Maxim Cherkashin
@mcherkashin.bsky.social
Once did an experiment, and can't stop.
Postdoc: sonicating things to help light get through them, photoacoustics, biomedical optics,
Dad of 2
Takes in: coffee and music, outputs: questions
Postdoc: sonicating things to help light get through them, photoacoustics, biomedical optics,
Dad of 2
Takes in: coffee and music, outputs: questions
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In the age of AI slop, true expertise is even more important to value.
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Thank you for being annoying
OR: whack 'em if you got 'em
www.experimental-history.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In the age of AI slop, true expertise is even more important to value.
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
Experts are the people who get so annoyed about the precise way to describe something they dedicate their lives to it (see excellent blog: www.experimental-history.com/p/thank-you-...).
We need them and their journals.
7.2/n
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
What a list!
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Prism Awards!🥂
24 products across eight categories have been named for their outstanding innovation in photonics. Winners will be announced on 21 January at #PhotonicsWest. 💡
Read the press release: spie.org/news/innovat...
#PhotonicsPrism #SPIE
24 products across eight categories have been named for their outstanding innovation in photonics. Winners will be announced on 21 January at #PhotonicsWest. 💡
Read the press release: spie.org/news/innovat...
#PhotonicsPrism #SPIE
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
What a list!
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Optimismus ist, wenn man einen Kalender für 2026 kauft.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Optimismus ist, wenn man einen Kalender für 2026 kauft.
I try once again!
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I haven't posted about it here yet, but actually applications for our MSc Programme Lasers and Photonics at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology are open until 15.11!
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
LAP
The application period for the upcoming summer semester 2026 starts on the 1st of October 2025 and ends on 15th of November 2025 for non-EU applicants, and on the 15th of January 2026 for EU citizens.
lap-application.rub.de
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I try once again!
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I haven't posted about it here yet, but actually applications for our MSc Programme Lasers and Photonics at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology are open until 15.11!
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
LAP
The application period for the upcoming summer semester 2026 starts on the 1st of October 2025 and ends on 15th of November 2025 for non-EU applicants, and on the 15th of January 2026 for EU citizens.
lap-application.rub.de
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I haven't posted about it here yet, but actually applications for our MSc Programme Lasers and Photonics at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology are open until 15.11!
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
Directly to application portal:
lap-application.rub.de
More info: www.lap.rub.de
💡🧪
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Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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October 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.
aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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aaai.org/aaai-launche...
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The future of peer review is here.
Introducing Nature Instant!
We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?
Here is how it works.
#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci
Introducing Nature Instant!
We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?
Here is how it works.
#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci
October 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The future of peer review is here.
Introducing Nature Instant!
We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?
Here is how it works.
#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci
Introducing Nature Instant!
We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?
Here is how it works.
#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci
It seems very in a bit of low of activity here, and Photonics feed recently is mainly announcements💡
Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?
Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It seems very in a bit of low of activity here, and Photonics feed recently is mainly announcements💡
Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?
Hey, forces of light, how are you all coping?
Planmäßige Zugtrennung aber außergewöhnlich im Köln
June 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Planmäßige Zugtrennung aber außergewöhnlich im Köln
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Ich mag meinen Beruf echt gerne, aber ist natürlich nicht alles Friede Freude Eierkuchen, mit vielen strukturellen Problemen.
zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna
www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...
zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna
www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...
June 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ich mag meinen Beruf echt gerne, aber ist natürlich nicht alles Friede Freude Eierkuchen, mit vielen strukturellen Problemen.
zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna
www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...
zB geht die Chance in der Wissenschaft beschäftigt zu bleiben mit dem Alter rapide bergab. #IchBinHanna
www.datenportal.bmbf.de/portal/de/gr...
Dieser wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs ist etwas rausegewachsen
#IchbinHanna
#IchbinHanna
June 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Dieser wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs ist etwas rausegewachsen
#IchbinHanna
#IchbinHanna
June 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Sieht aus wie eine Koralle, aber es ist tatsächlich eine Gehirnzelle, ein Neuron. Das ist eine 3D-gedruckte Purkinje-Zelle, die man im Kleinhirn einer Ratte gefunden hat.
(natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)
(natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)
June 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sieht aus wie eine Koralle, aber es ist tatsächlich eine Gehirnzelle, ein Neuron. Das ist eine 3D-gedruckte Purkinje-Zelle, die man im Kleinhirn einer Ratte gefunden hat.
(natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)
(natürlich ist die in Wirklichkeit kleiner und nicht blau 🙂)
Oh, finally, a good duration for a postdoc contract
Postdoc Position 30h, 10 years(!) at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness @meduniwien.ac.at in Vienna!
#ScienceEducation #PsychJobs
soap.lbg.ac.at/news/open-po...
#ScienceEducation #PsychJobs
soap.lbg.ac.at/news/open-po...
Open Position Post-Doc (m/f/d) Science Outreach and Science Education – LBI for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna
LBI for Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness at the Medical University of Vienna
soap.lbg.ac.at
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Oh, finally, a good duration for a postdoc contract
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I count 55 emails back and forth between 8 people to make a simple computer purchase. 35 of those emails concern a $30 difference in price because of a backorder.
When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.
When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.
June 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I count 55 emails back and forth between 8 people to make a simple computer purchase. 35 of those emails concern a $30 difference in price because of a backorder.
When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.
When people talk about inefficiencies in academia, it's because the MBAs enforce auditing as control rather than letting people work.
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features!
github.com/burghoff/Sci...
github.com/burghoff/Sci...
June 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features!
github.com/burghoff/Sci...
github.com/burghoff/Sci...
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[Admin] Von Mikrotechnik und Ultrakurzpulslasern! Sandra Stroj ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE! Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @sstroj.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/06/von-...
Von Mikrotechnik und Ultrakurzpulslasern! Sandra Stroj ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE!
Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf unsere Kuratorin Dr. Sandra Stroj ( @sstroj.bsky.social )! Sandra Stroj beschäftigt sich seit dem Jahr 2...
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June 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
[Admin] Von Mikrotechnik und Ultrakurzpulslasern! Sandra Stroj ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE! Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @sstroj.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/06/von-...
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Dieses „Freizeit“, das ist, wenn man spült, die Waschmaschine ein- & ausräumt, einkaufen geht, sich Essen zubereitet, putzt, aufräumt usw., und für das die Zeit ständig zu knapp ist, richtig?
June 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Dieses „Freizeit“, das ist, wenn man spült, die Waschmaschine ein- & ausräumt, einkaufen geht, sich Essen zubereitet, putzt, aufräumt usw., und für das die Zeit ständig zu knapp ist, richtig?
1. Pull myself into a crunch
2. Hate it here passionately
3. Repeat!
2. Hate it here passionately
3. Repeat!
June 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
1. Pull myself into a crunch
2. Hate it here passionately
3. Repeat!
2. Hate it here passionately
3. Repeat!
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A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!"
We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.
We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!"
We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.
We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.
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#PhysicsFactlet
Wavefront Shaping is a family of techniques used to control light (or, more generally, a wave) propagating through a scattering medium.
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Wavefront Shaping is a family of techniques used to control light (or, more generally, a wave) propagating through a scattering medium.
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May 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#PhysicsFactlet
Wavefront Shaping is a family of techniques used to control light (or, more generally, a wave) propagating through a scattering medium.
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🧪⚛️🎢💡
Wavefront Shaping is a family of techniques used to control light (or, more generally, a wave) propagating through a scattering medium.
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🧪⚛️🎢💡
Do I take this thread and show it to students we discuss AI with? 🤔
Absolutely.
What an ouch, a soul lost, tremendous amount of confusion out of nothing and useless suffering, what a "great" result.
Absolutely.
What an ouch, a soul lost, tremendous amount of confusion out of nothing and useless suffering, what a "great" result.
I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.
A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.
Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.
√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.
A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.
Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.
√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Do I take this thread and show it to students we discuss AI with? 🤔
Absolutely.
What an ouch, a soul lost, tremendous amount of confusion out of nothing and useless suffering, what a "great" result.
Absolutely.
What an ouch, a soul lost, tremendous amount of confusion out of nothing and useless suffering, what a "great" result.