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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈

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PhD in Physics. Científico Titular - Tenuered Researcher - CSIC. Working in photonics, nonlinear dynamics and complexity. 🇪🇸🇬🇧 My research: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user… More: https://t.co/t6MDGvekoF ORCID: 0000-0002-3422-178X

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Nov 14

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives (...) on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Pale blue dot. Carl Sagan.

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Complex Media Optics Team @comedialkb.bsky.social · 10d

#NewPreprint #Quantum
"Harnessing Optical Disorder for Bell Inequalities violation"
a joint work with Hugo Defienne's team.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21052

In short : a speckle essentially has a random polarization state at any position, we exploit this to show we can violate a BI.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18d

this exists it is called thinking

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Aug 23

How on earth did Parisi came up with the idea of an ultrametric space of replicas?

WTF?

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Riccardo Sapienza @riccard0.bsky.social · Aug 17

How scientist are responding to the dismantling of the scientific system in US, to preserve integrity and truth

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy

The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

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Borja Rodrigo Alcázar @borjarodrigo32.bsky.social · Aug 13

Un meteorólogo que lleva 34 años en la televisión, se queja en directo desde Florida. Dice que ya no puede informar sobre el clima con precisión, porque los recortes de Trump han eliminado los datos satelitales que necesita.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 11

"The traits I once tried to suppress shape how I think, work, and move through the world. I’ve stopped believing I need to blend in to belong." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/40XaLZm

An illustration of a person drawing orange lines, with text: My autism diagnosis didn’t derail my Ph.D. It put me on the right track.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Aug 11

Heisenberg on Bohr's occasionally excesssively generous nature. One of the first lessons learnt as a Nature editor about the "fringe" submissions is that this is exactly what will happen if you let it.

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 10

My team has updated our free database of POSTDOC fellowships.

This database contains 286 entries. For each entry, we provide a link, short description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria.

Download this updated and expanded database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Earth-shaking waves from Greenland mega-tsunamis imaged for the first time – Physics World

New analysis of satellite altimetry data reveals that trapped waves called seiches were responsible for anomalous seismic signals in 2023

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Jul 24

Now, this is cool

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

Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review

Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 21

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · Jun 4

Congratulations to Eva Nogales on being elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society – joining the ranks of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin! Her pioneering electron 🔬work is changing how we understand gene transcription. @biosci.lbl.gov @royalsociety.org

📷: @christophermichel.com

Royal Society Elects Berkeley Lab Scientist Eva Nogales

Berkeley Lab biophysicist Eva Nogales has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 5

Why public sector investment in basic research and innovation is irreplaceable ⤵️

The Register @theregister.com · Jun 5

If it can’t double our money, we’re not building it, Intel Products chief says

New products must show potential for 50% gross margin to get the greenlight Mounting losses and financial turmoil has Intel cutting the deadweight, an effort that won’t end with axing staff.…

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · May 7

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · May 2

At Sungkyunkwan University explaining the fluctuation-dissipation theorem 😅

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Apr 29

«No hubo ataque exterior, el apagón es producto de la codicia de las grandes eléctricas»

«El problema no son las energías renovables, quien diga eso no dice la verdad», recalca Antonio Turiel al comenzar la entrevista...

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Apr 29

@acs.org Applied Optical Materials editor's outreach event in Sungkyunkwan University and Yonsei Universities in Korea.

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Complex Media Optics Team @comedialkb.bsky.social · Apr 28

We have multiple postdoc openings in *optical computing* 🔦+🤖, *computational microscopy* 🔬+🧠, and *nanophotonics*💡+⚛️. Don't hesitate to get in touch / spread the word!

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G. @guillecummings.com · Apr 15

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

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Xavi Cugat - Energía @revenergetica.bsky.social · Apr 17

¡Pues ya estamos! ¡¡¡Primera vez en la historia!!! La energía eólica y la solar cubren más del 100% de la demanda en España peninsular. A las 11h05 el 100,09%. Todas las renovables, tambien récord, 115,14%

El sobrante se exporta y almacena.

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Scarlet guyette @scarletguyette.bsky.social · Apr 12

Morning. Song,,🐦🐦

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Nature Reviews Clean Technology @natrevcleantech.nature.com · Apr 9

New review! Towards practical applications of radiative cooling by Kaijie Yang, Qiaoquang Gan and colleagues is now online.

Radiative cooling technology can help mitigate high temperatures in the built environment and solar panels, but there are barriers to broader applications.

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Towards practical applications of radiative cooling

Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Radiative cooling is a passive cooling approach that could reduce reliance on air conditioning. This Review outlines the challenges, progress and opportunities for...

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Apr 5

Böhm’s version runs ~59 min while Currentzis: just 46. That’s 13 minutes faster — ~22% less time. If we break it down:
Introitus + Kyrie: 9:36 → 6:48
Rex tremendae: 3:09 → 1:57
Recordare: 7:00 → 5:45

why the rush? are we geting late anywhere?

P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Apr 5

Why are we playing classical music faster and faster?

I just heard Mozart’s Requiem live — and it felt way too fast, as usual. Just for fun, I have compared two recordings: Karl Böhm (1971), by far my favorit, and Teodor Currentzis (2011).

The difference in tempo is remarkable: 👇

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P. David García 🏳️‍🌈 @soerenmuenchen.bsky.social · Apr 5

Böhm’s version runs ~59 min while Currentzis: just 46.
That’s 13 minutes faster — ~22% less time.

Here’s the breakdown: