Spring walks
#groningen

This week's workshop is the winner of the CECAM-Lorentz Competition 25-26. Quoting the Review Board:
“a strong proposal connecting current developments in application of computer science and the urgency of moving to (and maintaining) a sustainable society.”
bit.ly/4rhGaAs
@cecamevents.bsky.social

#noorderlicht #northernlights #groningen

Picturesque ❄️

What is the orbital Hall effect? In the course of thinking about how best to revise my too-math-infused post about quantum geometry, I realized that writing about the orbita...

⚛️🧪 Remembering that the states in electronic bands are built from orbitals that can carry angular momentum is the key to understanding the orbital Hall effect (a concept that really didn't exist when I learned solid state physics in school). nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/11/what...

With funding from the Dutch NWO, we are looking for a postdoc with expertise in #DNP and/or #ssNMR experiments/hardware. One focus in the work will be to follow-up on our work on in-situ illuminated ssNMR for studying #photochemistry processes. #nmrchat werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/pos...

“We lenen deze planeet van onze kinderen. Technologie moeten we zo gebruiken dat het de samenleving ten goede komt in plaats van schade te veroorzaken.” @tamalika.bsky.social Meer in onze nieuwsbrief: open.substack.com/pub/iodailyn...

Fallstreak hole (Pilotengat 🇳🇱)
#Reitdiephaven
#Groningen

Double bows 🌈

Let’s hope.

Building 16 is temporarily inaccessible .

Not sure what’s wrong but hopefully we can go in soon
@ Feringa building
@rug.nl

How AI uses our drinking water - BBC World Service YouTube video by BBC World Service

‘Water neutral’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0C5...

From the sand sculpture to a grand opening- our new Feringa Building - hub of scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs. And we celebrated! Watch the video here: youtu.be/jN13gfChbjY
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Thank you Hanna van Loo, @harmnoppers.bsky.social , @wimbrons.nl for the invitation and the opportunity to discuss my scientific journey that led to IMChip and its journey forward!
@rug.nl

The pivot penalty in research - Nature An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...

The pivot penalty in research
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find? Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you @eugenie-reich.bsky.social
for sharing your insights and journey while working on ‘Plastic Fantastic’ in your brilliant talk yesterday.
Highly appreciate your continued work in this direction.And I got my book signed!
@zernike-institute.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social

Plastic Fantastic: How The Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook The Scientific World Plastic Fantastic: How The Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook The Scientific World - Kindle edition by Reich, Eugenie Samuel. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Plastic Fantastic: How The Biggest Fraud In Physics Shook The Scientific World.

I'm very happy to say that Plastic Fantastic, my book on scientific fraud at Bell Laboratories, is available online as an affordable paperback or ebook. The content is the same but it has taken taken months to reformat after rights reverted to me from the original publisher.

Babies do make memories — so why can’t we recall our earliest years? Nature - MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults.

https://go.nature.com/4l1Twi3

Delighted to have EugenieReich, author of Plastic Fantastic deliver the Zernike Colloquium on ‘Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century’: April 3, 16 h
@unigroningen.bsky.social @zernike-institute.bsky.social

Electrically Induced Negative Differential Resistance States Mediated by Oxygen Octahedra Coupling in Manganites for Neuronal Dynamics The negative differential resistance is exploited, using a La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 thin film network to demonstrate various neuronal functionalities of the human brain, such as leaky-integrate-fire and osci...

Great to see this collaboration making an impact in neuromorphic computing! 🧠

Exciting research, Azminul Jaman, Lorenzo Fratino, Majid Ahmadi, Rodolfo Rocco, Bart Kooi, Marcelo Rozenberg, Tamalika Banerjee!

📑 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@tamalika.bsky.social

Twilight sky at the harbour
#Reitdiep#Groningen

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

At Utrecht station 🇳🇱
#book #exchange

Star ecologist accused of misconduct loses university post Researcher Thomas Crowther is seeking to move his laboratory from ETH Zurich, which says it will not renew his contract.

Prominent ecologist Thomas Crowther, whose research on trees has influenced figures including US President Donald Trump, will depart the prestigious ETH Zurich, after the institution said that it would not renew his contract

https://go.nature.com/4axBEXk

Presidency College

Presidency College

University of Calcutta

‘Boipara’

College Street Kolkata,India: cradle of scientific discoveries 🔬and home to the largest book market 📖 in India 🇮🇳
#Alma mater

Whenever I have pressed the case that John von Neumann should be considered the father of the modern stored-program computer ie the one that nearly everyone uses and carries around in their pockets, I've been met with hurt rebukes. So let's lay out von Neumann's claim properly...

Season’s Greetings from Spintronics of Functional Materials Group ( Tamspin) 🎄🎉