Thomas Rauscher
@rauscherthomas.bsky.social
Physicist working on nucleosynthesis, theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics, AI, ML; patent expert
PhD, FInstP FRAS FHEA, AvHumboldt Fellow
Homepage: thomasrauscher.ch
Mastodon: @RauscherThomas@mastodon.online
PhD, FInstP FRAS FHEA, AvHumboldt Fellow
Homepage: thomasrauscher.ch
Mastodon: @RauscherThomas@mastodon.online
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I bridged my Mastodon account to BlueSky. To see all posts, on BlueSky also follow @RauscherThomas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy .
some duplicate reposts may appear because I may forget that I already reposted the same in the other socialverse.
some duplicate reposts may appear because I may forget that I already reposted the same in the other socialverse.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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I’m hearing similar sentiments from many undergrads and grads so it’s definitely more common than people might think. And I’m not gonna lie, as an early career faculty I’m wondering what I will do if I don’t get funding to do science and train the next generation of scientists
To be fair, this is a kid who's seen both parents have federal grants terminated this year - hopefully the average young person isn't quite as discouraged (though our current reality warrants it), and even more hopefully we'll rebuild American democracy and science so they won't have reason to be.
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m hearing similar sentiments from many undergrads and grads so it’s definitely more common than people might think. And I’m not gonna lie, as an early career faculty I’m wondering what I will do if I don’t get funding to do science and train the next generation of scientists
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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Bleiben Österreichs demokratische Parteien nach diesem WE echt weiterhin auf X?
December 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bleiben Österreichs demokratische Parteien nach diesem WE echt weiterhin auf X?
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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Philosophy 101
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Philosophy 101
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Zu meinen, von „hocheffizienter Verbrennung“ nicht nur zu faseln, sondern damit die ohnehin zu geringen Bestrebungen der Klimatransformation zu Gunsten am Gestern klebender, aber magischer Denke aufweichen zu müssen, ist im Lichte des 2. Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik ein Verbrechen an der Menschheit
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Zu meinen, von „hocheffizienter Verbrennung“ nicht nur zu faseln, sondern damit die ohnehin zu geringen Bestrebungen der Klimatransformation zu Gunsten am Gestern klebender, aber magischer Denke aufweichen zu müssen, ist im Lichte des 2. Hauptsatzes der Thermodynamik ein Verbrechen an der Menschheit
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Und der nächste Riesenausfall bei Cloudflare
Cloudflare is down, as websites are crashing with a 500 Internal Server Error.
Cloudflare down, websites offline with 500 Internal Server Error
Cloudflare is down, as websites are crashing with a 500 Internal Server Error.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Und der nächste Riesenausfall bei Cloudflare
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Die Zukunft der PKW ist elektrisch. Wer das noch nicht akzeptieren kann oder will, wird am Ende mit Produkten dastehen, die niemand mehr braucht und haben will.
PS: die besten Form der Elektro-Mobilität bleibt die Bahn.
PS: die besten Form der Elektro-Mobilität bleibt die Bahn.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Die Zukunft der PKW ist elektrisch. Wer das noch nicht akzeptieren kann oder will, wird am Ende mit Produkten dastehen, die niemand mehr braucht und haben will.
PS: die besten Form der Elektro-Mobilität bleibt die Bahn.
PS: die besten Form der Elektro-Mobilität bleibt die Bahn.
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Eine neue Methode zur Herstellung des medizinisch wichtigen Isotops Cu-64: An der TU Wien konnte „Recoil-Chemie“ genutzt werden, um Kupfer-64 direkt im Forschungsreaktor zu erzeugen. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...
Eine neue Sorte Kupfer aus dem Kernreaktor
Cu-64 ist ein Kupfer-Isotop, das für medizinische Anwendungen benötigt wird. Allerdings ist es sehr schwer herzustellen. An der TU Wien fand man dafür nun eine neue, alternative Methode.
www.tuwien.at
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Eine neue Methode zur Herstellung des medizinisch wichtigen Isotops Cu-64: An der TU Wien konnte „Recoil-Chemie“ genutzt werden, um Kupfer-64 direkt im Forschungsreaktor zu erzeugen. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...
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Heute vor 740 Jahren - Die Zeit vor Weihnachten ist ideal, um das Geschäft mit dem schlechten Gewissen anzukurbeln.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Heute vor 740 Jahren - Die Zeit vor Weihnachten ist ideal, um das Geschäft mit dem schlechten Gewissen anzukurbeln.
New set of astrophysical reaction rates for #nucleosynthesis studies
Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions on Proton-Rich Nuclides. Thomas Rauscher https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03206
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
New set of astrophysical reaction rates for #nucleosynthesis studies
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Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions on Proton-Rich Nuclides. Thomas Rauscher https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03206
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions on Proton-Rich Nuclides. Thomas Rauscher https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03206
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Day 4 of #artAdventCalendar 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬#histsci is my portrait of British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Day 4 of #artAdventCalendar 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬#histsci is my portrait of British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 🧵
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Vielleicht verwechselt die Regierung Sadi Carnot, den Ingenieur mit dem Wirkungsgrad, mit seinem Neffen Sadi Carnot, dem 4. Präsident der Dritten Republik. Mit letzterem hätte man verhandeln können, aber selbst der zweite Sadi Carnot war Ingenieur und kannte wohl das Werk seines Onkels.
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Vielleicht verwechselt die Regierung Sadi Carnot, den Ingenieur mit dem Wirkungsgrad, mit seinem Neffen Sadi Carnot, dem 4. Präsident der Dritten Republik. Mit letzterem hätte man verhandeln können, aber selbst der zweite Sadi Carnot war Ingenieur und kannte wohl das Werk seines Onkels.
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New post: a talk I gave at some years ago on Gallifreyan Constitutional and Criminal Law is now online! Because sci-fi legal systems are cool, damn it. Or, in the case of the Time Lords, quite the hypocritical mess.
lmmyles.com/2025/12/03/t...
lmmyles.com/2025/12/03/t...
The Laws of Rassilon: Constitutional and Criminal Law on Gallifrey
Way back in 2019 I did a wee talk on the TARDIS Talks academic track at the Gallifrey One convention. It’s a fantastic part of the convention that lets attendees do a deep dive into some aspe…
lmmyles.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New post: a talk I gave at some years ago on Gallifreyan Constitutional and Criminal Law is now online! Because sci-fi legal systems are cool, damn it. Or, in the case of the Time Lords, quite the hypocritical mess.
lmmyles.com/2025/12/03/t...
lmmyles.com/2025/12/03/t...
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Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026 arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026
How do you top a highly-detailed scale model of NASA’s new moon-bound rocket and its support tower? If you are LEGO, you make it so it can actually lift off.
arstechnica.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Lego announces NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally) in 2026 arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
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New discovery sets humanity up to image “alien Earth”
Yes, astronomers are preparing to directly image Earth-sized worlds around Sun-like stars for the first time.
Here's how the biggest "missing piece" for getting there just fell into place.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #exoplanets
Yes, astronomers are preparing to directly image Earth-sized worlds around Sun-like stars for the first time.
Here's how the biggest "missing piece" for getting there just fell into place.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #exoplanets
New discovery sets humanity up to image "alien Earth"
Finding alien Earths requires seeing Earth-sized planets at Earth-like distances from Sun-like stars. A new discovery completes the roadmap.
bigthink.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New discovery sets humanity up to image “alien Earth”
Yes, astronomers are preparing to directly image Earth-sized worlds around Sun-like stars for the first time.
Here's how the biggest "missing piece" for getting there just fell into place.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #exoplanets
Yes, astronomers are preparing to directly image Earth-sized worlds around Sun-like stars for the first time.
Here's how the biggest "missing piece" for getting there just fell into place.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #exoplanets
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last day of classes!
here's the collection of Jupyter notebooks illustrating stellar physics concepts I made for my grad Stars class this semester:
zingale.github.io/stars/notebo...
#astro
here's the collection of Jupyter notebooks illustrating stellar physics concepts I made for my grad Stars class this semester:
zingale.github.io/stars/notebo...
#astro
PHY 521: Stars — PHY 521 Fall 2025
zingale.github.io
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
last day of classes!
here's the collection of Jupyter notebooks illustrating stellar physics concepts I made for my grad Stars class this semester:
zingale.github.io/stars/notebo...
#astro
here's the collection of Jupyter notebooks illustrating stellar physics concepts I made for my grad Stars class this semester:
zingale.github.io/stars/notebo...
#astro
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You requested it, now it’s here - introducing Proton Sheets! The privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets.
Spreadsheets form the framework of modern businesses, and with Proton Sheets, you can ensure your data is private and secure.
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Spreadsheets form the framework of modern businesses, and with Proton Sheets, you can ensure your data is private and secure.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You requested it, now it’s here - introducing Proton Sheets! The privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets.
Spreadsheets form the framework of modern businesses, and with Proton Sheets, you can ensure your data is private and secure.
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Spreadsheets form the framework of modern businesses, and with Proton Sheets, you can ensure your data is private and secure.
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👨🦳👩🦳👴 Vous aimeriez vivre éternellement ? Peut-être pas jusque-là, mais au moins le plus longtemps possible en bonne santé ?
#Horizons montre ce que la #recherche sait du #vieillissement et de ses antidotes🧐
📰 ➡️ www.revue-horizons.ch
#Horizons montre ce que la #recherche sait du #vieillissement et de ses antidotes🧐
📰 ➡️ www.revue-horizons.ch
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
👨🦳👩🦳👴 Vous aimeriez vivre éternellement ? Peut-être pas jusque-là, mais au moins le plus longtemps possible en bonne santé ?
#Horizons montre ce que la #recherche sait du #vieillissement et de ses antidotes🧐
📰 ➡️ www.revue-horizons.ch
#Horizons montre ce que la #recherche sait du #vieillissement et de ses antidotes🧐
📰 ➡️ www.revue-horizons.ch
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🦳👨🦳 Do you want to live forever? Perhaps not exactly that, but at least to stay as #healthy as possible for as long as possible?
#Horizons reveals what #research knows about #ageing and potential antidotes 🧐
📰 ➡️ www.horizons-mag.ch
#Horizons reveals what #research knows about #ageing and potential antidotes 🧐
📰 ➡️ www.horizons-mag.ch
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🦳👨🦳 Do you want to live forever? Perhaps not exactly that, but at least to stay as #healthy as possible for as long as possible?
#Horizons reveals what #research knows about #ageing and potential antidotes 🧐
📰 ➡️ www.horizons-mag.ch
#Horizons reveals what #research knows about #ageing and potential antidotes 🧐
📰 ➡️ www.horizons-mag.ch