👉New preprint on avalanches in active glasses with finite persistence time. Universal behaviour of avalanches triggered by activity vs. triggered by shear: self-propulsion modulates the size of plastic events. With @ezeferrero.bsky.social #RWiese @demianlevis.bsky.social @ubics.bsky.social
#postdoc Last few days to apply to this call! But the application is simple. If you're looking for a postdoc in condensed matter, do not hesitate.
Now that the whole world is on crisis, Argentina 🇦🇷 is not different (and we have more experience 😌).
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In a fit of madness, I decided to start converting all my slides from 4:3 to 16:9, as is now the most widely used aspect ratio of most displays 🖥📽. I hope it'll remain unchanged until my retirement. If someone decide to establish a new standard I'll kill them with my bare hands
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¿A dónde?
🚨Open call: Simons-Balseiro postdoctoral positions in Bariloche, Argentina 🇦🇷
➡️ On theoretical physics, broadly defined
➡️ Better salary than most researchers 🤯
Deadline: April 10th 2025
If interested in applying on condensed matter, let us know! 👇
www.cond-mat-bariloche.org/2025/03/11/s...
The Complex Systems Society Manifesto About the Publishing and Evaluation Systems
cssociety.org/about
Indeed. Ya saldrá una cita al Papa en un próximo paper de sistemas complejos 😅
Es muy buena la carta. Además, el punto 6 plantea un modelo de agentes interactuantes que creo que aún no está simulado 🤔
De seguro se manchan con mate, después no sé. Pero los pdf en pestañas no pueden sentir eso.
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
A scenic view at sunset featuring a gradient of orange to blue sky and peach clouds, a line of tall palm trees along a road next to the ocean. In the foreground, there is a grassy area and a building with round, circular windows, which is Kohn Hall, home to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).
Welcome to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics #KITP at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #UCSB! We unite researchers in theoretical physics and allied fields to collaborate on questions at the leading edges of science. Follow us for research updates, upcoming events, and featured talks! 🦋
Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 8, 2024 ~ The future is now.
"The Arctic seas have already become unrecognizable. The amount of ice we're left with at the end of the summer keeps declining over time. Soon enough, summer ice could become a thing of the past"
phys.org/news/2025-02...
Sending good vibes from Patagonia, and also Happy birthday! (it was on Thursday, right?). Stay strong. "Siempre que llovió, paró", so do we say.
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Sabotage. Criminal sabotage.
"[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday."
www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
I hope I will live to see a (unavoidable) new "French Revolution" 🇫🇷➡️🌏
I also hope they will use guillotines 🙏, for the symbolism.
My new book is out - Read it to process your feelings: bit.ly/OOYM
Explore the number of living languages in other countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/living-languages
A horizontal bar chart displaying the number of living languages spoken in various countries. The countries listed from highest to lowest number of languages are: 1. Papua New Guinea: 840 languages 2. Indonesia: 710 languages 3. Nigeria: 530 languages 4. India: 453 languages 5. China: 306 languages 6. Mexico: 293 languages 7. Cameroon: 279 languages 8. United States: 236 languages 9. Australia: 224 languages 10. Brazil: 222 languages The chart is titled "How many living languages are spoken in each country?" and states that a living language has at least one person speaking it as their first language. Data source is cited as Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International, 2024, with a note referencing Our World in Data.
Papua New Guinea has 840 living languages — more than any other country.
A living language is one that is spoken by at least one person as their first language. The chart shows the ten countries with the most living languages as of 2024.
>130M people 🤯
Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039
São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Disordered Systems
🚨 It looks that something interesting will happen in São Paulo 🇧🇷 between April 28 and May 9, 2025. 🤯
Super-top lecturers and I 😬 will be talking about Disordered Systems for a couple of weeks on an ICTP-SAFIR school.
It will be fun 🤗. Apply! 👇
www.ictp-saifr.org/spsasds2025/
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