Hamid Ohadi

Advancing intercalation strategies in layered hybrid perovskites by bringing together synthesis and simulations - Nature Communications A parallel experimental and computational approach was used to predict and prepare intercalated, layered hybrid perovskites, highlighting the breadth and flexibility of intercalation.

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New paper: We combine computation and synthesis to design and discover intercalated layered hybrid perovskites with tunable structures and optoelectronic properties.
With Julia Payne | Grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding. @physastrostand.bsky.social
#2DPerovskites

New tool to identify ‘toxic’ green books

Developed by @physastrostand.bsky.social and the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museum, the new device is transforming how cultural heritage institutions identify toxic pigments in historic books.

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#EverToExcel

Couldn’t resist pointing out the focusing of the light from the wine glass. Very appropriate. And congratulations for your new position!

Are you interested in Rydberg physics, but in solid state? Come and join my brilliant colleague’s group in Durham, Prof Matthew Jones for a postdoc!

@durhamqlm.bsky.social

Unveiling asymmetric topological photonic states in anisotropic 2D perovskite microcavities - Light: Science & Applications Unconventional topological states emerge in anisotropic perovskite microcavities via strong photonic Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling, enabling synthetic gauge fields and non-zero Berry curvature for advan...

New paper: a novel microcavity fabrication technique using birefringent 2D perovskites, enabling asymmetric topological polariton states without geometric structuring.
With Pavlos Savvidis | Grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding.
#Polaritons #TopologicalPhotonics #2DPerovskites

“Those receiving CAR-T-cell therapy also lived an average of 2.4 months longer”

I’m not sure impressive is the right word here.

I usually agree with your bullshit calls, but not this one. Calculating quantum stuff precisely ≠ understanding it. Geocentric astronomy predicted planets for centuries (with epicycles) but got the whole understanding wrong.

MPS budget

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

I feel sorry for my colleagues working there. 7% success rate is a nonstarter for early careers…

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ChatGPT’s response to my grant rejection frustration: “allow yourself space to feel the disappointment properly. You don’t need to move straight to silver linings. This is part of the emotional cost of doing high-risk, high-reward research—and it’s ok to feel knocked by it.” pretty good I thought.

Happy birthday! What a lovely man, and how lucky you have him there!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence Podcast Episode · Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 24/06/2024 · 1h 42m

I highly recommend listening to Sean Carrol’s @seanmcarroll.bsky.social podcast with Francoise Collet on deep learning and intelligence if you’d like to understand why LLM has nothing to do with intelligence, and why it never reach AGI. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

We have the stable genius’s formula: max(trade deficit / total export / 2, 10)

www.theverge.com/news/642620/...

Should we give Google another 21 years to add the option of “sort by number of citations” in Google Scholar?

Perhaps a good start to improving national security would be to stop discussing war plans on Signal.

This is one expensive PR machine

In APS standards this is like filling a stadium…

Shameful! However, the truth doesn’t need as much advertising…

You’d think some of this would’ve picked up by the reviewers! But no, it’s a nature paper…

This is the equivalent of flat earther becoming the head of IoP.

an “idiot” is someone who consistently ignores logic, refuses to learn from mistakes, or dismisses facts in favour of baseless opinions.

If voting twice for Trump is not the exact definition of stupid, I’m not sure what is really…

Elon Musk ‪CEO, Spacex,Hawthorne, 1 Rocket Rd, United States‬ - ‪‪Cited by 3,928‬‬

The criteria to be elected is that they: “must have made 'a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science”. Perhaps it’s time to review that as well because I don’t see that here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Comment on "InAs-Al hybrid devices passing the topological gap protocol", Microsoft Quantum, Phys. Rev. B 107, 245423 (2023) The topological gap protocol (TGP) is presented as "a series of stringent experimental tests" for the presence of topological superconductivity and associated Majorana bound states. Here, we show that...

I had made Microsoft Quantum aware of issues before publication of this latest Nature paper (which uses it tune up their devices).

Since they seem to not care, I have make these issues public.

In short: The topological gap protocol and all claims based on it are flawed.

arxiv.org/abs/2502.19560