Juliane Borchert

badische-zeitung.deGroßflächiger Stromausfall in Freiburg und UmgebungAm frühen Sonntagmorgen ist in und um Freiburg großflächig der Strom ausgefallen. Der Wind hatte ein Wellblechdach in eine Trafostation im Freiburger Osten geweht. Inzwischen ist der Strom fast überall zurück.

My lab engineer was veeery busy today. Why you ask? Well early Sunday morning a storm blew a corrugated metal roof into a substation causing a power outage.

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Am frühen Sonntagmorgen ist in und um Freiburg großflächig der Strom ausgefallen. Der Wind hatte ein Wellblechdach in eine Trafostation im Freiburger Osten geweht. Inzwischen ist der Strom fast überall zurück.

The power in the building our lab is in was out briefly. Lab equipment does not like power outages at all. So today everything had to be turned back on and tested. The room ventilation, gloveboxes, vacuum pumps, computers, etc. etc.

So my list of things that hinder research progress has a new entry: corrugated metal in a substation

A successful garden afternoon has yielded a nice variety of herbs and fall vegetables

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Max ✊🏽

@maxnum.bsky.social

Zu den geleakten E-Mails der AfD will ich deutlich sagen: Es mangelt nicht an Erkenntnissen über die AfD. Es mangelt am politischen Willen, endlich Konsequenzen daraus zu ziehen.

With the final grapes processed I checked my spreadsheet: I harvested over 30kg of grapes from my allotment garden since August (+ some that were eaten on site and didn't make it to the scale).

Juliane Borchert@pv-physicist.bsky.social

Yesterday I picked the last of the garden grapes (ca. 7.5kg), some peppermint and some colourful runner beans. The weather has turned much colder and wetter, but the garden is still providing.

Astonishing amount of fruit! Very grateful to the previous allotmenteer who planted these grape vines. Roughly 50/50 split between blue and yellow grapes. I am glad both varieties did not ripen at the same time. Not sure how I would have coped with so much sweet abundance 😬 bsky.app/profile/pv-p...

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Time to turn this batch of my grape harvest into something storable! I have weighed it now and apparently I currently have 6,25 kg of grapes in my kitchen. Let's go!

Yesterday I picked the last of the garden grapes (ca. 7.5kg), some peppermint and some colourful runner beans. The weather has turned much colder and wetter, but the garden is still providing.

Put a few extra nice bunches of grapes to the side to eat fresh. The rest was turned into jelly today

Ended up with many little jars full of golden jelly. I am evidently too lazy to make sure all the labels are clearly removed. So some jars of jelly are dressed up as tomato paste, mustard or olives. 😆

Recently, I have been reading several thesis drafts from master and PhD students. So I am once again thinking about active and passive voice in academic writing. I generally like the use of active voice, as it is more concise and makes clear who did what. It assigns responsibility and agency.

Unfortunately some writers shy away from the use of personal pronouns in academic writing, which leads to my least favorite version: "This chapter investigates phenomenon xyz." The active voice, but the actor is the chapter or thesis itself.

No, the chapter does not investigate anything. It is a stack of paper, it can not conduct experiments. You, the author, did all the work. Give yourself some credit and take responsibility. What's your take? Do you prefer active or passive voice?

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So the common passive phrase "In this chapter phenomenon xyz was investigated." becomes "In this chapter I investigated phenomenon xyz."

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Sascha Feldmann

@feldmannlab.bsky.social

🎨🔬 Artists wanted! My lab at EPFL is hosting an international visual artist for 3 months (Jan–Apr 2027) to explore #light & #energy technologies with us.⚡️☀️ CHF 2k/month + housing + travel + production budget. Deadline: 22 Nov 👉 www.traces-opencall.ch/en #ArtAndScience #art #science

So much good news already this week and it is only Tuesday! Paper accepted, master's student did a great job at his thesis defense, another paper nearly accepted, interesting preliminary results from a student's latest experiment. Today being a research group leader is a lot of fun! 👩‍🔬 😊

Went to a plant nursery today and then did some picking in the allotment. Pretty good selection!

I love the local cargo bike scheme! Got to cycle around town with some berry bushes and a nectarine tree today.

Time to process some more allotment abundance! After lots of blue grapes, I have moved on to green/ yellow grapes.

For some variety I added in a couple of twigs of rosemary. Let's see how this jam turns out.

Filled lots of little jars with delicious grape jelly. Most seem to have sealed well and I hope they won't spoil.

Time to process some more allotment abundance! After lots of blue grapes, I have moved on to green/ yellow grapes.

First I've got to get the juice out of these.

That looks ready to drain

Our idea for a #40C3 talk is submitted! Let's see if we get selected.

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Great evening with @simoneherpich.bsky.social brewing an abstract for #40C3

The @uni-freiburg.de weather station is once again attracting little visitors

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The cloud camera at @uni-freiburg.de's weather station sure is picking up some unique cloud shapes this morning 😆

The garden is somewhat recovered from the extreme drought we had this summer and is gifting flowers to me.

I keep thanking the gardeners who had my allotment before me, for planting grape vines. The only thing that was happy during this extreme summer and they keep giving me a great harvest.

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Great evening with @simoneherpich.bsky.social brewing an abstract for #40C3

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It is very exciting that we get to host the #perovskite evaporation community in Freiburg! The Vacuum Deposited Perovskite Conference is in full swing. We are loving the focused scientific discussion it has already sparked! vacuumdepositedperovskite.org

20 Sept

My account name and profile promise science, but these days I mostly post about gardening and train trips. On the other place, I used to have a separate account for my research group and I liked that separation. So I will try doing that again. Welcome to the Sky: @jborchertlab.bsky.social !

20 Sept

If you are sick of all my cooking and gardening posts, head over to the new group account for the #science.

19 Sept

A very garden heavy dinner tonight. Courgette, beans, and purslane pesto all from my allotment. I am delighted that I have anything to harvest after a late start to the garden year and a record drought / heatwave.

19 Sept

The beans are the purple variety 'Blauhilde'

19 Sept

This purple bean does look great in the garden and is easy to pick as it is easy to find between the foliage. But it does not keep the purple colour when cooked.

13 Sept

Spent a couple of hours in the garden today pottering around, weeding, and even harvesting a bit. One of my most prolific weeds is common purslane, which is edible. So weeding and harvest are the same thing. Cleared half a bed to sow kale, got 1.5kg of purslane.

13 Sept

I do like to grow unusual varieties so that my garden veg does not look like it came from the supermarket. In this case the climbing French Bean "Blauhilde". This blue Hilda was the first of this year's varieties to be ready.

Time to turn this batch of my grape harvest into something storable! I have weighed it now and apparently I currently have 6,25 kg of grapes in my kitchen. Let's go!

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I took over an allotment in June. Turns out right before a historic drought and heatwaves, is a bad time to start a garden. The last 3 months have been absurd. Very grateful to the previous allotmenteers who planted grapes. Only plant that was remotely happy this summer! Picked 'a few' grapes today.

For round two I am trying to combine the tedium of cleaning the grapes off the bunches, with some fun @dimension20.dropout.tv episodes.

Bit of an experimental batch with wintery spices. Let's see if this makes a decent punch.

Time to turn this batch of my grape harvest into something storable! I have weighed it now and apparently I currently have 6,25 kg of grapes in my kitchen. Let's go!

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The jars are ready to receive the grape jelly!

One batch of grape jelly finished!

Time to turn this batch of my grape harvest into something storable! I have weighed it now and apparently I currently have 6,25 kg of grapes in my kitchen. Let's go!

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I feel like picking them off the bunches is the most tedious part. 🤔

I do love the colour of this grape mess.

Time to turn this batch of my grape harvest into something storable! I have weighed it now and apparently I currently have 6,25 kg of grapes in my kitchen. Let's go!

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This is one half of the grapes. I will tackle this batch first.

11 Sept

11 Sept

My kitchen scale could not cope with their weight so will have to weigh them in batches later. This is also not the first time I have harvested some. Already over 7kg this year. Plus today's at least 6++kg and there are more still on the vines.