Sam
@sma-franklin.bsky.social
PhD student at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation🛸 Researching the mathematical theory of black holes 🔭
D&D Nerd 🐉
D&D Nerd 🐉
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is a huge win for women’s rights. I’m greatly relieved after some alarming headlines a few weeks ago.
Take good note of who did and did not vote for this bill - who will and will not stand up for women’s bodily autonomy:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
This is a huge win for women’s rights. I’m greatly relieved after some alarming headlines a few weeks ago.
Take good note of who did and did not vote for this bill - who will and will not stand up for women’s bodily autonomy:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in step forward for reproductive rights
Amendment to crime and policing bill will change law to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is a huge win for women’s rights. I’m greatly relieved after some alarming headlines a few weeks ago.
Take good note of who did and did not vote for this bill - who will and will not stand up for women’s bodily autonomy:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
This is a huge win for women’s rights. I’m greatly relieved after some alarming headlines a few weeks ago.
Take good note of who did and did not vote for this bill - who will and will not stand up for women’s bodily autonomy:
votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
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Here is a "contour" plot that summarizes what these new measurements have to say about the behavior of dark energy, + my annotation. Either a lot of people are misunderstanding something big about the data, the Universe is playing a cruel trick on us, or LCDM is wrong.
March 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Here is a "contour" plot that summarizes what these new measurements have to say about the behavior of dark energy, + my annotation. Either a lot of people are misunderstanding something big about the data, the Universe is playing a cruel trick on us, or LCDM is wrong.
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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens The Case 🧪🔭
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. | Quanta Magazine
Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.
www.quantamagazine.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens The Case 🧪🔭
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
www.quantamagazine.org/is-dark-ener...
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That's us in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/s...
And that's us in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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And that's us in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Astronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought
New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
That's us in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/s...
And that's us in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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And that's us in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
🧪🔭
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⏰ Time to set those alarm clocks! ⏰
A lunar eclipse will be visible from the UK tomorrow – and no specialist equipment is needed!
The fascinating spectacle will begin shortly before 04:00 GMT but the best time to see it will be around 06:20 GMT, before the Moon sets.
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A lunar eclipse will be visible from the UK tomorrow – and no specialist equipment is needed!
The fascinating spectacle will begin shortly before 04:00 GMT but the best time to see it will be around 06:20 GMT, before the Moon sets.
⤵️
March 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
⏰ Time to set those alarm clocks! ⏰
A lunar eclipse will be visible from the UK tomorrow – and no specialist equipment is needed!
The fascinating spectacle will begin shortly before 04:00 GMT but the best time to see it will be around 06:20 GMT, before the Moon sets.
⤵️
A lunar eclipse will be visible from the UK tomorrow – and no specialist equipment is needed!
The fascinating spectacle will begin shortly before 04:00 GMT but the best time to see it will be around 06:20 GMT, before the Moon sets.
⤵️
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Wow! Onboard video of the Blue Ghost lander touching down on the Moon two days ago.
Multiple onboard experiments are now studying the lunar surface. Details at link. 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
Multiple onboard experiments are now studying the lunar surface. Details at link. 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
March 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Wow! Onboard video of the Blue Ghost lander touching down on the Moon two days ago.
Multiple onboard experiments are now studying the lunar surface. Details at link. 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
Multiple onboard experiments are now studying the lunar surface. Details at link. 🧪🔭
www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
This is a great article by @lyndie.bsky.social!
Some seriously cool stuff. I cant wait to read the relevant papers on this resurgent topic.
Some seriously cool stuff. I cant wait to read the relevant papers on this resurgent topic.
What if the inside of black holes are a roiling sea of space and time stretching and compressing in multiple directions? Physicist Sean Hartnoll is applying new mathematical tools to explore a decades-old question. buff.ly/4kaLDWZ
February 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is a great article by @lyndie.bsky.social!
Some seriously cool stuff. I cant wait to read the relevant papers on this resurgent topic.
Some seriously cool stuff. I cant wait to read the relevant papers on this resurgent topic.
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This fact is not to be shared outside this room.
February 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This fact is not to be shared outside this room.
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*this is illegal*
FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
*this is illegal*
FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Hmm where have I seen this before
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hmm where have I seen this before
In a more positive light DeepSeek is sort of awesome
youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA
youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA
OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
YouTube video by Jeff Geerling
youtu.be
January 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In a more positive light DeepSeek is sort of awesome
youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA
youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA
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Worth looking through the quotes and replies to this!
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
January 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Worth looking through the quotes and replies to this!
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JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that?
ME: I just think it's neat :)
ME: I just think it's neat :)
January 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that?
ME: I just think it's neat :)
ME: I just think it's neat :)
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