hooda
@hooda3.bsky.social
Physics and science enthusiast. Primarily interested in quantum physics and cosmology.
Usually when my home state is in the news it is to be a disappointment, but not today. Proud of every hoosier who stood up against Trump.
🎉 BREAKING: WE DID IT! 🎉
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
After days of intense pressure from D.C., the Indiana Senate REJECTED the mid-decade gerrymandered map!
This victory belongs to every Indivisible member, every activist, and every Hoosier who called, emailed, and showed up.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Usually when my home state is in the news it is to be a disappointment, but not today. Proud of every hoosier who stood up against Trump.
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.
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I love that python did this and so my yt channel has sponsored python. links in this thread if you want to donate.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I love that python did this and so my yt channel has sponsored python. links in this thread if you want to donate.
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First day of classes at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social. A glorious day to learn #QuantumMechanics!
I'm teaching two courses - QM for physics majors, and Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience. I'm going to try to maintain a thread saying what happens in each class, let's see how I do.
I'm teaching two courses - QM for physics majors, and Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience. I'm going to try to maintain a thread saying what happens in each class, let's see how I do.
August 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
First day of classes at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social. A glorious day to learn #QuantumMechanics!
I'm teaching two courses - QM for physics majors, and Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience. I'm going to try to maintain a thread saying what happens in each class, let's see how I do.
I'm teaching two courses - QM for physics majors, and Philosophy of Cosmology for a general audience. I'm going to try to maintain a thread saying what happens in each class, let's see how I do.
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hope the floor was okay
Senator Mitch McConnell just suffered a fall in Washington.
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
hope the floor was okay
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I said I would compile the videos and I did.
One long furby of a video.
One long furby of a video.
the LONG antimatter video
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I said I would compile the videos and I did.
One long furby of a video.
One long furby of a video.
It must be exhausting being Matt Walsh. Just getting into a frothing rage every time he encounters human decency.
Alleged tradcath completely unaware of the catholic church’s position on capital punishment
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It must be exhausting being Matt Walsh. Just getting into a frothing rage every time he encounters human decency.
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if the government doesn’t show up for ten minutes we all get the day off
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
if the government doesn’t show up for ten minutes we all get the day off
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An optically addressable qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could be used as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/protein-qu...
Protein qubit can be used as a quantum biosensor – Physics World
A qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could act as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems
physicsworld.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
An optically addressable qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could be used as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/protein-qu...
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I'm sure many of you have seen the pulsar map (part of the plaques on the Pioneer Spacecraft and also went out on the Voyagers)
The map features the period of the pulsar converted to binary, so you could sort of triangulate our position if you can decode the map.
But there's a problem ....
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The map features the period of the pulsar converted to binary, so you could sort of triangulate our position if you can decode the map.
But there's a problem ....
1/3
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'm sure many of you have seen the pulsar map (part of the plaques on the Pioneer Spacecraft and also went out on the Voyagers)
The map features the period of the pulsar converted to binary, so you could sort of triangulate our position if you can decode the map.
But there's a problem ....
1/3
The map features the period of the pulsar converted to binary, so you could sort of triangulate our position if you can decode the map.
But there's a problem ....
1/3
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How hot can you make a solid before it melts? New research shows that gold can remain solid at temperatures >14 times its melting point – far beyond a supposed theoretical limit known as the “entropy catastrophe”. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-hot-ca...
How hot can you make a solid before it melts? – Physics World
Superheated gold stays solid at temperatures far beyond the predicted "entropy catastrophe"
physicsworld.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
How hot can you make a solid before it melts? New research shows that gold can remain solid at temperatures >14 times its melting point – far beyond a supposed theoretical limit known as the “entropy catastrophe”. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-hot-ca...
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Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are out! These were taken 5 hours ago. Plenty of cosmic rays peppering the images, but the comet's coma looks very nice and puffy. Best of luck to the researchers trying to write up papers for this... archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... 🔭
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Just found out about this fabulous diagram of the local stars from Reylé (2021). Stars with known planets are highlighted in green, and the brackets indicate how far above or below the galactic plane it is (in parsecs).
You can look at a few versions of the map here: gruze.org/10pc/resourc...
