Our demonstration of petawatt electron beams was covered by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

As requested: A thread on the birth of plutonium, the incredibly rapid work done to develop the new metal, and the human experiences - and human costs - of the scientists and techs who did the work. In particular, the untold stories of my kindred metallurgist spirits at Los Alamos.
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to see why Bluesky is the place to be.

But welcome scientists, thank you for joining us! 👋

move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

i try to post here more often, but i never get advertised to, i don't think anyone's scraping my data, and i get the sinking feeling nobody's making much money off me. hard to know what the point is

Haven't seen one of these in a while: a fallstreak hole! Water in the clouds (in this case stratocumulus) probably froze after an airplane flew through (or some other disturbance) and dropped out, leaving behind that hole and the swoosh below.

Peer review is broken:

➡️ 10000+ articles retracted in 2023
➡️ 8000+ of them in Hindawi journals
➡️ These retracted Hindawi articles have been collectively cited >35,000x
➡️ Countries with the most retractions: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...