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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

let me join in the chorus of praise for this excellent article. I would take a stronger stance against ai use for more senior researchers as well. they should be exemplars of good working practices. ai for me but not for thee is not sustainable imo

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

we made it gang. @bsky.app do not give in to the demands for an edit button!

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

does worry me that a bunch of senior scientists, in positions of power and with the ability to hire early career researchers, see to have bought the whole 'agentic ai' ruse. here's a worrying episode relayed by an astrophysicist who attended a meeting at the IAS youtu.be/PctlBxRh0p4?...

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We Need To Talk About AI...

YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

They should stop filming podcasts, the whole point is it's supposed to be an audio media, too many are unlistenable now because they have to describe what's going on for the audio listeners.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"inflation would not be visible on small scales, planet-sized for instance." only a cosmologist could say something like this

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

the people designing sauce bottles and the people designing fridges need to get together because i am tired of buying too tall bottles and relegating them to the bottom shelf with the milk and soft drinks

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The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Iconic south London club Corsica Studios is set to close next year. Read: www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-co...

the-londoner.co.uk

Exclusive: Corsica Studios is closing next year

Plus, Thames Waters’ wasted £500mn, arson attack on an asylum hotel and the return of one of Bermondsey’s best boozers, all in your Monday briefing

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

all i want is work that is intellectually stimulating, low intensity, and socially impactful while also being absurdly well remunerated. oh and i would like the unending praise and adulation of my peers too. is that so much to ask?

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

sad to report that the uk still lags the world in tap technology. why do i have independent hot and cold knobs on my bath and bathroom sink?!?

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television *so far*

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reaping what i sowed (told the waiter at the restaurant yes please make it spicy)

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

the funniest thing biden ever did was reply "the bbc? I'm Irish" when a bbc journalist was trying to ask him a question.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

i agree with this in principle but having lived in spain for a couple years it shouldn't be understated how hard it is, especially if 1) your work is in english 2) your employer provides no assistance my spanish is around B1 level and that has taken a lot of time and ~1-2k euros in courses.

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Robert Garisto @robertgaristo.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

g-2 of the muon has been measured to 127 parts per billion, a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree. PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo

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Muon Experiment Calls It a Wrap

The final results from the Muon g − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

looking for a place to rent and came across this beauty. "Uniquely, the shower is built into the bedroom wall which maximises the space within the apartment allowing more space to relax or entertain." it's gonna have to be a no from me dawg

bedroom with a twin bed and an unusually placed shower. the shower doors are almost immediately to the left of the head of the bed.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

there was an interesting video done by tom nichols recently on the introduction of uber into a small english city, plymouth. worth a watch imo. youtu.be/kxnxhDDfLtc?...

youtu.be

Ubernomics: Why Everything's a Monopoly Now

YouTube video by Tom Nicholas

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

(spartacus meme) subway takes is fun and i enjoy watching it

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

if i ever see you reply to someone with ' you sir just won the internet today' just now i am judging you harshly

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 30/08/2025

i don't think it's happening yet, but no one in the press corpse having seen trump for two days and him not even playing golf this weekend is... a little exciting

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

thing is, if that pro-racism third are single issue voters and vote as a block while the more than half non-racists are split between several parties, the racists will choose a majority of our mps.

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Jorge Ginés 🎃👻🇪🇺 🌍🛰️ @lithospheric.jorgegines.com · 28/08/2025

Resident in the UK? Please help stop a neo-nazi music festival in Great Yarmouth.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

is there a word for someone who is opposed to parliamentary supremacy? because i might be becoming one.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The local political story around the DC military takeover is rich stuff. The zombie delegate who refuses to retire or appear in public, the mayor who will assent to anything if it gets her football stadium...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Look, they cannot even do bread-and-butter cases. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

nytimes.com

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

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Alex Klotz @aklotz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

What would this scatterplot look like? On the x axis is the mass of objects from electrons up to tanker ships. On the y axis is the fastest speed humans have managed to make it go.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

constantly amazed by the people on here who respond to everything with "just as putin wants it" or some variation thereof

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

reading the philosopher's stone and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know i disagree with the author

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

i desperately have to stop looking at the news. if i get any more pissed off i'm going to have a stroke

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

i have never understood what the etiquette surrounding cc'ing on emails is exactly. say someone sends me an email with a cc, is it rude to reply without including the cc'er?

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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The interior of Uranus is colder than people thought. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Ab Initio Entropy Calculations of Water Predict the Interiors of Uranus and Neptune to Be 15%–30% Colder than Previous Models

Burkhard Militzer
Published 2025 August 22 • © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 990, Number 1

Citation Burkhard Militzer 2025 ApJ 990 20
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/adef48

Abstract
Ab initio free energy calculations are employed to derive the entropy of liquid and superionic water over a wide range of conditions in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune. The resulting adiabats are much shallower in pressure–temperature space than those adopted for earlier models of Uranus and Neptune. Our models for their interiors are thus much colder, increasing the likelihood that diamond rain or the recently predicted phase separation of planetary ices has occurred in the mantles of ice giant planets. Based on our ab initio data, we construct interior models for Uranus and Neptune with the concentric MacLaurin spheroid method that match the existing gravity measurements. We compare fully convective models with models that include a convective boundary between liquid and superionic water. We also share a code to characterize giant planet atmospheres where para- and ortho-hydrogen as well as helium are present.

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Dr. Jorge Diaz @jsdiaz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

new video: "This is how Heisenberg created quantum mechanics." A step-by-step guide to understand Heisenberg's groundbreaking but cryptic paper of quantum mechanics.🧪⚛️🔭 #chemsky #QuantumPhysics youtu.be/oVzzIkkYGY8

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This is how Heisenberg created quantum mechanics - a step-by-step guide #SoME4

YouTube video by Dr. Jorge S. Diaz

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

it's so great how the far right use the uk and london as short-hands for the decay and fall of the west. not infuriating at all. i love it here

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

i think one small thing americans could do to improve their online image is make body cam footage non-public. it is a little bit insane that big yt channels can FOIA any footage they think would make for content.

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

maybe this reflects poorly on me but I'm fine with the us gov taking a stake in a us company under a little pressure from the president. honestly intel come out looking worse than trump

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

saw weapons over the weekend. shielded my eyes and cowered during all the dark scenes. 9/10

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The Count of Monte Carlo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @spacetimelattice.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

just found out busted, the band, are english?!? year 3000 sounds so american.

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