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07.02.2026 09:06
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Too much tempting of fate in this post?
Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number.
I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”.
Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.
Come join our team at Trinity College Dublin's @tcddublin.bsky.social School of Physics, where we are hiring two new Assistant Professors, one in Physics (experimental) and one in Astrophysics.
See www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ and www.tcd.ie/physics/
Please share! #physics #academicjobs #physicsjobs
Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Mo1−xWxS2−2ySe2y Alloys
npj Computational Materials 10, 169 (2024).
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Strong atomic reconstruction in twisted bilayers of highly flexible InSe: Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential and continuum model approaches
Phys Rev Materials 9, 014004 (2025)
journals.aps.org/prmaterials/...
You can find Anas' work in the following papers:
Understanding Domain Reconstruction of Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Bilayers through Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials
2D Materials 12, 045016 (2025)https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1583/ae0a69
Nick Hine, Anas Siddiqui, Albert Bartok-Partay, Ioan-Bogdan Magdau
Proud Supervisor moment: Anas Siddiqui successfully defended his PhD thesis today: "Machine-Learned Interatomic
Potentials for Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and their Heterostructures"! Many thanks to Ioan-Bogdan Magdau and Albert Bartok-Partay as examiners.
One time I spent five minutes at lunch drawing a reverse centaur and it became one of my most retweeted pieces of art. I resented that so I deleted it but now it can be free again because not enough people follow me on here for it to go big
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
With this approach we relax twisted bilayer models down to under 1 degree twist. We compare to experimental results and find strong agreement with observed reconstruction patterns, tending towards triangular domains in parallel homo-bilayers, hexagonal in antiparallel, and twirls for heterobilayers!
New paper! Anas Siddiqui has done fantastic work training Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for the whole Transition Metal Dichalcogenide family, and used them to study domain reconstruction with vdW-DF level accuracy, in twisted homo- and hetero-bilayers.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
For those interested in twistronics, check out session C10 on Thursday morning. For those also interested in MLIPs, check out the talk by #hetsys PhD student Anas Siddiqui!
For the second time in 3 years my birthday has fallen during the Psi-K conference #psik2025 - awesome place to celebrate it actually! Great talks and great community - and a morning swim in Lac Leman
@jrkermode.co.uk and I are on the same train!
Genius
I know a guy who
alloys steel
He makes it stronger
a harder feel
He don't use carbon
or molyb'
He don't use nickel
or any of these
He uses manganese
Seems crazy to change the format at this late stage though.
Alt Text: A dark blue, wavy surface with multiple colorful spheres placed on it. The spheres are in various colors including red, green, blue, yellow, purple, and orange. Each sphere is surrounded by small white particles that appear to be floating around them. The background is a gradient of dark teal to black.
Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries, green fertilizers, precision drug discovery, and more. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Take a paddle steamer!
I am at the #APSMarch meeting in Anaheim, California this week. Looking forward to lots of exciting talks on ML for materials science! Giving a talk myself on Thursday at 12:06in 263B!
A standing ovation for federal workers by the thousands of physicists who are meeting in Anaheim this week, supporting their colleagues in science agencies who couldn’t afford—or weren’t allowed—to come. Sorry, no pictures, in part out of green-card holders’ fears. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch
cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Zg6bskzQgJgR...
I have been a silent observer on bsky.app so far but happy to self-introduce on here by sharing news of a new paper with Anas Siddiqui. In Phys. Rev. Mater 9, 014004 we train an MLIP and a continuum model InSe and investigate Moire reconstructions with twist angle:
journals.aps.org/prmaterials/...
