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This is quite funny. Couch sports really is a big thing.

This is making the rounds on German twitter. To my #science peeps: how do you see this?

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Ein Mann fragt einen AfD-Politiker: „Sagen Sie uns mal die Vorschläge, die Ihre Partei in der Kommunalpolitik in den letzten 5 Jahren eingebracht hat, um die Hochschulstadt Gera voranzubringen.“ „Es reicht, wenn sie einen benennen!“ AfD Politiker: 😶

I didn’t speak English when I started 1st grade in the US. By the end of the year they wanted me to skip a year and go straight to 3rd grade. I was valedictorian of my high school, got a full scholarship for college, and have an MD and PhD from Stanford. He is the poison, not us

📢📢📢 Another online talk about research funding opportunities at DFG public | @[email protected] - it's time for the Emmy Noether Programme. Save the date 24/09/2024 at 4:00 p.m. #EmmyNoether #ResearchFunding Research in Germany - Initiative of the BMBF 👩🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🔬🔭🧪🥼⚛️👩🏻‍💻 dfg.de/en/research-fu…

The Young Academy of Europe (Young Academy of Europe (YAE)) endorsed an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen issued by ISE, also signed by Nobel laureates, Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences, easac, LERU and ALLEA on strengthening research in Europe. initiative-se.eu/2024/09/03/ope…

Congratulations Andrea Cavalleri MPI für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie Winner of the 2024 Europhysics Prize Condensed Matter Division EPS

Die schlechteste Landesregierung aller Zeiten hat in #Bremen den Haushalt verbockt. Ausbaden müssen das jetzt Kinder, Eltern und Erzieher, weil keine neuen pädagogischen Hilfen mehr für die #Kitas kommen. Wir brauchen endlich Fachkräfte in der Politik! butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/ki…

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the Flatiron Institute! Since our inauguration in 2017, the institute has been working on complex problems in computational science, from astrophysics to biology and quantum physics. Read more about our latest research: simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/news

New arXiv.org (arxiv.org/abs/2409.04531): Nonperturbative Nonlinear Transport in a Floquet-Weyl Semimetal, led by Matthew Day MPI für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie in James McIver's group. Particularly proud of my first UBremen PhD student Juani Aranzadi for a heroic theory effort key to finish this!

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

“when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

Doing a PhD and a Post doc teaches you many things, but it doesn't prepare you for biggest challenge professors meet - signing documents with acrobat reader

A young academic told me--with a smile--that he had an epiphany: Academic jobs are bad enough that he is no longer worried about not getting tenure. Is the feeling common?

Re: citation indices; science funding

New preprint arXiv.org arxiv.org/abs/2409.10615 Surface-mediated ultra-strong cavity coupling of two-dimensional itinerant electrons led by my former student Chris Eckhardt and Marios Michael MPI für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie