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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh thank you all I needed was another earworm 😂

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s not a fan it’s a turbo reactor

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lol in berkeley postdocs unionized ten years ago. now everyone in the staff has a right to parental leave. people are happier, they seek mentors and thrive in science without their “master” (actual wording in the piece fml)

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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 24/09/2026

Join us in celebrating Hakyung Lee, Adway Gupta, Paula-Marie Ivey, and Mythili Surendran—this year’s winners of the 2026 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM! Congratulations to all 12 finalists who took the stage! @biosci.lbl.gov @als.lbl.gov @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov slam.lbl.gov

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Molecular Foundry @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov · 24/09/2026

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week! 👏 We're celebrating our amazing postdocs with cake and treats today! 🍰 Thank you for driving innovative nanoscience & supporting our community! 🔬#NPAW2026

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Three years ago tonight, I was in the presence of the most remarkable supercell thunderstorm that I have ever had the privilege of witnessing. For over an hour, I watched it dance beneath the starts, spinning like a top. Mother nature will never cease to amaze, inspire, and humble me.

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having a great time at the Bay Area Light Sources joint Users’ meeting and pairing up with colleagues for a workshop on beamline simulations

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible The Rolling Scones

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the past few weeks, I got to observe a few people on the verge of addiction to AI: spending tokens on agents and anxiously wait for the answer as if they were slot machines — and never knowing when to stop. Scary slop machines

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Honestly I don’t even know what Bayes has to do with that. A similar reasoning could apply to Einstein and he was a freaking goat too

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They saw hints of WIMPs in South Dakota, but some report a definite discovery on the GPS near lake Ontario newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/09/01/l...

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LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

But I think knowledge of controls is necessary, and all the proprietary software are in the way of giving full control — though they make things much easier because controls is a real time sink

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A beamline technician would be something in between a beamline scientist (they conduct the experiments of users) and a scientific engineering associate (they build the mechanics). Synchrotrons tend to require many subject matter experts (for safety, integration), which is different from tabletop exp

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wonder if that would be way to bring a little bit of synchrotron into quantum — the Bluesky ecosystem is maturing and in principle available everywhere. Deployment was an issue, but coding agents made things much smoother

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s what we did with blop, though manually. We’re also developing agents to run beamline experiments from a prompt. And soon we’re combining the two!

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think it’s where the world is headed — more efficient instrument controls that really let you do what you want. Combined with LLM coding it’s a powerful combination (it becomes easy to implement ideas)

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Things are moving forward. We’re trying to bring bluesky everywhere at the ALS, even in metrology, and helping BELLA with their deployments. We’re in teasingly thinking about digital twins. I enjoyed when we worked together, and sometimes I feel we were five years too early

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And thanks to this guy for reminding me of Bertrand Russell's admirable stand:

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Unknown Person @unknown-person01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I wanna get off this ride. I hate it here.

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I can't wait to be at @spie.org #SPIEOpticsPhotonics next week! I'll be joining the @als.lbl.gov Photon Science Development group to talk about synchrotrons! x-rays! metrology! adaptive optics! digital twins! diffraction!

Program of the talks at SPIE OP2026 for the ALS photon science division

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Very happy to see a politician bringing this topic to the forefront. My wife got her eggs frozen in the middle of a pandemic, and this was easily the best decision of our life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey - and Maga’s criticisms of it

In documenting the process, AOC is defying the right’s pronatalist narratives about motherhood and women’s careers

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 09/08/2026

Join me in signing this petition, thank you @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social for leading the way 🙏

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m thinking more and more often about this piece from @newyorker.com Jia Tolentino on body fat and Ozempic, and I wonder if there will be something similar with maths and AI — stop an obsession with geniuses & realize that improvements don’t last lest sustained www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Will the Ozempic Era Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Republican elected officials, particularly Rand Paul and Ron Johnson, are a disgrace. Aside from their repeated attacks on Dr. Fauci, I ask you this: Who in their right mind will ever try to lead an American pandemic response again if the consequence is being harassed for the rest of your life?

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Senators vote to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth during tense hearing

Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions more than 100 times during last week’s hearing, angering Republican lawmakers who have targeted him for years.

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I grew up in the Caribbean. Dengue is truly something you want to leave behind

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The ghosts of Bertrand Russell and Kurt Godel are talking at night openai.com/index/ten-ad...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thank you for this great thread, with context, cool pictures and not having to go through the ordeal of listening to Very Serious Men™ talking

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Angine D’Orbite Occulaire open.spotify.com/album/6OxEdo...

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 23/07/2026

Hong Wong today became the third woman to win a Fields Medal. She started out as an earth science major. Her geophysics prof affirmed importance of math to science for her, ex. for explaining how seismic waves are used to map Earth’s interior ... math related to the Kakeya problem.

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And that happens in conjunction with large tech companies reaching « maturity »(no exponential growth anymore.) I found this piece by @doctorow.pluralistic.net quite illuminating www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have the feeling that all these crazy projects are the results of the end of Moore’s Law on a practical level — compute doesn’t depreciate exponentially anymore, and companies are trying their luck

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Some people like to ownthelib but I prefer to matplotlib

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Getting mugged by a guy named Charles De Ketelaere… it still hurts man

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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 28/05/2026

The @ccst.us has released their most recent report featuring the impacts made by California federal labs. From the development of energy efficient windows to the bioeconomy, Berkeley Lab is helping make our local community, state & nation more resilient. Details ⬇️

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