Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Deep cut: Brent Weeks wrote a fantasy series called Lightbringer. One character is named Dazen Guile. I 100% assume DAZN is this dude, every time I see it. 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am quite late to the party, but I'm on Ch. 13 of Project Hail Mary and ... it's pretty good!! 011
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026my kid is trying to understand "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" and ... hard stuff, y'all. 011
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Awesome! I'll get settled a bit first, then I'd love to take you up on this! 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026So far it’s awesome! Classes start this week and I’m so excited 110
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wiring up my house today. I've never run Ethernet before. My brilliant self spent so much effort getting my technique right before reading the words "pass-thru" on the crimper and plugs, watching one more video, and ... so much faster 🤦♂️ 030
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Helping my kids with geometry. I had forgotten how cool perpendicular bisectors are 000
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is a really weird article in that it doesn't actually try to identify specific problems until the very end. Then, the closest it comes is the quote below, and ... I bet the union doesn't want to do what you think it wants to do. Also maybe don't lionize Watson so much? 141
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Just introduced my children to “What would Brian Boitano do” Top 10 all time song 020
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I am getting a puppy. I want to name her after an unproblematic, powerful female icon. Looking for suggestions. Dolly Bark-ton? Rosa Barks? 120
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Huh! I haven’t heard this, but I’ll look into it. Thanks. 100
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026To follow up on this, you can often find a little ultrasonic bath on sale somewhere. Sold for cleaning retainers or whatever. They’re great for cleaning pens where you put a shimmer ink in a pen and clogged it all up. 230
Reposted by Michael G. LernerSam Foley @samuelfoley.com · 06/07/2026Is there a nice (standardized) way to indicate or hint at the integration measure of the functional when writing down a functional derivative? I find it annoying that I can't deduce the units of a functional derivative at a glance the same way I can for ordinary derivative expressions 022
Reposted by Michael G. LernerTitus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 16/06/2026Does anyone have any recommendations physics and chemistry intro materials in Jupyter Notebook form? Simulations, dynamics, modeling, etc? Reliant only the core Python scientific computing ecosystem would be best (so it can work in JupyterLite). scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc. 101
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Ever since I turned 50, I've been receiving (no exaggeration) 5-13 spam calls a day about medicare. How do I make them stop? 000
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I’ve been loving the thread! But maybe you meant @lernerphysics.bsky.social? So many of us Michael Lerners in physics… 010
Reposted by Michael G. LernerMarkus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 16/03/2026📣 To celebrate Biophysics Week, the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup (MSAF) of @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host a webinar on March 24 at 11am EDT. Our speakers are @mejohnson81.bsky.social, @ibudin.bsky.social, and Cecília Leal (not on 🦋). 🧪 👀 More info in the alt text! Please share! 🔄 01514
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Oh this is very exciting! Thank you, and I’d love to get together. Best contact is mglerner@proton.me. 100
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026And this is one of the many reasons you are the best, Dr. Deserno! 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026killed it! Worked for NASA on the Apollo project, became an amazing painter, taught me to love poetry. But without that one supportive professor, how different would her life have been? (3/3) 030
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026structural misogyny, she was literally in whole buildings without a single women's restroom! Turns out that's only half of the story. She just told me about a professor who taught her engineering math who was so nice to her and so supportive. Without him, she never would have done it. And she (2/3) 130
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026My mom is so goddamn impressive. Grew up literally dirt poor. First woman to major in Engineering at the University of Colorado. Story I always heard was that she was an art major and one of her girlfriends dared her to take an engineering class, and she did it out of orneriness. Talk about (1/3) 250
Reposted by Michael G. LernerJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11 22518295
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I have now figured out how to make this in R with ggplot2. I feel very proud. 020
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Tongariro Alpine Crossing. All the students made it in under 10 hours. Absolutely amazing. 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Biophysics people like @markusdeserno.bsky.social @samuelfoley.com and @diffusiveblob.bsky.social come to mind as folks who might have an example or two ... 210
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Hey #Physics / #ITeachPhysics / #Biophysics / #Math friends: a math colleague has a student who took complex analysis last semester and who wants to practice using the residue theorem to compute *real things* instead of random toy problems. Do you have good examples? Surprisingly, I don't ... 131
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I grew up with the In Living Color alt halftime show but ... dissertations are going to be written about NFL halftime shows now, right? 😻😻😻 000
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Big news time! After 15 wonderful years at Earlham, I'll be starting in July in the Smith College physics department! 3170
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I love this method too. One practical suggestion: make them upload unlisted videos to YouTube. Otherwise you’re likely to get a weirdo video format/huge file. 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 29/12/2025My favorite kind of sale. The 3rd bottle costs more than the first two. 030
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I don't know that NIH was any more draconian in its IT policies than my other employers, but it was THE GOVERNMENT ... and it's where I finally internalized this. 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 30/11/2025It's letter of recommendation season, but ... my goodness, do notes like this make it worth it! 040
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Lunchtime tart for the wife’s birthday! Quite pleased with how it came out. 030
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I just signed up, but perhaps that was too late to get the Zoom invite? Any chance you could DM it to me (or mail it to mglerner@proton.me)? 000
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Definitely wanted this to lead to some biophysical version of the Coriolis force. 010
Reposted by Michael G. LernerMarkus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I am honored and excited to present our recent work on mixed AND asymmetric membranes at @bppbseminar.bsky.social! 🧪 My online talk will be this Friday, 11/21/25, 11am US Eastern time. Many thanks to the organizers for putting this together! More details here: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...sites.google.comBPPB SeminarSeminar Information 1237
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 19/11/2025But now I think it's going to become a standard tool for me. It really leveled up the conversation. 010
Michael G. Lerner @mglerner.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Thanks! It came up naturally: they made up sample problems as part of the review for this exam. In looking over their problems, I was like "y'all won't be happy, because the exam is going to have some problems that are noticeably harder than your examples," so I tacked this on as another review day. 110