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Gabriel Weymouth

@gabrielweymouth.bsky.social

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Professor of ship hydrodynamics at TU Delft. I study flow physics, direct and data-driven modelling, & shape-changing vehicles. 🌊⛵ + 💻📈 + 🦑🤖

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Dec 4

A resonant squid-inspired robot that swims as efficiently as the very best biological swimmers in the ocean!🧪🦑 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 1d

An army of foolish minions, unleashed! Perfect use for them.

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buuuuurn

Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 9d

The workflow in VSCode is really nice and fast. I use Pluto for distributing code to students, but VSCode is my work flow of choice.

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 9d

I was just on twitter for a minute. Saw some terrible hate speech against a foreign researcher, reported it, and "noped" right back to BlueSky.

ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and gloves and making a funny face .

ALT: ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and gloves and making a funny face .

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 12d

I love that the anti-vaxxers are pissed about Tylenol being called out for autism. "No!! That crazy unproven theory shouldn't be getting attention! Only our crazy thoroughly debunked theory should be getting attention!"🤪

Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 13d

Actually, with more reflection, the papers that misrepresent your finding make a bigger impression. So I can believe 17%, but it FEELS like 25% or more.

Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 13d

I think it's much higher than this.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 14d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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cormullion.bsky.social @cormullion.bsky.social · 19d

even if today is #talklikeapirate day - you should try to avoid type piracy in #julialang - otherwise you'll have to wear this (or walk the plank)...

a t-shirt bearing the likeness of Vcat the pirate cat, the mascot of the Pirates of the Type System...

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 22d

More than a decade ago, I started making tutorial videos on how to use Adobe illustrator, targeted at scientists that needed to make figures and cartoons for talks or papers.

Now I'm getting started again, but this time with the free and open source vector editor Inkscape 🧪

youtu.be/E7n6SDni28Q

Inkscape for scientists 1 - simple shapes

YouTube video by Kevin Bonham

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · 28d

that commentary looks helpful. which book is this?

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Sep 4

That's great, but are we really going to learn anything new that MY biopic didn't cover?

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Madonna biopic starring Julia Garner is still happening, Garner says

Julia Garner Still Starring In Madonna Biopic

A Madonna biopic, written by Madge herself with Diablo Cody, was announced in 2020. The race to play the Material Girl was fierce, with entertainers including Sydney Sweeney, Florence Pugh, Emma Laird...

www.stereogum.com

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TU Delta @tudelta.bsky.social · Sep 3

🇳🇱 De euforie was groot over de deelname van de TU Delft deze zomer aan de Amsterdam Canal Parade. Een maand later dringt zich de vraag op: wat is het effect op de queergemeenschap van de TU?

TU-Prideboot was succes. Hoe nu verder? - Delta

De euforie was groot over de deelname van de TU Delft deze zomer aan de Amsterdam Canal Parade. Een maand later dringt zich de vraag op: wat is het effect op de queergemeenschap van de TU?

delta.tudelft.nl

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Florida man jokes are not as weird as the real place

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 30

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Aug 31

Is there a way to adjust you diagram to make the compression to the latent source more obvious. If so, I would use it.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · Aug 30

New collective noun phrase: A Dysentery of Influencers.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Aug 30

Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans.

We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot.

jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it!

#birds

a scene in front of an island with palm trees about 10 minutes before sunset, the ocean is light blue and the sky is yellow, a pelican flys and then dives into the ocean with 15 individual frames plus the splash frame.

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Aug 31

Except... This is pretty much the opposite of what I want in a hike...

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Bernat Font @fontb.bsky.social · Aug 26

Slides for the talk avaliable here!

b-fg.github.io/EFDC2_2025/m...

I'm loving this quarto + reveal.js for creating html presentations. Now that's portable!

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · Aug 19

I'm certainly a #julialang evangalist, but I've toned it down a bit - a lot of scientists don't have the time or inclination to go against the grain. Then again, when someone makes it this easy... #tidytuesday #rstats

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

nrennie.rbind.io

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I will show this to my daughters and they will never tease me about my outfits again. 😅

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Bernat Font @fontb.bsky.social · Jul 22

The WaterLily.jl article is now available on Computer Physics Comms!

@gabrielweymouth.bsky.social and I review our CFD solver's design, performance, accuracy, and also show some very cool examples (like the one below). Check it out!

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109748

#CFD #GPU #HPC #JuliaLang

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Gabriel Weymouth @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social · Jul 20

Stole this proudly from ‪@yokohamarides.bsky.social

"Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for <<Motorists when one bike lane is added in their city>>"