Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 06/06/2026Graduation is great, and it's ok that there is a business around it. But yeah, gown rental is $75, bouquet ~$70, if you want your on-stage photos that's another $100, then maybe a couple hundreds more for extra portraits... :) 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 21/05/2026Why do I have the feeling that my grant proposal is reviewed by AI... 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 22/02/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS14... 😉youtube.comWhen I Learned to Turn the Emotions Down as a Sports FanYouTube video by The Entertainment Guy 000
Reposted by Tianbi ZhangExperimental Micromechanical Characterisation Research Group @expmicromech.com · 30/09/2025🚨New Preprint: "Angular Resolution Enhancement of Electron Backscatter Diffraction Patterns" by @bmatb.expmicromech.com and @tbizh95.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.23039 031
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 19/09/2025Tried to sign up for a French class and took a placement test, hoping I can skip the very basics. Was initially happy that I "have A2 level", then found out that pretty much everyone who can say simple and complete sentences is placed into A2 classes. 100
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 01/09/2025If only there is a tool to auto-update the line number references in a response to review comments document. Maybe LaTeX can do it? 010
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 28/08/2025Meet the paper which I wrote in half a day (1st draft), and then almost didn't want to continue on... 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 10/07/2025On behalf of @expmicromech.com - the latest version of AstroEBSD is released, adding the newly developed AstroECP tool to our toolbox (see our preprint announcement). Also we (finally) tidied up the readme files, added descriptions of new features over the years, and created a change log. 101
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 01/07/2025Happy about this - the biggest collaboration project in my PhD :) and collaboration is indeed the spirit throughout the course. Never thought this dataset could lead us here. As someone must have said, there are still so many information in these pats that one could look into and extract info... 011
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 07/04/2025Switching from direct electron detection to direct photon detection, at least for an hour. 010
Reposted by Tianbi ZhangProf Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 31/03/2025So we recently installed a new TFS Apreo 2 S microscope at UBC - and it has a TruePix direct electron detector for electron backscatter diffraction analysis. In only 1 week, we are already getting some very fun data (here from Ni - 2 mill pts in < 30 mins). 🧪🔬 0111
Reposted by Tianbi ZhangCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/03/2024A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews. I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?arxiv.orgMonitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model... 17370116
Reposted by Tianbi ZhangExperimental Micromechanical Characterisation Research Group @expmicromech.com · 21/11/2024🚨New #ArXiv #PrePrint: "Comparison of Kikuchi Diffraction Geometries in Scanning Electron Microscope" by @tbizh95.bsky.social, Lukas Berners, Jakub Holzer, @bmatb.expmicromech.com Exploring on- and off-axis TKD, EBSD and RKD geometries for crystallographic analysis arxiv.org/abs/2411.13018 032
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 16/08/2024Wouldn't it be more fitting to simulate spot patterns using a "dotnet" language than a snake language 😂 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 23/05/2024Workday students is such a downgrade from the super user-friendly UBC SSC.......... 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 12/01/2024Planespotting from my balcony last weekend. Unfortunately unlike my experiments, I can't zoom in by getting further away. 000
Tianbi Zhang @handle.invalid · 10/12/20231st ever poster sesson (as a presenter) done. Good to see some interest and explain my work to people, but geez, so exhausted. 030
Reposted by Tianbi ZhangProf Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 28/11/2023New #PrePrint led by @tbizh95.bsky.social - we describe a simple and static electron microscopy stage to enable electron backscatter diffraction (#EBSD) in the scanning electron microscope, using an off the shelf direct electron detector 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2311.14888 053
