Mayank Shreshtha
@shreshthamayank.bsky.social
Scientific writer @ Cambridge | Science illustrator | I write about quiet corners of physics | Substack: https://substack.com/@appreciatingtheordinary
Portfolio: https://mayankshreshthai.myportfolio.com/
"Illustrating the unseen. Writing the overlooked."
Portfolio: https://mayankshreshthai.myportfolio.com/
"Illustrating the unseen. Writing the overlooked."
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A profile of Phil Anderson for the Biogr. Mem. FRS.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson was a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of complex systems. Anderson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his groundb...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A profile of Phil Anderson for the Biogr. Mem. FRS.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865
www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.20865
Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser
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#QuantumPhysics
#ScienceExplained
#Physics
#Quanta
#Photon
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#Physics
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Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser
I know, it is yet another article on quantum physics.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser
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#QuantumPhysics
#ScienceExplained
#Physics
#Quanta
#Photon
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#QuantumPhysics
#ScienceExplained
#Physics
#Quanta
#Photon
Open for Commissions: Need scientifically accurate illustrations for complex physics & math concepts? I bring the rigour of a physicist to the eye of an illustrator.
📧 mayanks.sciart@gmail.com 🔗 lnkd.in/eXUqGpJG
#ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance
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#ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Open for Commissions: Need scientifically accurate illustrations for complex physics & math concepts? I bring the rigour of a physicist to the eye of an illustrator.
📧 mayanks.sciart@gmail.com 🔗 lnkd.in/eXUqGpJG
#ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance
📧 mayanks.sciart@gmail.com 🔗 lnkd.in/eXUqGpJG
#ScienceCommunication #SciArt #Physics #Freelance
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In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj
Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World
Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers
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September 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj
New @physicsworld.bsky.social illustration: what if quantum superposition applies to time and causality (cause and effect? Indefinite causal order asks whether A causes B, B causes A…or both at once. I made a simplified take for quantum switches.
#QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum
#QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New @physicsworld.bsky.social illustration: what if quantum superposition applies to time and causality (cause and effect? Indefinite causal order asks whether A causes B, B causes A…or both at once. I made a simplified take for quantum switches.
#QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum
#QuantumPhysics #Physics #SciArt #IYQ2025 #Quantum
"If you're reading this on a phone or laptop, you’re holding the result of a gamble someone once made on curiosity. That same curiosity is still alive in university and research labs today—in often unglamorous, ...
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Why basic science deserves our boldest investment
The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"If you're reading this on a phone or laptop, you’re holding the result of a gamble someone once made on curiosity. That same curiosity is still alive in university and research labs today—in often unglamorous, ...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1...
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Modern life is very difficult these days, especially while walking with a hot drink (filled to the brim). Some of us tiptoe; some walk fast enough to prevent the spilling; others proceed carefully and slowly towards the ultimate destination.
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Modern life is very difficult these days, especially while walking with a hot drink (filled to the brim). Some of us tiptoe; some walk fast enough to prevent the spilling; others proceed carefully and slowly towards the ultimate destination.
Electrons usually flow freely in metals and stall in insulators, but some “quantum materials” can flip between the two. The schematic was made for a preprint that visualises this transition.
#Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt
#Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt
July 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Electrons usually flow freely in metals and stall in insulators, but some “quantum materials” can flip between the two. The schematic was made for a preprint that visualises this transition.
#Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt
#Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt
It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :)
#sciart #physics #Quantum
#sciart #physics #Quantum
July 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :)
#sciart #physics #Quantum
#sciart #physics #Quantum
An excellent and nuanced piece of science journalism with fresh analogies, role of entanglement, and strangeness of 'Strange Metals' by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social @science.org
#quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics
#quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics
in a copper-clad laboratory in Vienna, the textbook understanding of electricity is starting to crack. what’s emerging is a new vision of electronics without the electron.
my latest feature for @science.org
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my latest feature for @science.org
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‘Strange metals’ point to a whole new way to understand electricity
Exotic materials with bizarre electron behavior could pave the road to revolutionary technologies
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July 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
An excellent and nuanced piece of science journalism with fresh analogies, role of entanglement, and strangeness of 'Strange Metals' by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social @science.org
#quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics
#quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics
Recently, a few pictures made me happy:
1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover.
