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where are we going?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/11/scientific-publishing-where-are-we-going.html", "published_at": "2023-11-11T20:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532ef408f13", "title": "Strategic planning + departmental reviews", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/11/strategic-planning-departmental-reviews.html", "published_at": "2023-11-02T01:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f003f0c5", "title": "Reading material - orders of magnitude and difficult times", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/10/reading-material-orders-of-magnitude.html", "published_at": "2023-10-27T19:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f067537d", "title": "Scientific travel", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/10/scientific-travel.html", "published_at": "2023-10-18T18:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f0ad6e27", "title": "The Nobels, physics and chemistry", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-nobels-physics-and-chemistry.html", "published_at": "2023-10-05T12:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f1401f94", "title": "Faculty positions at Rice, + annual Nobel speculation", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/09/faculty-positions-at-rice-annual-nobel.html", "published_at": "2023-09-30T20:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f1fea700", "title": "A few quick highlights", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-few-quick-highlights.html", "published_at": "2023-09-26T13:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f2ba6212", "title": "Meetings this week", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/09/meetings-this-week.html", "published_at": "2023-09-18T03:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f3019d84", "title": "Things I learned at the Packard Foundation meeting", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/09/things-i-learned-at-packard-foundation.html", "published_at": "2023-09-07T17:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f380bfe9", "title": "What is the thermal Hall effect?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-thermal-hall-effect.html", "published_at": "2023-08-31T14:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f447f3b1", "title": "Some interesting recent papers - lots to ponder", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/some-interesting-recent-papers-lots-to.html", "published_at": "2023-08-23T22:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f4dd3c41", "title": "Neutrality and experimental detective work", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/neutrality-and-experimental-detective.html", "published_at": "2023-08-17T12:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f5292a89", "title": "What is a metal-insulator transition?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-metal-insulator-transition.html", "published_at": "2023-08-12T00:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f52d21a5", "title": "Desirable properties for a superconductor", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/desirable-properties-for-superconductor.html", "published_at": "2023-08-07T01:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f5f677d5", "title": "Condensed matter on the public stage, and not in a good way", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/07/condensed-matter-on-public-stage-and.html", "published_at": "2023-07-28T02:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f6265464", "title": "Disorganized thoughts on \"Oppenheimer\"", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/07/disorganized-thoughts-on-oppenheimer.html", "published_at": "2023-07-24T00:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbba-7401-715d-9cd5-1532f68c8377", "title": "What are \"quantum oscillations\"?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-are-quantum-oscillations.html", "published_at": "2023-07-17T01:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dad58d65", "title": "Molecular electronics in 2023", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/07/molecular-electronics-in-2023.html", "published_at": "2023-07-01T18:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0db346ff8", "title": "A busy and contentious week in condensed matter physics", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-busy-and-contentious-week-in.html", "published_at": "2023-06-24T20:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dbca6090", "title": "Food and (broadly speaking) fluid mechanics - great paper!", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/06/food-and-broadly-speaking-fluid.html", "published_at": "2023-06-19T16:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dc034ab7", "title": "Some recent papers of interest", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/06/some-recent-papers-of-interest.html", "published_at": "2023-06-15T20:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dc352353", "title": "ARPA-E Roadshow", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/06/arpa-e-roadshow.html", "published_at": "2023-06-09T02:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dca16747", "title": "What is a spin glass?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-is-spin-glass.html", "published_at": "2023-06-01T16:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dcfb537b", "title": "What is a glass?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/05/what-is-glass.html", "published_at": "2023-05-21T21:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dd928a67", "title": "Anyons, simulation, and \"real\" systems", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/05/anyons-simulation-and-real-systems.html", "published_at": "2023-05-14T18:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dd9dd26a", "title": "Michio Kaku and science popularization in the Age of Shamelessness", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/05/michio-kaku-and-science-popularization.html", "published_at": "2023-05-05T19:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0de5c59c1", "title": "Chemical potential and banana waffles", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/04/chemical-potential-and-banana-waffles.html", "published_at": "2023-04-24T00:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0dea6ec5a", "title": "Brief items", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/04/brief-items.html", "published_at": "2023-04-15T16:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0ded932fd", "title": "The problems and opportunities of data", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-problems-and-opportunities-of-data.html", "published_at": "2023-04-01T16:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0df47252f", "title": "What do we want in a conference venue?", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/what-do-we-want-in-conference-venue.html", "published_at": "2023-03-22T00:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e01c2ad1", "title": "Recent RT superconductivity claim - summary page", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/recent-rt-superconductivity-claim.html", "published_at": "2023-03-16T16:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e0799a91", "title": "APS March Meeting 2023, Day 4 + wrapup", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-2023-day-4-wrapup.html", "published_at": "2023-03-10T23:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e0ae1829", "title": "APS March Meeting 2023, Day 3", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-day-3.html", "published_at": "2023-03-09T18:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e0b0e768", "title": "APS March Meeting 2023, Day 2", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-2023-day-2.html", "published_at": "2023-03-08T05:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e186c5bb", "title": "APS March Meeting 2023, Day 1", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-2023-day-1.html", "published_at": "2023-03-07T06:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e2007333", "title": "APS March Meeting 2023 - coming soon", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/03/aps-march-meeting-2023-coming-soon.html", "published_at": "2023-03-05T20:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e2ed80db", "title": "Science and how it will be practiced in the future", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/02/science-and-how-it-will-be-practiced-in.html", "published_at": "2023-02-21T04:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e33ebdb5", "title": "Tour de force work: Bragg, diffraction, and diamond", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/02/tour-de-force-work-bragg-diffraction.html", "published_at": "2023-02-10T02:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e387b23c", "title": "Some interesting links - useful lecture notes, videos", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-interesting-links-useful-lecture.html", "published_at": "2023-02-05T16:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e3feb45c", "title": "Cavities and tuning physics", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/01/cavities-and-tuning-physics.html", "published_at": "2023-01-27T22:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e45ed3dd", "title": "Condensed matter’s rough start", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/01/condensed-matters-rough-start.html", "published_at": "2023-01-15T16:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbe-dbf9-721b-94eb-a1a0e5335221", "title": "News items for the new year", "url": "https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/01/news-items-for-new-year.html", "published_at": "2023-01-08T03:03:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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8 Feb 2025

