Sean

I do not "courtesy like", if I engage with you in any way it's because I love you and want to be your friend.

Oh, of course! Now I feel kinda silly...

Angles are dimensionless, and the fact that I don't understand why is genuinely a little embarrassing for me.

Reviewer number 2 read and understood the paper in full, made constructive and insightful critical remarks, and was kind?! WHAT IS GOING ON??!!?!?

Kind of fascinating to me that not only am I older than the chupacabra myth, but there's a good chance that it was inspired by a film released earlier that year. Myths should be ancient, not thirty years old!

I think what really pisses me off about this is that they have the absolute gall to poke fun at JK Rowling, as if they're not perpetuating exactly the same kind of bigotry that she is.

Genuinely haven't been this viscerally angry in a long time.

I thought I lived in a backwards, two-faced country, but the US is something else entirely. My heart goes out to the citizens there who do care about anyone other than themselves, but the sooner that country implodes the better.

Saturday Night Live on X: "brought to you by the national workforce of rethinking disabilities https://t.co/F5Fj1wpPhJ" / X brought to you by the national workforce of rethinking disabilities https://t.co/F5Fj1wpPhJ

Absolutely disgusting the way American "progressives" can't even pay lip service to the beliefs they claim to hold so dearly. The second the opportunity arises they gleefully leap to bullying people with disabilities. Vile country.

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If you can find an Indian restaurant that does gunpowder potatoes you gotta get on that shit, they're so good! Homemade is good too but proper gunpowder potatoes have this really unique crispy texture that I've never been able to quite nail at home.

Hey now, there are some generically brown curries that are very good! Homemade dopiaza and karahi often come out being very brown.

I'm actually quite surprised it's not popular in the US, feels like the kind of thing they'd love!

Is this why Americans use so much garlic when they do use fresh garlic (I've heard of some people using an entire bulb per meal)? Because they're cooking it in such a way that the intensity has reduced? Or do you lot just love really garlicy stuff?

Americans really need to make their mind up, what are we the bland spiceless nation with no seasonings, or are we the weird nation with a wall of unknowable spices that are strange of foreign??

Like, I get all of these aren’t super common, but surely everyone should have Zaatar and Sumac??

Even funnier when you realise that Director of Safety and Alignment is basically Director of Making Sure The Robot Doesn't Fuck Up.

It is very very funny that Meta's Director of Safety and Alignment gave the Robot That Sometimes Fucks Everything Up access to her email account and it fucked everything up.

Funny in a "I don't want to live in this world anymore" way, but funny nonetheless.

Given this, it really shocks me that none of the universities I've been to, all relatively prestigious, have group theory as a required undergraduate module.

Particle physics? Group theory. Atomic physics? Group theory. Relativity? Group theory. Solid state physics? Group theory. Classical mechanics? Group theory.

It really can not be overstated quite how much physics is just group theory.

A sad day for nominative determinism :(

I'm sorry, I just think Brewer and Shoemaker went into the wrong field. journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

Enough shitposting, more interesting list:

Physics of the Environment
Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics (still)
Soft Condensed Matter
Physics of Extreme Environments
Statistical Physics of Fields

Quantum Mechanics I
Quantum Mechanics II
Quantum Mechanics III
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics

In the uni's defence, we now have an internal paper repository so that stuff like this doesn't happen in the future but that's a very recent thing (comparatively).

Just this morning I've come across 5 papers that were FOUNDATIONAL to the software we maintain, all written by people who were in our group, that we no longer have easy legal access to...

One of the most absurd aspects of the current academic publishing environment is that you can end up in a situation where you are completely incapable of legally accessing a paper that was written by your group (maybe even you) at your university, because the university no longer pays for it.

Yeah, it's rough out there all around. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much funding for my field at the moment, and related fields that are a bit better funded sound like they're completely overwhelmed by applicants. I haven't exhausted my hope just yet, TBF, but it's beginning to wear thin.

We must dismantle the myth that loving #physics requires a ‘tomboy look’—brilliant minds have no gender!

Together, let’s change the future of #WomenInSTEM!

⚛️ 🧪 🔭 #science #Education

Seriously @universitypress.cambridge.org, in what universe are you even making money from Hartree's original paper on the Hartree method??

I ... uhhh ... I think the job search might be getting me down a bit...