T.D. Lee passed away last month at 97. The Nobel laureate proposed my undergrad program in China and taught Mao about symmetry. For @npr, I reflect on the physicist's work and contributions to US-China scientific exchange, and the questions he left behind: npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

The University of Toronto has a junior faculty opening in theoretical quantum condensed matter physics with start date in July 2025. Pls share/circulate. Deadline Oct 31. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As…

A popular summary of our discovery of a new convective instability in fluid mixtures driven by colloidal diffusiophoresis, 140 years after Lord Rayleigh Phys.org: phys.org/news/2024-09-d… (for the orginal paper see doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…)

Could we build quantum batteries from extremely cold atoms? One research team has a design in mind, in my latest for New Scientist newscientist.com/article/244561…

Sometimes I think I only got into physics because I am nosy. I looked at the universe and said TELL ME ALL YOUR SECRETS

We are open for fiction submissions The Rumpus for another week, until Sept. 15th! Please send us your stories. Everything we've published in the last two years has come from our open submission periods, which I'm proud of.

there's a difference between surrounding yourself with people you look up to and driving yourself insane by surrounding yourself with people who have things you want and it's mostly how you relate to yourself i guess

Extraordinary - eels that have been swallowed whole swim in circles in the stomach of the predator 🐟 looking for the entrance to the gullet, so they can wriggle backwards up it and out the gills. A few make a terrible mistake and go the wrong way newscientist.com/article/244712…

Even-handed coverage of regenerative agriculture from Julia Simon. It's not a reliable carbon sink for offsetting emissions. It has more promise as an adaptation & resilience tool. npr.org/2024/09/10/g-s…

She said quantum computing #Debate2024

Synchronization has been documented in a wide variety of systems, from biological to artificial. Here we study the surface wave mediated synchronization of two capillary spinners. Work led by #harrislab @browengin PhD student Jack-William Barotta! arxiv.org/abs/2409.06652

Incredibly grateful to have the cover story for New Scientist this week, all about realism in quantum theory

We are hiring a new Assistant Professor in Experimental Soft/Living Matter Physics Penn. Please apply! jobs.physicstoday.org/jobs/20494403/…