I worry that interactive figures in online-only publications can exist mainly to make the author feel sophisticated and good about themselves. 🧪

This might be the most dramatic improvement to laboratory software I've made🧪🧵

During my thesis defense, I dropped this animation I made of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector I'd helped test during my PhD. There was awkward silence while it ran, which is why I support using limited amounts of epic background music during such talks

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