Tweet us your question! Our materials science publisher Tom Miller is going to be answering your questions on the 25th June in an exclusive “Twitter talk with a publisher”. Let us know your questions in advance by replying to this tweet!
#materialsscience
#materials
#STM
#HappyBirthday
Lisa Randall! This physicist is best known for the Randall-Sundrum Model, which proposes an explanation for the extra dimensions in our universe. Her work continues to inspire research like this study of the universe's evolution
Day 7 of
#iop12festivedays
🎄 Day 7 🎄
Send us a photo of your library/home/office/research laboratory looking festive!
To
#win
- like, retweet & comment with your photo!
Read our T&Cs here -
SAVE THE DATE and join our
#IOPPposter
Conference on the 14th July 12.00 BST- 15th July BST. This live event will take place over the 24-hour period! Start planning your
#IOPPposter
and register here:
#STM
#TwitterConference
Looking to take your first step towards IOP trusted reviewer certification?
Join IOP Peer Review Excellence ambassador
@cfhirjibehedin
on
#WorldQuantumDay
for a LIVE interactive workshop 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm BST
👉Book here
#EarlyCareerResearchers
Have you heard? You can now publish your original research with
@ROPPhysics
! 🎉
As part of ROPP's mission to publish ground-breaking research in physics, we are broadening our scope to include original and
#openaccess
research articles 🔬.
Learn more >
In honor of
#IWD2021
we’re excited to highlight Astroparticle Physicist Sophia Gad-Nasr
@Astropartigirl
. You can read her recently published work in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) free for a limited time!
#WomenInScience
Today we announced that we will be moving all our owned journals to double-blind peer review, making us the first physics publisher to adopt the approach portfolio-wide.
"IOPP recently announced they will be moving all their journals to double-anonymous peer review, to combat some of the biases (both conscious and unconscious) at play in the publication process."
The first images of a supermassive
#blackhole
were revealed today by astronomers from
@ehtelescope
in
@AAS_Publishing
's The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Read the papers here:
Take your first step towards IOP trusted reviewer certification! Join IOP Peer Review Excellence Ambassador
@igordownunder
on
#WorldQuantumDay
for a LIVE interactive workshop.
3.00pm - 5.00pm AEST | 10.30am - 12.30pm IST
Book here
#EarlyCareerResearchers
Paul Dirac was born on this date, August 8, 1902. In honor of this day, we hope you'll read this feature from the archives of Physics World on the enduring legacy of Paul Dirac.
SAVE THE DATE and join our first ever
#IOPPposter
Conference on the 15th July 12.00 BST- 16th July BST. This live event will take place over the 24-hour period! Start planning your
#IOPPposter
and register here:
#STM
#TwitterConference
Congratulations to
#QuantumScience
trailblazer Hannes Bernien
@UChicago
- worthy winner of the
#Quantum2020
International Quantum Technology Young Scientist Award. Just one of his many achievements is the discovery of a new class of
#quantum
states: quantum many-body scars.
Erwin Schrödinger was born on this day, August 12, 1887. Today we celebrate his numerous contributions to science, and recommend reading this recent article on an open source virtual laboratory for the Schrödinger equation.
Are you registered yet for the webinar with
@samillingworth
that will turn you into a successful science communicator? No registration = no FREE ebook download 😢
Don't miss out, sign up today 👍
Erwin Schrödinger was born
#onthisday
in 1887. In 1933 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory." He is also remembered for his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat."
Publish your
#research
in our fully
#OpenAccess
, multidisciplinary journal IOP SciNotes – publications dedicated to preliminary results, pilot studies, methods, protocols, and data or code. Find out more
👏 A big congratulations to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their Nobel Prize in Physics. We’ve collected together some of their research including papers cited within the scientific background of the
#nobelprize
Our new name-change policy provides a simple way for authors to change their name on previously published work. It's part of our commitment to ensuring an open, supportive and inclusive research environment. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Have you reviewed for our journal Materials Research Express? If so, we're interested in your views on an innovative new service for the journal. DM us if you have 30 mins to spare. You'll receive a £20 Amazon voucher for your time.
Today, we celebrate International Girls and Women in Science Day, an opportunity to promote equal access to
#science
for women and girls. This Physics World article explains the conversation surrounding equity in
#physics
#February11
@WomenScienceDay
#Quantum2020
is thrilled to announce its International Quantum Technology Emerging Researchers Award winner – Nicole Yunger Halpern
@nicoleyh11
@Harvard
. In a strong field, Nicole stood out for her far-reaching theoretical contributions to quantum science. Congratulations!