You can look at a few versions of the map here: gruze.org/10pc/resourc...
July 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just found out about this fabulous diagram of the local stars from Reylé (2021). Stars with known planets are highlighted in green, and the brackets indicate how far above or below the galactic plane it is (in parsecs).
You can look at a few versions of the map here: gruze.org/10pc/resourc...
You can look at a few versions of the map here: gruze.org/10pc/resourc...
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I've been deleting comments from the bathroom police but I am annoyed that people pretend to care about the safety of women when they literally elected a rapist felon president. No one is falling for your lies. We know you don't care about women. Stop pretending. It's pathetic. You're pathetic.
May 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've been deleting comments from the bathroom police but I am annoyed that people pretend to care about the safety of women when they literally elected a rapist felon president. No one is falling for your lies. We know you don't care about women. Stop pretending. It's pathetic. You're pathetic.
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Physicist and astronomer Willem de Sitter was born #OTD in 1872. He is best known for his work in Cosmology, applying Einstein’s general relativity to the dynamics and history of the universe, and also for strong "Jude Law as young Dumbledore" vibes. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Image: history.aip.org/exhibits/cos...
Image: history.aip.org/exhibits/cos...
May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Physicist and astronomer Willem de Sitter was born #OTD in 1872. He is best known for his work in Cosmology, applying Einstein’s general relativity to the dynamics and history of the universe, and also for strong "Jude Law as young Dumbledore" vibes. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
Image: history.aip.org/exhibits/cos...
Image: history.aip.org/exhibits/cos...
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Consistently frustrated with the number of people who would also like to be an evil billionaire and see nothing wrong with it.
April 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Consistently frustrated with the number of people who would also like to be an evil billionaire and see nothing wrong with it.
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
theonion.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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Going to see Bernie!
April 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Going to see Bernie!
I'll be shocked when the cause happens to align perfectly with their policy agenda and preconceived biases.
don't love the sound of this!
*RFK JR.: WILL KNOW BY SEPT WHAT CAUSED AUTISM `EPIDEMIC' IN US
*RFK JR.: WILL KNOW BY SEPT WHAT CAUSED AUTISM `EPIDEMIC' IN US
April 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I'll be shocked when the cause happens to align perfectly with their policy agenda and preconceived biases.
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Light-induced, uni-directional flows of electrons in crystals were thought to require an exotic band structure, the application of a magnetic field, or both. Now researchers have observed a photocurrent in films made of single-element, nonmagnetic metals.
Normal Metals Made to Behave Exotically
A new experiment challenges the notion that only exotic materials exhibit nonlinear transport phenomena.
physics.aps.org
April 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Light-induced, uni-directional flows of electrons in crystals were thought to require an exotic band structure, the application of a magnetic field, or both. Now researchers have observed a photocurrent in films made of single-element, nonmagnetic metals.
I'm sure this will lead to one spicy fundraising email.
Senator Adam Schiff has said that he is going to be investigating whether anyone in DC was insider trading based on tariff policy.
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I'm sure this will lead to one spicy fundraising email.
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A reminder that calling out Israel about their genocide of Palestinians is NOT antisemitic.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
March 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A reminder that calling out Israel about their genocide of Palestinians is NOT antisemitic.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
I'm Jewish, and I think it goes against Jewish tradition to *not* call it out. "Zachor" (remember) and "never again" are phrases used by Jews specifically about the Holocaust. Yet here we are.
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An extremely distant galaxy — we see it as it was just 330 million years after the Big Bang! — is blasting out ultraviolet radiation. That in itself isn't surprising, but the thing is, *we shouldn't be able to see it*.
How about some Monday science?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-mind-cru...
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How about some Monday science?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-mind-cru...
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A mind-crushingly distant galaxy lights up the Universe around it
JADES GS-z13 is sending out ultraviolet light from nearly the dawn of time. That we can see it at all is shocking.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
An extremely distant galaxy — we see it as it was just 330 million years after the Big Bang! — is blasting out ultraviolet radiation. That in itself isn't surprising, but the thing is, *we shouldn't be able to see it*.
How about some Monday science?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-mind-cru...
🔭 🧪
How about some Monday science?
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-mind-cru...
🔭 🧪