What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

I'm recruiting grad students and postdocs to join my group at IQC in 2025. Ideal candidates will be excited about some of: Shannon theory, entanglement, physics of information, metrology, fancy math, quantum networks, QI in AMO/CM/HEP, the fundamental nature of reality, etc...

In the novel 소년이 온다 (2014; ‘Human Acts’, 2016), Han Kang – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Literature – employs as her political foundation a historical event that took place in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed

Tenure Track Professorship in our group Uni Graz/University of Graz! You will start as an Assistant Professor and study ultrafast processes in single molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy #stm Deadline: 30 October 2024 Start: 1 March 2025 See you soon! 🙌 Link: jobsprof.uni-graz.at/prof/job.php?l…

MeteoSchweiz-Wetterkamera Leibstadt. Megeschönes #Polarlicht. meteoschweiz.admin.ch/service-und-pu…

Hat sich wieder gelohnt am Strand der Eckernförder Bucht... #aurora #Auroraborealis #Polarlichter

WOOOOW!!! What a show!!!!! Wow!!! Bright red #aurora reaching to the zenith over Korte, SW #Slovenia! Still shaking! This one is goving 10 May 2024 a run for its money!

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch

Beautiful #northernlights at the comfort of home #NorthernLightsuk

Not bad, Durham. Not bad at all.

What to expect when you are expecting

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its

Chiral topological materials have been predicted to host orbital angular momentum monopoles, which can be useful for orbitronics applications. Now such monopoles have been imaged in chiral materials. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Glad to share our perspective on radicaloid conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons, published in Trends in Chemistry. Together with Lapo Bogani, we explore the connection between extended materials and open-shell hydrocarbons cell.com/trends/chemist…

Well there we go. None of this takes away from the amazing things these models can do, but it challenges wild claims about what they "understand".

Tickets for the UK events this fall are going fast! Get yours here: fane.co.uk/randall-munroe

This study uses #ScanningTunnelingMicroscope-induced luminescence (STML) to explore the #VibronicCoupling in single phthalocyanine derivative molecules with atomic-scale precision. Fyzikální ústav AV ČR Czech Academy of Sciences université de Franche-Comté CNRS 🌍 IPCMS #OpenAccess: go.acs.org/bdq

Still some tickets for this one. But not many! Two guests, one a weird alien-looking dude with crazy political views and so hideous that he has to hide his features behind a huge mask and the other is James Acaster (sorry, I don't do jokes)

The most common question about 3blue1brown is how I animate videos, so I made a video to give a peek behind the scenes. youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI

Phase II of NCCR is in full bloom! 🌱 Excited to nurture this journey and watch it flourish. Stay tuned for what’s next! NCCR Catalysis IBM Research Swiss National Science Foundation