Matias Koivurova
@mkoivurova.bsky.social
Husband, father of two, and a smashing cat servant from 🇫🇮
PhD, Docent, Asst. Prof., working on light, relativity and quantum 🧪💡
Climate change is real
Vaccines work
Earth is not flat
Trump is a dangerous dumbass
Elon too
PhD, Docent, Asst. Prof., working on light, relativity and quantum 🧪💡
Climate change is real
Vaccines work
Earth is not flat
Trump is a dangerous dumbass
Elon too
How Trump still has 36% approval is beyond me
Looks like every time;
* Trump gets online
* speaks publicly
* Belittles reporters
* Defends/pardons/dictators
* Pretends he’s stopped wars, while starting one
* has extravagant renovations/parties, while people are losing cars/can’t pay rent/buy food or meds
that everyone likes him less!
* Trump gets online
* speaks publicly
* Belittles reporters
* Defends/pardons/dictators
* Pretends he’s stopped wars, while starting one
* has extravagant renovations/parties, while people are losing cars/can’t pay rent/buy food or meds
that everyone likes him less!
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How Trump still has 36% approval is beyond me
@profanity.accountant give me the numbers
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
@profanity.accountant give me the numbers
Prediction: the AI bubble will burst during 2026. This will greatly strain especially the US economy, which is already weak due to Trump. There will be a world wide financial crisis that makes 2008 look cute.
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Prediction: the AI bubble will burst during 2026. This will greatly strain especially the US economy, which is already weak due to Trump. There will be a world wide financial crisis that makes 2008 look cute.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I think I'll be fine. Probably. Eventually.
I think I'll be fine. Probably. Eventually.
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I think I'll be fine. Probably. Eventually.
I think I'll be fine. Probably. Eventually.
Feeling cute, might delete later
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Feeling cute, might delete later
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
From the blog archive: 1975: The year that quantum mechanics met gravity! skullsinthestars.com/2015/05/20/1...
1975: The year that quantum mechanics met gravity
Since the revolutionary development of both theories in the early twentieth century, it is fair to say that general relativity and quantum mechanics have had a rather hostile relationship to one an…
skullsinthestars.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
From the blog archive: 1975: The year that quantum mechanics met gravity! skullsinthestars.com/2015/05/20/1...
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
This has been a long time coming, but our latest work is finally out in Laser & Photonics Reviews! A real great effort by our PhD students, Janne Heikkinen, Roman Calpe, and Laura Yrjänheikki.
They were able to achieve modelocking in nanolasers!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
They were able to achieve modelocking in nanolasers!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This has been a long time coming, but our latest work is finally out in Laser & Photonics Reviews! A real great effort by our PhD students, Janne Heikkinen, Roman Calpe, and Laura Yrjänheikki.
They were able to achieve modelocking in nanolasers!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
They were able to achieve modelocking in nanolasers!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
“There’re about a thousand of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“There’re about a thousand of us.”
Done and done. Maybe this time it will be successful? I dunno, but I have a good feeling about this one!
Good luck to fellow applicants 🫡
#RCF #GrantProposal
Good luck to fellow applicants 🫡
#RCF #GrantProposal
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Done and done. Maybe this time it will be successful? I dunno, but I have a good feeling about this one!
Good luck to fellow applicants 🫡
#RCF #GrantProposal
Good luck to fellow applicants 🫡
#RCF #GrantProposal
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
This was enlightening, and explains SO MUCH of the situation in the US. They literally don't teach kids to read properly!
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This was enlightening, and explains SO MUCH of the situation in the US. They literally don't teach kids to read properly!
I knew nothing about James Watson before his death (apart from the whole structure of DNA debacle).
But now I know that he was not a good man, not by a long shot.
But now I know that he was not a good man, not by a long shot.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I knew nothing about James Watson before his death (apart from the whole structure of DNA debacle).
But now I know that he was not a good man, not by a long shot.
But now I know that he was not a good man, not by a long shot.
The Microsoft Authenticator app chooses the numbers 69 suspiciously often...
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Microsoft Authenticator app chooses the numbers 69 suspiciously often...
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?
Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?
Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.
1/7 ⚛️🧪
Made some lasagne today 😋 Wife loved it, the kids ate everything, and even the cat tried to eat it. Great success 🤌
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Made some lasagne today 😋 Wife loved it, the kids ate everything, and even the cat tried to eat it. Great success 🤌
The more I watch this video, the more confusing it gets
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The more I watch this video, the more confusing it gets
This years carrot harvest, about 2 kg from a plot of land that is less than 1 m²!
The older I get, the more convinced I am that plants are magic. They are magic and practically zombies.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that plants are magic. They are magic and practically zombies.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This years carrot harvest, about 2 kg from a plot of land that is less than 1 m²!
The older I get, the more convinced I am that plants are magic. They are magic and practically zombies.
The older I get, the more convinced I am that plants are magic. They are magic and practically zombies.
Importantly: who would want this? This is duuumb
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Importantly: who would want this? This is duuumb
Loving the Swedish accent of the Nobel announcer :D
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Loving the Swedish accent of the Nobel announcer :D
In hindsight, maybe it was a bad thing to have some random protocol engineer as the CEO of a social media company.
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In hindsight, maybe it was a bad thing to have some random protocol engineer as the CEO of a social media company.
The work o geometric phase is long overdue for a Nobel prize in physics, but so are many others. Will be interesting to see who gets it tomorrow.
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The work o geometric phase is long overdue for a Nobel prize in physics, but so are many others. Will be interesting to see who gets it tomorrow.
Losing my mind suspecting everything is AI
October 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Losing my mind suspecting everything is AI
Reposted by Matias Koivurova
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Btw, all "AI art" will be met with a swift block.
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Btw, all "AI art" will be met with a swift block.