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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Professor at a primarily undergraduate institution trying to talk to his R1 colleagues at a conference.

Simpsons Good evening, sir.
Would you please leave without a fuss right now?

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Paper about big double donut knots in now published, and open access! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

diagram showing an arrangement of 41 concentric helices being wrapped into a torus, then two tori linked with each other.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

At the International Conference on Packing Problems and you can tell the organizers have really put in a 74.05% effort putting this together.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Any of my internet friends in Amsterdam?

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Guy who loses his boarding pass on the bus from the gate to the plane because he likes probing edge cases.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Spectroscopist A: *shoots self in arm with laser* Spectroscopist B: "That really doesn't reflect well on you."

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Absolutely pathetic field near the equator

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'm in Australia and trying to use a command line on a cluster in Scotland. Typing is laggy because the round trip distance is more than 0.1 light seconds. This is the first time I've been hampered by the finite speed of light.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Studying nanochemistry while texting with dad.

Journal table of contents figure with thumbs up emojis.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Any aspiring cleos out there who can find an evaluation of this?

limit of a ratio of two sums, one of an integral of a radical, the other of a radical.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Guy who walks around tourist areas with a big magnet to mess up people using phone compass navigation.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

ACAB includes websites that don't have a Reject Cookies button up front

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Calling variables in bash reminds me I should be in a different dollar bracket.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Can't believe this bus wifi got a faculty position.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's funny how my "internet not working right" workflow has shifted from checking my wifi connection to checking downdetector to see if there's a global outage of from something like AWS or cloudflare.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Someone in a pub asked me how I don't get cold running in shorts and I got to give a whole thermodynamics lesson.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I woke up too early because of jetlag AMA

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

After hanging around kids several times in the past few weeks I can confirm that the 6-7 thing is annoying.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Environmentally and geopolitically it might be a disaster, but the Northeast passage between China and Europe could be made a lot shorter by digging a canal between Lake Baikal and the Amur River basin. Then you'd only need to sail the Arctic between the Yenisey and the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

If there's one thing I can attribute my success to, it's understanding the post hoc ergo propter hoc falacy. My career really took off after I learned about it.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Boss: "This new invention that rotates the pistons in our engine is great! What should we call it?" Jim: "A jimshaft!" Cam: "I have a better idea."

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I bet Ryerson didn't count on their name change setting themselves up for "Temu U of T"

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

You are eating because you're hungry, I am eating because I'm bored. We are not the same.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Guy who insists that arrays begin at index 0 but that the ground floor is the 1st.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My biggest shame from high school English class is that I DNF'd Jane Eyre right before we found out about the wife in the attic.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Solving the helium atom in quantum mechanics 🤝 Cancer prevention Understanding the importance of screening

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Teaching thermodynamics but pronouncing "metastable" with the same cadence as "metastasis."

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If you're ever feeling bad, know that the building that houses the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, one of the richest departments in one of the most prestigious schools, designed by world-famous architect I.M. Pei, does not have a way to take the stairs from the second to the third floor.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Can't even reflect off nickel without my polarization changing, because of MOKE.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I wanted to take the bus but it was stationary

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you want to know how to make knots untie or why proteins have the knots that they do, our paper was just published:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c01073

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Anglo-Saxon historians, can we just agree that the world would be a funnier place if we all said that Aethelred the Unready was actually unready for his responsibilities, and not just poorly advised or whathaveyou?

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Glitchless any% errormaxing Overleaf speedrun

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Looked up how much the @calstate.bsky.social paid OpenAI, it's 16.9 million dollars. (Purchase order 2400029476) @cfaunited.bsky.social

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Outlined shadowed gradient comic sans, you know this will be good

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you ever submit a paper to the journal Soft Matter, do not use the word "via" at all, or else the editors will italicize it and make you look like an idiot who italicizes random words in the middle of sentence for no reason.

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@mscommunity.bsky.social if Windows 10 support has ended why are you still externally restarting my computer to install updates? That's the whole benefit of no more support, I get to use my computer as I like!

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025