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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 2d

The first steps of Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
@universitedeliege.bsky.social with @kafleury.bsky.social

#PhDLife #LeidenForce #Research #SpaceScience

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 2d

"le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique"

Grand Labo @grandlabo.com · 3d

[REPLAY] En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du HCERES par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation la recherche scientifique, souvent jugée bureaucratique. On en parle avec la sociologue Clémentine Gozlan.

Peut-on encore évaluer la recherche ? Avec Clémentine Gozlan.

En mars dernier, le vote d'un amendement de suppression du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur par l'Assemblée nationale a relancé les débats sur l'évaluation…

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 4d

Welcome Gauri Patki (DC#4) to #LeidenForce!
She will study #LeidenfrostJets at @laboratoire-iemn.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social PtYX.
PI: @leduke21.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social
+ @airbus.com secondment.
www.leidenforce.eu/welcomegaurinews
#FluidDynamics

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 4d

LAB CHRONICLE #20
-Data Acquisition-

Camera aligned.
Perfect focus.
→ Then I sneezed.
→ 4 hours of recalibration.

#LabLifeGoesOn #PhDLife #ExperimentalTragedy #LeidenfrostEffect #LabReality

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 5d

In one minute !

Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 5d

Nobel Prize in Physics — 11:45 CEST stream from Stockholm. Watch the official announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FU...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 5d

At PW headquarters, we're all waiting with bated breath for this morning's physics #NobelPrize. If you're doing the same, why not pass the time by reading/arguing with our editor @matindurrani.bsky.social's picks of the 5 most notable physics Nobels this century? physicsworld.com/a/the-top-fi... 🧪⚛️

The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed – Physics World

Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000

physicsworld.com

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome Pablo Gil González, new DC at #LeidenForce!
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Pierre Colinet + secondments @espciparispsl.bsky.social, @ntnu-iss.bsky.social, @universitedeliege.bsky.social, @utwente.bsky.social
🔗Read more: www.leidenforce.eu/welcomepablonews
#PhD #Research #VaporFilm

Picture of Pablo Gil Gonzàlez, new DC at LeidenForce

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Nature @nature.com · 6d

Researchers are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence tools that can handle complex, multi-step processes

go.nature.com/3IY9njc

A scientist’s guide to AI agents — how could they help your research?

Researchers are increasingly turning to artificial-intelligence tools that can handle complex, multi-step processes.

go.nature.com

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 6d

" I wanted them to think deeply about the research process and to develop their own inventiveness. I wanted them to tap into their imaginations."

Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

On #WorldTeachersDay, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4nvwosR

People diving into a pool of books and figures, with text: How I learned to teach like a scientist

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 9d

"So where do physicists end up? Surprise: Physicists can do—and actually do—(almost) anything"
#Physicist #Career #FromPhysicsToAnything #EverythingIsPossible

Physics Today @physicstoday.bsky.social · 10d

About two-thirds of US-trained physics PhD recipients work outside of academia. In a new interview series, Physics Today is profiling physicists who opted for careers outside the ivory tower. #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics #physicsjobs

What can physicists do?

Interviews offer a glimpse of how physicists get into—and thrive in—myriad nonacademic careers.

pubs.aip.org

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 9d

“What is the goal of starting a lab?”
"How to choose a good scientific problem?"
"What happens after we choose a problem?"
#MustRead #ResearchGem

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Nov 24

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

2. How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem

Open Access
www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 10d

Welcome Mélanie Bulois DC#10 to #LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the #LeidenfrostEffect in multiphase #microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Benoit Scheid + secondment @universiteuppa.bsky.social
🔗 www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelan...

Picture of Mélanie Bulois, new DC in the LeidenForce project

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 10d

The Focus Collection highlights progress at the intersection of theory, experiment, and data science, uncovering and harnessing unconventional mechanical behaviors in soft systems far from equilibrium
#softmatter #machinelearning #datascience

Communications Physics @commsphys.nature.com · 11d

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, and data-driven models that converge on measurable, designable odd responses in soft systems.
www.nature.com/collections/...

Odd Soft Matter: Simulations, experiments and applications of Machine Learning

This Focus Collection in Communications Physics invites original research, perspectives, and review articles highlighting theory, simulations, experiments, ...

www.nature.com

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 11d

"Ethical decision-making skills are as important for preparing physics students for the workforce as technical skills"
www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...
@apsphysics.bsky.social

Recent physics grads are no stranger to AI

Physics graduates are both using artificial intelligence and building it, the latest survey found.

www.aps.org

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arXiv physics.flu-dyn Fluid Dynamics @physicsfludyn-bot.bsky.social · 11d

Matteo Leonard, Dilip Maity, Nicolas Vandewalle, Tadd Truscott: Stretching water between two grooves https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.25864

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arXiv physics.flu-dyn Fluid Dynamics @physicsfludyn-bot.bsky.social · 11d

Matteo Leonard, Jos\'ephine Van Hulle, Florianne Weyer, Denis Terwagne, Nicolas Vandewalle: Droplets sliding on single and multiple vertical fibers https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25898 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25898 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.25898

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 11d

Thoughts for researchers… polyglots and champions of scientific palaeography.

Etienne Klein @etienneklein.bsky.social · 11d

En physique, si on veut être à la page, il faut en lire…
Celle-ci fut rédigée par Einstein dans les années 1920 : des phrases, des équations, des corrections écrites à la main qui, si on les lit, aident à mieux comprendre (bon, mais c’est de l’allemand).

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 12d

"Physicists studied the phase transitions that occur while making the pasta dish cacio e pepe."

Nature @nature.com · 21d

Highlights of this year’s Ig Nobel recipients include a nutrition prize for studying the preferred pizza toppings of rainbow lizards at a seaside resort in Togo

go.nature.com/3I4wd8E

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

Nature - The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

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Nature @nature.com · 13d

3,785 doctoral students across 107 counties told us about everything from supervision practices to workplace concerns

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4gSnYJM

A chart titled "how phd students rate their experiences". 75% of respondents are satisfied with their phds

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 12d

LAB CHRONICLE #19
-Weekly Report-

I found an old coffee cup behind the hotplate.
→ A bit acidic. But stable.

#LabCoffee #ThermodynamicStability #PhaseTransition #SurvivalOfTheCup #LeidenForce

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LeidenForce @leidenforce.bsky.social · 13d

"The researchers speculate that these scientists [the beginners] offer new perspectives because they are less attached to previous theories and knowledge than are their more experienced colleagues"

Nature @nature.com · 13d

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative

go.nature.com/4nrEvqg

Rookie scientists make research teams more innovative

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

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Grand Labo @grandlabo.com · 17d

« Springer Nature a publié les résultats d'une enquête mondiale demandant à des chercheurs du monde entier de partager leurs perceptions et leurs attitudes à l'égard des résultats nuls et leurs expériences en matière de partage de ces résultats. »

Infographic: The value of publishing null results | For Researchers | Springer Nature

Springer Nature’s new white paper, based on responses from 11,069 researchers across 166 countries, is the first large-scale look at why ‘null

www.springernature.com

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Fidel Navamuel @fidelnavamuel.bsky.social · 16d

Illustrae. Un outil IA spécialisé pour créer des illustrations pour les sciences. ✨🔬🎨 #Illustrae #IA #Science #Illustrations

Illustrae. Un outil IA spécialisé pour créer des illustrations pour les sciences

Vous avez déjà perdu un temps infini à chercher LE bon schéma de la mitose, celui qui colle pile à votre chapitre ? Ou tenté de dessiner une molécule au

f.mtr.cool

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Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) @istaresearch.bsky.social · 16d

Have you ever seen Styrofoam balls float?

Inspired by the research of the Waitukaitis group, the object “Acoustic Levitation” makes exactly that possible. It allows for the observation of particles isolated from electrical charge.

Find out more: https://www.vistascience.at/en/festival

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Elisabeth Ago @agoelisabeth.bsky.social · Dec 26

Because cool physics is everywhere 😎 (source unknown, unfortunately)

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