NSF targeted with mass layoffs, acc to Politico; huge cuts in president’s budget request original ↗

4 Feb 2025

An update, + a paper as a fun distraction original ↗

1 Feb 2025

Turbulent times original ↗

25 Jan 2025

This week in the arXiv: quantum geometry, fluid momentum "tunneling", and pasta sauce original ↗

4 Jan 2025

2024

End of the year thoughts - scientific philanthropy and impact original ↗

31 Dec 2024

Technological civilization and losing object permanence original ↗

20 Dec 2024

Items for discussion, including google's latest quantum computing result original ↗

15 Dec 2024

Seeing through your head - diffuse imaging original ↗

7 Dec 2024

Foams! (or, why my split pea side dish boils over every Thanksgiving)original ↗

29 Nov 2024

Nanopasta, no, really original ↗

24 Nov 2024

Brief items original ↗

22 Nov 2024

Really doing mechanics at the quantum level original ↗

17 Nov 2024

Recent papers to distract....original ↗

5 Nov 2024

Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition original ↗

20 Oct 2024

CHIPS and Science - the reality vs the aspiration original ↗

1 Oct 2024

Annual Nobel speculation thread original ↗

30 Sept 2024

Lots to read, including fab for quantum and "Immaterial Science"original ↗

23 Sept 2024

Fiber optics + a different approach to fab original ↗

16 Sept 2024

Seeing through tissue and Kramers-Kronig original ↗

7 Sept 2024

Items of interest original ↗

31 Aug 2024

Experimental techniques: bridge measurements original ↗

17 Aug 2024

CHIP and Science, NSF support, and hypocrisy original ↗

4 Aug 2024

Items of interest original ↗

28 Jul 2024

The physics of squeaky shoes original ↗

20 Jul 2024

Brief items - light-driven diamagnetism, nuclear recoil, spin transport in VO2 original ↗

15 Jul 2024

What is a Wigner crystal?original ↗

6 Jul 2024

What is turbulence? (And why are helicopters never quiet?)original ↗

22 Jun 2024

Artificial intelligence, extrapolation, and physical constraints original ↗

15 Jun 2024

Materials families: Halide perovskites original ↗

2 Jun 2024

Interesting reading - resonators, quantum geometry w/ phonons, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall original ↗

