About to enter The Matrix...

For those who don’t agree that the vaccinated can return to pre-pandemic normal, I ask: What should we all do? Perpetual masking? Forever not dining out, avoiding large weddings & indoor gatherings, etc? Virtually everything has risk, and zero covid is not a viable strategy.

Great to have had the chance to write this short review article. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Something we should very much take to heart: doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

It was a challenge to hold the phone steady in this wind, but here it is: the newly refurbished WLGTN sign, plus moon 🤣

OMG, this has an entirely new spin to it... upperstory.com/spintronics/?t…

"Driver shortages today. Plan for some cancellations and longer wait times." TODAY? SOME? LONGER? Who can still stand the corporate euphemisms! It should read: "Ongoing driver shortage. Lots of cancellations. Long wait times. You better plan, because we actually can't!"

Nice barista art VicBooks Cafe 😍

We are playing bus lotto again. Today I am a winner! Sitting inside, as angry scenes unfold outside when the only un-cancelled bus in a half-hour window fills up and finally passes by stops. Overtaking miserable wet cyclists rest of the way. Welcome to commuting in our city 😜

Tuatara bingo! All three of them are out today WellingtonUni

PhD opportunity on FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectde…

Absolute pity. Never mind the textbooks, what I am going to miss is the chance to browse new releases while waiting for coffee to meet colleagues and students in a congenial environment 😟 newsroom.co.nz/vic-books-clos…

Fantastic to be back at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics for the Quantum Crystal 2023 conference! Stoked to present our recent work on multipolar ⚡ and 🧲order in solids 😉

Hot off the press Physical Review B: Our theory for quantifying 🖥️ arbitrary multipolar order 🧲 in solids 💎. Comprises all types of polar materials, ferro- and altermagnets 💯. A 🇺🇸+🇳🇿 co-production! journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/1…

Getting ready for the RS Wellington Branch Hudson lecture, given by Prof Michele Governale from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Subject: quantum technologies @MacDiarmidInsti Dodd-Walls Centre

Odd-frequency superfluidity from a particle-number-conserving perspective, K. Thompson, U. Zülicke, J Schmalian, M. Governale, and J. Brand Dodd-Walls Centre @MacDiarmidInsti Ulrich Zuelicke #AtomicPhysics #CondensedMatter go.aps.org/4dEP04p

C'est parti ! Le festival des films de nouvelle-Calédonie... 🇨🇵🇳🇨 France in New Zealand 🇫🇷🇪🇺

Beautiful Wellington day. Great time to take the scenic bus route 14 Metlink

Great fun to contribute with my colleague Roland Winkler NIU to a deeper understanding of altermagnetism Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington niutoday.info/2025/02/25/phy…

Sean Carroll Balticon: Simplicity is overrated, physicists. Prioritize complexity, for a change. Sean Carroll