Janelle Shane

Low-budget geeky grad school magnetic poetry: cut up the fridge magnet ads that they hand out at conferences and job fairs. If there’s any whitespace, go to work with a Sharpie. Thanks to some junk mail, I’ve got a pizza-themed set as well!

Light in a circular cavity makes a variety of standing wave patterns, some of which look like flowers, wagon wheels, or even tie-fighter spaceships. These images are from my simulations of the light in the cavities of nanolasers - each pattern is called a mode, and the smaller the laser,

<a href="https://aiweirdness.com/" style="text-decoration:underline;">lewisandquark</a>: Someone recently asked me if there were other grad students/scientists blogging pictures from their daily life in the lab. I realized that I only know of a couple scientist bloggers who

The view inside one of our lab’s titanium sapphire infrared lasers - if you see a view like this, you’re doing something wrong. Specifically, you’re not wearing laser goggles around a 10W laser source (bad), and placing your eyeballs at beam height (very bad, yet done almost

Calling all lady scientists! [ https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-women.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F77856861409%2Fcalling-all-lady-scientists&t=Y2YyMGIyYzk1ZDc0ZjRhZmE4YTYzNzQ0MTcwZWZlYTRlMjAyMTg0ZCxlNXJhcDFSdg%3D%3D&b=t%3AIinBpZOgiMHH_bphj7hrOQ&p=https%3A%2F%2Faiweirdness.com%2Fpost%2F77881897713%2Fcalling-all-lady-scientists&m=1&ts=1601293920]