LeidenForce
banner
leidenforce.bsky.social
LeidenForce
@leidenforce.bsky.social
HorizonEU MSCA-DN research project | Experimental physics of the Leidenfrost Effect | Fluids, PhDs, soft matter, industry
✨Discover, learn & explore with us!

🔗 https://www.leidenforce.eu
🔴 youtube.com/@LeidenForce
📸 instagram.com/LeidenForce
Pinned
We are recruiting a #PhD for LeidenForce @espciparispsl.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social
🇫🇷 + 🇧🇪 • Experimental physics • Fluid & heat transfer
Deadline: 15 November 2025
Apply now | Please share
Application form: bit.ly/49wcuK2
More info: www.leidenforce.eu
#PhDPosition #HorizonEU #MSCA
- Contact angle hysteresis -
Why do droplets stick to surfaces even at low angles?

Answer in this video by @espciparispsl.bsky.social

🎥 youtu.be/eTpEXYuK2bA?...

⏳ No time right now? Save this post and come back later
#ContactAngle #Hysteresis #mooc #FluidDynamics #Physics
2.2 Solid-liquid contact - Hysteresis
YouTube video by ESPCI Paris - PSL
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"AI tools are not simply automatic tools, they translate our words according to their own logic, influenced by their databases and algorithms. The humanities have an essential role to play in understanding and evaluating them."
#AITools #VisualLanguage #PerceptionAndAI #AIBias #CulturalAlgorithms
Can we really trust artificial intelligence to illustrate our ideas? Scientists have examined the capabilities of #Midjourney and #DALL·E - two Generative Artificial Intelligence (#GAI) software programs - to produce images from simple sentences.
www.fsa.uliege.be/cms/c_127862...
When AI draws our words
A new study proposes visual composition criteria for evaluating Midjourney and DALL·E, beyond mere computer scores.
www.fsa.uliege.be
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue"
#arXiv #Preprint #AIEthics #PeerReview
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Matter for Thought - Timeless insights for Modern Physics

🖊️Quote by Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny, French physicist

📘Source: "Studies on Bodies in the Spheroidal State – A New Branch of Physics” (1857)

#Physics #Experiment #Thermodynamics #ExploreTheUnknown #STEM
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to Scott Waitukaitis @istaresearch.bsky.social for this well-deserved recognition 👏
We’re proud to have his collaboration within the LeidenForce project.
👉 Meet the team: www.leidenforce.eu/partners

#leidenforce #softmatter #HorizonEurope #ResearchCollaboration #MSCA
Scott Waitukaitis wins the #APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research. This honor highlights his work with soft electrified materials, solving the mystery of contact electrification, and bringing clarity to complex soft matter challenges through innovative experiments. Congratulations, Scott!
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"Un plan (...) qui vise à connecter les grandes capitales européennes plus efficacement par le rail" et "à augmenter l’utilisation des carburants moins polluants, notamment dans le transport maritime et l’aviation"
#ResearchMobility #PhysicsForSustainability #DecarbonizedAviation #EUResearch
🇪🇺
Mercredi, la Commission européenne a dévoilé un paquet de mesures visant à promouvoir les moyens de transport durables. Une partie des annonces concerne le développement de lignes de train à grande vitesse, l’autre cible l’utilisation de carburants moins polluants.
De Paris à Madrid en six heures : l’UE veut développer les lignes de train à grande vitesse
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Pocket guide to scientific writing & publishing:
✔ How to write clear, effective scientific papers
✔ What reviewers & editors actually look for
✔ How to avoid common mistakes
✔ Using AI tools wisely and ethically
✔ Publishing in journals that matter for your career
#ScientificPaper #ResearchTips
Occasionally people send me books they have published - mostly they are pretty average, but this one was delightful and useful. Recommended! www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide...
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
LAB CHRONICLE #24
-Coffee Break-

— Did you get a result?
— Yes.
— Reproducible?
— No.
— Beautiful?
— Very.

#CoffeeBreak #ScienceBreak #BeautifulFailure #LabConversations #AestheticsOfError
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We are recruiting a #PhD for LeidenForce @espciparispsl.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social
🇫🇷 + 🇧🇪 • Experimental physics • Fluid & heat transfer
Deadline: 15 November 2025
Apply now | Please share
Application form: bit.ly/49wcuK2
More info: www.leidenforce.eu
#PhDPosition #HorizonEU #MSCA
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
LAB CHRONICLE #23
-Post-it Found on the Camera-

“Approximate framing = approximate science”
→ My camera is judging me.

