Niayesh Afshordi
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Niayesh Afshordi
@nafshordi.bsky.social
Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, He/him, Brother of the Night's Watch 🏰🐉, Professor @uwaterloo and @Perimeter

https://nafshordi.com/
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
We’ll dive into questions like:
• Could quantum black holes hold clues to the universe’s past?
• Can causality survive the Big Bang?
• Is wonder still part of science?

📍 Harvard Science Center (Hall C)
🔗 science.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvar...

#CosmicOrigins #QuantumGravity #HarvardTalk

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Harvard Science Book Talk: Niayesh Afshordi, in conversation with Lisa Randall, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" | FAS Division of Science
science.fas.harvard.edu
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Reposted by Niayesh Afshordi
I also texted a physicist friend, Spiros Michalakis (when I would get reception occasionally) about the passage and he agreed and asked me about the book. Thank you to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for the podcast with @nafshordi.bsky.social which intrigued me enough to get the book.
October 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Expect haunted horizons, ghostly fields, and cosmic echoes — a séance between theory and observation, reason and mystery.

🕯️ Join us under Dublin’s shadows, Edinburgh’s spires, or from the spectral halls of Zoom.
#HauntedCosmology #BattleOfTheBigBang #ScienceAndSpirits

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October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🦇 Edinburgh – Battle of the Big Bang: New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
📅 Oct 24 · 13:00 BST
📍 Elm Lecture Theatre, Kings Buildings Campus, University of Edinburgh
🖥️ Online via Zoom (passcode: higgs_20)
🔗 higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/colloquia/co...

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Colloquium: Battle of the Big Bang: New Tales of our Cosmic Origins - Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
Colloquium: Colloquium with Niayesh
higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
👻 Dublin – Ghosts, Phantoms & Monsters in the Battle of the Big Bang
📅 Oct 22 · 19:00 GMT+1
📍 Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
🔗 www.eventbrite.ie/e/ghosts-pha...

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Ghosts, Phantoms, and Monsters in the Battle of the Big Bang
Come join us for the first event of Samhain agus Science 2025
www.eventbrite.ie
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Big topics covered:
• The relationship between empirical evidence & metaphysical claims
• Where cosmology stops and philosophy begins
• Implications for science, religion, and public discourse

Would love to hear your take: did science just tip the scales?

#BattleoftheBigBang

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October 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Reposted by Niayesh Afshordi
Such a wonderful memory! Thanks @chanda.bsky.social for sharing. You were also my first PhD student, and I couldn’t be more proud 🥲
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM