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Honored to be interviewed by @PhysicsMagazine. Check out how cool light-matter interactions can be! (Featured work done @RLEatMIT) #attosecondscience #ultrafastphotonics #nanotechnology #WomenInSTEM

@vbarber820 We sang “All Star” to our son for the first 6 months of his life because it was the only song we could reliably remember all the words to in the newborn haze.

having a kid has unlocked some memories of kids songs that I haven't thought about in decades, and now my husband and I are walking around the house singing the chorus of baby beluga over and over again forever.

🐘: @minabionta@sbfa.social

THIS IS BIG!!!! #MIT just announced that starting January 2023, the minimum postdoctoral salary/stipend will be raised to $65,000, commensurate with other trail-blazing universities in the US. The news follows last year's survey by MIT-PDA, revealing MIT-postdocs financial stress

@Liv_Lanes Shhh, don't go giving @Luke_Govia any ideas

Sometimes I think it would be an interesting experiment to raise a child and teach them quantum mechanics before Newtonian mechanics, just to see what would happen to their little brain. Might not be a good enough reason to have kids but idk could be fun

Super excited to be back @Stanford and @SLAClab after ten years, now as an associate staff scientist. Ready for some fun experiments at #LCLS. Does anyone want to walk #theDish with me? #GoCard

“I’m the same person I was at 1 a.m., but I’m realizing that my voice now has a platform, and I’m thinking about how to use that.” -@CarolynBertozzi, winner of the 2022 #NobelPrize in chemistry 🗞: stanford.io/3C92ELW

@vbarber820 Good luck!

Please hire me my science is very cool and I'm also a nice person

I have approximately 8 faculty job applications due today (that's right, your favorite postdoc is back on the market and looking for a long term home) and I would like to provide a shout out to the 1 institution that requested only a cover letter and DEI statement for 1st round.

🚧🚧 feels like home

@schmerco That’s how it works in French 🙃 question marks too

The weirdest thing about working at alliantgroup was that because the CEO put spaces before his reclamation points (like this !), a lot of ambitious/brown-nosing people started doing the same in all their emails. Like, Dhaval literally made everyone's grammar worse.

@vbarber820 Love is blind!

I've been 3x vaxxed and my symptoms are unpleasant but relatively mild (sore throat, nasty chest cough, extreme fatigue). Hit me with recommendations for TV shows that will ask very little of me in terms of paying attention/following plot.

I have covid and folks it is not the best!

Given I’ve never read a paper by @csferrie (and honestly only skimmed papers by @Luke_Govia), this is definitely true… #physicsfamily

@vbarber820 The @MITPDA DEI committee did a survey/report about this in 2020! Here's the link: drive.google.com/file/d/1bhQqdN… @kddrsn @clbilodeau

Postdocs! I'm working on something for the MIT CEE communications lab and I want to know: how did you get your current position? Would also be interested in knowing whether you brought your own fellowship $$ with you (if you feel comfortable sharing leave a comment!)

Happy new year everyone! This year will bring some big changes into our lives but I’m excited to see where the adventure goes! 🎉🐯 새해 복 많이 받으세요! @Luke_Govia #YearOfTheTiger #설날

One of the last things from my time at Raytheon BBN. Taking a critical look at quantum reservoir computing, we ask where the computationally useful operations occur. This is important both to design better reservoirs, and to understand potential quantum advantage in these setups.

Now out in @PhysRevApplied from @CQE_MIT Director, MIT Prof. @oliver_mit, MIT EQuS Group, @MITLL & @RaytheonTech: Phys. Rev. Applied 17, 014024 (2022) - "Deep-Neural-Network Discrimination of Multiplexed Superconducting-Qubit States" journals.aps.org/prapplied/abst… @RLEatMIT #quantum

Editors' Suggestion: Characterizing Midcircuit Measurements on a Superconducting Qubit Using Gate Set Tomography, Kenneth Rudinger, Guilhem J. Ribeill, et al. #Optoelectronics #QuantumInformation #Superconductivity go.aps.org/3fQw4Uo

What makes me tick? Thoughts on why current academic culture and lack of governance may be a root cause of gender issues in STEM. ulp.ethz.ch/news/ulp-news/…

Featured in OPN's “Optics in 2021” December roundup: nanoscale optical field samplers with attosecond resolution may provide a compact spectroscopy platform with applications in photovoltaics, biology, medicine and more. optica-opn.org/home/articles/…

APS is launching a new conference and workshops to support women and gender minorities in graduate school to provide professional development to future #physics leaders. Learn more in #APSnews: go.aps.org/3Gq9X2b.