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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Congratulations to #SFU Mathematics prof Nadish de Silva and SFU Physics profs @jsdodge.bsky.social and Hoi Kwan Lau, on receiving NSERC Alliance International Quantum grants! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/...

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🎆🎇🎆🎇 It's time for... the Semi-Finals of the 2024 Headline of the Year contest! 🎇🎆🎇🎆 Welcome! Here are the results so far:

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

Welcome to the exciting Quarterfinals of the 2024 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆) Interesting contests so far, but the stakes are being raised with some tough battles ahead -- Self-Driving Cars vs. Orca Salmon Hats & Welsh Tidy Mouse vs. Alarming Poetry Sales. Let's review the results so far:

submitted 60 days ago • 13 comments

I was surprised and delighted to see the work of my friend and colleague John Bechhoefer featured in this article on entropy and information engines. I’ve had the pleasure of serving on a few of the thesis committees for his students and it’s been fun to see this work develop. From: @7homaslin […]

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🚨 It’s official! The Journal of Open Source Software has published our data analysis software for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy!💡🧪 🍾🎉🌈 Congrats to my student-researcher coauthors! Thanks also to the people at @pyopensci.bsky.social, who organized the peer review and helped during development.

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Nine months after the provost moved to fire him, Ranga Dias is no longer employed by the University of Rochester. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #LGBTQSTEMday! More than a decade (!) ago, I asked a social scientist friend to help build a study of queer identities in science careers after my literature searches came up empty — this year I helped with an evidence review that found SO MUCH on the topic, and still room for more work.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming. Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

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@econover.bsky.social has written a nice summary of the latest claim of photoinduced superconductivity from the Hamburg MPI, which includes some words of cautious skepticism from me. www.sciencenews.org/article/ligh... #superconductivity #physics #optics #MPI ⚛️🧪💡

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Women for Quantum -- Manifesto of Values https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02612 Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. Beyond data, from our shared personal experiences as female...📈🤖

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Yes, Bluesky did this days ago, but still. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

submitted 245 days ago • 2 comments

People sometimes ask me "It's pride month, what should I do?" Centre the conversation on margenlised voices Actively avoid/ignore/push back on the media fear mongering "sex based rights" Recognise that queer iconography and community is important - and that's why flags/months/🏳️‍🌈crosswalks matter

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It has been a few months since I advertised the Photonics feed, for content related to the study and applications of optics & photonics If you work or study in the field, or are a hobbyist, reply or DM and I can give you posting access. Tag a post with 💡 to be included bsky.app/profile/did:... cc🧪

submitted 271 days ago • 1 comment

Women at the bottom of the World by David Kushner for Wired t.co/uZESKwLR88

submitted 329 days ago • 5 comments

Ranga Dias found to have committed #ScientificMisconduct in his work on #superconductivity after multiple internal investigations arstechnica.com/science/2024...

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For those who are interested , my recorded talk at the APS March Meeting, “How nonlinearity distorts the evidence for photoinduced superconductivity,” is now available on-demand for those who registered. First talk in Session N41. march.aps.org #superconductivity #physics