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I haven't tried very hard, but every option I tried not something I would keep going on a regular basis To what do you add the protein isolate? I know people put it in shakes and stuff but I can't seem to do it

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It's exciting for me, individually, to use tools that are so useful At the societal level that are absolutely collective questions to answer about pros and cons of a technology, how fast to advance it, etc. At the individual level though? Anyway, here I am using a smartphone.

I held out on a smartphone for much longer than most around me, until 2013. And I do think smartphones made us less social, or at least made our interactions/communications less healthy But eventually gravity wins, and we all have to adjust to new technology

Yeah. Asking the AI tool is quicker and easier than asking a human, and you get an immediate response .. As we get used to these powerful new tools, we need to work to maintain human connection

The research / mentorship bundle is good, and it would be a shame if it becomes substantially unbundled

While I was writing/editing my one paper with an AI-generated result, I was a bit frustrated because it took about the same amount of time as editing papers by students, but I was doing the same work for <half the gain The paper was written, but no one (except me) learned anything in the process

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I think I just don't know anything about math and should probably stop even idly speculating -- it's like talking about the internal workings of a country I've flown through but otherwise never set foot in** **Took one proper math class in undergrad

All I saw was this I think it's extremely fair to be unhappy with this state of affairs, and I know ~nothing about math, but I'm confused about the last part I don't quite get how solving problems leaves the fields less fertile.. wouldn't it just open up more problems? bsky.app/profile/dang...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

I think I get like... 60 g of protein per day

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Cosmic neutrinos with extremely high energies are very rare, so an enormous volume of ice is needed to observe an adequate number of collisions. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory covers an entire cubic kilometre and was finished in 2011.

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UW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congratulations to Francis Halzen, UW–Madison professor of physics and principal investigator of @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social, on being named the 2026 Nobel Laureate in physics. His work helped unlock new ways of understanding the universe and the particles known as neutrinos. @nobelprize.org

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University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in physics

Halzen is the principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the world’s largest telescope.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 06/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was my best nobel call in a while, hoping to repeat the trick =) bsky.app/profile/mick...

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After a quantum physics nobel last year, this year my guess is wavelets

We are fighting with a proof, where we have references *inside* a figure, but the journal keeps re-ordering our references for some reason, so we have to keep re-making the figure (lucky we even caught it) I think we're going to stop using reference numbers in figures -- this is too painful

I have already made use of the intuition I developed when writing this paper several times in my research Probably I will be the only one since I have clearly engaged with it long enough to actually build that intuition. But still, pretty cool

I also have a hard time believing that the rules could not be made to evolve in time, as changes in the world render the earlier interpretation unworkable (but easily fixable!) We do that with courts interpreting laws, at least to some extent

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Don't know much about the optogenetics folks, but ofc there is already discussion about who was overlooked The three-winner rule is archaic. Just give the award to the discovery/invention, and let people sort out the credit afterward

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I do wish the world would slow down a little

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I actually have a paper in preparation where we do something similar to help solve a very narrow physics-y problem..

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A scary related thought in my mind is that once we have an architecture that can learn in real time and is always on and thinking, whatever comes out might actually be conscious

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I feel like the fact that we can learn in real time is a huge, huge advantage I'd be ~useless at so many tasks if my memory reset every hour to like a year ago, and all I could save is some stuff written on scrap paper

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Modern prognosis for plague is somewhat worse than I would've guessed share.google/27osStgqFvDC...

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Interesting how much (important) volunteer work accumulates with a bit of seniority in a faculty job. Tenure/promotion letters are a big responsibility and take a lot of time, other arms-length letters, various ad-hoc committees to deal with sensitive issues, ...

Good luck to our Brazilian friends. Initial election returns coming soon

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Bluesky folks: please make it so that reporting a post as spam or scam gives me a chance to immediately block the account, instead having to go through the menu again

Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just had a paper accepted at a peer-reviewed journal that was first posted as a pre-print in 2023. Some fits and starts in the process, but now at the finish line

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I mean, that's what a pressure cooker does Though I don't believe I've heard of a vacuum cooker, I guess because cooking at partial pressure is slower, plus you need a pump

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Mikhail Kats @mickeykats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think linkedin can serve the same role. For example there is no straightforward way to list all of your papers

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I guess they basically mean papers "on hold"

I'm confused about what an active submission means. Typically submissions clear in a couple of days, so two submissions per calendar month seems like a MUCH tighter restriction than three pending submissions.. unless "active" means something different

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Yeah, there are different levels here I think hidden directional mics would work very well in DC, etc, as well..

In the bay area, you could probably even be wearing the camera glasses for this ...

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It is great when PhD students get good jobs Of course a little sad when they leave after 5+ years here, but still it's the outcome we're all working towards. #10 from my group