I just realised that many of my projects in the group are bluesky projects - high-risk, high-reward and curiosity-driven. Maybe there is a more uptick on these post-probation!

This is Einstein at Princeton, 1935. He was tasked to find which young physicists would revolutionize science. His unconventional method found Oppenheimer, Wheeler, and Nobel-Prize winners before anyone knew their names. Here is his ONE method to spotting genius: 🧵

“He often worked 15 hours a day, complaining that each discovery cost a night’s sleep, and in 1890 alone published an astounding fourteen scientific articles on the nervous system” - this is said about Ramon y Cajal, a stalwart in neuro. 14/year was once astounding! Good times!

Year-end summary: Enjoyed 365 days of interacting with students! Enjoyed doing research and teaching. PS: Rest of the metrics can take a backseat!

Join us for our Ph.D. Information Sessions to learn more about the exciting Ph.D. program offered by the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester! 🚀✨ #PhD #Engineering #UniversityOfManchester

Was surprised yesterday to know that Springer Editorial Manager does not support Tikz files or sub-folders in Latex. A mammoth effort to re-plot everything and put PDF files instead. Tikz looks so much nicer :(

Cancelled my proton subscription today after having serious issues with Mac desktop app of Proton Drive ! Wonder if others have been having any issues? Currently using web interface to download and move out!

Full time of road marking job pays twice the UK Postdoc’s salary!

cluely.com/manifesto A new tool to help cheat in online interviews. Looks like the way we interview needs to start changing :)

What if we wrote research papers that just cleanly and plainly described the problem we worked on and our conclusions. Leave out all the introduction / Lit review etc.

Most papers today fit better into tweets ;)

Really excited to share the first paper (doi.org/10.1007/s40571…) of my first Ph.D. student (Xiaoyuan Luo). Fantastic collaboaration with Sang-ri Yi at NHERI SimCenter and others to bring together SPH-FEM-UQ. #UncertaintyQuantification #WSI #FEM #SPH

Today saw that a French lab put out advertisement for positions that was exactly my ERC starting grant. I don't claim that others don't have the same idea. But very disturbing!

Let's generate our own LLM fine-tuning dataset (100% local):

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/01/ind… This is big - Purdue is dropping Mathematics program?!

Fantastic opportunity!