"An inclusive name change policy allows anyone to update their name on previously published work. Until recently this wasn't the norm, which disadvantaged many researchers, especially transgender scientists who have been instrumental in driving new policies forward."
.
@IOPPublishing
and the
@ipemnews
are seeking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief for the journal PMB. The new recruit will succeed Prof. Simon Cherry, who is retiring as Editor-in-Chief at the end of December 2020. Find out more
We’ve reached a significant milestone! 10,000 peer reviewers have achieved IOP Trusted Reviewer status. Creating a future generation of outstanding peer reviewers is our goal - we're well on our way! Check out what makes a 5-star reviewer
#HappyBirthday
Emmy Noether! Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to
#MathematicalPhysics
, most famously by proving Noether's first and second theorem. Today, we celebrate Noether and all those who have paved the way for
#WomeninSTEM
!
No young person should feel that physics is not for them – find out more about IOP’s important new campaign to help correct misconceptions about physics and remove the barriers to participation
#IOPLimitLess
No young person should feel locked out of physics yet many are put off from studying it. There are no limits to what can be achieved with physics. Our campaign, Limit Less, will ensure there are no limits on who can take part. Join today:
#IOPLimitLess
#OnThisDay
in 1706, Émilie du Châtelet was born! This French philosopher and mathemetician was the first to conceptualize energy and derive its quantitative relationships to the mass and velocity of an object.
#WomeninSTEM
It's
#WorldQuantumDay
! 🎉 Let's celebrate by taking a quantum leap of faith in quantum technology. Advancing this field will help us solve complex problems, and it couldn’t be a more exciting time for quantum research.
See how we're celebrating:
Our new Peer Review Excellence elearning hub is now live! Take our online course covering
#PeerReview
fundamentals, writing an excellent report, and peer review ethics, and get on the fast track towards becoming an IOP Trusted Reviewer.
This year’s
#NobelPrize
awards are two weeks away. Find out more about the research from previous winners with our collection of articles from over 100 Nobel Laureates.
Sunday is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! To celebrate, 3 IOP ebooks about female scientists & their amazing careers in physics are free this weekend!
Links to each book:
In celebration of the 2023
@NobelPrize
in Physics, we've put together a collection of research published in our journals by this year's winners 🏅
We've published research from over 125 Nobel Laureates and Fields Medal winners!
Explore the collection 👉
Introducing Purpose-Led Publishing 📢
We have joined forces with
@AIP_Publishing
and
@APSphysics
to form a new coalition, putting purpose above profit and channelling all funds from publishing back into science.
Find out more about our mission 👉
We are looking forward to working with
@RoySocChem
and other publishers to deliver on our joint commitments to make research publishing more inclusive and diverse. Find out more at
#PublishingEquality
Today we wish a
#HappyBirthday
to Rosalind Franklin, a British chemist and x-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the structure of DNA, but was only appreciated after her death. Learn more about this subject in
@PhysicsWorld
:
🎄
#iop12festivedays
is here!🎄
Each day we have a question for you to take part and a chance to win!
Day 1 - which IOP ebook would you like to see in your stocking and why?
To enter, simply follow this link
T&Cs here -
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of not 1, not 2, but 3 innovative new
#openaccess
journals showcasing the most significant and impactful research in the fields of energy, materials and photonics
#jphysday
We’re really excited to be at
@PhysicsNews
’s Summer festival, celebrating physics, and talking to students and researchers.
We’ve got lots of information (and goodies) at our stand, even
#Spiderman
is interested!
Read on below to find what we’re up to today 🧵
It's here! 🎉
Environmental Research 2023, IOP Publishing's virtual event series, will be taking place over an entire month starting in October. The event is free and open to anyone internationally!
Visit our conference webpage for more information 👉
In honor of Richard Feynman's birthday, we're highlighting this paper from 2013 that confirmed Feynman's famous thought experiment on double-slit electron diffraction. The paper was co-authored by scientists from
@UNLPhysics
and
@Perimeter
.
A huge thank you to all the entries to our
#IOPPposter
Conference we have been amazed by all the great
#research
that has come our way from this virtual event! We hope you all enjoyed it and will join us again next year! Winners will be announced in the coming weeks. Good luck.
