Love watching videos of Boston Dynamics Spot? Here is a cleverly designed affordable alternative from Monash University, #Australia , inevitably called ‘The Dingo’

'The Poisoning of Social Media and the End of Reality'

How Facebook is no longer a social network, but a place where no one can be sure what is real anymore, or even if the people they are talking to exist.

404media.co/facebooks-ai-s…

#China 's Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) has a lot of cool kit if you like squashing things at very low temperatures in high magnetic fields whilst doing spectroscopy on them. And who doesn't??

lssf.cas.cn/en/facilities-…

#quantumcomputing #news : Intel are using traditional, mature semiconductor manufacturing to make many 'spin qubits', single electrons trapped within transistors on a silicon wafer. The record is 12, way behind other technologies but it could grow fast.

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in #Australia contain isotopic evidence that *could* indicate that the rocks they crystalized in interacted with freshwater. These are more than 4 billion years old, so it could even have been raining in the Hadean Eon.

science.org/content/articl…

🚨 Registration is now open for the #Mineral #Physics #Research in Progress Meeting 2024 at minersoc.org/mpgrip-2024.ht…

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🗓️ 18th-19th of July

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Wow.

With this confirmation of payload deployment, Falcon 9 has now successfully delivered payloads into orbit successfully 300 times in a row since the Amos 6 explosion.

🇷🇺 - Russian gas giant Gazprom has just reported first net loss since 1999
• Gazprom posted US$6.84bn loss in 2023 as sanctions drastically curb sales to Europe
• Gazprom's losses will put Russian budget under (even) more pressure amid rising military spending

The links here between Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and the philosophy of ‘effective altruism’ are fascinating and disturbing:

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute theguardian.com/technology/202…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden clears way for Pentagon to send $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, with shipment to begin in 'next few hours.'

3 year PDRA position on mantle convection modelling advertised here, to work on a project with seismologists, experimentalists and microscale modellers.
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🌍Join us at #EMC2024 for a workshop on Synchrotron-based techniques for mineralogical studies! Learn theory, explore open-source software, and discover environmental applications🌱
Don't miss out and register now at emc-2024.org/workshops/

I AM HIRING!! Come and join my team
University of Bristol Earth Sciences
South West Nuclear Hub
as a postdoctoral researcher to work on the #materialsscience #geochemistry #mineralogy of radioactive waste disposal in a geological facility. Details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG367/res… DM me for more info.

⚡️BREAKING: US HOUSE ADOPTED THE BILL ON AID TO UKRAINE (H.R. 8035). With little votes left to count, a majority is reached.

Thank you USA 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELs): they are *tiny* and yet can produce laser beams so bright and well collimated they can cut through steel: spectrum.ieee.org/pcsel

Thermal batteries are a growth area: not just for storing electrical #energy as heat for conversion back to electricity, but storing heat to be used directly in #industry , which accounts for 20% of global energy demand and mostly comes from #FossilFuels : technologyreview.com/2024/04/15/109…

Folks! I am STILL looking for a PhD student to join my team University of Bristol Earth Sciences South West Nuclear Hub! In fact, I am now looking for TWO students! Please RT or get in touch if you're interested!