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The Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics will contribute $1000 to sponsor up to four awards recognizing outstanding talks and/or posters presented by undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at the Second NextGen Conversations in Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics at LA Tech. Submit your abstract today! lnkd.in/eDAs8x6P Register here: lnkd.in/efWcvZPC Thanks to the NSF and funding from LA Tech, registration is down to $100 including dorms & meals. This is the 22nd Conversations conference; the first 20 were at Albany.

Wake Physics PhD student Pablo presented yesterday, one of 15 Wake Physics APS presentations at the 2026 APS global Summit #aps2026

Does time fly! Sajant (2018 BS Physics and CS major) is coming back as Dr. Anand to talk on Quantum Computing on Monday!

Looks to be an interesting talk on Exoplanets tomorrow! Stop by if interested in Olin.

Friday: TMAO Osmoprotectant Interactions with E.coli 16S Ribosomal RNA using Molecular Dynamics 8:36am with PhD student Mitch Turk presenting 9/9

More Wednesday Nonlocal Exchange from a Two-Point Weighted Density Approximation with Flexible p-Mean Coupling 2:12 pm PhD student Wells Graham Thursday: Geometric fragmentation and anomalous thermalization in cubic dimer model 1pm Professor Huffman 8/9

Wake Physics looks well-represented at the APS Global Summit with 15 presentations across astrophysics, biological physics, and condensed matter physics. Say hi if you are there! 1/9

@AmarthiaAuthor @mattvanswol This is downtown winston-salem and happened Wednesday night. You are thinking of a different place

@mattvanswol I'm calling for a fact check. My parents live in Salem county. "Downtown" doesn't look like this, it's a small collection of antique shops and a couple local restaurants (plus a really cool collectibles store).

🚨#BREAKING: Police and businesses are panicking in Winston-Salem NC as over 200 teenagers took over the streets of downtown, blocking traffic until 2AM. The teens began dancing on cars, fighting, drinking alcohol while throwing scooters, and even macing each other in the face with pepper spray. According to one business owner, kids began to throw scooters at "friends they didn't like at school" and then the teens began macing each other in the face and fighting. The city is considering banning all teens from downtown after 8PM after businesses had to close early and police were pulled from all over the city to control the chaos. This is absolutely insane... WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS?!!!!

@DdelAlamo agreed! Also, I was a theorist in an NMR group in the late 1990s, and people were talking about these new shimming methods simliarly back then; though IIRC it was 10s of minutes to autoshim back then

I rotated in an NMR lab during my PhD, the old-timers would not stop talking about shimming. How it used to be done by hand. Coming home late to upset spouses because shimming would take over an hour. Years later a machine does it in 5 seconds. TLDR this gatekeeping is stupid

@RealHarryFlash @DavidAstinWalsh I was curious, and found that there are a few districts in Cali where that's true.

@salsb @DavidAstinWalsh He's making shit up. No state starts any teacher at $100K.

In a strong union state a high school teacher with a PhD can easily start at over 100k.

Hopefully coming back from #BPS2026 today. Saw lots of cool talks & posters on protein dynamics, and on AI in protein structure & dynamics. Lots of tools to play with for my own research and people to check out and possibly invite for NextGen talks and/or JBSD articles. The question now is with flight delays, when will I make it back