Or exhibiting (deliberately or otherwise) extreme incompetence at administrative tasks to the extent that no one will ask you again :)

I think my connection is perhaps a stretch.. but I'm pretty sure I watched this episode around the time I was reading up on Bell's paper and EPR for a class!

Always found it appropriate that a (to me) well known Star Trek time travel event was known as the Bell riots (Sept 2024 according to the original episode) memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Ri...

*feels

It really fills impossible (and irresponsible?) to project into the future when it comes to hiring. it seems like a lot of labs are going to hunker down to some minimum state to keep alive capabilities and some core research areas but not much else

huh, I’m genuinely surprised by that. Is it a disciplinary thing? I think most people in our fields would prefer to publish in a solid ACS/APS/AIP journal over spending the money there.

I think I once saw a cv that listed a published paper as being in Nature that was actually in Sci Rep. Bold move..

You think that’s bad.. dailybruin.com/2025/05/13/o...

Significant cuts are happening here too. Depending on department it's because of one or more of these factors: 1) grant reduction/ uncertainty, 2) fewer TA positions, 3) general university finances..

All-UC as well! (Though really this one is Berkeley's given the specific work it's honoring)

I'm sure I'm not the first to note this, but...

If DARPA ever becomes WARPA then there might be some interesting acronym opportunities for y'all

arbitrary and unfortunate (adjectives to apply to everything these days!)

Fees are supposed to be relative to cost recovery, and not by fiat. So I’m guessing no.. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

As one surprising example we show that a recent NREL-designed 6-junction cell would be *more* efficient in low Earth orbit if you removed the lowest-bandgap junction, because it would operate at a lower temperature!

Yes that’s going to generally be the case. As a minor theoretical point the “true” ideal selective emitter has a different spectral/ directional emissivity at each temperature. Formally speaking, there always exists a selective emitter that can outperform BB at any temp below ambient

Nice! I always wanted to see this kind of design - glad you were able to include it in this paper

I guess the AGIs will do all the research for us soon enough, so why bother?