A great group by F Cichos in Leipzig 🇩🇪 is looking for a motivated PhD student to work on novel techniques in thermofluidics incl. manipulation w #plasmonics 🌕, #qdots, and #ML A collaboration between @unileipzig.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social Apply here 👇

I sometimes wonder, whether some posts are being visible at all... One more week to go! 👇

This is what I put in my syllabus. Best I can do for now.

#fNIRS has the best terminology out there: yay photon banana!

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This applies to science communication as well: you can't expect people to comb through information over abundance to find your awesome stuff #SciComm

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Prof. Bender lists below some examples of what might have been LLM use cases, that is if LLMs outputs were adequate...

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!

As we've noted before, there's no fundamental right to algorithmic amplification. There's no free reach in free speech b/c social media isn't a town square. It's more akin to a shopping mall. The public is invited, but if the owner doesn't like what you're doing, security will escort you out.

>Ich litt daran, ich kämpfte mit meinen Texten, mit jedem Kapitel, jedem Satz, jeder Fußnote, und fand alles irgendwie unzureichend, dringend überarbeitungsbedürftig. I am in that sentence and I do not like it

The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

We do already crowdfund research. It is called "taxes".

What can airplane cockpits tell us about the dangers of designing for the ‘average’ person? 🧵

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Oft dürfte krampfhaftes Propagieren schlechter Arbeitsbedingungen (entgrenzte Arbeitszeiten, Überstunden, mies behandelt werden usw.) auch daran liegen, dass Leute den Gedanken nicht ertragen, es könnte anderen besser gehen, während sie selbst es nicht hingekriegt haben, das für sich einzufordern.

The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

This is why finding a place for it in the classroom is in fundamental tension with what the classroom itself has been for. I do not say it has no uses; not at all. I do say that the most obvious uses it finds in the classroom run directly counter to the goals of education, and inhibit their pursuit.

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

Our goal is to publish this in Bioengineered to inform their readers. However, we are not willing to pay the APC of over $3000 and asked for a waiver. @tandfresearch.bsky.social has offered us a 50% discount but that's not good enough. They promised to respond within 3 days, 10 days ago....

"oh 19%, not bad"

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#wisszeitvg #ichbinhanna

The whole #MyanmarEarthquake rupture in one interferogram! This is three consecutive wide swath frames of ALOS-2 data, provided by JAXA through agreement with NASA. The line-of-sight (LOS) is ~perpendicular to fault strike, so most of what you see is vertical motion at bends and steps of the fault.

It's #1stApril but this is no joke. The clock is most definitely ticking. A catastrophic chain reaction of space debris causing collisions, each creating more debris, is not just a possibility, it's already under way. In some orbits, we really could run out of space. Is it a crisis?