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I'm #hiring ! Jose Montoya and I are looking for a PhD student to join our new CNRS-funded project on theoretical & numerical modelling of the spatial and scale-dependency of biodiversity and ecosystems.

Details of project and job description in link below (the project is hosted at the SETE in Moulis, #Ariège, France)

It's a truly interdisciplinary project, so pinging the #ecology #ecoevo #physics #FluidMechanics teams here 🙂

https://francois-rincon.org/misc/ECOSCALES_PhDproject.pdf

https://sete-moulis-cnrs.fr/fr


Wonderful! I love the runner-up, 'The Scholar's Dream', on browntail moths, to the music of Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwRMZKODbc

Overview & other category winners here: https://www.science.org/content/article/kangaroo-research-wins-dance-phd-contest

#DanceYourPhD #moth #kangaroo #epigenetics #circadian #dance #zoology #science #SciComm #SocialScience #biology #chemistry #physics


My 1st cover story! For New Scientist about experiments that are close to telling us if spacetime is quantized. And a Q&A with a physicist who is simulating space-time from scratch!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26034621-500-is-space-time-quantum-six-ways-to-unpick-the-fabric-of-the-universe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399292-the-physicist-trying-to-create-space-time-from-scratch

#physics #science #astronomy


PLEASE BOOST for visibility!

The University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is hiring software engineers for science data processing on the Data Systems team. We build satellite borne instruments for studying astrophysics, planetary science, earth science, atmospheric science, and many more disciplines. Data Systems typically does the ground processing of the instrument data from binary packets through to research quality science data products (think netCDF, HDF5, CDF, FITS files). Mostly we use Python but we have some Java systems and C experience is always a plus for making Python faster.

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Data-Systems-Software-Engineers-II-IV/50810

Lab website:
https://lasp.colorado.edu/

#fedihire #jobsearch #jobs #hiring #planetaryscience #astrophysics #astronomy #physics #python #datascience


The DiRAC RAC's 16th Call for Proposals is now open.
Find out how to get computational resources on the DiRAC facility here:
https://dirac.ac.uk/callforproposals/
#HPC #ECR #Astronomy #Physics


From Collision to Analysis: The Complex Dance of Prompt Data Processing in the CMS Experiment! 💥 💻
Learn more about what CMS does to make essential physics data available to researchers here: https://cms.cern/news/prompt-data-processing-cms

#cern #cmsexperiment #data #physics #particlephysics #research


A 15,000 word article about the physics of a bicycle. It explores the forces that act on a bike in lovely approachable detail.

And it includes 118 wonderful interactive diagrams.

This is such a great piece of work.

#Bicycle #Bikes #BikeTooter #Cycling #Physics #Science

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/


beautiful picture! This makes it very clear that the inner disk seems brighter… is this #physics or a #visual #illusion ?


Next in my #introduction posts featuring Stuff I’ve Made:

This is the Chernobyl Dice: a Cold War era themed quantum RNG. It uses the clicks of a Geiger counter nestled next to an array of uranium glass marbles to generate random bits displayed on Nixie tubes.

This is a *disgustingly fair* dice and I’ve run the tests to prove it, lol

Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/02/roll-the-bones-chernobyl-style/

#intrductions #arduino #maker #stem #ttrpg #nuclear #physics


This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science

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