Read ‘Experimental Realization of an Intrinsic Magnetic
#TopologicalInsulator
’ by Yan Gong et al. affiliated with
@Tsinghua_Uni
and others. It notes: 'such a material can provide a shortcut to various novel topological quantum effects’
#topological
We have just announced that we will be launching a suite of new
#environmental
journals, marking the creation of the Environmental Research series. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability is the first new title to be introduced.
Today we are pleased to announce that Machine Learning: Science and Technology (MLST), a new open access journal devoted to the application and development of
#machinelearning
for the sciences, is now open for submissions. Submit your paper today at
The JPhys Complexity publishing team and Editorial Board are delighted to present the first issue of this exciting new journal, featuring an editorial from the Editor-in-Chief
@gin_bianconi
and six fascinating papers on
#Complexity
and
#ComplexNetworks
.
#OnThisDate
, Galileo Galilei was born! This Italian polymath has been called the father of observational
#astronomy
, modern-era classical
#physics
, the scientific method, and modern
#science
. Discover the role of resistance forces in his experiments here
Our
#IOPPoster
Conference takes place live for 24 hours from July 15th. To register for the event please see our web page with full details plus T&C’s: We have 7 cash prizes up for grabs what have you got to lose?
#STM
#TwitterConference
Finally, we are pleased to announce JPhys Photonics - an exciting new
#openaccess
journal showcasing the most significant and impactful research in the field of
#photonics
#jphysday
#OnThisDate
Paul Dirac, an English mathematical and theoretical physicist, was born! Dirac is regarded as one of the founders of
#quantummechanics
and was co-awarded the 1933
#NobelPrize
. Learn more about him here:
We've introduced a formal co-review policy, to help early-career researchers gain experience in
#PeerReview
and ensure they get credit for the work they contribute. Find out more here:
Our most popular paper of the year and the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year, First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole. It was an exciting year for science and we look forward to what 2020 will bring.
Kim: "Publishers need to take responsibility as influential members of the academic community. By failing to address the biases within our own systems, we're further entrenching the inequities that already exist within academia"
Congratulations to Kim Eggleton, Head of Research Integrity and Peer Review at IOPP, who has recently been named as one of the
@PublishersAssoc
People of Publishing 2023! 🎉
Congratulations to all those named 👏
Read the full list on
@thebookseller
👉
Are you a math person? Today we have ‘Significant Figures. The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians’ by Ian Stewart
#bookfacefriday
#maths
#libraries
We are delighted and privileged to hear that JPhys Photonics Editor-in-Chief,
@HugoThienpont
has received the SPIE Gold Medal, in recognition of his profound and durable impact on society and his pioneering vision for photonics.
#optics
#photonics
Today marks the 100 year anniversary of the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, during which scientists measured the deflection of starlight and verified Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Today we announce the launch of Machine Learning: Science and Technology, a new multidisciplinary,
#openaccess
journal devoted to the application and development of machine learning for the sciences.
#machinelearning
Waking up before the sun is no easy task, but if you can do so tomorrow, the payoff will be huge! Mars and Jupiter will shine like a double star in the sky, and if you're lucky you'll see some Perseid meteors as well. Don't miss out on this astrophysical phenomenon!
Introducing JPhys Energy - an innovative new
#openaccess
journal showcasing the most significant and impactful research in the field of
#energy
#jphysday
Nominations are now open for two international quantum awards from
@IOPPublishing
!
The awards will help to support the development of quantum scientists, recognising scientific excellence in early career researchers.
Nominations close 15 March 2023.
For more information 👇
The Electrochemical Society
@ECSorg
is seeking candidates to serve as the founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of ECS Sensors Plus, a journal in the process of being launched in 2021. Nominate your EIC today ➡️
#electrochemical
#sensors
#research
Introducing JPhys Materials - a new
#openaccess
journal showcasing the most significant and impactful research in the field of
#materials
science
#jphysday
We're proud to announce our new partneship with
@ResearchGate
which will enable us to share academic content on their platform making research more visible.
Inspiring transparency in
#PeerReview
through co-review! Now offered across our owned journals, co-review delivers a collaborative and supportive journey for all our reviewers. Together let's raise recognition and improve inclusivity
#EarlyCareerResearcher
Today we celebrate Michael Faraday, born September 22, 1791. Deemed as the ‘father of electromagnetism,’ Faraday made numerous contributions to science, including observing what is now called Faraday rotation, an effect still applied today: