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Vetri Velan

@vvelan.bsky.social
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Theoretical physicist (theoretically, I'm a physicist)

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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Fun fact about that tweet is that it was written in a state of semi-delirium while I was writing my dissertation. Finished my full first draft <48 hours later!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My most liked tweet!
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holly parkinson @parkinsonhb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
@vvelan.bsky.social once tweeted: The Large Hadron Collider is operating at 13.6 TeV, which is a funny amount of energy for humans to comprehend, because it is simultaneously: 1. The energy of a mosquito flying at 1 m/s 2. 27 trillion times hotter than the Sun and I did the maths (now on bluesky)
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm amazed you remember this!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
That sounds pretty similar to STAR voting but more chaotic lol
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Even I get this, to a lesser extent! Despite being and looking ethnically Indian, when I go to India, the locals easily clock me as an American, and I get treated very well.
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I'm an academic so 9am is fine lmao (but on the flip side there's never "no work to do ")
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Like it definitely makes sense but still, I'm dead
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Lmaooo I've never seen this before on any fellowship/summer program thing
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I guess caveat is I was in grad school for 7 years, but that's not particularly abnormal for particle physics.
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I didn't have a first author paper until Year 5 of grad school and landed a competitive postdoc fellowship, you're fine!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Yeah...sadly, that doesn't surprise me at all
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wonder if most people realize that when their coffee cools down, it mostly loses heat to the table it's sitting on, not to the air.
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Berkeley, CA!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
scientists have recently discovered a fourth eye blind
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I swear we'll have Half Life 3 before California finishes counting
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Tons of people edit dating app photos much more aggressively, I've realized. A lighting fix is perfectly fine imo.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/11/2024
i'm going to invent an "american style" full english breakfast that's so good it heals the wound first opened at lexington and concord
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Man, being a physicist has its pros, but it's in times like this I wish I had been a social scientist
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Pro-tip: do not do this
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Nice. I've been watching Monk and had a Richard Schiff cameo a few days ago. And then Bradley Whitford today!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Are you watching Monk?
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello there! scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Vetri Velan
‪Chamberlain Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory‬ - ‪‪Cited by 2,380‬‬ - ‪particle physics‬ - ‪dark matter‬ - ‪particle detection‬ - ‪liquid noble elements‬ - ‪instrumentation‬
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Oh cool!
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I was following you on Twitter and now here, but I never figured out why you post so much AI art. Is there a backstory or just for fun?
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I guess actually the closest question is the 3 body problem
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In physics, the closest I can think of is "what is the charge of the electron?" Sounds easy, we teach it to high schoolers but then
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Diophantine equations have to have the craziest ratio of "simplicity of problem statement" to "intractability of the math" of anything other than the Collatz conjecture.
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Oh wow, i had no clue
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
In my final year of grad school, I went to some event welcoming students (back) to campus; it was Fall 2021. While looking for the check-in line, I stumbled on a line of teenagers surely for some undergrad event. Except no, these were 22 year old grad students 😬
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
It's good! Would swipe right if i wasn't allergic to cats
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
She got a second glass. Queen.
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Vetri Velan @vvelan.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
Love the energy of the woman sitting next to me at the airport with a glass of wine and a cup of coffee at 10:30am.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
a meme featuring a radioactive warning symbol and black and green text that reads “I just personally don’t agree with radiation poisoning. you held a rock and now you feel bad? grow up.”
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