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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. BEYOND excited that we finally get to see @agnesobel.bsky.social live after the supporting tour in 2020 was canceled due to pandemic. Agnes is a composer/musician/singer and architect of some of the most beautiful & interesting melodies & harmonies.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A note to the Golden Girls stationary company: 50% of your notepad paper is unusable. #StayGolden

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you know an outstanding candidate, please share this opportunity as nominations are open for the 2nd cohort of Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows at UCLA in the fields of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry & Biochemistry. Deadline is Oct 24, 2026. physicalsciences.ucla.edu/bhaumik-priz...

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Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program

The Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites nominations for the Bhaumik Prize Postdoctoral Fellows Program.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to this! 📊 #sciart

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism." "That means that all of us [on multi-author papers] have the ability to end each other’s career. " Full marks to the Carlson Lab for their blanket ban on the use of generative AI for writing! 👏🧪

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🧪⚛️ Look at the first figure in the linked article. NSF will make about *half* as many awards this year as in "the before-times" like 2024. They have deliberately underspent FY26 by $1B, seemingly to fund a "grand challenges" program that has not been officially announced.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

Many thanks to the 48 folks at San-Diego Comic-Con who gave me and The Edge of Space-Time a warm reception today. There is so much to do at SDCC and the fact that you lined up twice for my book is AMAZING. 🖖🏽 Thanks also to the @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social team for hosting!

Me talking with someone while I sign their book. There’s a line behind me and multiple stacks of my book next to me.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Music Friday: I listen to instrumentals when I write. My music obsession this week is @gweniferraymond.bsky.social, a fellow PhD! Absolutely amazing. Makes me feel like I'm on the run with my brother after a botched bank heist and not just working on a grant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kC...

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Tonight I Heard The Dog Star Bark - Gwenifer Raymond

YouTube video by Michael Watts

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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/07/2026

In 2016, video captured invasive tree snakes in Guam climbing to reach their feathered prey—with a never-before-seen lassolike gripping technique. Learn more on #WorldSnakeDay: scim.ag/4hbb0Zy

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🧪⚛️ New reporting about unprecedented mid-year cuts at NSF confirms bad news and raises many questions. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/07/bad-...

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Bad to worse at NSF? (July 2026 edition)

When I wrote this post last month , I really did not want it to be first in a series. The inciting incident to write that post was a news ar...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026

“Fundamental science, the argument goes, is a luxury that becomes dispensable when budgets are tight. This premise is wrong, and the consequences of acting on it are already visible.” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Discovery is not the opposite of application - Nature Reviews Physics

Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

1. So I caught a student cheating on my physics final exam using AI. Here's how they did it & how I may run exams in the future. Firstly, the use of AI was obvious as perfect final answers were provided a few key steps were missing & strange notation/methods were being used. #AcademicSky

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. “Intellectually, it’s not acceptable,” two science historians argue. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”...

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Props to Noelle Burgess for this gorgeous kaleidoscopic cover celebrating three @science.org papers this week that map out the molecular-level structural basis of color vision

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport” in Matters Arising. Calling into question Microsoft’s topological gap measurement. Gift link 🎁: rdcu.be/fqfyX

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On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport

Nature - On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A FATHERS DAY THREAD: Hey everybody whose dad is not in the picture for one reason or another: I am right there with you. My dad died in 2011. We weren't estranged, but he was such a distant figure in my life that not a lot has changed in our relationship.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🧪⚛️ This trend is exceedingly bad. I know that program officers within NSF still are aiming to make all their awards before end of the fiscal year, but I worry very much whether OMB et al. will allow that. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

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The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🧪⚛️ I wrote about localization last week, yes, but what about *weak localization*? Here you go. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/06/what...

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What is weak localization?

A few days ago I wrote about localization , where waves in a medium can become trapped due to interference by scattering off disorder. This...

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My former undergrad, Setayesh, is recovering from a terrible accident in which she was struck by a car. This has severely disrupted her PhD research at UC Irvine and has put her in financial stress. Any donations would really help her. www.gofundme.com/f/help-setay...

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Donate to Help Setayesh Recover and Continue Her Research, organized by Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi

Setayesh is a student at UC Irvine working toward her PhD in … Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi needs your support for Help Setayesh Recover and Continue Her Research

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"What if we got away from the argument that doing cosmology and particle physics is practical or materially valuable? Then we have to accept that we’re like the poets. What we do is important culturally in the same way poetry is." YES! 👏👏👏👏

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It may not be cool, it may not be classy, but it IS stupid

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🧪⚛️ A collection of all of my posts about basic concepts in condensed matter and nanoscale physics, updated for the first time in 6.5 yrs. Hope this is useful, and please let me know what else you'd like to see. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2026/01/upda...

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Updated: CM/nano primer - 2026 edition

This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics. I realized the other day t...

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A majority of my senior Intro to Solid State physics students use LLMs to answer their basic questions & solve their homework, which is a huge bummer. (My least-attended office hours ever.) But an even bigger bummer is that it doesn't even give correct answers to simple questions. Barf.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

You know this #Dodgers game is going long (~7 hrs now) when the announcers are talking about how good the "glistening" fruit tray looks 😂 #WorldSeries

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Worst flight experience flying American Airlines @americanair.bsky.social. Delayed 6 hrs. Told us our seats would be assigned “at the gate” which NO ONE WAS AT until 10min b4 boarding. Now my wife & I, traveling w our dog, can’t sit together. No apology, no explanation. Never flying them again.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I don't get it. I'm a university professor and am around young people all the time. In my lectures, I regularly call on students and ask them questions. I have never experienced this supposed "Gen Z stare" thing.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Gotta celebrate the few good things going on right now. Like our good friend & filmmaker Dehanza Rogers earning tenure at Emory. Celebrated at a Dodger game & got ourselves on the Jumbotron! #AcademicSky

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.

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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide, BSCCO, or “bisko,” either way it sounds and looks delicious! Measured recently in our scanning tunneling microscope at #UCLA.

Atomically resolved image of bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide false-colored to appear as milk chocolate.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/05/2025

Absolutely STUNNED that Lorna Simpson says my work partly inspired a work of art 😮 “It was a reproduction of a collage from a series called “Sky Pinups,” partially inspired by Zora’s gift of a book called “The Disordered Cosmos,” by the physicist and Black feminist writer Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.”

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How Lorna Simpson Broke the Frame

Simpson’s wryly evasive photos, films, collages—and now paintings—peel back the layers of our looking.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Solid state physics is pretttttty. This is an image of the momentum-distribution of electrons inside of a crystal measured using the photoelectric effect. From a recent trip to @als-lbnl.bsky.social.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Bill is the absolute best. I was part of an outreach event w/ him when I was a postdoc at #NIST years ago and I was just in awe of his level of enthusiasm & warmth for the kids visiting us that day. Amazing scientist & person.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

1. This week my group & I will be at #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch showing some of our exciting work discovering ways to tune correlated phases in quantum materials using external knobs like LARGE uniaxial strain or flowing current through them while visualizing these effects at the atomic scale.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Laplace's equation to solve for incompressible fluid flow around a sphere for my Math Methods class. This exact problem was on my PhD qualifying exam. I had never done a fluid mechanics problem in my life! What saved my ass was the analogy to a conducting sphere in a constant E-field. 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is a mega-thread of all Microsoft problems related to topological qubits. NOTE: I skip the numerous news reports and press releases, this thread is for serious _scientific_ and procedural materials First retraction: Quantized Majorana Conductance, from Nature www.nature.com/articles/nat...

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Quantized Majorana conductance - Nature

In a step towards topological quantum computation, a quantized Majorana conductance has been demonstrated for a semiconducting nanowire coupled to a superconductor.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My lab has high-voltage vacuum pumps & other electrical equipment that runs 24/7 all year long. UCLA has its own fully-staffed **POWER PLANT** to supply the considerable power required for all of its medical and science research labs. F&A in part goes to running & staffing it.

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Wahl group account @wahlgroup.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Interested in an exciting PhD project working in a stimulating environment in the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials, combining cutting-edge experiments, bespoke instrumentation, complex data analysis and numerical modelling? Any questions get in touch, apply at www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgr/home.htm.

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Grant decisions by something that cannot give the correct number of Rs in “strawberry” or even generate images of hands with the correct number of fingers 🙄

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My former student (and big Harry Styles fan) included a fun, harmless prank for beta-testers of PyAtoms: After prolonged use, a pop-up asked if you'd like to listen to his music on Spotify. Now that PyAtoms is out of beta, this feature is discontinued. Farewell, Harry! github.com/asariprado/P...

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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 26/01/2025

🎢 ⚛️ New form of matter just dropped Video Description: demonstrations and explanations of the newly created Polycatenated Architected Materials, which respond to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a solid. Source: www.caltech.edu/about/news/r...

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A small piece of unexpected joy in this bleak new year: One of my favorite singers, Marlon Williams, is releasing a new album and his first sung entirely in the Māori language *AND* he is coming to Los Angeles ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMMh...

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Marlon Williams - Aua Atu Rā (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by Marlon Williams Music

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Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My high school AP English teacher, Jill Granger, has lost her home in the Altadena fires. Mrs. Granger was a LAUSD public school teacher for decades and had a huge impact on me & many other students who, like me, were the 1st generation to attend college. gofund.me/c6fa3e7d

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Donate to Help Jill Rebuild After Altadena Fire, organized by Sunni Taylor

My sister lost her beautiful craftsman house and everything she o… Sunni Taylor needs your support for Help Jill Rebuild After Altadena Fire

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/01/2025

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book *Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In* I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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