Just experienced the wonderful joy of being stuck in the lab for 2 weeks because a manufacturer mislabeled the fast and slow axes of a birefringent crystal 🙃

Legitimately insane that this could be published in a major news magazine. It’s disgusting and awful that women in academia have to deal with this misogyny, let alone that it could be given a prominent platform on an international stage

Take a look at (an admittedly poor picture of) the oldest surviving Gregorian telescope, housed in the Oxford History of Science museum!

High school kids can play sports and have a social life while still doing well academically. Their country will not “fall behind” and they won’t be unemployable just because they didn’t participate in the math olympiad

The government flagging you to revoke your funding for mentioning that some people have disabilities and that it might be a factor in a scientific study is incomparably worse than a professional society making wording suggestions

I guess we’ll have to do Photonics West in Vancouver next year

Not sure how each Barnes and Noble decides which books to put on the shelves, but the thought of a casual reader deciding to take home a copy of this is genuinely hilarious

Very worried for a number of Chinese friends and colleagues. Not to mention the recklessness in making such a big announcement with so few details.

Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art

Please don’t pester me with any emails tomorrow, I’ll be attentively composing my annual post about how the Nobel Prize should be awarded to 1 or more teams of individuals rather than given to only 3 people

Omar Yaghi, one of 2025’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, is a Palestinian refugee and naturalized US Citizen. His story is remarkable in today’s context, with the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and growing anti-immigrant sentiments and policies in the USA.