Minas Karamanis
@minaskar.bsky.social
Physicist and Astrostatistician at @UCBerkeley - Views are my own https://www.minaskaramanis.com/
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🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩🔬⚛️
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩🔬⚛️
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...
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Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model
(some math, but one can follow without it )
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(some math, but one can follow without it )
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April 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model
(some math, but one can follow without it )
1/13
(some math, but one can follow without it )
1/13
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It's true: Tuberculosis is more than a disease. It's a form and expression of injustice. atmos.earth/for-john-gre...
For John Green, Tuberculosis Is More Than A Disease | Atmos
The bestselling author says our inability to fix solvable crises is an indictment of our empathy and shared humanity.
atmos.earth
March 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's true: Tuberculosis is more than a disease. It's a form and expression of injustice. atmos.earth/for-john-gre...
Devastating, but sadly not surprising...
Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution – DW – 03/13/2025
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...
www.dw.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Devastating, but sadly not surprising...
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Useful paper by Ting on biases in ML arxiv.org/abs/2412.05806 Very related to things Villar and I said in arxiv.org/abs/2405.18095
Why Machine Learning Models Systematically Underestimate Extreme Values
A persistent challenge in astronomical machine learning is a systematic bias where predictions compress the dynamic range of true values -- high values are consistently predicted too low while low val...
arxiv.org
January 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Useful paper by Ting on biases in ML arxiv.org/abs/2412.05806 Very related to things Villar and I said in arxiv.org/abs/2405.18095
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Happy 50th anniversary to the Areceibo message, now 0.2% of the way to its target, the globular cluster M13, 22,180 light years away.
November 15, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Happy 50th anniversary to the Areceibo message, now 0.2% of the way to its target, the globular cluster M13, 22,180 light years away.
I'm glad to see lots of new people in this site since last week, especially astronomers and physicists. I wonder what happened 😅
November 12, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I'm glad to see lots of new people in this site since last week, especially astronomers and physicists. I wonder what happened 😅