🧪⚛️ This morning when I tried to search for a scientific result on my browser, it popped up this image. While it asks if I want "help" on my homework, it says paste in the problem and it (presumably google gemini) will just solve it for me. Google, why are you explicitly encouraging this??

🧪⚛️ It’s the 25th anniversary of Nano Letters! It was great fun working with my fellow editors to put together this editorial/road map for the next 25 years of nanoscience and nanotechnology. go.acs.org/d4p

Hah! Second time this week I get to use this (first time was on myself)

🧪⚛️ Giving a talk next Tuesday, if anyone is interested. Registration here: signup.rice.edu/ScientDemocL...

🧪⚛️ Does anyone know what the mysterious devices do in the back of the APS meeting ballrooms? The mundane answer would be that they count entrances and exits. The more interesting alternative: They are obelisks from The Bad Place.

🧪 So, when someone indicates that they aren't going to be available to referee papers for a seven year period, what does that mean? "Just leave me the hell alone"?

🧪⚛️ This looks remarkably like an atomic force microscopy image when the tip is damaged/has a wedge-shaped speck of something stuck to it. (Image from NanoAndMore.com)

Trying to use AI-based image generation to make simple scientific illustrations shows how far this technology still has to go before it's broadly useful. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/01/gene...

Dye-sensitized solar cells are starting to appear in actual consumer products! Very interesting. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/01/dye-...

Some physics items of interest to start the new year: nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/01/item...

A neat new paper, looking at some "strong coupling" physics in a tiny nanoscale light source. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/12/new-...