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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I find myself wondering if it's really sensible to condense the massive amount of work and innovation done by a huge team of people into a prize given to one individual.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lovely to see the ongoing lessons that the Nobel committee is learning on the diversity of it's awardees. This time they've given it to old white dudes from _both_ North America _and_ Europe!

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I kinda knew that our chemdraw workflows are a bit bespoke, but I didn't know they are _that_ bespoke.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not sure if this is depressing or a wonderful testament to the advance of human knowledge.

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Peter Seavill @peterseavill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There 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

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is nice, but the milliKelvin STM peeps are like "atomic resolution at 7K? Pffft!"

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'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.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I 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)

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had to renew my passport and it arrived today and it's the wrong colour and that makes me really sad.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My contribution was to smuggle the word "ontological" into Nature Reviews Physics.

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Nature Physics @natphys.nature.com · 12/08/2026

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Agreed. There are so many hills.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Petty hills that I will die on #39: The correct formulation is "in contrast", not "by contrast".

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CodeRefinery @coderefinery.org · 06/08/2026

We 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

CodeRefinery workshop webpage showing dates, workshop information, and key links for livestreams, installation, lesson materials, and participant resources.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The dad joke wave function has definitely collapsed and they are alive and kicking.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In physics they are both important and not important 😜

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dear 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!

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And 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.

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Every 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'

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New PB for my front squat this evening. It's about bloody time something went right with my exercising!

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Minor 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.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Did you follow the story of "Guided Open Access" at the baby Natures a while back? A submission fee (to be credited against eventual publication fees) was a part of that and I think it's fair to say that the reception was mixed.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The 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?

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Am 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!

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Please can someone score before full time so that I can go to sleep.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Could it be that Spain are out-shithousing Argentina???

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Keith Smith @drkeithsmith.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

On 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.” 😂

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Please FIFA, don't ever do that again.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The 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.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I guess America has gotten the wrong definition of 'football'???

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This halftime show thing is a crime against humanity

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Lol. German TV has the play-by-play guy commentating over Madonna.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The ref, wearing all black, seems to be barely sweating. Android?

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Pretty sure the fans will just drink more beer...

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I 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

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Watching the game. It looks hot.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wait, 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.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/07/2026

It'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.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My first ever time in Stuttgart this week. Will be at M2S and hope to conduct 😉 lots of super 😉 conversations.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Basically the first time the game opened up and there it is.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Although they are also keen to point out all the Argentinian shithousery so there is that.

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David Abergel @davidabergel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This 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.

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