Me: Can I get one of those forms, I want to order some equipment.
German: I'm sorry that's not possible, you need to request the forms.
Me: Ok...How do I do that?
German: Oh that's easy, you just need one of these forms!
Me: 🤦
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Great talk by Cara and Laura at the IOP Plasma physics conference about the award winning @liv_scientific podcast. Promoting the great research being done @LivUni and talking to the people behind the science #scicomm
Love how the players are socially distant for the national anthem but will be sticking their heads up each others arses in the scrum in about 8 minutes 😂 #IrevWal
Our latest work combining Machine learning with Laser Plasma Accelerators has been published today in @NatureComms In it, we hand over the accelerator controls to a Bayesian Optimisation algorithm creating the first autonomous plasma accelerator
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Standing at a whiteboard rotating a marker in my hand and waving it about like a lunatic...either it's too late on a Friday or I'm trying to figure out S vs P polarisations in our system in my head...or both...
This is super impressive stuff 👌🏼 A clear demonstration that LPAs can be well controlled and can act as stable electron sources for research and applications
Our "24h laser-plasma accelerator" results are finally out in PRX!
Decoding Sources of Energy Variability in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator: journals.aps.org/prx/abstrac…
Maybe @Pontifex should put his money where his mouth is and bankroll it. Not exactly strapped for cash in the vatican are they...
BBC News - Coronavirus: Pope's vaccine plea and universities facing 'crazy demand'
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53839374
A news & views piece @plasmaStu and I wrote for @NaturePhotonics about a new class of laser plasma accelerators hoping to tackle the problem of dephasing by carefully manipulating the laser pulse shape in space and time. rdcu.be/b5R3I
New methods to control how laser pulses propagate inside a plasma could signify the start of a global race to demonstrate truly high-energy, compact particle accelerators: A news and views piece by @rshalloo and me in @NaturePhotonicsrdcu.be/b5R3I
Arrived into Hamburg today to start the next part of the postdoc adventure @ DESY! Granted, it was an historically poor time to move country and I may not technically "speak German"...but I'm back in the EU, pubs are open and I'm gonna carry on firing lasers into plasmas 💪🏼😂🇩🇪