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William Uspal

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Assoc. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Microhydrodynamics, stat mech, soft matter, transport.

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A moment I still remember from undergad classes: in a discussion section for first quarter QM, another student complained that she was tired of the harmonic oscillator. The TA said, "I have some bad news," and then turned and wrote on the board:

Everything is a harmonic oscillator

27.06.2025 01:33 👍 275 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 4

this is how I imagine the Stamford Bridge berserker

19.06.2025 08:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here's a book cover that's crying out for a colon

28.05.2025 23:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does Jaleel White regret "Did I do that"?

05.05.2025 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.04.2025 02:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Calpundit?

11.03.2025 00:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We’re going to damage American competitiveness for a generation.

We’re eroding our standard of living so the richest people ever to live can pay even less in taxes.

27.02.2025 02:46 👍 82 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Cancellation megathread

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.

www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

24.02.2025 16:02 👍 296 🔁 241 💬 14 📌 129

WE JUST GOT DOGE’D

no funding for this year. We have to cancel the program and email 450 applicants there will be no REU program in physics at MSU.

First time in 20+ years.

I’m fucking livid, y’all.

26.02.2025 19:54 👍 1265 🔁 443 💬 42 📌 29
Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O
Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)

Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)

19.02.2025 06:57 👍 14189 🔁 2710 💬 193 📌 236
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11.02.2025 15:03 👍 31958 🔁 6288 💬 369 📌 318

Wittgenstein as well

11.02.2025 02:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Aerodynamicists call the boundary element method the "panel method"

15.01.2025 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just in time for Christmas!

21.12.2024 21:02 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Quang made Active Matter Mead for our lab's holiday party. Fuel for glucose-powered chemical microswimmers?

09.12.2024 20:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought of a sneaky way to find my people on this thing.

Self-identify and I will add you...

See you at APS-DFD!

go.bsky.app/8Njfprh

22.11.2024 05:04 👍 87 🔁 37 💬 65 📌 2

The xx?

22.11.2024 02:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The jarring moment for me was looking in a library of successful tenure dossiers and seeing an applicant who did 5x fewer than me in his probationary period. Newly hired asst profs should check out this library on day 1!

19.11.2024 00:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems like a critical mass is finally migrating over here..? Getting fed up with what's being pushed into my feed at X, the Everything Reprehensible App

17.11.2024 22:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0