Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I mean, every action this administration takes suggests that this is not spinelessness, as with past administrations. Most likely is that they actually agree. 122
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Definitely not apropos of Sark’s salary but on most days we don’t have paper towels in our @utaustin.bsky.social restrooms. Would be willing to not call end arounds on 4th and 2 at the end of halves leading to 7-14pt swings in return for either $10M or a roll of paper towels… 111
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sometimes they destroy an entire curriculum just to force students to take classes in the sinecure centers. Hook ‘em! 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 18/07/2026France knew beating England 5-0 in a meaningless match would be, well, meaningless. But spotting England four goals and then winning 5-4? That might end England as a country. 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Like when you hire a president who has no teaching or research experience (ever) and a provost whose only “academic” qualification is a hagiography of Reagan, stuff falls apart fast. I do my research under a tarp so that UT can save up money to offer Alex Jones a tenured position… 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The @utaustin.bsky.social IT is so amazingly bad that we cannot access the *Army* Research Office website from campus. We have to submit our program reports from home. The thing you learn about authoritarian regimes (at macro or micro scales) is that they actually can’t make the trains run on time 100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Have you seen anything from @optica.org or IEEE? 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Was early to pick up wife and daughter at the airport, so hopped on to an @austinenergy.bsky.social fast charger in the cell phone lot, and put 100 miles on the car in 10-15 minutes for less than $3.75. Just crazy how much better EVs are in every sense… 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Shame he’s forced to wear the Knicks uniform instead of 000
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Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This is a heart achingly beautiful retelling, highly recommend 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Our recent work in Optical Materials Express feature issue!! 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Congratulations on whatever it is you are not announcing here!! So well deserved!! 🎉🍾🎈 130
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 24/03/2026At my institution the only thing our administration likes more than pushing AI hiring slots on us is affirmative action hires for conservatives. You’re lucky you are at…checks notes…uh…. My institution? 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Any self-respecting institution of higher learning would balk at inviting, much less celebrating, one of the most corrupt justices in memory, and a credibly accused sexual harasser. But not mine!! 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 22/03/2026It’s been “0” days since my university has publicly embarrassed itself. I wonder if he’ll talk about the part of the declaration that demands one take undisclosed bribes from oligarchs to coincidentally rule in their favor?? 100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Yea all the more reason to invest in what’s important: Mikhail Kats, Prof. QB 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I think the quarterback for my university’s football team makes enough per year to fund my lab for ten years. Have you considered becoming the starting QB at UWisc? It has the added advantage that you’ll be doing something that the university actually cares about! 120
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Yea this pretty much describes my mood perfectly. I lose so much time thinking about science because I’m thinking about $$ 120
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Miguel Centena taught a “western way of war” class that I TA’ed for in the early 2000’s. Enrollment was quite high, though it was sociology not history. Dunno if that’s still offered. 100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Every time I read about some horrible policy being implemented in higher Ed I am outraged and then realize that we’ve been forced to do that at UT Austin like forever. 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Might not have been fair to ask him to sing either 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Workday is a nightmare UT has had it for maybe 5+ years now It’s awful 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I dunno what you are talking about everything works great the first time and no equipment goes down and I don’t spend so much time writing reports that I don’t have time to do science. It’s easy. 120
