Interesting article on predatory journals inflating their citation counts by sneaking references that don't exist in the articles into the metadata that they send to Crossref: arxiv.org/abs/2310.02192

Sharon Peacock is a superb choice for the next Master of Churchill College!

A conscientious leader always carries equipment for clearing pine needles off the holds for the second.

Nicola Spaldin Thank you for the visit Nicola, it was a great experience to have you and Luca visit our group and to discuss about your work for liquid xenon detectors! And here is a much nicer picture :-)

A visit to the Xenoscope, which is testing the electric-field acceleration of electrons ionised from liquid Xe in the search for Dark Matter and neutrinos. Thanks to Laura Baudis for the tour and the excellent discussions!

Aargh, my Swiss National Science Foundation proposal is rejected again. At least I am consistent with my 100% failure rate at winning SNF individual grant funding :(

Swiss history hike on the Materials Theory group retreat: heading to Rütli Meadow and the Weg der Schwyz :)

On the train to the Materials Theory group retreat :)

The Non-Linear Hall and Kinetic Magnetoelectric Effects are universal to all polar metals, which they can be used to characterize. Fabian and Sayantika's preprint just posted: arxiv.org/abs/2309.09794

Welcome to a webinar today at 15:30 on the Readiness of Repositories to support Horizon Europe grantees in complying with their Open Science requirements. I'll be introducing the research team on behalf of the ERC Scientific Council Open Science team: youtube.com/watch?v=TZkeoJ…

What came first, the charge quadrupoles or the Jahn-Teller distortion? Study the cakes celebrating Max & Luca’s paper to find out: journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

Congratulations to Yannick Zemp on successfully defending his thesis on 'Trilinear coupling in multiferroic materials'!

Want to see if a higher-order multipole is the primary order parameter for your favorite phase transition? Use Max's just-published constrained multipoles code to calculate whether it lowers the energy of your system: journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

I tried keeping a 'No List' as suggested in this article and just hit 100 'No's for the year. That is quite a lot of time spent writing politely declining emails... nature.com/articles/d4158…

We've collected all the DFT calculations, done some new ones, and reanalysed the old neutron polarimetry data. So we're now pretty sure which AFM domain corresponds to which sign of alpha in Cr2O3. To save you a lot of trouble we wrote it all down here: arxiv.org/pdf/2309.02095…

Pilgrimage to the house in Kungälv where Lise Meitner first understood nuclear fission. Thanks to the town council for the warm welcome and the interesting tour!

Don’t forget tomorrow’s one-day symposium on Astroparticle meets Condensed Matter Physics Chalmers Physics. Hope to see a lot of you there!

Hoorah Hoorah, the UK is (finally) associated with Horizon Europe! Next step hopefully Switzerland!? ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

The Gothenburg Physics Centre is happy to welcome Nicola Spaldin, the laureate of the 2023 Lise Meitner Award! Today's festive award ceremony will be followed by a symposium tomorrow with the theme Astroparticle Physics meets Solid State Physics. chalmers.se/en/current/cal…

Me in Gothenburg and my luggage in Lisbon :( And a bit unclear whether it plans to follow me to Gothenburg or head back to Zürich without me...