Luís Oliveira e Silva
@luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social
Professor of Physics @istecnico.bsky.social 'Make It New' & 'Exceder-se de tal forma que não seja possível conceptuar-se' - AML
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Plasmas, Lasers, Fusion and Neutron Stars for the future scientists in Visão Júnior (Jan - Feb 2025)
My most recent op-ed on the 25 de novembro (de 1915) 👇
25 de novembro de 2025: Einstein e a relatividade geral, 110 anos depois
Einstein utilizou a sua influência e visibilidade e nunca se eximiu das questões sociais e políticas mais complexas, mesmo quando isso lhe trouxe dificuldades pessoais.
sol.sapo.pt
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My most recent op-ed on the 25 de novembro (de 1915) 👇
LA + Monuments
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
LA + Monuments
Our most recent paper is out on PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ) in the Oxford led collaboration where @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social plays a role on theory and simulations (with @pablojbilbao.com and Filipe C)
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our most recent paper is out on PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ) in the Oxford led collaboration where @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social plays a role on theory and simulations (with @pablojbilbao.com and Filipe C)
Reposted by Luís Oliveira e Silva
INCREDIBLE GAME
INCREDIBLE SERIES
INCREDIBLE SEASON
THE @DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS 🏆
(MLB x GEICO)
INCREDIBLE SERIES
INCREDIBLE SEASON
THE @DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS 🏆
(MLB x GEICO)
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
INCREDIBLE GAME
INCREDIBLE SERIES
INCREDIBLE SEASON
THE @DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS 🏆
(MLB x GEICO)
INCREDIBLE SERIES
INCREDIBLE SEASON
THE @DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS 🏆
(MLB x GEICO)
Reposted by Luís Oliveira e Silva
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
Hilariously bad idea. In my subfield author lists are almost always alphabetical!
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
October 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.
Reposted by Luís Oliveira e Silva
Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, Peter Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.”
A Truly Awesome Performance
Shohei Ohtani’s extraordinary game might be just what we all needed right now.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, Peter Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.”
Ready for the weekend!
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ready for the weekend!
We are ready for the announcement (and so are the Natas): @golp-ist.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social viewing gathering about to start!
October 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We are ready for the announcement (and so are the Natas): @golp-ist.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social viewing gathering about to start!
This is going to be fantastic (and live! @istecnico.bsky.social ) 👇
Técnico opens its doors to children's questions on topics such as satellites, nanotechnology, radiation, the water cycle and sustainability, trains, the universe, and the relationship between music and mathematics. 🧒
📣 Sign ups open!
🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/4br4vchv
#TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa
📣 Sign ups open!
🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/4br4vchv
#TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa
September 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is going to be fantastic (and live! @istecnico.bsky.social ) 👇
Consagre-se Elmore Leonard www.publico.pt/2025/07/07/o...
Consagre-se Elmore Leonard
Entre a prosa dos quatro grandes mestres americanos – Twain, Faulkner, Donald Barthelme e Leonard – não se pode escolher. Mas Leonard é de longe o mais consistentemente brilhante.
www.publico.pt
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Consagre-se Elmore Leonard www.publico.pt/2025/07/07/o...
Excellent, for kids and grown ups! 👇
This is now available, for Portuguese readers. An English version is looking pretty likely, and of course I'll let you know if/when that happens.
www.planetatangerina.com/en/loja/thre...
www.planetatangerina.com/en/loja/thre...
Three Big Questions - Planeta Tangerina, Books, Special projects - Planeta Tangerina - Online shop
Buy online Three Big Questions. 10% publisher discount. (Portuguese edition) What’s Science really about? Having all the answers? Memorising a whole load of information? Discovering stuff in order to ...
www.planetatangerina.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Excellent, for kids and grown ups! 👇
Reposted by Luís Oliveira e Silva
"Beradt feels she must prove what she doesn’t have to prove, at least not so relentlessly — that fascism seeps into every crevice of life." Laurie Winer considers Charlotte Beradt's “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/things-still-to-be-salvaged/
June 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Beradt feels she must prove what she doesn’t have to prove, at least not so relentlessly — that fascism seeps into every crevice of life." Laurie Winer considers Charlotte Beradt's “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/things-still-to-be-salvaged/
Reposted by Luís Oliveira e Silva
Born #OnThisDay in 1831 was James Clerk Maxwell FRS. Considered one of the most talented physicists of all time, one of his many achievements was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together electricity, magnetism and light as aspects of the same phenomenon.
June 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1831 was James Clerk Maxwell FRS. Considered one of the most talented physicists of all time, one of his many achievements was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together electricity, magnetism and light as aspects of the same phenomenon.
Amanhã na Feira do Livro de Lisboa, a apresentação de “Uma Ideia de Ciência” #ffms da @joanagsa.bsky.social com a @monicabettencourt.bsky.social e a Miriam Alves 👇
Apresentação no próximo sábado, dia 14, na Feira do Livro de Lx, praça roxa, às 17h.
Muito grata à @monicabettencourt.bsky.social, ao @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social e à Miriam Alves q tão generosamente irão interromper um fds comprido para conversar sobre #ciência.
Venham, para sermos muitxs
Muito grata à @monicabettencourt.bsky.social, ao @luisoliveiraesilva.bsky.social e à Miriam Alves q tão generosamente irão interromper um fds comprido para conversar sobre #ciência.
Venham, para sermos muitxs
June 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Amanhã na Feira do Livro de Lisboa, a apresentação de “Uma Ideia de Ciência” #ffms da @joanagsa.bsky.social com a @monicabettencourt.bsky.social e a Miriam Alves 👇
And a spectacular movie of four wave mixing in the nonlinear quantum vacuum by Lily Zhang (Oxford) showing light being generated from light-light (3 lasers) interaction in vacuum 👇
June 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And a spectacular movie of four wave mixing in the nonlinear quantum vacuum by Lily Zhang (Oxford) showing light being generated from light-light (3 lasers) interaction in vacuum 👇
New paper in Communications Physics, a collaboration between @oxfordphysics.bsky.social and @istecnico.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social - a new tool to explore the extreme quantum vacuum. Work by Lily Zhang (Ox) et al at Peter Norreys’ team, and also with Rui T and Thomas G @golp-ist.bsky.social
Physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects
Using advanced computational modeling, a research team led by the University of Oxford, working in partnership with the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon, has achieved the first-e...
phys.org
June 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New paper in Communications Physics, a collaboration between @oxfordphysics.bsky.social and @istecnico.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social - a new tool to explore the extreme quantum vacuum. Work by Lily Zhang (Ox) et al at Peter Norreys’ team, and also with Rui T and Thomas G @golp-ist.bsky.social
The open link to @physicsworld.bsky.social piece on out paper is now here 👇
May 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The open link to @physicsworld.bsky.social piece on out paper is now here 👇
Congratulations @golp-ist.bsky.social members with teaching (T) & academic (A) awards @istecnico.bsky.social day 2025 - front row (left to right): @thales-silva.bsky.social (T) @diogodcarvalho.bsky.social (T) Gonçalo A (A), João J (T+A), José M (A) back: Gonçalo F (T), Jorge V (T), Afonso S (A) 🎉🎊
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Congratulations @golp-ist.bsky.social members with teaching (T) & academic (A) awards @istecnico.bsky.social day 2025 - front row (left to right): @thales-silva.bsky.social (T) @diogodcarvalho.bsky.social (T) Gonçalo A (A), João J (T+A), José M (A) back: Gonçalo F (T), Jorge V (T), Afonso S (A) 🎉🎊
My most recent op-ed Jornal i about a recent debate at the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa on Science in the new political cycle and the general elections from last Sunday.
ionline.sapo.pt/2025/05/20/a... 👇
ionline.sapo.pt/2025/05/20/a... 👇
A Ciência na XVI Legislatura
A permanente incerteza legislativa impede as instituições de desenvolverem políticas de médio prazo.
ionline.sapo.pt
May 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My most recent op-ed Jornal i about a recent debate at the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa on Science in the new political cycle and the general elections from last Sunday.
ionline.sapo.pt/2025/05/20/a... 👇
ionline.sapo.pt/2025/05/20/a... 👇
Our recent paper @physrevd.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social by Kevin S and Nitin S was also picked by @physicsworld.bsky.social 👇
Physicists have set a new upper bound on the interaction strength of dark matter by simulating the collision of two clouds of interstellar plasma and looking for evidence of additional instabilities. 🧪⚛️🔭 physicsworld.com/a/plasma-phy...
Plasma physics sets upper limit on the strength of 'dark electromagnetism' – Physics World
Result could force a rethink on basic models of dark matter, say researchers
physicsworld.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Our recent paper @physrevd.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social by Kevin S and Nitin S was also picked by @physicsworld.bsky.social 👇
Why humanities are important for engineers (also in their training) @spectrum.ieee.org - of relevance also @istecnico.bsky.social: “if you take a moment to reflect on your training, conduct, and professional identity, you may realize that you owe much of this to the humanities.”
“Engineers and computer scientists, please defend humanities research just as loudly as you might defend research in STEM fields.” With thousands of funding cuts across the humanities, it’s vitally important that engineers stand up to support the humanities.
Engineering and the Humanities: It's Complicated
As an electrical engineer turned historian who now studies engineers of the past, I have a good sense of how the engineering profession evolved. And what I've learned is this: Engineers have long…
spectrum.ieee.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Why humanities are important for engineers (also in their training) @spectrum.ieee.org - of relevance also @istecnico.bsky.social: “if you take a moment to reflect on your training, conduct, and professional identity, you may realize that you owe much of this to the humanities.”
Science in the UK in 15 years - report from the Royal Society 👇
What should science look like in 15 years time? Science 2040 is our programme looking at what the UK science system could and should look like in the future. Today's interim report looks at the programme so far, focusing on the value of science to society: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
May 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Science in the UK in 15 years - report from the Royal Society 👇
A Acad Ciências de Lisboa e o Conselho dos Labs Associados acolheram um debate, focado na ciência, com representantes do PSD, PS, CH, IL, BE, PCP e L - moderação @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social , comentários @joanagsa.bsky.social @speraltalisboa.bsky.social Miguel Seabra e @pedrobizarro.bsky.social 👇
Debate – Propostas para a Ciência | 13.05.2025
YouTube video by Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
www.youtube.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A Acad Ciências de Lisboa e o Conselho dos Labs Associados acolheram um debate, focado na ciência, com representantes do PSD, PS, CH, IL, BE, PCP e L - moderação @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social , comentários @joanagsa.bsky.social @speraltalisboa.bsky.social Miguel Seabra e @pedrobizarro.bsky.social 👇
Plasmas on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a @oxfordphysics.bsky.social - @istecnico.bsky.social paper 🎉 with @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com @golp-ist.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Plasmas on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a @oxfordphysics.bsky.social - @istecnico.bsky.social paper 🎉 with @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com @golp-ist.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...