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Eugene Lim

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Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration and UK Numerical Relativity. Views my own. Penang-lang. https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/eugene.lim

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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 18h

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 21h

Do not question the Process(tm).

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 1d

The article i think correctly identify the issue: student attendance is tied to student ownership of their own academic journey. Then it suggested a mad solution : “entertainment education”! Like how is that going to make the students feel that academics are with them and not some service provider?

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. Student attendance has definitely gone much better. And my lectures is all blackboard and no stupid tiktok ish frills.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2

Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes

University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences

www.timeshighereducation.com

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 2d

My big issue with LLM code is not its access value. By all means use it! But let’s not pretend that it is a magic wand that replaces true expertise. Not much different from being a physicist vs being a layperson with access to LLM fo answer physics questions

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 2d

I think access has its value but also access has it’s limitations. You can’t really write sophisticated parallel HPC code without having to deal with the sophistication that comes with it : sometimes it is just hard and you have to learn the tools.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

well, the only thing they are spreading is drunken-ness! (seriously though, it's not going to help growth in anyway, but the argument that "it is terrible for <harm reduction reasons>" is just not watching the world closely enough. The worse harm comes from getting your brain cooked by the web.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

I started coding with 6502 binary (yes I am old) and moved up that ladder, and C++ OOP was like the panacea. Then python hits and I have sad faces since then.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

You see the jump from C++ to python is a terrible degradation of coding skills unfortunately.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

As a teetotaller parent spending lots of weekends with zombie stare parents at soft play and playgrounds, a lot of things now make total sense.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

In my fantasies late pubs will lead to afore mentioned late night food culture…

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

What I really wish though is the creation of a late night food culture. Midnight kebabs are just not cutting it for me

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

Yes not questioning that raising business costs then doing this is not going to grow so much. But any kind of getting people out of their houses and meet real people instead of getting their brains cooked on the web is a net plus imho.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently “Fun is bad”. This moralising is so tiresome. And I don’t even like or go to pubs.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

Ohio State astronomy is still waiting to see what happens with the federal funding landscape before deciding whether to proceed. With programs that are still TBD, I recommend waiting right now because *application fees do not get refunded if they decide to cancel after you have already paid*!!

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 3d

So far the astronomy PhD programs that have cancelled admissions are Washington, Michigan State, and Case Western.

Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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Martin Bauer @martinmbauer.bsky.social · 3d

Short explanation of the physics Nobel Prize 2025

In classical mechanics you can know where a particle is and its momentum at the same time. In Quantum mechanics you can't. All information is in the wavefunction. Even if a particle is trapped, part of the wavefunction..

🧵1/7

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Rick @rick-sco.bsky.social · 3d

Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 5d

Physics Nobel goes to superconducting quantum qubits leading to macroscopic quantum phenomenon.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

www.nobelprize.org

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 5d

Call it Datas you cowards

Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 6d

I feel sorry for the poor Met officer (who honestly is probably wishing the ground open up to swallow him up), and also salute the courage of the gentleman/terrorist* who is standing up for his beliefs.

*according to the government

Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 7d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 6d

King’s admissions team working very hard to convince applicants of the value of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and other arts and humanities degrees. Godspeed, may these words be heard by young people filling out their UCAS forms.

Can you figure out what all these jobs have in common? #cambridge #uni #careers #ucas #studyatkings

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