Kamran Behnia
kamranbeh.bsky.social
Kamran Behnia
@kamranbeh.bsky.social
Condensed-matter Physicist
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Sound waves carry heat in solids. How do they couple to magnetic field?🌡️ 🧪
Discovery of Universal Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Crystals
Observation of the thermal Hall effect in nonmagnetic insulators and semiconductors characterized by a universal scaling behavior of the thermal Hall coefficient and the longitudinal thermal conductiv...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Paris, 5 novembre, 7h30
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The sixth largest salt lake on this planet was obliterated in a matter of 5 years.
‘We must change’: how drought and overextraction of water has run Iran dry
Iranians blame climate change, sanctions, mistakes and neglect, and Iran’s vice-president wants to tackle them all
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
August 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/1...
This article argues that the United States of America has declared war on the planet Earth by stating that the American Way of Life cannot be negotiated. Trump is a mere symptom.
La menace américaine | Le Grand Continent
« Les États-Unis ont changé de camp : leur manière de faire de la politique, tout comme leur mode de vie, constituent désormais un risque existentiel ». Pour faire face à Trump, il faut sortir — au p...
legrandcontinent.eu
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The universe as seen from my window, July 19, 2025. Where is everybody, Enrico?
July 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
Encyclopedique, cynique, tendre, anharmonique, généreux et drôle.
Avignon vaut le voyage pour de tels spectacles ...
Festival d’Avignon : « Nexus de l’adoration », le réjouissant univers parallèle de Joris Lacoste
L’auteur et metteur en scène imagine l’apparition d’un nouveau culte dans un spectacle étourdissant et irrésistible qui dessine un tableau saisissant de notre monde.
www.lemonde.fr
July 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I wholeheartedly agree with this piece from @kityates.bsky.social. The Royal Society has to take may things into consideration, including what its US members feel - but even so, I think the right course in this instance is very clear, and they ducked it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A brilliant Banksy.
March 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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🧪 @royalsociety.org speaks out.

"Scientific evidence & those who advocate for it are under attack by those who wish to undermine rational debate... The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science."

royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...
Science under threat | Royal Society
The Royal Society will use its voice and the expertise of our Fellows to resist the various challenges to science.
royalsociety.org
March 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Le 7 mars prochain, c'est la journée d'action Stand Up for Science ! Suivez ce compte pour vous tenir informé.e des actions organisées en région parisienne 📆 Le site de référence : standupforscience.fr
February 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The Fermi surface of the semi-mettlic element antimony made by a 3D printer. ⚛️🧪⚒️
February 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org
Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society
Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The competition between democrocy and diactatorship is as old as the Peloponnesian War. Let us not forget who won that first round. #dodge #democracy
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...
DOGE's Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP - The Wire China
The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.
www.thewirechina.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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People have been observing galaxy NGC 6505 for 140 years, but only now noticed an "Einstein ring" at its center. There, gravity has bent and magnified another, more distant galaxy into a delicate ring of light.

The universe is full of beautiful, hidden surprises. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM