Julian Mak

Argument of the week: Miffy + FaFa 🌚🌝

#ManekiNeko of the week: Miffy

Title card for Mindscape episode with David Tong.

Mindscape 321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory. I *know* you've been worried about why the electroweak theory cannot be defined on discrete spacetime. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Just for fun: reconstruction of an #IKEA manager in an #EigenCat basis 🦈🐱

My legs definitely thanked #QatarAirways for that part trip. My sanity with the expenses claim, not so much.

[20 hr travel with #QatarAirlines, options to upgrade to business]

Me: ...nah because $$ and have to justifying expenses
1st leg: feel free to choose any of the rows
2nd leg: ticket issue,
"sorry sir we would like to put you in business class please take this new ticket"

Don't mind if I do 🌚🌚🌚

Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats Isparta et al. find that two-thirds of cats prefer to sleep on their left side, indicating asymmetry at the population level. Because the right hemisphere is specialized for threat processing, this as...

www.cell.com/current-biol... 😸😴

Cat of the week: Turnip!

(Turnip [/ May] was our 0th cat in #Oxford; she is the neighbour's that we couldn't adopt. Glad to see she is still alive and well-ish given she would be about 14 now 🥲)

🦀 of the week: FaFa

Royal Society of Tasmania medal for sea-ice researcher - AAPP AAPP researcher wins prestigious award

🌊 AAPP physical oceanographer @edoddridge.bsky.social @utas.edu.au has received a prestigious Royal Society of Tasmania medal for his outstanding research on sea-ice changes around #Antarctica.

🏅 aappartnership.org.au/royal-societ...

📢SEAGOING SCIENCE BURSARY🌊

In collaboration with West and endorsed as a @unoceandecade.bsky.social contribution, we invite applications for an exciting bursary including:

💰financial support
🗣️mentorship
🚢an opportunity to gain sea experience on a 2026 research voyage

To apply you must…(below) ↩️

#no

Face off between the two lab managers

At #JpGU #Rabeet #TapirSake

A great write up of work we did on understanding marine heatwaves in the Chesapeake Bay!

This work (a bit outside what I normally study) grew out of a senior capstone project by Skylar Lama, then led by Rachel Wegener for her MS. Super fun to think about such important local issues.

"I have the high ground Anakin!"

Catus of the week: Miffy 🌵

Miffy with a new hat 👒

Miffy with a new hat 👒

He understands sin very well

Individually lovely lab managers, but not really getting on at the moment (big screaming match earlier... 😾)

New addition: Fa Fa (花花= flower flower) 🌼 🌸 🌻 🌹

(Miffy hates her at the moment)

Guess we will be doing eigencats in a new course to be written

You can take care of Uni, Sora, Aoba, and Yoru in your browser!
So very cute :3

#IPCC is calling for nominations of experts to serve as authors and review editors for its Seventh Assessment Report

Find out how to become an author or review editor 👉 bit.ly/4krWMTu

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Submissions close: 17 April 2025

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

And that is YOU who are reading this.

Happy Wednesday.

Slugcat/otter vs Catus-kun 🐌🌵

RIP functional analysis

"equality" and "inequality" lmao, goodbye mathematics and physics departments in the US

words referenced from gizmodo.com/the-list-of-...

Marine carbon dioxide removal may be a future climate solution - David T Ho, Laurent Bopp, 2024 The ocean has absorbed 25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and over 90% of excess heat, mitigating climate change but causing ocean acidification and marine ecos...

What do you think about using the ocean to remove atmospheric CO₂? What about mangroves? Are biological or geochemical methods better?

These are FAQs that I get, and they're answered in this piece that I wrote with @bopplaurent.bsky.social. Please take a look.