David Neilson

[John Dudley @johnmdudley]

Calling optics experts! The "Heiligenschein" is where light focussed by a waterdrop retroreflects from e.g. leaves/grass & creates a halo around an observer's shadow. But an experiment with a glass sphere using a smooth reflective surface shows dispersion! Anyone seen this?

[Mickael Mounaix @MickaelMounaix]

New preprint from the group! Well done Andrew and the team!
https://t.co/leipp1iYf0
Andrew will present the results at @SPIEtweets on Monday at 11.40 in Room 160, don't miss out!
@UQSchoolEECS @UQ_News @joelacarpenter @fontainebrain

[Olivia Lanes @Liv_Lanes]

Good point, we totally need more men in these male-dominated technical careers.

[Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda]

🧵 My reactions to some key pieces of the WaPo story about Trump voting residents of New Castle, PA who rely on programs like social security and food stamps:

[David Neilson @dtneilson]

https://t.co/513Bpb86eh

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

“Any city with more than 500, 000 people votes Democrat. Doesn’t matter if it’s in Texas or some other red state. If it’s close & there are accusations of fraud, that’s where the pressure points will be. And because cities are diverse the rhetoric will be deeply racialised.”

[David Holden @HoldenwDavid]

This is courage. It may well cost her, her life. And she knows it.

Imagine what life must be like for one to be pushed to this point.

To boldly walk in the light before your oppressors knowing that they will skink their daggers into in the shadows.

I wish I could save her. Wiske her away by helicopter to a better life.

It’s a tragedy of the worst kind. She is brave, intelligent and the regime will destroy her because of it.

[Superconformal Hassaan @Hassaan_PHY]

How Nobel Prizes will be given in the future 😑
#Physics #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2024 #scicomm

[David Neilson @dtneilson]

@WKCosmo https://t.co/g8SkwioKbJ

[Superconformal Hassaan @Hassaan_PHY]

How Nobel Prizes will be given in the future 😑
#Physics #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2024 #scicomm

[David Neilson @dtneilson]

https://t.co/JHCdjoD03y

[Superconformal Hassaan @Hassaan_PHY]

How Nobel Prizes will be given in the future 😑
#Physics #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2024 #scicomm

[Polina Bayvel @bayvel_p]

The 50th @ECOC_Conference has started ...it is huge...and the first message? #AI is an excellent user of #NuclearPower & #energy!! But please do not blame the optics DSP which enables everything & #internet, afterall!!

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.
It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate…. https://t.co/yUNjoZvKv8

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

BREAKING: The Tyreek Hill body cam footage has been released. And it is about as disgusting as you would expect:

[David Neilson @dtneilson]

@BellLabs

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

On 8 September 1969, Willard Boyle and George Smith outlined the basis of an image sensor. Their invention, the CCD, or chargecoupled device, was a breakthrough for digital camera technology used in everything from digital cameras to the Hubble space telescope.

[David Neilson @dtneilson]

There’s a word for it … it’s called murdered

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by former boyfriend, Ugandan official says https://t.co/Lwx5fCkBCb

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I think we may be nearing the end of civilization

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Here's how the scholarly publishing scam works: academics do original scholarly research, funded by a mix of private grants, public funding, funding from their universities and other institutions, and private funds.

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[David Neilson @dtneilson]

Unsurprisingly Astrologers were no better than random guessing … but they believed they would be.

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

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[David Neilson @dtneilson]

“A republic, if you can keep it.”
--Benjamin Franklin

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Trump: “Get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore...In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good your not gonna have to vote.”