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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · 4d

Amazing work!!

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · 5d

Eagerly waiting for the Linux app for Proton Drive.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27d

After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Physics

The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 27d

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has just been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

🧪 ⚛️ #science #NobelPrize2025 #physics

The image is an illustration of the three Nobel laureates in physics, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis.

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Esther Lin @estheroate.bsky.social · Sep 9

Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo.

In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨

With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Sep 26

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

A black and white photo of Albert Einstein, around age 25, sitting at a desk. He is a wearing a flannel suit and resting his right arm on the desk. Einstein is looking to the left of the photographer in this posed photo.

The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads:

It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Sep 14

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

#GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

🖼️: @chirpmass.bsky.social

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

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Sep 11

🎉 Congrats. Amazing !!

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Sep 10

What a difference a decade makes! Announcing the clearest #GravitationalWave detection ever #GW250114

youtu.be/2XmZ8-XQ9jU

📓: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g...

🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #O4IsHere

GW250114 – The Clearest of Chirps

YouTube video by LIGO Virgo KAGRA

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Sep 6

While I agree that Linux is overall better for the privacy.
But the drivers support on Linux is really bad. My laptop's camera and mic does not work on Linux (no matter the distribution)🥲. The fingerprint also does not work.

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Sep 1

Interesting read.

Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Jun 23

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence

An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...

www.nature.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Aug 9

"Cosmic Grapes"🍇
Clumpy rotating galaxy that is composed of more than 15 massive star-forming clumps. This existed just 900 million years after the Big bang.

#Astronomy

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · Aug 8

NEW: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”

Super high-resolution #ALMA and #JWST observations unveil unexpected details of rapid growth in a faint, newborn “grape-like” galaxy, similar to galaxies in the early universe following the Big Bang. 🍇

#RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #NRAO

The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes” - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding...

public.nrao.edu

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François Levrier @francoislevrier.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paul Dirac was born #OTD in 1902. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of the 20th century. The Dirac equation provides the first unified theory of quantum mechanics and special relativity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Di...

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Aug 3

Interesting!

Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Jul 25

I've been using Scholar Inbox for a few weeks now, and it's been phenomenal. Easily the most effective way I’ve found to keep up with the latest research. Can’t recommend it enough!

Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are excited that Scholar Inbox is supporting ACL 2025
@aclmeeting.bsky.social with personalized conference programs this year for the first time!
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/a...
It would be great if you could widely share this news within the NLP community. See you next week in Vienna!

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Jul 22

Beautiful Aadrai Jungle in the monsoon - waterfalls, mist and endless green.

📍Aadrai Jungle, Pune, India

#nature #sahyadris #photography

Still lake with hills and clouds in the background.

Waterfall in a deep green valley with a cloudy sky.

Waterfalls on a foggy cliff with forest below.

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's paper day! The first science paper with data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social's survey camera, the mighty LSSTCam, is a VERY quick turnaround of Rubin's observations thus far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. ☄️
Chandler et al., submitted 🔭
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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)

We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activity of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin ...

arxiv.org

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · Jul 14

🔭 NGC 2685: The Helix Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25071...

An unusual galaxy is shown that appears lens-like in overall shape yet has various rings of stars around the center. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration @ligo.org · Jul 14

We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun

ligo.org/ligo-virgo-k...

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪☄️

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Jul 9

Physicist John Archibald Wheeler was born #OTD in 1911.

A titan of 20th century science, he introduced the S-Matrix; developed (with Bohr) the first general theory of fission; coined "worm hole" and popularized “black hole”; and trained Feynman, Everett, Thorne, and many others. 🧪 ⚛️

Portrait of Wheeler in his twenties. He is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and tie. Wheeler is looking to the side of the camera.

An older wheeler standing in front of a chalkboard. His hands are clasped. The diagram behind him shows a direct path from point A to point B labeled “classical,” and a wave emanating from A and passing to B labeled “quantum.”

Wheeler walking with Einstein, Tomonaga, and a fourth person, through the woods near the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · Jul 8

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App

New 3D, interactive visualization of planets and minor planets in our Solar System lets you explore Rubin discoveries in real time. 🧪🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social

☑️ noirlab.edu/public/annou...
☑️ orbitviewer.app

Orbitviewer

Explore the Solar System in 3D with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Orbitviewer. Watch objects move through time and learn about Rubin’s new discoveries, right in your browser.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Jul 4

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭

Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

A black and white photograph of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She is wearing a white blouse with a large lace collar that covers her shoulders, upper chest, and neck. Her hair is pulled up and she is looking directly at the camera. She has dark eyes in tis photo, strong eyebrows, and a long, thin nose.

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Jul 2

Just a random shot of the trees by the lake shore.
#nature #photography

Tall trees on a grassy lake shore with a cloudy sky overhead. Sunlight peeks through the tree branches, casting light and shadow across the scene. Mountains are faintly visible in the background beneath the overcast sky.

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Prakhar Maurya @mphysicus.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is a great way to keep up with new research!
Scholar Inbox sends you daily open-access paper suggestions.
#ScholarInbox

ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · Jun 30

On our blog: Science is moving fast. How do we keep up? #ScholarInbox, developed by the Autonomous Vision Group led by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social, helps researchers stay ahead - by making the discovery of #openaccess papers smarter and more personal: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/scholar-i...

Scholar Inbox: Daily Research Recommendations just for You

Science is moving fast. How can we keep up? Scholar Inbox helps researchers stay ahead by making the discovery of open access papers more personal.

www.machinelearningforscience.de

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