LASER podcast

A materials science podcast covering publications and topics in Science & Engineering! LASER: Lets Agree Science and Engineering are Rad [tweets by @sciKopas]

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New interview posted! Episode 21: Underground with Dr. Sarah Truebe. We discuss earth science research in caves, and some ethics of studying fragile and irreplaceable features.
https://t.co/HtP0hZZltv

[Cameron Kopas @scikopas]

Scientific research teams work very hard to make their claims are valid and presented in a clear and rigorous way, and much of this involves internal and external review. People have asked my opinion but I believe it's unethical to comment prematurely. I will only say "wow!"

[Lester Andrist @landrist]

I did my dissertation on #ConcentrationCamps, so I have a few thoughts about @AOC's use of the term to describe the build up of camps on the US southern border. For those in a hurry, here's the take-home message: By any reasonable definition, these are concentration camps

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@cryingband It's great, thanks

[Chemjobber @Chemjobber]

My mouth was open so long while reading this I am pretty sure that some birds have taken residence
ht @BiophysicalFrog

https://t.co/6gYolVJhgX

[JD 'Sting from the 1984 motion picture Dune' Faith @JDFaithcomics]

Me as a seven year old: I CANT BELIEVE THE PEOPLE OF KRYPTON WOULD DENY THE PLANET IS EXPLODING. THAT'S STUPID.

Me now, reading the comment section of a climate change article: oh

[Joshua V. Nelson @The_Stargazer]

Anyone else in Tucson see a very bright, stationary object in the North-Western sky at around 7 PM PDT? Was approximately near the bowl of the Big Dipper.... Brighter than any of the planets that were up at the time, then faded rather quickly. Wasn't a satellite, ISS, meteor, etc

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Did you hear about claims of room temperature superconductivity?! Here's another take on that publication from a grad student who works with superconductors.
https://t.co/yfubcEDxsf

[Alistair Dove @DrAlistairDove]

95% of all ocean plastic is delivered by just 10 rivers https://t.co/8Zjl2VEGTv

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@haupt not published yet, but they might have found a complete megalonyx skull in Sistema Huautla mexico (at 5:00) https://t.co/Tp7bXqY6Qo

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Burned spot on a glob of paint after coming out of the RBS/PIXE accelerator #RealTimeChem

[T.J. Chambers @tjchambersLA]

If the student becomes the master, does that defer loan payments or is it better to just stay the student indefinitely?

[@jxf.me (Bluesky) / [email protected] (Mastodon) @jxxf]

For Christmas all I want is for:

(1) the US to finally switch to metric
(2) everyone to switch to YYYY-MM-DD date formats

[Parker Higgins @xor]

HTTP code 451 makes it pretty clear we no longer have a Web that interprets censorship as damage (if we ever did) https://t.co/wJyOUwGv0H

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@Chemjobber there's the implied "put your burning lithium under water because that would be really cool to watch"

[Chemjobber @Chemjobber]

Li battery on fire? Prof of MSE: "put in bathtub, submerge in H2O" https://t.co/HDijBnlmKl #hmmm