Guided matter waves lab 🇺🇦 @quantumsensing@social.cleverlibre.org

Wow. Thanks to galactica.org and the suggestion by @physicssteve, I guess that teaching got a lot easier for the second half of this winter term 🤩🤣
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#galactica
#stem

update: yo, #MDPI, you're missing the option to select "never again"

Today, I will opt out of any #MDPI email communication. Yet another email asking to peer review work that's clearly out of my expertise was the drop that filled the bucket.

Not to speak about the perpetuum mobile giving you vouchers for publishing your own work after you have reviewed something.

Not to speak about the insane amount of "special issues", one of which I was recently asked to co-edit while there's an ongoing one on exactly the same topic edited by a colleague.

No more words needed when you see the attached figure which I shamelessly stole from this fantastic article recommended by a friend.

https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/

Disclaimer: I'm not saying there's nothing wrong re: publishing culture in science in general but #MDPI is really pushing it here

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#ScienceMastodon
#peerreview
#publishorperish

Our heavy-duty ion getter pump taking a deep breath during venting (sound on!)
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Original and counterfeit logo of our #VLBAI Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry facility.
Can you spot the difference?

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#ScienceMastodon

One of the downsides of heavy-butt turbo pumps: they only spin up to 650 Hz 👂💥🤯
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old physicist explaining the impossibility of gravitational wave detection with atom interferometry to younger students, painted in oil
Generated by #OpenAi

Yo #ScienceMastodon,
If you are looking for #quantum chitchat, at times useless trivia, and #research updates on our work in the field of #quantumtechnologies for inertial sensing: this is where it's at!

Did you know that humankind will likely never laser cool potassium worth the amount in a single 🍌?

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#stem

Good times for #space fans at the last #DAMOP meeting in Orlando 🤩

#gopro frame unserer #VLBAI baseline Installation im Dezember 2019
#hannover

#Fotomontag

All those years I bragged about my 462MHz Yahi-Uda type antenna. Turns out it's resonant for 438MHz and only works well enough for us 😅
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The other day during lunch we listed all of today's practical use cases of #QuantumComputing for my class #napkinphysics
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What's your signature #science quirk/habit?

I never returned or dumped a badge. Ever.

Meet me dropping Newton's 🍅 #ansprechbar

Some serious entropy reduction going on here over the weekend 🤩
#Lego #Klemmbausteine

"My magneto-optical trap doesn't work"

#classic
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#physics

Grad student: Can we buy new lasers?
PI: The lasers we have are working just fine.
The lasers we have:

(screenshot credit tw @allenholub)

We care a lot about #research #data management but I sure can't guarantee our archive works as well as stowing away a complete #Lego set in the attic for almost 30y. Not to speak about the fun dealing with "old data" in comparison. 🤩

“back in the days when I was a young physics grad student ....”
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