My only opinion on the whole Oxford-PhD fiasco is a milquetoast take which should be uncontroversial: All education from kindergarten to Masters should be 100% free for everyone, and Doctoral research should be recognised for what it is- productive labour. Therefore, all doctoral
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?
And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.
A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
Rien ne peut justifier le vote RN, à part la haine de l'autre, et la haine de la France. Prenez vos responsabilités et assumez vos convictions. L'Histoire vous jugera, comme elle a jugé "les bons français" en 1944. (10/10)
I am proud to announce that my first first-author paper is now available online! 🥳
Our research proves that contrary to popular belief, cosmic rays are not responsible for the high ionisation rates in the Galactic Centre region!
https://t.co/Nrs7KSfJHz
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Don't use Sci-Hub — it's a "controversial" website with 84M+ research papers freely available.
We should try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
Here's an updated thread on integrating Sci-Hub with Zotero to get free papers.
Please don't do this😉
Just because people doing science are embedded in a particular social and cultural milieu, it doesn’t follow that science is not universal.
- Mordechai Ben-Ari
Nonlinear physics demo in my office, linked to a class on mode-locked lasers. It takes about 60 seconds to really lock, but once it's there, it stays there! For more about the wonder of synchronisation, read and follow @stevenstrogatz