2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]
1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover.
2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]
June 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Recently, a few pictures made me happy:
1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover.
2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]
1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover.
2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]
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The free-to-read Physics World Quantum Briefing on display on the island of Helgoland, just metres from where Werner Heisenberg did his seminal work on quantum mechanics 100 years ago. It includes a great article on quantum Cheshire cats from Iulia Georgescu.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The free-to-read Physics World Quantum Briefing on display on the island of Helgoland, just metres from where Werner Heisenberg did his seminal work on quantum mechanics 100 years ago. It includes a great article on quantum Cheshire cats from Iulia Georgescu.
🧪⚛️🔭
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Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here.
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June 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here.
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here.
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
Finally, a book that does justice to the hidden heroes of #quantum physics: Landau, Anderson, Wilson i.e., cond. mat. physics community. Symmetry breaking & renormalization, concepts which unite #physics. It includes key papers from many-body physics (see timeline). Looking forward to reading it!!
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature
A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...
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May 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻🔬⚛️🧵
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April 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻🔬⚛️🧵
clioagrapidis.com/2025/04/23/w...
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My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social!
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May 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social!
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New illustrations ALERT: @physicsworld.bsky.social article by @mariaviolaris.bsky.social
Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity.
#IYQ2025 #SciArt
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Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity.
#IYQ2025 #SciArt
shorturl.at/VLhxZ
May 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
New illustrations ALERT: @physicsworld.bsky.social article by @mariaviolaris.bsky.social
Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity.
#IYQ2025 #SciArt
shorturl.at/VLhxZ
Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity.
#IYQ2025 #SciArt
shorturl.at/VLhxZ
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A free 64-page digital magazine on quantum from @physicsworld.bsky.social? Yes please!
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Physics World Quantum Briefing 2025 – Physics World
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May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A free 64-page digital magazine on quantum from @physicsworld.bsky.social? Yes please!
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
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The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing 2025 is out now — your essential guide to the latest breakthroughs, big ideas, and bold questions shaping the quantum frontier.
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#QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading
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#QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing 2025 is out now — your essential guide to the latest breakthroughs, big ideas, and bold questions shaping the quantum frontier.
🔗 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
#QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading
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#QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading
Five illustrations: 3 schematics + 2 frontispieces—exploring the quirkiest quantum effects, published in @physicsworld.bsky.social (Quantum Briefing 2025)! [@ioppublishing.bsky.social, @iopp-quantum.bsky.social]
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#Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025
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#Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025
May 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Five illustrations: 3 schematics + 2 frontispieces—exploring the quirkiest quantum effects, published in @physicsworld.bsky.social (Quantum Briefing 2025)! [@ioppublishing.bsky.social, @iopp-quantum.bsky.social]
physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...
#Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025
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#Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025
I made a new illustration for an article in Physics World magazine.
It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat.
Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices.
#SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration
It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat.
Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices.
#SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I made a new illustration for an article in Physics World magazine.
It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat.
Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices.
#SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration
It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat.
Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices.
#SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration
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🧪⚛️ Now shared in blog post form, my public talk about "the direct democracy of matter". nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk...
Talk about "The Direct Democracy of Matter"
The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme. The intent is to get a wide variety o...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🧪⚛️ Now shared in blog post form, my public talk about "the direct democracy of matter". nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk...
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🧪⚛️ Video is now available for the talks from last week's Rice Scientia lectures about democracy. First up, my colleague Rodrigo Ferreira talking about "Does AI have politics?" and second (starting around 27:00), me speaking on "The Direct Democracy of Matter". Fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuV...
Rice University Scientia Institute "Democracy" talk - April 8th
YouTube video by Scientia Institute Rice University
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April 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
🧪⚛️ Video is now available for the talks from last week's Rice Scientia lectures about democracy. First up, my colleague Rodrigo Ferreira talking about "Does AI have politics?" and second (starting around 27:00), me speaking on "The Direct Democracy of Matter". Fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuV...