Ankit Disa

Big shout out to Emiru on Microsoft Community Hub for your brilliance (techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/excel…). You saved me. You're a hero.

This has nothing to do with anything, but I want to acknowledge the most ridiculous Microsoft "feature" I have encountered: my Excel was freezing whenever I tried to bold text. The solution? Apparently changing my default printer to "Print to PDF" ... obviously.

There's still time! @CornellAEP is hiring for a tenure-track faulty position. If you or anyone you know is an outstanding applied physics researcher/teacher (and doesn't mind being my colleague), please apply and share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25535

@jennifer_fowlie Quoted in Science:

One of my tangential takeaways on this LK-99 SC claim is that the general public seems oddly pumped about how "easy" the 4-day, multi-step, small batch, solid state synthesis is. Some of you haven't had blisters from overusing your pestle and it shows.

To the bravest and strongest person I had the privilege of knowing - this captures only a little bit of what she did: news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

@jennifer_fowlie My family lives in philly! Are you still stuck? Can supply clothes :)

28 hours (and counting) at Philadelphia airport Only a backpack full of papers Needed clean clothes. so. (i should probably watch this movie now)

Finally not (submitted), (under review), or (in press)!! Our work demonstrating you can make a magnet better using THz light is now online @Nature. Fantastic collaboration incl. @MPSDHamburg @NarangLab @mpifkf. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@atbrady Duuuuuuude!!! Doing us proud! Can’t wait to see it

The secret I’ve had to keep since mid-December is finally out! #Jeopardy #BucketList #LifeGoals

@sentefmi Riveting stuff! Loved the plot twists. Around N=8 I was worried but the ending was very satisfying.

I recently had to teach spontaneous symmetry breaking. Did you know that there was a connection to nonequilibrium physics? I didn't. A little thread. 1/N

Twisted #graphene reminds me of the evolution of shavers in the last decades 😅

@RBComes @kumahlab @MJ20082 I personally would feel good about a test (rapid ok) + vaccination requirement for attendees + masking strongly encouraged. Maybe I’m on the too cautious side. Having masks and things like sanitizer available is super helpful too.

Even more relevant today, given what’s happened in the last 6 years…

@jennifer_fowlie I know what you mean. For now, I can say that I stand with anyone who doesn’t want to be forced to give birth for whatever reason, and I will aid those who need help finding care.

@desi_nerd You're 100% right. But sometimes it's hard to know what to say.

For all my academic friends: I know it’s “safer” to not take a stance, but silence is not an option right now. So much seems to be going backwards in this country so quickly. Deciding what happens with one’s own health/life/body is a basic human right.

I did it!!! Finally reached 500+ connections status on @LinkedIn. I want to thank all of those high school friends I haven’t talked to in years for accepting my connect requests. #networking #almostfamous

@MJ20082 @IfThenSheCan @500womensci @Momademia @WomeninAcademi1 @AIP_HQ Second @jennifer_fowlie! Lots of great people listed so far. Can also suggest Sophie Beck, Nicole Benedek, Sinead Griffin, Karin Rabe, Nicola Spaldin on the theory side. Lena Kourkoutis, Claribel Dominguez, Beatriz Noheda on experimental side.

Send me names of female scientists who can give great invited talk on oxide films (epitaxial). @IfThenSheCan @500womensci @Momademia @WomeninAcademi1 #oxides #electronics #magnetism @AIP_HQ #physics

@David_Abergel @NaturePhysics Congratulations David! I seem to recall you telling me that you would love that job. Very happy for you that you got it!

I'm happy to tell you all that I've been appointed the new Chief Editor of @NaturePhysics! It's a huge honour, a massive privilege, and I'm really looking forward to the new role.

@jennifer_fowlie I met Brian Josephson a couple years ago at the Lindau meeting and spoke with him at length. I’m not going to lie—he has some good points. Plus, he’s a super nice dude and probably did a lot of psychedelics so I give him a pass.

In my field of physics there's a Nobel Prize winner who believes in parapsychology. He's basically the reason I don't put any faith in awards or accolades of any kind.

@jennifer_fowlie Mine too! In fact my whole dissertation was dedicated to my cat 😹

My cat got an acknowledgement in my thesis! You can bet that when Springer published it they tried to change this paragraph. After a cross email exchange with one of their editorial team I managed to keep it in 😼

@DanielePreziosi So sad I can’t make it this year! Such a beautiful venue! Hope you were able to catch my talk on light control of magnetism. I’ll definitely stop by your poster.

What a nice place to start conferencing again #iWOE27 #palazzoducale #italy where I will be presenting a Poster on infinite-layer #nickelates and related stuff