Heard a suggestion today to ask only for a researcher's top ~five most important publications as part of postdoc/faculty applications, to disincentivize cranking out as many LLM-assisted papers as possible. Apparently this strategy is gaining traction in Europe, US has yet to catch on. ⚛️🧪

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Hot rocks can stay warm for ludicrous amounts of time—maybe you’ve seen that video of a guy who heats the interior of his truck by putting a rock in a fire and then moving it to his truck’s cabin. Turns out the same physics keeps planets’ cores warm—even bodies as small as the moon! 🧵⚛️🧪

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Supernovae are violent explosions, spewing hot, radioactive material in the death throes of massive stars. You might think life wouldn’t stand a chance against one. But it turns out life on Earth has withstood *multiple* nearby supernovae. 🧵⚛️🧪

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"Love, Of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art" - Ralph Waldo Emerson✨️

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"Perhaps, We look at the Stars, Not because they are far away, But because, Somewhere deep inside, We recognise, A little of ourselves in their light" - Anonymous✨️

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