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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Undeclared War season 2 was a real cybersecurity-espionage-political thriller, recommended without reservation www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfBs... some details: www.freely.co.uk/what-to-watc...

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The Undeclared War Season 2 | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Weird how it's just clay in one person's hands and art in another's" And sometimes magic happens in combination - e.g., bringing in Dolly transformed a song that Kenny Rogers no longer liked into one of the greatest duets ever www.smoothradio.com/features/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNG...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Many are posting their favorite Dolly Parton song. This is mine, her duet with Kenny Rogers, some music sites rank it the #1 duet of all time. youtu.be/UaNGtgYwSsU

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Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers - Islands In the Stream (Official Audio)

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

2026 Flatiron Institute CMB Summer School - github repo of python notebooks and slides from the school, no videos github.com/flatironinst... event website: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/cmb-su...

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GitHub - flatironinstitute/2026-flatiron-cmb-summer-school: GitHub Repository for 2026 Flatiron CMB Summer School

GitHub Repository for 2026 Flatiron CMB Summer School - flatironinstitute/2026-flatiron-cmb-summer-school

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Crime 101 (i.e., Hwy 101 in LA area) Review nails it: "This is a special movie. It has a life force unlike any other crime thriller I’ve seen. It’s about characters who suffer a personal failure but emerge transformed...unexpectedly moving by the end."

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Crime 101 review: Superlative heist thriller would make Michael Mann proud

A crime thriller that can stand tall alongside the best of its genre.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I added timestamp links to key topic sections in this new Cosmology Talk in the Comments section

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tried SearXNG and liked it so much, installed it on my server rather than use a public instance. AI agents can use its API to add web search for real-time data. It aggregates results for user selections from 200+ search services. Free, open-source, no tracking or profiling. Docs: docs.searxng.org

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SearXNG Documentation (2026.6.10+de03f4eb1)

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Boris Bolliet, May 20 CosmoVerse talk: cosmology focus on emergent role of multi-agent systems in science www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEa... arxiv.org/abs/2412.00431 GitHub: github.com/borisbolliet and borisbolliet.github.io cmbagent channel: www.youtube.com/@cmbagent/vi...

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CosmoVerse seminar: Boris Bolliet: A Perspective on the Emerging Role of Agents in Science

YouTube video by CosmoVerse COST Action

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Progress on Old and New Themes in Cosmology (PONT) 2026, Apr 27-30 in Avignon, slides only. 7th edition of this series held every 3 years. Topics: early/late universe, GWs, astrophysical messengers of new physics

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Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2026

Rationale The conference addresses the cardinal issues of the dark universe today, gathering a selected number of scientists working in cosmology and astroparticle physics in the inspiring and monumen...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Well, yes, if it's old school history, but now it's Berkeley Lab at the vanguard of new discoveries 😄

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Nice to see a playlist for this "Swampland and our Universe" event at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... with talks by MBK+, M. Reece, M. Kamionkowski, T. Slatyer, A. Bedroya, M. Ishak, G. Obied, C. Gonzalez-Garcia, M. Montero, I. Antoniadis. Event webpage at cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/swampl...

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Swampland and our Universe - YouTube

Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MAThe swampland program has inspired a range of new ideas in both cosmology and neutrino physic...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Scott Dodelson (not on bsky) - new on substack: 'I typed into codex: “i wrote a paper 25 years ago with a model for evolving dark energy. Can you write code that chooses parameters in that model so that it gets distances consistent with the latest DESI results?” In about 5 minutes, it produced ...'

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Evolving Dark Energy and AI

where I experience viscerally what everyone is talking about

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A great example of the magnificent views along the California coast. What a great perk to go along with your time at KITP.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Cosmology Researcher Talks database hit a milestone today of 10,000 links to publicly available talk/lecture videos, with data from 212 sources. 2020s avg is 1,218 /yr. It's a fun project & a good way for me to learn more, I'm pleased if it's useful to you. jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

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Shaun Hotchkiss @justshaun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"The evidence for dynamical dark energy relies too much on DESI's BAO, which is just one data set... " *Evidence for dynamical dark energy now seen with Dark Energy Survey BAO too* youtu.be/ukMQgHj6NMI

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Dark Energy Survey - Combined cosmology from BAO + SN (+CMB) | Avila, Fernandez, Muir & Vincenzi)

YouTube video by Cosmology Talks

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Thanks! Appreciate the slides. Your 2501.08374 paper of that same title was also a helpful paper when reading up on this topic recently. Hope there's some discussion about this here, may have a follow-up later.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Your Dec 2025 Neutrinos from Home talk beginning at youtu.be/OxjUAne79M4?... for the next 5+ minutes helped me understand better your point after first reading this paper and a couple others on cosmology and neutrino masses. Appreciated talk comments on ways to sort this out, e.g., with DUNE, JUNO.

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Peter Denton - Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Yeah, agree it's unfair to say he "did without" humor, though much of it may be sardonic. This Walden quote made me LOL: “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” There was even this Literary Hub article about it: Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

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Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

When I was 14 my mother, exasperated by the onset of my teenage angst, handed me a Penguin paperback of Thoreau’s Walden and said, “Read this. The guy who wrote it was a rebel like you.” For some r…

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Henrique Rubira - Bridging the gap between particle physics and cosmology, ICTP-SAIFR talk today, Jan 7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhb-... Upcoming KITP program Jan 12 - Mar 5: Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: CMB and LSS online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/cmbls... #cosmology

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Seminars: Henrique Rubira: Bridging the gap between particle physics and cosmology

YouTube video by ICTP-SAIFR

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2/2 A few quotes from the article in attached image I enjoyed reading Walden, though in the American Transcendentalist literary movement, I'd consider Emerson as the more central figure. The Thoreau Farm organization took issue with Schulz's article at thoreaufarm.org/2015/10/a-re...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schulz dared to redress the Walden mystique, joking she needed a witness protection program for safety. Her critique was called a "wildly intelligent, biting, and hilarious reconsideration" of Thoreau I suggest Mark Twain as more essential Americana reading 1 / 2

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Why Do We Love Henry David Thoreau?

An examination of the writer’s moral sensibility and how “Walden” fits into our national conscience.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 recap: links to 1387 cosmology research/academic videos at jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html 155 from Home series 94 CosmoVerse 77 ICTS 76 Perimeter 69 STScI 64 IAP 61 Galileo Galilei Inst 47 NORDITA 46 CERN 46 Les Houches 45 IMSc 34 Raman Research Inst 30 Majorana-Raychaudhuri 29 ICTP-SAIFR ...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A picture of the family dog paints a thousand bonded joys 🐶🧡

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Nice surprise - the TIFR Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics group hadn't posted any State of the Universe seminars since early 2025, but today they posted their videos since then A couple video links currently aren't working but it's likely the updates are still in process & will be available soon

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SOTU - TIFR

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Neutrinos from Home online conference was held Dec 2 - 5. A 29-talk playlist was posted the day it ended - a note of thanks to organizers for such quick availability At least one of the talks was given by a bsky participant: @jazzwhiz.bsky.social - Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm

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Neutrinos from Home 2025 - YouTube

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The LeCosPA channel today released a 9-talk playlist from the Opening Symposium of the Max Planck-IAS-NTU Center in early Sept Videos playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Previously they released the slides at the event's indico site: indico.cern.ch/event/155249...

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MPC: Opening Symposium - YouTube

Recorded talks from the Opening Symposium of the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry, hosted by National Taiwan Universit...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Parity Violation from Home 2025 today released a 32 talk playlist from their Nov 18 - 21 conference www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSi...

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Elena de la Hoz - LiteBIRD SGF: constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence

YouTube video by Research Talks (from Home)

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The indeterminacy of Nothing

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Domain walls in the cosmological context of the early universe, e.g. as discussed e.g. in Simone Blasi's talk, are a different topic than domain walls in magnetic materials. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_...

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Domain wall - Wikipedia

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

CERN Symposium on History of Particle Physics Session on particle astrophysics & cosmology: Videos (newly released) + slides Rocky Kolb - Cosmological particle physics Michael Turner - Particle dark matter Slides, videos later? Alan Guth - Inflation Jaco de Swart - Particle Cosmology

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4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics

Dedicated to the memory of Herwig Schopper 1924-2025 Following in the mould established by precursors at Fermilab and SLAC, the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics will brin...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Newly released playlist of 31 talks from Sept 23-26 ASIAA workshop: Entering a golden age of galaxy cluster studies www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... A new workshop series that will be held in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea every 1-2 years website & timetable events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/workshop/202...

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CL2025 - YouTube

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Another useful tool to identify/probe highlights & get timestamps in 1 or more yt videos is gistr.so. Like NotebookLM, can mix in PDFs & webpages along with video(s) as sources. Unlike NotebookLM, watch the video, take notes, explore topic timestamps, etc all in same browser window.

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Gistr | Bring All Your Learning & Research into One Smart Notebook

Gistr is an AI-native smart notebook that helps you think, learn, and organize knowledge you discover online. Bring all your learning into one place for deeper understanding and active retention.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A wide variety of newly publicly available #cosmology talks since just Nov 1 Links to them all continually updated at the Cosmology Researcher Talks database app at jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Dogs too? An anecdote: "Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming) A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today" Following Sunday: "Here's your treat" Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A quick mention that Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV... @styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post #cosmology

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon There were 3 talks at the lunch, this is a direct link to the start of Dillon's talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV... #cosmology

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Now using Obsidian for markdown notes, so looked for good examples covering its features => AstroWiki, study notes for MIT Astrophysics Oral Qualification Exams. Available as GitHub repo and website, d/l it for your own edits. GitHub: github.com/AYelland/Ast... Site: publish.obsidian.md/astrowiki

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GitHub - AYelland/AstroWiki_2.0: These are supplementary notes for the MIT Astrophysics division oral qualification exam. For online version, see website linked below.

These are supplementary notes for the MIT Astrophysics division oral qualification exam. For online version, see website linked below. - AYelland/AstroWiki_2.0

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A favorite for its colors, composition, and calming effect

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Use Case: Quickly identify what was said about :topic in list of multiple yt talk videos (e.g., at a conf), including timestamps to those segments Tip: Use google's NotebookLM, add talk urls to a notebook, then ask your questions. The AI uses the transcripts as source to provide the output.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Dragan Huterer's DESI 3-Year Analysis talk yesterday at EuCAPT Virtual Colloquium cds.cern.ch/record/2945960 A little teaser at 43:27: Are the LCDM tension & Hubble tension related? His take is no, they're different, from segment "5 facts about hints for DDE (and Hubble tension)" starting 38:26

A slide from Dragan Huterer's talk where his take is that the LCDM tension and Hubble tension are different: "No apparent relationship (afaik)". One factor he mentions on the slide is that the Hubble tension gets worse in the w0waCDM model.

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The Oct 6 - 10 STScI NHFP Symposium has 2 sessions of #cosmology talks. Videos stream the entire session, I broke out links to the individual talks at: jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=... Symposium site: www.stsci.edu/contents/eve... Symposium session playlists: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Unusual number and variety of #cosmology talks released just yesterday & today (so far): GGI Galaxy Clustering event (12) Schrödinger Inst: Cosmic LSS event (6) CosmoVerse (1) CMB Bharat (1) U of Minn (1) Links at cosmology researcher talks database app: jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Bixby Bridge, Big Sur, California, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby_B...

A foggy photo of the famous Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California. The bridge even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby_Bridge

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The best raison d'être

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I can't tell what it is, but one of them looks like a giant version of his breakfast pancakes 😀

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Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics @esivienna.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We’ve just started the workshop Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics, organised by @cosmohahn.bsky.social, Cornelius Rampf & Cora Uhlemann. A full week of exciting talks and discussions is ahead. 🌌 📎 Info: www.esi.ac.at/events/e576/

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What #cosmology papers have a publicly available author's talk/lecture? The Cosmology Researcher Talks app has those links, e.g. Adam Riess - 2509.01667 Bhuvnesh Jain - 2508.14019 Eiichiro Komatsu - 2509.13654 Mikhail Ivanov - 2507.01667 Vera Gluscevic - 2503.15592 jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Definitely one of the most magical moments in Philly sports history was the Flyers' first championship in 1974 against the Boston Bruins. And Bernie Parent was named the MVP of the playoffs. What a valiant team that was!

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