I am quite late to the party, but I'm on Ch. 13 of Project Hail Mary and ... it's pretty good!!

my kid is trying to understand "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" and ... hard stuff, y'all.

Wiring up my house today. I've never run Ethernet before. My brilliant self spent so much effort getting my technique right before reading the words "pass-thru" on the crimper and plugs, watching one more video, and ... so much faster 🤦‍♂️

Helping my kids with geometry. I had forgotten how cool perpendicular bisectors are

This is a really weird article in that it doesn't actually try to identify specific problems until the very end. Then, the closest it comes is the quote below, and ... I bet the union doesn't want to do what you think it wants to do. Also maybe don't lionize Watson so much?

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · last mo.

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Just introduced my children to “What would Brian Boitano do” Top 10 all time song

I am getting a puppy. I want to name her after an unproblematic, powerful female icon. Looking for suggestions. Dolly Bark-ton? Rosa Barks?

OK, but why doesn't my CGU provide PoE?

this is my life now

Is there a nice (standardized) way to indicate or hint at the integration measure of the functional when writing down a functional derivative? I find it annoying that I can't deduce the units of a functional derivative at a glance the same way I can for ordinary derivative expressions

Does anyone have any recommendations physics and chemistry intro materials in Jupyter Notebook form? Simulations, dynamics, modeling, etc? Reliant only the core Python scientific computing ecosystem would be best (so it can work in JupyterLite). scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc.

Ever since I turned 50, I've been receiving (no exaggeration) 5-13 spam calls a day about medicare. How do I make them stop?

The sky in rural New Zealand 🤩

📣 To celebrate Biophysics Week, the Membrane Structure and Function Subgroup (MSAF) of @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social will host a webinar on March 24 at 11am EDT. Our speakers are @mejohnson81.bsky.social, @ibudin.bsky.social, and Cecília Leal (not on 🦋). 🧪 👀 More info in the alt text! Please share! 🔄

My mom is so goddamn impressive. Grew up literally dirt poor. First woman to major in Engineering at the University of Colorado. Story I always heard was that she was an art major and one of her girlfriends dared her to take an engineering class, and she did it out of orneriness. Talk about (1/3)

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

I have now figured out how to make this in R with ggplot2. I feel very proud.

Tongariro Alpine Crossing. All the students made it in under 10 hours. Absolutely amazing.

Hey #Physics / #ITeachPhysics / #Biophysics / #Math friends: a math colleague has a student who took complex analysis last semester and who wants to practice using the residue theorem to compute *real things* instead of random toy problems. Do you have good examples? Surprisingly, I don't ...

I grew up with the In Living Color alt halftime show but ... dissertations are going to be written about NFL halftime shows now, right? 😻😻😻

Big news time! After 15 wonderful years at Earlham, I'll be starting in July in the Smith College physics department!

Well this looks really interesting

Davide Mercadante@mercadantelab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New preprint!🚨 We're finally able to sample secondary structure in coarse-grained simulations of IDPs! 🍝🍝🍝 With an AI-based prediction of NMR chemical shifts in CG simulations, we correct dynamics on the fly, making secondary structure emerge as dictated by expts😍! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

My favorite kind of sale. The 3rd bottle costs more than the first two.

Who doesn’t love a good diffusion paper

Yamuna Krishnan@krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

It's letter of recommendation season, but ... my goodness, do notes like this make it worth it!

Here is a solid, thought-provoking post.

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

Lunchtime tart for the wife’s birthday! Quite pleased with how it came out.

Definitely wanted this to lead to some biophysical version of the Coriolis force.

Manuel Thery@manuelthery.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The law of the jungle. Interactions of cells in a collective lead to global rotation. In 80% of the case HUVEC cells turn clockwise. How many cells does it take for this to happen?

I am honored and excited to present our recent work on mixed AND asymmetric membranes at @bppbseminar.bsky.social! 🧪 My online talk will be this Friday, 11/21/25, 11am US Eastern time. Many thanks to the organizers for putting this together! More details here: sites.google.com/view/bppb-se...

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BPPB Seminar Series@bppbseminar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Please join the BPPB seminar on Friday November 21 at 11 US ET for a talk by Markus Deserno @markusdeserno.bsky.social (On the thermodynamics of ternary asymmetric lipid membranes).

I love having students work in groups to write sample exam problems in class. This time, I told them to take some existing problems and make them harder. It’s so cool seeing them dive into things like “well, we could give less information … what could we leave out?” #ITeachPhysics