#University of Vienna

[scholar-among-stars]

‿୨♡୧‿ The 7th of December 2023 ‿୨♡୧‿

Another productive day! I went to have a game design lecture in the morning, and we ended up having a pleasant conversation in the classroom (there were only 4 of us: two lecturers and two students) regarding the Game Awards 2023. It's today!

After the lecture I went to Mcdonald's cafe and got myself a matcha late and a strawberry cake. Both taste alright but cost almost the same as Starbucks, which is far better for me.

Then I went to study in our main library for 2 hours. Our library is decorated for Christmas, and it's so pretty! I love the creativity and the cozy vibe. I finished writing my witches essay, and now I only have to edit it.

⭐ The ambiance of the day: our library's natural ambiance. Super helpful for productivity!

[materialsscienceandengineering]

First direct imaging of tiny noble gas clusters at room temperature

For the first time, a research team has succeeded in stabilizing and directly imaging small clusters of noble gas atoms at room temperature. This achievement opens exciting possibilities for condensed matter physics and applications in quantum information technology. The key to this breakthrough, achieved by researchers at the University of Vienna in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Helsinki, was the inclusion of noble gas atoms between two graphene layers. This overcomes the difficulty that noble gases do not form stable structures under experimental conditions at room temperature. Details of the method and the first electron microscopic images of noble gas structures (krypton and xenon) have now been published in Nature Materials .

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[owls-and-cakes]

Campus der Universität Wien - Vienna, Austria

[aster-isk-m]

autumn in Austria🍂🍁

[dirty-handed]

studying isn‘t too bad when this is the library :))

[dateinmarsh]

Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings

[theodoreangelos]

Blossoms of the Chinese redbud or Judas tree (Cercis chinensis) Blüten des Chinesischen Judasbaumes Общий вид цветущего растения Багрянника Fleurs de Cercis chinensis

[valiumvenus]

In the name of my friends, I am asking for help:

"Please SIGN and SHARE this petition against censorship at the University of Vienna! Give us back our lectures on Palestine!" 🇵🇸🕊️

TLDR: The University of Vienna is canceling lectures about Palestine, and disinviting scholars who have a pro-Palestinian stance; please sign & share the petition to show people everywhere care. The students' demands are listed in the petition. Anyone can sign.

Censorship surrounding topics of Palestine is nothing new - but in the last few months there has been an alarming increase in censorship, where artists have their exhibitions shut down, universities are setting up barriers to knowledge about Palestine, highly unserious articles with very serious accusations about academics are popping up, ... Now two lectures on Palestine were canceled, and another scholar was just uninvited for what he posted on his social media (pro-Palestinian content). A previous protest letter from the academic community was ignored by the University, and a recent sit-in there was met with an unnecessarily high number of police who intimidated the small group of protesters. That is the only reaction anti-Zionist protests yield. -> more info in the petition link

Why/How does the University of Vienna do this? Basically, any public criticism of the Israeli government is misconstrued as antisemitism. Then, the University disinvites the academics in question and cancels lectures, or forces lecturers to "adjust" their content. Scholars are being muzzled. The University doesn't want its students to learn about various perspectives on Palestine. Mind you, this is a public institution we're talking about.

The petition is intended to show the University that people disapprove of these practices. The argument of "safety" is brought up all the time, but at the same time, the University gladly erects barriers between their students and the valuable knowledge that would foster critical thinking and understanding. Palestinians are directly affected by this deadly apathy, and Muslim and Jewish people everywhere suffer from heightened antisemitism and islamophobia fueled by misinformation and myths. And at the end of the day, censorship is nothing but bad academic practice. It is an attempt to shape the minds of students by making information harder to access and to exclude scholars who talk about/are from Palestine. It's discrimination against Palestinians and it's shameless instrumentalization of Jewish trauma.

Anybody who is concerned can sign. Please share widely with any and all communities! The petition should go international! Every signature counts.

Say NO to all barriers to knowledge. 🇵🇸🕊️

[liveforthebrotherhood]

Commissioned my good friend @temeyes to paint these three amazing wallpapers of my Original Characters Juliette Marie Dorian, Alana Rose Dorian, and Vienna Victoria Dorian, who in my Assassin’s Creed AU led the British Brotherhood of Assassins for a combined 74 years!

Here are their profiles:

Juliette

Alana

Vienna

[kafkasdiariies]

The University Church (Jesuitenkirche), Vienna, Austria | monaloque

[lucelinguist]

just keep consuming content and it will all become clearer✨

[scholar-among-stars]

‿୨♡୧‿ The 8th of December 2023 ‿୨♡୧‿

I am getting increasingly tired. I really do want to finish my tasks before the Christmas holidays, so I am working very hard. The downside? I am exhausted and sad. I am doing quite a lot of tasks, but there are so many of them that sometimes it seems there is no progress (which is not true, and I know it). Are you guys working extra hard before the break? Today I further edited my witches essay. I think I need to let it rest for some time. I also researched papers for my Victorianism essay, and did my courses on Coursera and Edx.

⭐ The ambiance of the day: Yule Log & Fireplace Ambience

📖 The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

🎨 Sketching from reference

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Single-atom vacancies in atomically thin insulators created in ultra-high vacuum

Single photons have applications in quantum computation, information networks, and sensors, and these can be emitted by defects in the atomically thin insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Missing nitrogen atoms have been suggested to be the atomic structure responsible for this activity, but it is difficult to controllably remove them. A team at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna has now shown that single atoms can be kicked out using a scanning transmission electron microscope under ultra-high vacuum. The results are published in the journal Small.

Transmission electron microscopy allows us to see the atomic structure of materials, and it is particularly well suited to directly reveal any defects in the lattice of the specimen, which may be detrimental or useful depending on the application. However, the energetic electron beam may also damage the structure, either due to elastic collisions or electronic excitations, or a combination of both. Furthermore, any gases left in the vacuum of the instrument can contribute to damage, whereby dissociated gas molecules can etch away atoms of the lattice. Until now, transmission electron microscopy measurements of hBN have been conducted at relatively poor vacuum conditions, leading to rapid damage. Due to this limitation, it has not been clear whether vacancies—single missing atoms—can be controllably created.

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[wonderwomanart]

Wonder Woman by Eduardo Vienna

[germanpostwarmodern]

Institute Building (1974) of Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna, Austria, by Anton Schweighofer. Photo by Margherita Spiluttini.

[krakrava]