#LabLife #BehindTheExperiment #PrecisionMatters #PostItWisdom #ScientificIrony
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"When I did not know the answer to an issue she raised, I (...) did my best to listen (...) and allow her to determine her best course of action. Sometimes I was there simply to provide a safe space to vent. I could help even when I did not have a solution."
#mentor #mentoring #tips
"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"la science est plus importante que jamais pour relever les défis mondiaux auxquels nos sociétés sont confrontées. La réalisation d’une égalité inclusive entre les hommes et les femmes dans l’enseignement supérieur, la recherche et l’innovation est un élément clé pour relever avec succès ces défis."
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🇧🇪 #LeidenForce team spirit mixing scientific discussions, new encounters, iconic boulets-frites… and a few stolen fries ;)
📷 @marca-be.bsky.social @crokybe.bsky.social Gauri Patki, Cheikh Tidiane DIOUM @universitedeliege.bsky.social & Alexis Duchesne @fst-ulille.bsky.social
#Teamwork #BelgianStyle
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
LAB CHRONICLE #22
-Scientific Optimism-

Nothing worked today.
→ I call this:
“Moral calibration phase.”

#KeepTheFire #TrialAndError #PhDLife #MoralCalibration #LearningCurve
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
How do droplets behave on liquid surfaces heated beyond boiling?
Arghya Mukherjee (DC#8) joins #LeidenForce to study this little-known phenomenon.
With B. Sobac @universiteuppa.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social
www.LeidenForce.eu/welcomearghyanews
#FluidPhysics #PhD
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted by LeidenForce
Avec vingt pays associés, Horizon Europe s’impose comme le programme de recherche le plus ouvert au monde. Le CNRS s’est pleinement emparé de cet outil stratégique pour renforcer ses partenariats scientifiques à l’échelle internationale. #HorizonEU 🇪🇺
A l’heure des reconfigurations, Horizon Europe, l’atout mondial des scientifiques européens
Avec vingt pays associés, Horizon Europe s’impose comme le programme de recherche le plus ouvert au monde.
www.cnrs.fr
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
"Vivre dans un contexte différent permet (...) de mesurer ses capacités d’adaptation (...). Ce cheminement (...) enrichit les compétences professionnelles et personnelles, tout en offrant une perspective plus nuancée sur les sociétés, les cultures et les manières d’apprendre et d’agir."
#expat #PhD
🧑‍🎓 La presse internationale relaie les témoignages d’étudiants partis faire leurs études à l’étranger. Lina, Victoria, Pamina et Akashdeep racontent comment leurs expériences à Riga, Utrecht, Londres et Palmerston North ont transformé leur vie.
Nos vies étudiantes, de la Lettonie à la Nouvelle-Zélande
bit.ly
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"by linking bouncing to droplet velocity, size and surface properties, the new framework could make it easier to engineer microdroplets for specific purposes"
What causes microscopic droplets to stick to surfaces rather than bouncing off them? The answer has many applications, including for pesticides sprayed on crops and for controlling the spread of disease-causing aerosols. It's also more complicated than we thought. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
Physicists explain why some fast-moving droplets stick to hydrophobic surfaces – Physics World
New experiments and calculations could improve aerosol and microfluidic technologies while shedding more light on airborne disease transmission
physicsworld.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
LAB CHRONICLE #21
-Good Day-

Today, the experiment worked.
Then the camera froze.
→ I have a JPEG of pure science.
→ Just one image. But perfect.

#Bug #Jpeg #PureScience #GoodDay #OneFrame
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"When a new entrepreneur emerges, they have every incentive to come up with a radical new technology"
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A bubble bursting in slow motion — where physics meets poetry.

🎥 Stéphane Dorbolo @marca-be.bsky.social@universitedeliege.bsky.social
youtu.be/yWhDlVrEOAQ?...

#Physics #FunScience #FluidDynamics #Bubble #SlowMotion
Bubble bursting
YouTube video by LeidenForce
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The first steps of Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
@universitedeliege.bsky.social with @kafleury.bsky.social

#PhDLife #LeidenForce #Research #SpaceScience
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique"
[REPLAY] En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du HCERES par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique, souvent jugée bureaucratique. On en parle avec la sociologue Clémentine Gozlan.
Peut-on encore évaluer la recherche ? Avec Clémentine Gozlan.
En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation…
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
LAB CHRONICLE #20
-Data Acquisition-

Camera aligned.
Perfect focus.
→ Then I sneezed.
→ 4 hours of recalibration.

#LabLifeGoesOn #PhDLife #ExperimentalTragedy #LeidenfrostEffect #LabReality
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM