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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 1d

You are on this council meme but we do not grant you the rank of master, but with quantum computing

Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · 21h

Big day for physics teachers who tell their students “If you slap the desk, there’s a 1 in 5.2^61 chance that your hand will pass right through”

Nature @nature.com · 1d

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating quantum physics on the macroscopic scale

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Groundbreaking quantum-tunnelling experiments win physics Nobel

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

Researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.

Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Nobel week to you and yours!🏅

In the latest from @nature.com: Could AI take home a science Nobel—no human needed?

Some say yes, and soon. 🧪

For more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon

Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 7d

That's quite the chart annotation.

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A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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NPR @npr.org · 22d

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 22d

That's quite the headline

NYT headline saying "Happy birthday LIGO, now drop dead" on a story about LIGO

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 25d

"This detection will quickly 'become one of my favourites', says David Reitze, executive director of the LIGO laboratory"

@jennaahart.bsky.social reviews some of our greatest discoveries, including the new #GW250114 in Nature News

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#GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

Artistic interpretation of a binary black hole. It is probably more colourful than the real thing. Credit: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon)

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · 24d

Happy birthday to GW150914, our first (of many) #GravitationalWave discoveries, detected 10 years ago today!

#GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

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A cartoon of a 10th birthday cake being swallowed by a black hole.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 26d

Ten years ago, the #LIGO gravitational-wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington first heard the ripples in spacetime created by some of the most violent cosmic collisions. For @nature.com, @jennaahart.bsky.social looks back at LIGO's greatest hits: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#physics 🧪

Clearest gravitational-wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black-hole theory

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves.

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · 27d

New from Nature: Latest LIGO results from GW250114 confirm Hawking’s black hole area theorem with 99.999% confidence!!

“It was the perfect 10-year anniversary present.”

More on this detection and LIGO’s other greatest hits from its first decade of discovery 🧪🔭

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Clearest gravitational wave detection yet confirms Hawking’s black hole theory

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves.

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Amazing early birthday present for GW detections !!

Daniel Williams @daniel-williams.co.uk · Aug 26

128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen.
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@ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a

An image with a black hole merger in the background. The text reads "128 new mergers revealed: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-4.0".

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Aug 28

Do you drink Budweiser or Sam Adams? Here's @jennaahart.bsky.social with the latest science on what that says about the chemistry of your taste preferences 🍻🧪

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Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in?

Research shows that beer drinkers are split depending on which types of flavour chemicals they prefer.

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · Aug 29

New from Nature on last week’s ACS meeting: the science behind your favorite beer

Can next year’s meeting explain the magic of pink whitney @acs.org?

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Beer lovers fall into two flavour camps — which one are you in?

Research shows that beer drinkers are split depending on which types of flavour chemicals they prefer.

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 8

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97

American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Aug 8

Trump's new executive order "looks like an explicit attempt to destroy peer review for federal science grants,” a physicist in Texas tells @dangaristo.bsky.social. 🧪

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Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Aug 7

The marketing for Avatar 3 is getting a bit ridiculous

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Aug 7

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, ALPHA CEN A b!!!

First hinted at in Wagner+21, now Chas Beichman, Aniket Sanghi and team have published new JWST images of alpha Cen A showing another hint of this Saturn-sized planet candidate!

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Screenshot of the NASA Exoplanet Archive homepage for the alpha Cen system.

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · Aug 7

New from Nature: “I had to take a moment of silence to appreciate what I was seeing.”

Astronomers reveal what could be the first ever image of a planet in its star’s habitable zone—and in the same star system as Avatar, no less

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Alien planet glimpsed in star's 'habitable zone'

A smudge of light spotted by the James Webb telescope near Alpha Centauri A could be the planet with the tightest orbit ever to be imaged directly.

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · Jul 30

“It’s a ransom to release funds.”

During my conversations with Columbia scientists about the university’s new settlement, the word “foreboding” came up in just about every interview. Hear their thoughts in my @nature.com story with @alexwitze.bsky.social:

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Columbia researchers eager to restart science after university’s deal with Trump

The institution agreed to increased federal oversight in exchange for restored grants and an end to government investigations.

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 29

Columbia scientists say they are relieved, yet unsettled, after last week’s deal with the US government to restore university research funding — and they’re figuring out how to get back to work.

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Columbia researchers eager to restart science after university’s deal with Trump

The institution agreed to increased federal oversight in exchange for restored grants and an end to government investigations.

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Tazz (YKNiece fan account) @tazz.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yall don’t know how grateful I am have born in the age of iPhones, and not the age of useful maggot calories

Nature @nature.com · Jul 25

Happy Friday! A mysterious chemical signature seen in the remains of Neanderthals might be explained if they snacked on a special culinary garnish: maggots. 🤢

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Mystery food in Neanderthal diet might be maggots

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

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Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com · Jul 25

NEW from our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social classes for @nature.com: @jennaahart.bsky.social and Rita Aksenfeld on the early-career foreign scientists now planning to leave the US
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Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States

Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Jul 25

"I wanted to stay here." - an early-career stem-cell biologist who is now looking to leave the US for a career in Europe. Reporting by Rita Akensenfeld & @jennaahart.bsky.social, for @nature.com 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Meet the early career scientists planning to leave the United States

Decreased funding, reduced opportunities and growing uncertainty has made life tough for international postdocs living in the US.

www.nature.com

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Jenna Ahart @jennaahart.bsky.social · Jul 25

Looking for Columbia researchers to talk to for a Nature story on the university’s recent settlement! If you/anyone you know might want to share their experiences, please message me!

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