Two books side by side, the Penguin book of Brexit Cartoons is on the left and project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is on the right
Very happy about today’s little library findings
26.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@scigorski.bsky.social
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Two books side by side, the Penguin book of Brexit Cartoons is on the left and project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is on the right
Very happy about today’s little library findings
26.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Annie! Cool story. Hi!
24.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0cen.acs.org/environment/...
At long last, scientists have figured out what causes will-o’-the-wisps. It’s not ghosts or ghouls, but a newly discovered phenomenon called “microlightning.” Learn more in my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
Reading the novel ‘Frankenstein’ made Victor Olet want to be a scientist working in this was so much fun cen.acs.org/people/Chemi...
24.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some art has perfect moments and that’s amazing.
20.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love this way of thinking about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think of the 4th season of “the bear” as having such ordinary moments. It also excels at showing people loving their work and struggling with their boundaries. Not every scene can be so moving, they just have to push ahead
20.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m at the Baltimore comic con today in a session about the logistics of making a comic. So much of this guidance is applicable for science journalism too. Timelines, what to do first, etc
19.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Several employees at the CDC’s Office of Science Quality and Library Services, for example, remain RIF’d. Without those clearances, “CDC can’t publish any scientific documents,” says a recently RIF’d CDC employee. cen.acs.org/policy/regul...
16.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0In need of a weekend read? May I recommend Max's latest
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
We agree (research news from last year) cen.acs.org/materials/me...
08.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0MOFs are pretty darn cool. Here's our story, in @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
08.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Kitagawa rides the train and uses the time to revise manuscripts "Many professors like driving, but I think driving is a waste of time. Everyday there are traffic jams, and you get nothing to do but to listen to music, that’s too bad."
08.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This interview!--"50 is a magic age. Before my age of 50s, my research was not recognized in all the areas of chemistry, and I did not even receive any big research funds... when I was 46, I published the first paper on robust MOF . After my age of 50s, I received quite a lot of research funding."
08.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
08.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Phew, that feedback on the youtube stream stopped #nobelprize
08.10.2025 09:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Less than 5 minutes until the announcement of the #nobelprize in chemistry -- our team is ready to report @cenmag.bsky.social
08.10.2025 09:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It's nice to be excited about science again. Congratulations to my old colleague, Michel Devoret!
Being quoted in this article about this amazing achievement is a major bonus 🤓
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...
#NobelPrize #Physics #Science #PhysicsNobel
I should specify that he’s saying that’s the appeal to him — he also says biology is the science of the future
07.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also check out Devoret's description of why he chose physics over biology -- "Intellectually, biology as a whole is
fascinating, but experiments in biology do not have the richness of physics experiments
in terms of immediate sensory experience." (the full answer describes physics' personal appeal)
New nobel laureate Michel Devoret once led a course on Cinema and Physics physics.yale.edu/sites/defaul... -- he told a historian that he was surprised when the enrollment for that was larger than a course on differential equations
07.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0they have one for John Martinis as well repository.aip.org/node/129661. After building a quantum computer, he says, "we still have to do something useful, so that's the next challenge"
07.10.2025 12:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The @aip.bsky.social's oral histories are a great resource on the physics #nobelprize. Delighted to be able to read Michel Devoret's where he calls his work "low-energy physics" repository.aip.org/node/129778 - dealing with "ordinary matter consisting of mundane particles like electrons and atoms"
07.10.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The laureates' 'prize-earning' papers in Phys Rev Lett, Phys Rev B from 1985 + 1987 have 276, 342 and 518 citations [Scopus] - low for Nobel-winning work, maybe?
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Macroscopic quantum tunnelling wins -- goes to the trio of
Martinis, Clarke, and Devoret
currently there's lots of throat clearing and paper shuffling
07.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's physics nobel prize day! --
Youtube stream pre announcement room noise is a highlight of the #nobelprize reporting and editing experience
1/ 🧪🍃🐙📰 We @biographic.bsky.social have been hard at work for the past 8 months developing a deep, rich, behind-the-scenes feature story exploring how the Trump Administration's cuts to international conservation are affecting biodiversity on the ground.
06.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1Fluoride has proven dental health benefits, this common additive to drinking water is now banned in Utah. Other states may do the same. Is there any real risk to fluoride at the levels present in drinking water? Story by Priyanka Runwal for @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/environment/...
26.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0“My inbox is flooded with [potential news] items every day—which is part of the administration’s “flood the zone” strategy. They are overwhelming us intentionally.” – @hayleysmith.bsky.social. Five reporters share what it means to cover science in the U.S. right now.
16.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1Its just unforgettable that one. I have such a strong memory of watching this as a kid, with my neighborhood and elementary school friends (and their mom, who encouraged us to watch that specific episode).
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