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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · 10d

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

Ejemplo de crecimiento limitado por difusión (Diffusion Limited Aggregation)

YouTube video by anglyannet

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · 25d

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.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25d

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

www.cbsnews.com

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Physghoul 👻 @physgal.bsky.social · 25d

#AcademicSky

Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 25d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo-abad.bsky.social · 25d

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...

Analogue speech recognition based on physical computing - Nature

A temporal-signal processor based on two in-materia computing hardware platforms—reconfigurable nonlinear-processing units (RNPUs) and analogue in-memory computing (AIMC)—is used for both feature extr...

www.nature.com

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29d

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.

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.

arstechnica.com

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Jorge Bravo Abad @bravo-abad.bsky.social · Sep 13

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...

SurFF: a foundation model for surface exposure and morphology across intermetallic crystals - Nature Computational Science

A foundation machine learning model, SurFF, enables DFT-accurate predictions of surface energies and morphologies in intermetallic catalysts, achieving over 105-fold acceleration for high-throughput m...

www.nature.com

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Sep 8

That's why Craterus had to build a new fleet when returning to Macedonia!

Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Sep 4

At the press conference announcing the state's intention to end all vaccination requirements, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo likened the mandates to slavery.

In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements

Exposing vulnerable people to vaccine-preventable disease is just part of life, Ladapo said.

arstechnica.com

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · Sep 2

"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

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Kinetic data becomes spottier for mid-size organic molecules with heteroatoms, worse if you bring plasmas to the mix (to mimic lightning as in Urey and Miller's experiment)

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Leif Erik Sander 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @sanderlab.bsky.social · Aug 30

Beeindruckende Transformation. #Paris

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · Aug 30

You can ignore climate science at your own peril, but you can't really make it disappear ...

Despite Lack of Federal Support, US Scientists Continue Work on Key Global Climate Reports - Inside Climate News

Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort.

insideclimatenews.org

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

ejemplopython

Ejemplo de estructura de un repositorio para un package de Python

codeberg.org

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Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Aug 7

#ChemSky 🧪

Mark @mysoulstears.bsky.social · Aug 7

Clang! Another human learns something the hard way.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis

Literal “hallucinations” were the result.

arstechnica.com

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Aug 7

It is very sad that I read eels and my first thought was electron energy loss spectroscopy instead of actual eels.

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Aug 7

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"

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · Jul 28

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

Gerri Whitley @gerriwhitley.bsky.social · Jul 28

summer nights lit by fireflies

bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.

#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape

Fireflies dance across a park with the Chicago skyline in the background

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

Surrogate models to optimize plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition in high aspect ratio features

In this work, we explore surrogate models to optimize plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) in high aspect ratio features. In plasma-based processes s

pubs.aip.org

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · Jul 15

#booksky

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 9

ALL CAPS

THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...

GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪

www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

www.politico.com

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 9

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Jul 7

what can you expect from the house of actually?

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Angel Yanguas-Gil @ayanguasgil.bsky.social · Jul 7

My personal experience is that physics departments in the US tend to cluster around a few disciplines (particle physics, condensed matter, and astrophysics) leaving other generally more applied fields (plasma, fluids, materials...) to other departments, which then capture students and funding.

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