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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 6h

"by linking bouncing to droplet velocity, size and surface properties, the new framework could make it easier to engineer microdroplets for specific purposes"

Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 8h

What causes microscopic droplets to stick to surfaces rather than bouncing off them? The answer has many applications, including for pesticides sprayed on crops and for controlling the spread of disease-causing aerosols. It's also more complicated than we thought. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...

Physicists explain why some fast-moving droplets stick to hydrophobic surfaces – Physics World

New experiments and calculations could improve aerosol and microfluidic technologies while shedding more light on airborne disease transmission

physicsworld.com

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 9h

LAB CHRONICLE #21
-Good Day-

Today, the experiment worked.
Then the camera froze.
→ I have a JPEG of pure science.
→ Just one image. But perfect.

#Bug #Jpeg #PureScience #GoodDay #OneFrame

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 1d

"When a new entrepreneur emerges, they have every incentive to come up with a radical new technology"

Nature @nature.com · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 1d

A bubble bursting in slow motion — where physics meets poetry.

🎥 Stéphane Dorbolo @marca-be.bsky.social – @universitedeliege.bsky.social
youtu.be/yWhDlVrEOAQ?...

#Physics #FunScience #FluidDynamics #Bubble #SlowMotion

Bubble bursting

YouTube video by LeidenForce

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 5d

The first steps of Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
@universitedeliege.bsky.social with @kafleury.bsky.social

#PhDLife #LeidenForce #Research #SpaceScience

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 5d

"le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique"

Grand Labo @grandlabo.com · 6d

[REPLAY] En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du HCERES par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique, souvent jugée bureaucratique. On en parle avec la sociologue Clémentine Gozlan.

Peut-on encore évaluer la recherche ? Avec Clémentine Gozlan.

En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation…

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome Gauri Patki (DC#4) to #LeidenForce!
She will study #LeidenfrostJets at @laboratoire-iemn.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social PtYX.
PI: @leduke21.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social
+ @airbus.com secondment.
www.leidenforce.eu/welcomegaurinews
#FluidDynamics

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 7d

LAB CHRONICLE #20
-Data Acquisition-

Camera aligned.
Perfect focus.
→ Then I sneezed.
→ 4 hours of recalibration.

#LabLifeGoesOn #PhDLife #ExperimentalTragedy #LeidenfrostEffect #LabReality

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 8d

In one minute !

Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 8d

Nobel Prize in Physics — 11:45 CEST stream from Stockholm. Watch the official announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FU...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 8d

At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️

The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed – Physics World

Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000

physicsworld.com

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 9d

Welcome Pablo Gil González, new DC at #LeidenForce!
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Pierre Colinet + secondments @espciparispsl.bsky.social, @ntnu-iss.bsky.social, @universitedeliege.bsky.social, @utwente.bsky.social
🔗Read more: www.leidenforce.eu/welcomepablonews
#PhD #Research #VaporFilm

Picture of Pablo Gil Gonzàlez, new DC at LeidenForce

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Nature @nature.com · 9d

Researchers are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence tools that can handle complex, multi-step processes

go.nature.com/3IY9njc

A scientist’s guide to AI agents — how could they help your research?

Researchers are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence tools that can handle complex, multi-step processes.

go.nature.com

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 9d

" I wanted them to think deeply about the research process and to develop their own inventiveness. I wanted them to tap into their imaginations."

Science Magazine @science.org · 9d

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

On #WorldTeachersDay, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4nvwosR

People diving into a pool of books and figures, with text: How I learned to teach like a scientist

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 12d

"So where do physicists end up? Surprise: Physicists can do—and actually do—(almost) anything"
#Physicist #Career #FromPhysicsToAnything #EverythingIsPossible

Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 12d

About two-thirds of US-trained physics PhD recipients work outside of academia. In a new interview series, Physics Today is profiling physicists who opted for careers outside the ivory tower. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics #physicsjobs

What can physicists do?

Interviews offer a glimpse of how physicists get into—and thrive in—myriad nonacademic careers.

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 12d

“What is the goal of starting a lab?”
"How to choose a good scientific problem?"
"What happens after we choose a problem?"
#MustRead #ResearchGem

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Nov 24

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

2. How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem

Open Access
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 13d

Welcome Mélanie Bulois DC#10 to #LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the #LeidenfrostEffect in multiphase #microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Benoit Scheid + secondment @universiteuppa.bsky.social
🔗 www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelan...

Picture of Mélanie Bulois, new DC in the LeidenForce project

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 13d

The Focus Collection highlights progress at the intersection of theory, experiment, and data science, uncovering and harnessing unconventional mechanical behaviors in soft systems far from equilibrium
#softmatter #machinelearning #datascience

Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 13d

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems.
www.nature.com/collections/...

Odd Soft Matter: Simulations, experiments and applications of Machine Learning

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, ...

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 14d

"Ethical decision-making skills are as important for preparing physics students for the workforce as technical skills"
www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...
@apsphysics.bsky.social

Recent physics grads are no stranger to AI

Physics graduates are both using artificial intelligence and building it, the latest survey found.

www.aps.org

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arXiv physics.flu-dyn Fluid Dynamics @physicsfludyn-bot.bsky.social · 14d

Matteo Leonard, Dilip Maity, Nicolas Vandewalle, Tadd Truscott: Stretching water between two grooves https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.25864

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arXiv physics.flu-dyn Fluid Dynamics @physicsfludyn-bot.bsky.social · 14d

Matteo Leonard, Jos\'ephine Van Hulle, Florianne Weyer, Denis Terwagne, Nicolas Vandewalle: Droplets sliding on single and multiple vertical fibers https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25898 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25898 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.25898

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 14d

Thoughts for researchers… polyglots and champions of scientific palaeography.

Etienne Klein @etienneklein.bsky.social · 14d

En physique, si on veut être à la page, il faut en lire…
Celle-ci fut rédigée par Einstein dans les années 1920 : des phrases, des équations, des corrections écrites à la main qui, si on les lit, aident à mieux comprendre (bon, mais c’est de l’allemand).

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 15d

"Physicists studied the phase transitions that occur while making the pasta dish cacio e pepe."

Nature @nature.com · 24d

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo

go.nature.com/3I4wd8E

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

Nature - The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

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Nature @nature.com · 16d

3,785 doctoral students across 107 counties told us about everything from supervision practices to workplace concerns

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4gSnYJM

A chart titled "how phd students rate their experiences". 75% of respondents are satisfied with their phds

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 15d

LAB CHRONICLE #19
-Weekly Report-

I found an old coffee cup behind the hotplate.
→ A bit acidic. But stable.

#LabCoffee #ThermodynamicStability #PhaseTransition #SurvivalOfTheCup #LeidenForce

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 16d

"The researchers speculate that these scientists [the beginners] offer new perspectives because they are less attached to previous theories and knowledge than are their more experienced colleagues"

Nature @nature.com · 16d

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative

go.nature.com/4nrEvqg

Rookie scientists make research teams more innovative

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

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