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Eugene Lim

@tukohbin.bsky.social
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Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration and UK Numerical Relativity. Views my own. Penang-lang. YNWA

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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 4h
Dark matter may not be as simple as we thought. Our new JWST paper, led by Daniel Gilman, uses 29 quasars, each split into four images by a galaxy's gravity, to hunt for invisible dark matter clumps. They look too dense for standard cold dark matter. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2609.35974 ⚛️ 🔭 🧪
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know we are less than 6 months in of PM Burnham, but can we have Ed as PM already ?
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey who knew immigrants actually contribute to the economy *headdesk*.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Star Wars Darth Vader 'NOOO!!!'
ALT: Star Wars Darth Vader 'NOOO!!!'
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can’t call 2 movies a “trilogy.”
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have been a LFC fan from the Fagan years and last year was the one year where I was absolutely ashamed to be one. The toxic red fans abusing Gakpo and Slot made me reconsider what fandom actually meant to me. The toxicity is less this year but it lingers on. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry, low level effort.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aria funding for foreign partners ‘hard to justify’. Former science minister raises concerns as agency announces only one UK-based “activation partner”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Aria funding for foreign partners ‘hard to justify’ - Research Professional News
Former science minister raises concerns as agency announces only one UK-based “activation partner”
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This will lead to people writing grants using ChatGPT. So that humans are now completely out of the process.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's much that can be criticised about Suella's mad position, but nobody who thinks this actually 'supports the England football team'.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My sense is that people in general value scarcity (doh) and effort, and when things are perceive to be easy and cheap, support for it also drops.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t know why, but something about the one-two punch here strikes me as morbidly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way.
An engineer on the Claude AI subreddit explains his frustrations with artificial intelligence’s impact on his job  Claude responds with the most AI summary to ever AI summary
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This immediately caused me to age 30 years.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026
As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.
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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔭 Anyone interested in applying for a RAS Fellowship or 1851 Fellowship at @uofgravity.bsky.social, please get in touch! We have a great gravitational-wave group ⚛️ These fellowships are great for those coming straight from a PhD. We have internal deadlines, so we need to know who's interested soon
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
21k this year. Last year was 17k.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‘We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.’ Bravo Rishi Sunak www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test
I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tbf they did properly answer the question in perfect Cantonese.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think the story here is that the cycle mix has been changed significantly by e-bikes (in 2024 Lime made up 15% of journeys and 33% of injuries and their revenue has doubled since) and even Lime's estimate is that 20% of their riders have never ridden before. So it's "who identifies as a cyclist?"
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...
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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms
Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Really sad to hear about this. Rafael was not just a brilliant and original thinker, he was really one of the nicest and kindest person I have ever met. He was always patient to explain his ideas to a slower mind like mine, and curious to hear about my half cooked ideas. I will miss him.
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Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Folks, it's not often that physics-fans are asked to donate money to a small Scottish church, but this is going to be one of those times -- since the church is the last resting place of James Clerk Maxwell... www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a statement by mathematicians on the recent events. I think the core message: that the core values of academia and AI no longer match and that’s a danger, applies to Physics as well.
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Getting feisty on the ArXiv this morning- "More than half of recent astronomy papers are written with language-model assistance" arxiv.org/abs/2609.10664 That said, if their model is actually correct the authors ought to go into the "check for cheating" racket, as that's a huge growth space rn 🔭
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
tell em terry
In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.

While it may be technically infeasible to completely prohibit the use of automated tools to perform indiscriminate solution extraction, I believe that we can still designate many classes of problems as being desirous of a careful analysis that not only solves the problem, but identifies insights from the solution process, and learn more about the difficulty landscape for nearby problems, and for which raw solutions without such analysis would be of negligible or even negative value for these purposes.  This is analogous to how a modern food donation drive no longer accepts arbitrary contributions even when they are verified to be technically edible, but instead maintains explicit and socially accepted standards on what level of contributions are actually sought. (4/4)
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
2) England is a rare exception. During the 2010s many other countries (including the other 3 UK nations) changed tack, experimenting with ideas like transferrable skills instead of focusing on tried-and-tested disciplines and methods. It looks like those experiments have failed.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are just a superpower in integrating immigrants.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026
@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...
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Labour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggery
A government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Note how the moral panic about blocking the roads disappears if it's the far right doing it
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So was in a talk and a speaker showed me some stuff. I asked for some technical details on they got some results and they showed me (in a back up slide) a ChatGPT prompt . What are we to do in response ?
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I made this observation before the last election, but a real weakness with Labour and particularly the manifesto was a total unwillingness to acknowledge anything structural. There was just no theory of why the economy had stalled, local government had failed, or why law enforcement was anemic.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🤌🤌
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I lived here from 2012 and I can absolutely feel the improving air quality over the years. This is really Sadiq Khan’s best legacy when he leaves.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
that would be the same Times whose editors absolutely creamed themselves over the Jason Arday plagiarism allegations
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Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
ALT: Alanis Morissette - Isn't It Ironic?
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Let’s fire Arne Slot again. #LFCNFO
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A really nice article about the stakes of an interview. For hiring PhDs and postdocs this is probably the most pertinent paragraph. It’s often not skills that differentiate the candidates (they are all smart), it’s their readiness to accept mentoring.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is a 12th-century list of property that a fabulously wealthy Egyptian Jewish woman is bringing into her marriage (and what she's owed in case of divorce). Items include a gold tiara (80 dinars), a crystal rooster (4 dinars), a Chinese pen set (13 dinars), and 250(!) dinars' worth of books.
A single dark brown paper manuscript leaf that's been folded into quadrants. Approximately 30 lines of Judaeo-Arabic text in black ink is spread between 2 columns. The leaf sits on a blue background next to a yellow label reading T-S J1.29 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-J-00001-00029/1)
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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The financial size of this decision laid bare the huge economic contribution of the HE sector which successive governments have made awful decisions leaving it in the dire state it is in today.
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