Professor Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Nobel prize laureate in Physics, talking today at @bristolphysics.bsky.social on his development of p-type GaN doping that enabled blue LEDs, which paved the way for the revolution in energy efficient LED lighting and TV, computer and smartphone screens.

Having met on Twitter, @drdrewitt.bsky.social and I met a few years ago in-person in Bristol to discuss life outside of academia and how to academia ➡️ industry.

So I’m MADE UP that he’s made the move and hopefully has an even better future ahead of him 🙌🏾

DM if you too want to chat… 😉

My research on "MightyLev" is published in Reviews of Scientific Instruments. MightyLev is an innovative ultrasonic levitator for extremely stable levitation of medium- to high-density oxide and metallic materials. pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/arti...

My Scholar Goggler word cloud scholargoggler.com

MultiLev: A project I've been working on over the summer. MultiLev is designed for mid-air levitation and manipulation of particles, including contact-free merging and separation of levitated particles youtu.be/YLCVH9LJtBI #levitation #acoustics #Raspberry_Pi

Do what you want for yourself and let the chips fall where they may

I'm looking for a new role in industry in the Bristol area, UK. I'm a physicist with 15 years research experience, with skills including experimental and computational physics, scientific writing, and collaborative R&D. I would appreciate your support and any connections, advice, or opportunities.

Sad to hear the news of Peter Higgs. I met him in Edinburgh in 2013 at his Nobel prize celebration. When I asked Prof. Higgs to sign a copy of his 1964 Physical Review Letters he told me how he only added the existence of a particle after comments from a referee who initially rejected it!

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

The first sentence of the intro of this paper reads: Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires

Moon halo

I haven't posted at the bad place for two months, so I guess this is the good place now. Time to build a new profile :)