29 May 2024

Power and computing original ↗

18 May 2024

Wind-up nanotechnology original ↗

8 May 2024

Moiré and making superlattices original ↗

29 Apr 2024

The future of the semiconductor industry, + The Mechanical Universe original ↗

16 Apr 2024

Electronic structure and a couple of fun links original ↗

13 Apr 2024

Thoughts on undergrad solid-state content original ↗

30 Mar 2024

Items of interest original ↗

25 Mar 2024

APS March Meeting 2024, Day 4 and wrap-up original ↗

7 Mar 2024

APS March Meeting 2024, Day 3 original ↗

7 Mar 2024

APS March Meeting 2024, Day 2 original ↗

6 Mar 2024

APS March Meeting 2024, Day 1 original ↗

5 Mar 2024

APS March Meeting 2024 - coming soon original ↗

3 Mar 2024

2024 version: Advice on choosing a graduate school original ↗

25 Feb 2024

Continuing Studies course, take 2 original ↗

13 Feb 2024

A couple of links + a thought experiment about spin original ↗

7 Feb 2024

Large magnetic fields as a scientific tool original ↗

3 Feb 2024

Generative AI and scientific images/diagrams original ↗

26 Jan 2024

Materials characterization techniques – a brief glossary original ↗

16 Jan 2024

Dye-sensitized solar cells - an idea whose time has finally come?original ↗

14 Jan 2024

Items of interest original ↗

10 Jan 2024

2023

Very brief end of the year round-up original ↗

31 Dec 2023

New paper - plasmons, excitons, and steering energy original ↗

21 Dec 2023

AI/ML and condensed matter + materials science original ↗

12 Dec 2023

Intriguing papers - exquisite thermal measurements + automated materials discovery/synthesis original ↗

1 Dec 2023

Noise in a strange metal - pushing techniques into new systems original ↗

27 Nov 2023

Faculty positions at Rice - follow-up original ↗

16 Nov 2023

Postdoctoral opportunities at Rice original ↗

16 Nov 2023

Scientific publishing - where are we going?original ↗

11 Nov 2023

Strategic planning + departmental reviews original ↗

2 Nov 2023

Reading material - orders of magnitude and difficult times original ↗

27 Oct 2023

Scientific travel original ↗

18 Oct 2023

The Nobels, physics and chemistry original ↗

5 Oct 2023

Faculty positions at Rice, + annual Nobel speculation original ↗

30 Sept 2023

A few quick highlights original ↗

26 Sept 2023

Meetings this week original ↗

18 Sept 2023

Things I learned at the Packard Foundation meeting original ↗

7 Sept 2023

What is the thermal Hall effect?original ↗

31 Aug 2023

Some interesting recent papers - lots to ponder original ↗

23 Aug 2023

Neutrality and experimental detective work original ↗

17 Aug 2023

What is a metal-insulator transition?original ↗

12 Aug 2023

Desirable properties for a superconductor original ↗

7 Aug 2023

Condensed matter on the public stage, and not in a good way original ↗

28 Jul 2023

Disorganized thoughts on "Oppenheimer"original ↗

24 Jul 2023

What are "quantum oscillations"?original ↗

17 Jul 2023

Molecular electronics in 2023 original ↗

1 Jul 2023

A busy and contentious week in condensed matter physics original ↗

24 Jun 2023

Food and (broadly speaking) fluid mechanics - great paper!original ↗

19 Jun 2023

Some recent papers of interest original ↗

15 Jun 2023

ARPA-E Roadshow original ↗

9 Jun 2023

What is a spin glass?original ↗

1 Jun 2023

What is a glass?original ↗

21 May 2023

Anyons, simulation, and "real" systems original ↗

14 May 2023

Michio Kaku and science popularization in the Age of Shamelessness original ↗

5 May 2023

Chemical potential and banana waffles original ↗

24 Apr 2023

Brief items original ↗

15 Apr 2023

The problems and opportunities of data original ↗

1 Apr 2023

What do we want in a conference venue?original ↗

22 Mar 2023

Recent RT superconductivity claim - summary page original ↗

16 Mar 2023

APS March Meeting 2023, Day 4 + wrapup original ↗

10 Mar 2023

APS March Meeting 2023, Day 3 original ↗

9 Mar 2023

APS March Meeting 2023, Day 2 original ↗

8 Mar 2023

APS March Meeting 2023, Day 1 original ↗

7 Mar 2023

APS March Meeting 2023 - coming soon original ↗

5 Mar 2023

Science and how it will be practiced in the future original ↗

21 Feb 2023

Tour de force work: Bragg, diffraction, and diamond original ↗

10 Feb 2023

Some interesting links - useful lecture notes, videos original ↗

5 Feb 2023

Cavities and tuning physics original ↗

27 Jan 2023

Condensed matter’s rough start original ↗

15 Jan 2023

News items for the new year original ↗

8 Jan 2023