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This is actually impressive. You should be proud, as a father, that your kids place the plates in planes including the z axis! My kids have been known to place dishes in the xy plane…literally resting in the tines. In fairness, they may be trying to induce a stroke in me 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 17/07/2025And to be clear, despite our decrepit infrastructure and obscene lack of funding for TAs we still are lucky compared to other departments at UT. The depts. that don’t teach anything ‘useful’, just writing, reading, and critical thinking, are in worse shape…325K a year could go a long way there… 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Amazing. My students do extensive repeated cleans on samples b/c the building’s HVAC system spits black dust all over the labs. Experiments are done under a tarp b/c the roof leaks. But @utaustin.bsky.social will spend >300K on a speechwriter b/c we have a pres. who knows nothing about higher ed 100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 16/07/2025That’s weird. I was given to understand that university leaders are only able to cower in fear and preemptively overcomply with the very worst interpretation of a legislature’s anticipated actions. Hook ‘em 🤘🤘🤘 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Or scientific discoveries. They also don’t understand those. 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 15/07/2025It’s the phones. A world of distraction at their (our) fingertips as addictive as a drug. I can’t do anything about my students but the fight with my more distract-able child is non-stop, and absolutely soul-sucking. I wish I could smash that thing into a million pieces. 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Wanted to go, looked at getting tickets, but it would have been $500 to take the family…to watch the USMNT C team? 051
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Exactly this. In fact, universities subsidize this vital research by paying 9 months of faculty salary and supporting the research infrastructure (which typically costs more than what comes in from federal grants!) Universities subsidize federal research, not vice versa! 0100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Just checked and the paper with the clear duplications is still up. @springernature.com has done nothing despite this being a clear, open and shut, case of copying. @retractionwatch.com 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025structures from this material with Q~100,000. This work was a collaboration with the Demkov group at UT and includes co-authors: Divya Hungund, Dan Krueger, Zuoming Dong, Zarko Sakotic, Agham Posadas, and Alex Demkov. Funded by ONR and AFOSR. 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025...due to its extremely large nonlinear response, but thus far loss in this material system is much much larger than in other nonlinear optical materials such as lithium niobate. Amogh shows losses in monolithic BTO waveguides of <0.15 dB/cm and fabricated ring and racetrack resonator... 100
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The latest from our group published in Laser and Photonics Reviews: doi.org/10.1002/lpor.... UT Mid-IR Photonics grad student Amogh Raju demonstrates record low loss in barium titanate (BTO) waveguides and resonators. BTO is an intriguing material for integrated photonic applications...doi.orgHigh‐Q Monolithic Ring Resonators in Low‐Loss Barium Titanate on SiliconBarium Titanate (BTO) boasts one of the largest known Pockels coefficients and offers compatibility with the existing CMOS fabrication infrastructure. However, BTO photonic structures have, to date, .... 150
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025#OPG_OMEx welcomes submissions to a Feature Issue on Epitaxial Materials for Photonics. Excited to be part of the guest editor team for this special issue!! Submissions close 1 June:opg.optica.orgOptical Materials Express Feature issueExpand this Topic 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 28/04/2025It’s weird that a movement so fundamentally anti-intellectual, incurious, and intolerant is uncomfortable on college campuses. Must be the liberals fault. 020
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 21/04/2025we show that this metaplasmonic approach enables us to confine light down to a fraction of a free-space wavelength (ostensibly down to wavelength/100 or smaller). Write-up from @cockrellschool.bsky.social : cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive...cockrell.utexas.eduTricking Light with Metaplasmonic FilmsTexas Engineers have demonstrated a technique to trick light into behaving as if it was interacting with atomically thin metal films. 010
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The latest from our group in ACS Photonics: doi.org/10.1021/acsp... Led by Research Associate Zarko Sakotic, we show that we can fabricate metal films that mimic the behavior of atomically thin metals, but with a fraction of the loss! This enables plasmonic response out to the mid-IR,doi.orgInfrared MetaplasmonicsPlasmonic response in metals, defined as the ability to support subwavelength confinement of surface plasmon modes, is typically limited to a narrow frequency range below the metals’ plasma frequency.... 110
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Not a great sign when a basketball coach can offer a more spirited defense of academic freedom than @utaustin.bsky.social which has gone radio silent …and yes I know Steve Kerr is not just any bball coach…he’s actually, on paper, more qualified to be President of UT than Jim Davis, current pres. 030
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 15/04/2025In fairness, our president is a lawyer from Ken Paxton’s office who has never taught a class, never written a grant, never advised a student, and is only here to serve Gov. Abbott. It would be so amazing to have a president that believed in what we do. I’d even settle for a provost with a spine! 000
Wasserman Group @utmid-ir.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It’s great to see a school actually do the right thing, but there is a part of me that is so ashamed of the response of my institution @utaustin.bsky.social in comparison. Our administration can’t even muster an anodyne statement of support for the mission of higher ed. 110
