David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 1hNot sure if this is depressing or a wonderful testament to the advance of human knowledge. 001
Reposted by David AbergelPeter Seavill @peterseavill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are still a few days left to apply for this role within the @natureportfolio.nature.com If you're interested in sustainable chemistry, go ahead and apply. Deadline: 30th September 014
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is nice, but the milliKelvin STM peeps are like "atomic resolution at 7K? Pffft!" 011
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm catching up on the #NASCAR action from Bristol this weekend. I'll get to the Hocevar/Blaney thing later, but I have to say that, perhaps this is a European perspective, but M&Ms making a marketing opportunity out of Kyle Busch's death is a bit distasteful to me. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wrote a research highlight on a paper that observes the long-predicted dipole effect when a current flows past a charged impurity. #physics rdcu.be/kZBGAgMkgYga (free to read)rdcu.be 020
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had to renew my passport and it arrived today and it's the wrong colour and that makes me really sad. 100
Reposted by David AbergelSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My contribution was to smuggle the word "ontological" into Nature Reviews Physics. 9673
Reposted by David AbergelNature Physics @natphys.nature.com · 12/08/2026We are hiring! We're looking for someone with expertise in optics and/or photonics to come and work with us on a temporary basis. Preferred location is Berlin but Pune is also possible. Please repost! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comInterim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Physics (m/w/d)Job title: Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Physics Location: Berlin or Pune, 12-month limited contract Application deadline: 26.08.2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature opens the doors... 034
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Petty hills that I will die on #39: The correct formulation is "in contrast", not "by contrast". 100
Reposted by David AbergelCodeRefinery @coderefinery.org · 06/08/2026We run CodeRefinery workshops twice a year for researchers who code. Hands-on, collaborative, and focused on real research software practices. Next workshop coming up in September: coderefinery.github.io/2026-09-22-w... #RSEng #OpenScience #OpenEducation 045
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Dear authors, please define your acronyms. You tell me that a variable n is the RC, but what is that? Remote control? Roman Catholic? Release candidate? Red Cross? Who's to know! 230
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026And now I have to complete the most frustrating task of each month, where I must log in to our production database, copy-paste a bunch of DOIs relating to our next issue into a Word document, and then email that document to our production team. I mean seriously. 010
Reposted by David AbergelBlake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding 14620107
Reposted by David AbergelPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Every overseas student benefits the UK - They pay money to the university - They spend money in the local economy - They return home with good feelings about the UK (soft power) - They help subsidise local students - They make the learning environment better It's a real 'win-win' 1222976
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New PB for my front squat this evening. It's about bloody time something went right with my exercising! 100
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Minor daily irritations #138: The fact that when you're using a tab group in chrome, Ctrl-t opens the new tab outside of that group. 010
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The ACS/Silverchair/graphical abstracts thing is amusing, but it highlights to me that I don't think I've ever seen a graphical abstract that is actually helpful. And by 'helpful' I mean it tells me what is in the paper without actually reading the paper. Anyone got an example that is good? 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Am sat in a talk and there are three people near me who are taking photos of the slides and who haven't turned off the fake shutter noise on their phone. Ca-chshhhh Ca-chshhhh ca-chshhhh Ca-chshhhh. So annoying! 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Please can someone score before full time so that I can go to sleep. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Could it be that Spain are out-shithousing Argentina??? 000
Reposted by David AbergelKeith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026On the BBC coverage, Wayne Rooney just offered the best punditry of his TV career: “I like a lot of those artists, but I thought it was crap.” 😂 031
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The thing is, a Superbowl halftime show has a theme, a narrative, a message. You might not like a particular year's version, but there is tradition. That show was a mess. 000
Reposted by David AbergelIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This halftime show thing is a crime against humanity 1271630174
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Lol. German TV has the play-by-play guy commentating over Madonna. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The ref, wearing all black, seems to be barely sweating. Android? 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I get that the whole of Europe wants to watch the game, but having the players run around in a heat bowl at 3pm seems pretty harsh. Not to mention the fans with all that beer inside them #dehydration 100
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Wait, the world cup final has a half time show??? What kind of nonsense is this?? I get that "football" can be an ambiguous word but this is ridiculous. 000
Reposted by David AbergelSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/07/2026It's fine to be sceptical about the ability of AI but you have to admit it's really good at adding a ton of busywork to the already stretched academic publishing system. 083
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My first ever time in Stuttgart this week. Will be at M2S and hope to conduct 😉 lots of super 😉 conversations. 010
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Basically the first time the game opened up and there it is. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This has got 1-0 written all over it. Some scrappy goal off a defender's backside looking the wrong way and everyone will be unhappy. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Watching this in Germany with German commentators and I think it's fair to say that they are basically here for the lols. 100
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Am watching the game because if England have a glorious/ignominious exit from the tournament, I would like to feel entitled to having an opinion about it. 010
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026These days I read a lot of text that seems like it was generated by an LLM. I guess that's fine if efficiency is the main goal. But it all sounds so much the same as itself. Vapid. Pompous. Repetitive. Basically the Boris Johnson of prose. I really wish people would just write. #GetOffMyLawn 032
Reposted by David AbergelChris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Commentator on the England game the other night said Jude Bellingham was "worth his weight in gold". Assuming he is around 75kg, that's around £10m. Not really close to his value. He should have said "worth his weight in crystalline osmium" - £200m. 153
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Catching up on the #NASCAR race from Chicagoland this weekend, and already in stage 1 Todd Gilliland has wiped out Hocevar because he deserves it and SVG took retribution on Austin Hill. Love. It. 000
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026At @natphys.nature.com we recently published a paper that claims to show evidence of entanglement in the strange metal state. Belatedly, we now have a News and Views that unpacks this result and provides some context. ($) www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comTangled up in spin - Nature PhysicsNeutron scattering measurements on a strongly correlated metal show hints of quantum entanglement in the strange metal state. 020
Reposted by David AbergelDouglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven. 9785501742
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Here in Leipzig, the heatwave was strong enough to melt the Straßenbahn tracks. All services still cancelled! 😬 011
Reposted by David AbergelJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/06/2026Guys, guys!!! I think I have figured out a solution. I call it "German AC"! 1130837
David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026One of those rare occasions when have actually published a seminal paper… 🙃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe physical consequences of sperm gigantism - Nature PhysicsFruit fly sperm is substantially longer than the sac in which it is stored. It is now shown that reciprocal pushing between thousands of sperm maintains them in a motile and unentangled state in the s... 020