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Thomas Colas

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Postdoc in #cosmology at APC Laboratory, Université Paris Cité | #earlyuniverse and Schwinger-Keldysh #EFTs 🌌

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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1/ 📄 New paper’s out: we study phase coherence in primordial #cosmology. The sharp acoustic peaks of the CMB and their late-time imprint in BAO require primordial perturbations to oscillate with extremely coherent phases. What fixes this coherence? 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.03012
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Universal CMB Phase Coherence from Single-Field Inflation
The phase coherence of primordial perturbations shapes the acoustic peaks of the CMB and is regarded as a key signature of inflation. Inflationary scenarios at different energy scales, thus with diffe...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📄 New paper with Sebastián Céspedes🌌🌊 We revisit stochastic inflation from the viewpoint of Schwinger–Keldysh EFTs and Wilsonian RG. Main message: stochastic inflation emerges as the IR limit of a real-time Wilsonian RG flow arxiv.org/abs/2605.11096 #cosmology #qft #physics🧵
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Stochastic inflation from a non-equilibrium renormalization group
Understanding stochastic inflation, and in particular the systematic computation of controlled corrections from first principles, remains an important open problem. In this work, we address this probl...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Phenomenology of an Open EFT of Dark Energy 🌌 📄https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12321 All current evidence for dark matter and dark energy is purely gravitational. Hence, we treat the dark sector as the medium through which the spacetime metric propagates #cosmology #darkenergy Thread 👇
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📢Registration open for Contours 2026 — EFTs Meet the Schwinger–Keldysh Formalism! 📅 29 June – 3 July 2026 📍 DAMTP, University of Cambridge Join us for a conference on non-equilibrium EFTs across #hydrodynamics, #blackholes, #holography & #cosmology Submit abstracts: indico.global/event/16432/...
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Contours 2026 - Effective Field Theories Meet the Schwinger–Keldysh Formalism
Effective field theories in particle physics are usually designed for experiments where the initial state — the vacuum before a scattering event — is clean and isolated. Yet many systems, from condens...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
EFTs in de Sitter spacetime hide a number of conceptual subtleties. In this paper we present a concrete case study where some of these issues appear in a particularly clear way. #cosmology #collider #physics [1/10] arxiv.org/abs/2512.07941
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Open Effective Field Theory and the Physics of Cosmological Collider Signals
We examine the origin of the cosmological collider signal using the framework of open effective field theories. Focusing on the single exchange of a massive scalar field, we demonstrate that the trisp...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Last summer I taught at the Disordered Universe Summer School — an interdisciplinary program on de Sitter physics, cosmology, holography, scattering amplitudes, and open/disordered systems. I prepared lecture notes on Open Effective Field Theories, now on arXiv📜 arxiv.org/abs/2510.00140
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Lectures on Open Effective Field Theories
Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, dev...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
What’s the best way to extract information about the early universe? In our new paper, we tackle this classic cosmology problem using tools from quantum information theory🧵[1/20] #Physics #Cosmology #Quantum arxiv.org/abs/2507.12228
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Quantum estimation of cosmological parameters
Understanding how well future cosmological experiments can reconstruct the mechanism that generated primordial inhomogeneities is key to assessing the extent to which cosmology can inform fundamental ...
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
What if dark matter and dark energy are the medium through which photons and gravitational waves reach us? In our new work, we take a materials-science perspective — and characterize the macroscopic properties of these mysterious cosmic substances arxiv.org/abs/2507.03103 #physics #quantum [1/25]
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An Open System Approach to Gravity
Several major open problems in cosmology, including the nature of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy, share a common structure: they involve spacetime-filling media with unknown microphysics, and...
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New joint SPT, ACT, & Planck CMB lensing power spectrum & cosmology results! The CMB measurements are consistent, when combined place new leading constraints on cosmic structure, the Hubble constant, and the neutrino mass! @NSF @doescience #southpole arxiv.org/abs/2504.20038
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New SPT-3G B-mode spectrum and r-constraint! "demonstrates a white noise level of 9.3 (6.7) µK-arcmin at ℓ∼500 for the 95GHz (150GHz) data, with a 1/ℓ noise knee at ℓ= 128 (182) with a statistical uncertainty on r of σ(r) = 0.067" arxiv.org/abs/2505.02827 @NSF @doescience
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
First aurora of the 2025 winter season! Picture by SPT winterover Sim Bash! @noaa.gov #NSFfunded
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 15/04/2025
Physicists suspect that spinning neutron stars, known as pulsars, resemble something of a cosmic baked ziti: solid outer crust, with an interior of pressurized neutrons that can bear an uncanny resemblance to gnocchi, spaghetti, and lasagna. www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-s...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Two-weeks after #Sunset, the sky is getting darker at the #southpole. Pic of SPT winterover Karia Dibert by Sim Bash, outside doing the greasing of the SPT elevation gears of the telescope, that they still need to do every two weeks, even during the depths of winter. @NSF
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Picture of SPT winterover Karia Dibert cleaning the snow off the cabin roof of the telescope, a few days after #equinox #sunset at the South Pole! #Antarctica @NSF
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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Unfortunately it was pretty cloud during #Sunset this year at the South Pole, but our winterover Sim managed to catch this picture just before the weather got bad, with the moon over SPT! #southpole #Antarctica
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Thomas Colas @cosmocolas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Very happy to share the announcement for the summer school "The Disordered Universe", from July 21 to August 1 in As Barreiras, Spain: indico.sns.it/event/91/ove... Program: de Sitter physics, holography, scattering amplitudes, open systems and disordered systems 🌌 Registration open until April 6
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Summer School on The Disordered Universe
The school aims to attract graduate students as well as young postdocs interested in the areas of de Sitter physics, theoretical cosmology, holography, scattering amplitudes, open systems, and disorde...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Too busy to read the paper? Want the inside scoop? (6-month B-mode saga, surprise at unblinding, quintupling of our spectroscopic calibration sample, methodology updates!) What erased the S8 tension? @justshaun.bsky.social has asked all the questions for you! 🔭 🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQK...
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KiDS­ Legacy - The Final Cosmology Results
YouTube video by Cosmology Talks
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Matthijs @matthijs.vanderwild.com · 26/03/2025
This is slightly ahead of the official announcement, but: ⚡CONFERENCE ALERT⚡ Don't miss out on Cosmology from Home 2025! The dates have been fixed at 16 June – 27 June. Check out our confirmed plenary speakers (and register!) at cosmologyfromhome.com!
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Cosmology from Home
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🥳 It's paper day for the completed #ESO Kilo-Degree Survey. We end our journey with a consistent picture of #cosmology 😲 I've been co-leading KiDS for 12yrs & I'm so proud of what the team's achieved. If you're at the #Euclid meet, go to Angus Wright's talk @10am today!🔭 ℹ️: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.19441
A two panel figure.  The x-axis is omega_m, the fraction of matter in the Universe.  The y-axis is S8 on the left and sigma_8 on the right.  Both are measures of the 'clumpiness' of dark matter.  The contours show that the KiDS data (two measurements using slightly different statistics, COSEBIs and Bandpowers) agree with the data from the Planck CMB survey.
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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New OSIRIS-APEX poster celebrating perihelion passages.
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Sesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
While the headline takeaway from the ACT results yesterday was "LCDM is fine", the headline from DESI is quite different - evidence for evolving dark energy, at up to 4.2 sigma, and over 3 sigma even without any supernovae, which persists with many different combinations of datasets. 🧪🔭
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Shaun Hotchkiss @justshaun.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I find this four parameter binned w(z) plot from DESI tantalising... the preference for w0,wa isn't coming from one isolated redshift.
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DESI Survey @desisurvey.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
JUST RELEASED: DESI DR1 & BAO RESULTS FROM DR2🌌
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Héctor Gil Marín @cosmonautico.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🔊 New BAO analysis from the 3-year observations (DR2). Long story short, as follows. 1. DESI alone is consistent with LCDM. 👉 Boring 2. DESI and Planck have a 2.3 discrepancy in Ωm-H0rd plane. 👉Interesting.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 19/03/2025
If the mounting evidence of weakening dark energy holds up, it would upend cosmologists’ understanding of our ultimate destiny. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports:
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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Phil Halper & Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8v2...
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Cracks in Cosmology? DESI 3 year results, exclusive reveal
YouTube video by Phil Halper (aka Skydivephil)
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
ACT (Atacama Cosmology Telescope) comes out strongly in favor of the Maximally Boring Universe: "no statistically significant preference for a departure from the baseline ΛCDM model." act.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...
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DESI Survey @desisurvey.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨 BIG NEWS ALERT! 🚨 We’re just 24 HOURS AWAY from a MAJOR DESI release! 🌉🔭 Tomorrow at 3 PM PT, DESI is unveiling DR1, our first official Data Release—the largest dataset of its kind, packed with information on 18.7 million galaxies, quasars, and stars! But that’s not all…
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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Kinematic flow and the emergence of time Guilherme Pimentel (March 4th, 2025) Abstract: bhaumik-institute.physics.ucla.edu/sites/defaul... youtu.be/WjiyFUv7LtQ?...
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Guilherme Leite Pimentel (SNS Pisa), "Kinematic flow and the emergence of time"
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Académie des sciences @academiesciences.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Le 7 mars 2025, le mouvement #StandUpForScience en France organise une journée de mobilisation en soutien aux sciences. L’Académie des sciences soutient ce mouvement et exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques des États-Unis en cette période complexe.
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Lucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Looking forward to this! Thanks @danclery.bsky.social for the nice interview! Modest telescope with big plans, SPHEREx will probe cosmic ‘inflation’ after Big Bang www.science.org/content/arti... #cosmology #inflation #SPHEREx 🧪⚛️
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Modest telescope with big plans, SPHEREx will probe cosmic ‘inflation’ after Big Bang
Spacecraft with gather and analyze infrared light in new ways to explain why our universe is “boring”
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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Took a while to go through this material. Highly recommend reading even just his papers with 1000+ citations. A phenomenal legacy. On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 11/02/2025
How do you know a tree when you see it? 🧵1/8
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Académie des sciences @academiesciences.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat nous quitte aujourd’hui (1923-2025) Elle fut la première femme élue à l’Académie des sciences 🌿
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Lucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
UK-APP is born! 🧪 This new conference series dedicated to astroparticle physics phenomenology will take place for its first edition at King's Collefe London @kingsnmes.bsky.social on June 2nd 2025! Put it on your calendar and register! indico.global/event/13955/...
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UK-APP and OWAN 25 conferences
On June 2nd and 3rd 2025, King's College London will jointly host two conferences back to back: The semi-annual UK-APP conference and the OWAN 25 conference (see descriptions below). The two events ar...
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Nouvelle image incroyable du JWST! Une étoile se forme, autour d'elle un disque où vont naître des planètes. L'effondrement d'un nuage de gaz crée une étoile, elle ne peut tout avaler et éjecte le trop-plein sous forme de jets!
Des zones bleues forment un disque, en rose, des jets perpendiculaires au disque
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Vous prendrez bien un croissant de Saturne pour bien commencer ce dimanche ? En bonus, Titan en arrière-plan !
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🧵 1/ For those who missed it, this recent image from Webb's NIRCam features a part of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (the blue stars at lower right) along with countless other galaxies in the background. Reference➡️ esawebb.org/images/LeoP/ A team's research, done 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #Webb #JWST
This image from Webb's NIRCam features a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (the blue stars at lower right) along with countless other galaxies in the background.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Mais quelle image de la nouvelle comète (C/2024 G3 (ATLAS)) par Yuri Belestky depuis l'observatoire de Cerro Paranal au Chili!!!!
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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
[Les Houches 2025] Summer school: Les Houches on Dark Universe (July 7, 2025 to August 1, 2025) Registration is open Deadline Mar 1, 2025 Lecture Program: indico.iap.fr/event/25/pag... indico.iap.fr/event/25/ove...
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Superbe séquence de photos montrant la Lune qui passe devant Mars.
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Le télescope spatial Hubble vient de finir une carte hallucinante de la galaxie d'Andromède: 2,5 milliards de pixels, on y voit 200 millions d'étoiles, la galaxie en compte des centaines de milliards! Vous pouvez vous y balader ici: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Bon voyage!
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Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Un croissant de Saturne, les anneaux à peine visibles car ultra fins et vus par la tranche....mais leur ombre se projette sur la planète. C'est tellement beau !
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
What would you actually see, in terms of Hawking radiation, as you fell into a black hole? Is there some particular place from which the photons appear? Does the event horizon appear special in any way? Here are the answers in a new paper by Chris Shallue and me. arxiv.org/abs/2501.06609
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What Hawking Radiation Looks Like as You Fall into a Black Hole
We study the measurements of a freely-falling Unruh-DeWitt particle detector near the horizon of a semi-classical Schwarzschild black hole. Our results show that the detector's response increases smoo...
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Marco Bonici @marcobonici.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Btw, Effort.jl has been developed in an open-source fashion and all of our codes are publicly available github.com/Cosmological...
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Marco Bonici @marcobonici.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's paper day! It took quite some time, but we finally got it:) arxiv.org/abs/2501.04639 🚀 Excited to share our latest work: Effort.jl - a fast, differentiable emulator for the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS). 🌌 Let's dive into the key features! 🧵
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
De nouvelles images de Mercure par la sonde BepiColombo, qui vient de passer à 295km de la surface de la planète !
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