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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"5693 Main Boards Shipped We're Done" is still probably the strangest cake order that baker has ever fulfilled 🧪

Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Nobel always reminds me of someone robbed of one: Lise Meitner. I've always found her inspiring. Not just for discovering fission, not just for being a Jewish woman in science in WW2, but because of her staunch opposition to helping build an atomic bomb. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Me...

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Lise Meitner - Wikipedia

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

on one hand I can reduce my data, on the OTHER hand maybe I can train a fruit fly brain to reduce my data 🧪

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

To look for element 120 we're building a Californium target, which is way too hot to handle. Check out how Rohan is using a robot to assemble our radioactive pizza here. 🍕🧪

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LBNL Nuclear Science Division @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mission briefing! 🚨 We're building a super radioactive target to make the new element E120, and we need a hero! Introducing DRAGONS, the robot Rohan is training for the job. Watch the discovery unfold! 💪💥🧪 #Robots #MakingScienceHappen #NewElements #NuclearScience #PeriodicTable

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are my favorite "silly little phrase that became a Science Term ™️" since the Big Bang

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the things I love about working at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov is that if I'm ever feeling young and spry I can walk to work through campus and then I feel accurately old and tired

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gas car: vroom vroom Electric car: *spooky angel choir*

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

please just tell me what this bolt is made of why was it all scanned in such low resolution 🧪

A meme of senor chang from community squinting to read a very small piece of paper. He is labelled "me" and the paper is labeled "cyclotron drawings from 1960"

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Physicists don't understand" means they just don't know how to make it a harmonic oscillator yet 🧪

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A particle made of force? Chinese researchers claim they've definitively detected a "glueball"--a particle of bound gluons, which carry the strong force. Gluons bind together protons & neutrons, but they can also stick to each other. No ordinary matter required. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

The Beijing Spectrometer III has provided evidence for glueballs, which are made almost entirely of force-carrying particles.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Why would they build a cyclotron way up on a hill?! Oh ok nevermind I get it. 🧪

The view from the 88" cyclotron at Berkeley Lab. Some clouds and fog hang over the san francisco bay area seen from a high elevation. The campanille of Berkeley is to the left, a tree to the right. The bay runs through the middle of the picture with san francisco, the golden gate bridge is visible in the distant right. It is early in the morning, and I think conveys a feeling of coolness, beauty, and scale.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm convinced GRETA is the most satisfying arrangement of germanium detectors humanity has created. It was very not-satisfying to help run the cables for them though. 🧪

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The lab decided "PEP" is the best term for our yearly goal setting because I guess they don't have the trauma of being in the startup/tech sector.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Using a dagger superscript because I’m feeling scientifically edgy

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If they made Back to the Future today, Marty would travel back to the 90s in a Cybertruck.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When scientists identify that a published paper may be wrong, that is science succeeding not failing. Peer review is helpful but imperfect.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you’re ever wondered what $200k of Calcium-48 looks like. Sadly it's not mine it belongs to @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social 🧪

A glass vial with a few dark metallic flakes held by a hand on a wooden desk. It is sealed with wax and reads “Isotope Ca-48”

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The 88-inch Cyclotron at LBNL is still looking good after 65 years. @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social 🧪

Top: a sepia colored picture of the cyclotron building in 1961. A low office building is in front of a larger square high bay. The building is up in the hills of Berkeley with cars parked outside.

Bottom: a color modern photo. The low office building is now two stories, there are large trees growing out front now.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Due to the normal slightly-buggy kid-remembering of names, my daughter calls this guy General Gordon

A picture of General Greivous from Star Wars Episode 3 and the Clone Wars.

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LBNL Nuclear Science Division @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Jennifer Pore from NSD’s Low Energy Nuclear Physics Program is carrying forward @BerkeleyLab legacy of reshaping the periodic table. Using the 88-Inch Cyclotron, the group is continuing the historic path blazed by Glenn Seaborg. nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/05/01/c...

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Can the 88-Inch Cyclotron Save the Periodic Table? – Nuclear Science Division

The modern periodic table creates the illusion that chemistry is a solved puzzle. With every row and column of the table filled — either by atoms studied for centuries or man-made ones observed only…

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

These old radiation symbols with a slight tilt have a casual vibe that modern ones are missing

A large blue square hanging off of rollers. On it is a small sign that reads RADIATION HAZARD with a rad trefoil slightly tilted to the right.

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I need someone who studies penguins to tell me: if an average fit person is placed on the Antarctic ice in appropriate clothing 10m away from an Emperor penguin, could they catch the penguin?

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I watched Episode 1 with my kids and the number of memes they included just feels like fan service

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Jessica Rehak @jessica-rehak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That liquor store sign that shows the birth year of 21-year-olds feels more and more passive aggressive.

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