Are you or do you know a smart, motivated Master student in a materials-adjacent area interested in doing a research project at EPFL? The @materials-epfl.bsky.social MX Fellowship applications open today sti.epfl.ch/smx/mx-fello.... Choose a lab, send your file, and spend up to six months at EPFL!

'this the season! 🍄

📢 Shout-out for `scwidgets`, a library of ipython widgets to make interactive pedagogic notebooks without all the boilerplate code. I started it for a "computational thinking" class at @materials-epfl.bsky.social. Thanks to many 🧑‍🚀, led by Alex Goscinski, it's now clean, documented and on pypi.

Science just broke @overleaf.com #keepinvestigating

Considering I've taken this from my balcony, with a street lamp in front of the house, and holding the phone in my hand in front of the objective, I'm not too unhappy!

I mean, in all honesty this is exactly the kind of tasks for which I'd use genAI. Not even re-reading and polishing a tiny bit does convey a certain carelessness, perhaps. 10/10 would vote for the candidate.

Clearing up my teenage room. 3.5" games nostalgia, a pile of now unreadable crap, an original windows 95 cd, and lots of questions about why they used to put stock images of folks on dvd burning software disks.

Looks like we're headed into a white xmas. At least up the hill where I live, EPFL is already in the mushy zone.

Very proud of our homemade xmas lighting. Living dangerously: #DIY theoretician = #firehazard

Second day of #AI for physical modeling @cecamevents.bsky.social. what better starter than the one and only Big Michele Parrinello?

With a direct train from Mainz to Bern, I thought I was safe from #diebahn shenanigans. Little I knew about the concept of cancelling stops of trains 👌 Wish me luck and remind me never to travel to 🇩🇪 again.

Woke up to snow in Boston!

After an amazing day in Harvard, with lots of fun talking with faculty and students, time to plunge into @materials-mrs.bsky.social #mrs24!

Awww, so jealous! Still, I'm getting my fair share also on this side of the pond - lobster roll with Jigyasa!