Come join our team at Trinity College Dublin's @tcddublin.bsky.social School of Physics, where we are hiring two new Assistant Professors, one in Physics (experimental) and one in Astrophysics.

See www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ and www.tcd.ie/physics/

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Proud Supervisor moment: Anas Siddiqui successfully defended his PhD thesis today: "Machine-Learned Interatomic
Potentials for Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and their Heterostructures"! Many thanks to Ioan-Bogdan Magdau and Albert Bartok-Partay as examiners.

One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

New paper! Anas Siddiqui has done fantastic work training Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for the whole Transition Metal Dichalcogenide family, and used them to study domain reconstruction with vdW-DF level accuracy, in twisted homo- and hetero-bilayers.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

For the second time in 3 years my birthday has fallen during the Psi-K conference #psik2025 - awesome place to celebrate it actually! Great talks and great community - and a morning swim in Lac Leman

I know a guy who
alloys steel
He makes it stronger
a harder feel
He don't use carbon
or molyb'
He don't use nickel
or any of these

He uses manganese

Seems crazy to change the format at this late stage though.

Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

I am at the #APSMarch meeting in Anaheim, California this week. Looking forward to lots of exciting talks on ML for materials science! Giving a talk myself on Thursday at 12:06in 263B!

A standing ovation for federal workers by the thousands of physicists who are meeting in Anaheim this week, supporting their colleagues in science agencies who couldn’t afford—or weren’t allowed—to come. Sorry, no pictures, in part out of green-card holders’ fears. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

I have been a silent observer on bsky.app so far but happy to self-introduce on here by sharing news of a new paper with Anas Siddiqui. In Phys. Rev. Mater 9, 014004 we train an MLIP and a continuum model InSe and investigate Moire reconstructions with twist angle:
journals.aps.org/prmaterials/...