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One of the few useful things I ever did on Twitter was create an NZ Science List. Anyone know of a similar list on Bluesky? I started creating one--see link below--but would gladly just follow someone else's
bsky.app/profile/planeterrol…
old twitter list was nitter.gq/i/lists/10462746461049…
Want to follow great Australian science writing on Bluesky? Here's a handy, curated starter-pack of Australian science writers.
bsky.app/profile/equscoe.bsk…
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If, like many, you have finally given up on what used to be Twitter for sharing science stories...
This is a Bluesky starter pack of Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence and similar ARC funded schemes: bsky.app/starter-pack/coepla…
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No offence Twitter peeps. I still need to be a member of this previously functional platform for work purposes, but I’m steadily unfollowing everyone. ❤️ out
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This is definitely why my physics 101 experiments never matched the calcs – at Melbourne, Victoria
Unwanted energy in quantum systems is usually blamed on experimental imperfections, but “what if we actually have a perfectly cold system, and the reason we can’t cool it down effectively is because it’s constantly being bombarded by dark matter?” ow.ly/ZZsR50RlWom
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The speed of light was once thought to be infinite: ⚡️
Up until the 17th century, it was widely believed that light traveled instantaneously. Danish astronomer Ole Rømer was the first to provide evidence that light had a finite speed.
He did this by observing the motion of Jupiter's moon Io and calculating the speed of light to be approximately 220,000 km/s, which is remarkably close to the modern value of 299,792 km/s.
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Congratulations to @semontis, who has been awarded a NWO-XS grant! 👏 She is going to create an ultrathin magnetic memory with 2D materials, making it smaller, reducing the energy consumption and eliminating all moving parts.
Read the interview: universiteitleiden.nl/en/new…
Operation ‘Make the Sci-Comms Guy Redundant’ at work
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Nga mihi e hoa!
And thanks for workshop tweetage while I was busy behind the AV desk. It was great having you with us for FLEET's legacy celebration.
.@PlanetErrol ends his Comms presentation and walks off stage in style at #FLEETlegacy - to the sounds of Hine Ruhi, the te reo version of Dave Dobbyn's Slice of Heaven. #churbro @FLEETCentre youtu.be/DSPO3rB-14A?si=z9kW…
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International ports company DP World has paid no tax in Australia despite generating revenue of more than $4.5bn over eight years
amp.theguardian.com/australi…
Cyber crime ain’t the only crime
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Just published in Nano Letters: Dr. Feixiang Xiang, PhD student Abhay Gupta, and a great team of national & international collaborators report new and unexpected behaviour of quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene when large gate biases are applied. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Brisbane | it's your turn to catch Dr @KarenLLivesey on her Women in Physics national lecture tour. Hear how nano-magnets are being used to solve biomedical and technological problems, in a public lecture - 12 Oct at The University of Queensland #UQ.
aip.org.au/event-5432614
