To be fair, that's how paper* used to work. * yes, I know, in a generic sense of the word.

Jasmine Fledderjohann@jfledderjohann.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, it finally happened. I tried to scroll down on a piece of paper.

"You've been poisoned. Would you like one dose of antidote or to play the roulette wheel for 100 doses?"

SMBC Comics@smbccomics.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ironically less crazy than that thing SBF said to Tyler Cowen. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ev-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

🍸 Three #FlashFinding cocktail punches on #FoodSecurity in post-COVID India. Fast, evidence-based insights on how households coped & what this means for food systems and policy. 📽️ ✔️ youtube.com/shorts/Liq1U... ✔️ youtube.com/shorts/CSvdJ... ✔️ youtube.com/shorts/wL2hT... #Nutrition #India #COVID19

Covid-19 and Food Insecurity - Flash Finding#1 🍽️

YouTube video by Food Security for Equitable Futures

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If you have no divisors I will find you, prime after prime.

A corridor chat with Chris Smeenk, professor at @westernu.ca, about correcting common misunderstandings about the Big Bang and the early universe. Chris' research centres around the scientific method and the nature of our knowledge of physics.

Makes more sense if you read it in the voice of Zapp Brannigan.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

NASA isn’t on Bluesky but they are on Threads and they put out a statement about the selection of an all-male #Artemis III crew.

The curvature satisfies the Bianchi identity. It is left to the reader to determine if it also satisfies the Bianchi supremacy and the Bianchi ultimatum.

Captain of Titanic advises increase speed and ignore icebergs.

And it happens again - original email 9:12 PM on Friday, harassing follow-up 9:12PM on Sunday. You won't believe how fast I declined that one. Journal editors: if you do this, you contribute to a culture of overwork and poor mental health, and I will NOT sacrifice that for you.

David Sloan@davesmaths.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you're an editor for a journal I've never heard of and you ask me to review a paper, don't send a pushy "reminder" less than 48 hours later. Doubly so if a good fraction of that time is outside of normal working hours (weekend). If you do, I'll almost certainly refuse to review for you.

I'm all in favour of not allowing LLM generated content. Given the central role that arXiv plays in modern physics communication they had better be sure that they are right, and have genunine transparency in their moderation process. A false positive could be devastating to a PhD student's career.

anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 3mo ago

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Everything going according to plan for Starmer...

Getting ready to teach: Lecture written PDF on flashdrive Double-checked it's available online to the students Got my notes Grabbed my laptop Jacket on, leave house, get in car Realize I'm still wearing slippers. It might be a rough one today.

Do you like general relativity but find the Einstein-Hilbert action just too conservative for your taste? Now on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05817 More excellent work by my PhD student, in which we show that the conformal factor can be removed in favour of friction.

Classical General Relativity as a Non-Conservative Action-Dependent Field Theory

Scaling symmetries have previously been examined for classical field theories described by singular Lagrangians; in this article, we apply these results to the first-order formulation of General Relat...

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It was an absolute pleasure to share our participatory #photography exhibition with MP @catsmithmp.bsky.social on Friday. For those in the #Lancaster area, we will be hosting the exhibition at the Gregson on 22nd May from 7:30pm. #PAR #ReproJustice www.catsmith.co.uk/latest/2026/...

Cat Attends Reproductive Justice Photo Exhibition! - Cat Smith - Cat Smith

It was fantastic to meet with Prof. Jasmine Fledderjohann and Dr Sophie Patterson at Lancaster University to discuss their upcoming photo exhibition on reproductive justice; confronting and challengin...

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I want to obey this prompt so much that I'm worried I might be an LLM now.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3mo ago

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

If you're an editor for a journal I've never heard of and you ask me to review a paper, don't send a pushy "reminder" less than 48 hours later. Doubly so if a good fraction of that time is outside of normal working hours (weekend). If you do, I'll almost certainly refuse to review for you.

Now on the arXiv: Constrained Symplectic and Contact Hamiltonian Systems: A Review arxiv.org/abs/2604.27940 - more hard work by my excellent student.

Constrained Symplectic and Contact Hamiltonian Systems: A Review

Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined d...

arxiv.org

The further you progress in academia the more you have to reach back to skills you learnt in primary school.

Geraint F. Lewis@cosmichorizons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am at that grant writing stage where I am minutely adjusting figure size and deleting words almost at random to make things fit.....

Supervisor: Let me now introduce the committee for your PhD defense... Me (internally): He's summoning mini-bosses!

Of course, all these teams have names of "Grp-..." making things so much clearer.

David Sloan@davesmaths.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My institution insists on using Microsoft products. Within Microsoft Teams, there is a tab labelled "Teams". Within that tab, I have two sets of "Teams", one labelled "Classes" and the other "Teams". So to locate a particular discussion, I have to open Teams, go to Teams and expand Teams.

My institution insists on using Microsoft products. Within Microsoft Teams, there is a tab labelled "Teams". Within that tab, I have two sets of "Teams", one labelled "Classes" and the other "Teams". So to locate a particular discussion, I have to open Teams, go to Teams and expand Teams.

A remarkable clear explanation of the difference between non-interacting and quantum tunnelling. Sci-fi authors - do hit up a physicist (I guess it doesn't *have* to be @chanda.blacksky.app ) to ask about these things. Often real science is way cooler and weirder than you might think.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️ Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Short news bite on Quantum Guitar by FQxI.

FQxI@fqxi.org · 4mo ago

A brand new instrument called the “quantum guitar” performed alongside one of the oldest instruments, the organ, at one of the most beautiful chapels in Oxford. Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin and Bob Coecke performed Abdyssagin’s ‘Quantum Universe’ at Merton College. @coecke.bsky.social

He also said "Things can only get better" so how can I trust him now?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Brian Cox says UK physics funding cuts are ‘destruction of the future’

Elise Crull spoke to us at @perimeterinstitute.ca about Hertha Sponer, who was one of the first women in Germany to earn a PhD in physics, and a pioneer of quantum chemistry.

I spent a small fortune on travel to and taking the GRE, application fees, etc. I begged academics for reference letters and had no idea what the hell to write in a "Personal statement". Result: rejection letters from almost everywhere I applied. I got two offers and no clues on how to choose.

Eugene Lim@tukohbin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I got rejected by all program except my last choice and was waitlisted for my 1st choice. I put the acceptance letter to the former in an envelope, went on a 5 hour bus overnight busride planning to post it at the destination. Woke up to a phone msg from latter frantically asking me to call back.

Can't wait to share our participatory #Photography exhibition in #Lancaster @ the #Gregson on 22nd May 7:30-11:00 pm! The work is about #ReproductiveJustice in N. England by people w/lived experience of social inequity and representatives from community orgs. Details: gregson.co.uk/event/repron...

ReproNorth: “We’re telling our own story” - The Gregson

This event will be a celebration of a photography project ...

gregson.co.uk

Also your goal to "develop and validate scalable indicators that can identify novelty in research" looks like you want just another way to boil complex research down to a number which will be gamed like every other index (Citation count, h-index etc) and contribute yet more bullshit to research.

David Sloan@davesmaths.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not a great sign that your metascience project will be able to access expert assessment when you match me to a research area nowhere near my own, based on a paper I didn't write.

Not a great sign that your metascience project will be able to access expert assessment when you match me to a research area nowhere near my own, based on a paper I didn't write.