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Prakhar Maurya
@mphysicus.bsky.social
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Physics student @ IISER Pune
Astronomy | Astrophysics | Cosmology | Machine Learning
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mphysicus.bsky.social
Microsoft’s “agentic” OS push is shaping up to be a privacy and security nightmare.
Been using Linux Mint for the past 2 months and it's been amazing.

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
After stretching a bit last year, this year the Nobel committee was determined to give the prize to the physicsiest physics that ever physicsed.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 7
Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics.
Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Physics
The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.
nyti.ms
October 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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drnereide.bsky.social
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has just been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

🧪 ⚛️ #science #NobelPrize2025 #physics
The image is an illustration of the three Nobel laureates in physics, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis.
October 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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estheroate.bsky.social
Every lens leaves a blur signature—a hidden fingerprint in every photo.

In our new #TPAMI paper, we show how to learn it fast (5 mins of capture!) with Lens Blur Fields ✨

With it, we can tell apart ‘identical’ phones by their optics, deblur images, and render realistic blurs.
September 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...
A black and white photo of Albert Einstein, around age 25, sitting at a desk. He is a wearing a flannel suit and resting his right arm on the desk. Einstein is looking to the left of the photographer in this posed photo. The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads: It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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ligo.org
Happy birthday to GW150914, our first (of many) #GravitationalWave discoveries, detected 10 years ago today!

#GW10Years 🧪⚛️🔭

🖼️: @chirpmass.bsky.social
A cartoon of a 10th birthday cake being swallowed by a black hole.
September 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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ligo.org
What a difference a decade makes! Announcing the clearest #GravitationalWave detection ever #GW250114

youtu.be/2XmZ8-XQ9jU

📓: doi.org/10.1103/kw5g...

🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #O4IsHere
GW250114 – The Clearest of Chirps
YouTube video by LIGO Virgo KAGRA
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
mphysicus.bsky.social
Interesting read.
September 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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arstechnica.com
More scientists choose Bluesky over Twitter
It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
mphysicus.bsky.social
"Cosmic Grapes"🍇
Clumpy rotating galaxy that is composed of more than 15 massive star-forming clumps. This existed just 900 million years after the Big bang.

#Astronomy
thenrao.bsky.social National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO @thenrao.bsky.social · Aug 8
NEW: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes”

Super high-resolution #ALMA and #JWST observations unveil unexpected details of rapid growth in a faint, newborn “grape-like” galaxy, similar to galaxies in the early universe following the Big Bang. 🍇

#RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #NRAO
The Universe’s Secret Harvest: ALMA Sheds Light on “the Cosmic Grapes” - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding...
public.nrao.edu
August 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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francoislevrier.bsky.social
Paul Dirac was born #OTD in 1902. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theoretical physicists of the 20th century. The Dirac equation provides the first unified theory of quantum mechanics and special relativity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Di...
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
mphysicus.bsky.social
I've been using Scholar Inbox for a few weeks now, and it's been phenomenal. Easily the most effective way I’ve found to keep up with the latest research. Can’t recommend it enough!
andreasgeiger.bsky.social Andreas Geiger @andreasgeiger.bsky.social · Jul 24
We are excited that Scholar Inbox is supporting ACL 2025
@aclmeeting.bsky.social with personalized conference programs this year for the first time!
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/a...
It would be great if you could widely share this news within the NLP community. See you next week in Vienna!
July 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
mphysicus.bsky.social
Beautiful Aadrai Jungle in the monsoon - waterfalls, mist and endless green.

📍Aadrai Jungle, Pune, India

#nature #sahyadris #photography
Still lake with hills and clouds in the background. Waterfall in a deep green valley with a cloudy sky. Green field with misty mountains. Waterfalls on a foggy cliff with forest below.
July 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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astrokiwi.bsky.social
It's paper day! The first science paper with data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social's survey camera, the mighty LSSTCam, is a VERY quick turnaround of Rubin's observations thus far of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. ☄️
Chandler et al., submitted 🔭
A 🧵
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activity of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin ...
arxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 NGC 2685: The Helix Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25071...
An unusual galaxy is shown that appears lens-like in overall shape yet has various rings of stars around the center. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
July 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ligo.org
We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun

ligo.org/ligo-virgo-k...

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪☄️
July 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler was born #OTD in 1911.

A titan of 20th century science, he introduced the S-Matrix; developed (with Bohr) the first general theory of fission; coined "worm hole" and popularized “black hole”; and trained Feynman, Everett, Thorne, and many others. 🧪 ⚛️
Portrait of Wheeler in his twenties. He is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and tie. Wheeler is looking to the side of the camera. An older wheeler standing in front of a chalkboard. His hands are clasped. The diagram behind him shows a direct path from point A to point B labeled “classical,” and a wave emanating from A and passing to B labeled “quantum.” Wheeler walking with Einstein, Tomonaga, and a fourth person, through the woods near the Institute for Advanced Study.
July 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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pomarede.bsky.social
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App

New 3D, interactive visualization of planets and minor planets in our Solar System lets you explore Rubin discoveries in real time. 🧪🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social

☑️ noirlab.edu/public/annou...
☑️ orbitviewer.app
Orbitviewer
Explore the Solar System in 3D with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Orbitviewer. Watch objects move through time and learn about Rubin’s new discoveries, right in your browser.
orbitviewer.app
July 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born #OTD in 1868. She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭

Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
A black and white photograph of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She is wearing a white blouse with a large lace collar that covers her shoulders, upper chest, and neck. Her hair is pulled up and she is looking directly at the camera. She has dark eyes in tis photo, strong eyebrows, and a long, thin nose.
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
mphysicus.bsky.social
Just a random shot of the trees by the lake shore.
#nature #photography
Tall trees on a grassy lake shore with a cloudy sky overhead. Sunlight peeks through the tree branches, casting light and shadow across the scene. Mountains are faintly visible in the background beneath the overcast sky.
July 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
mphysicus.bsky.social
This is a great way to keep up with new research!
Scholar Inbox sends you daily open-access paper suggestions.
#ScholarInbox
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
mphysicus.bsky.social
This is really cool !!
Skysynth on the Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) Skyviewer lets you compose music from the colors and brightness of stars and galaxies 🌌✨🎶.
Try it out: skyviewer.app
For more details: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

#Astronomy #RubinObservatory
June 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
mphysicus.bsky.social
Absolutely amazing 😍!!
Excited for this new era in Astronomy 🔭
🌌 #Astronomy #RubinObservatory
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 23
The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data ✨🔭🧪
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. Throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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astrobin.com
AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Phoenix tail" by JulienCadena

www.astrobin.com/d4doim/

#astrophotography
Phoenix tail
June 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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maxplanck.de
Don’t miss it! ✨ The first images from the Vera Rubin observatory will be published on 23 June 2025 at 17:00 CEST. Researchers from the Max Planck Society report on their planned research. www.mpg.de/24900555/ver... #astronomy @vrubinobs.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social @mpe-garching.bsky.social
First images of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will publish its first images on 23 June 2025 and will in future explore dark matter and dark energy as well as distant galaxies, supernovae and active centres of galaxie...
www.mpg.de
June 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM