AI is certainly making all of this much worse, but every scientist you know, or at least all the physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, and climate scientists, gets tons of emails from men, especially engineers, who think they are Einstein. It’s sad and complicated and messy.
September 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
AI is certainly making all of this much worse, but every scientist you know, or at least all the physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, and climate scientists, gets tons of emails from men, especially engineers, who think they are Einstein. It’s sad and complicated and messy.
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
A recent cartoon for New Scientist 🧪
November 21, 2023 at 3:16 PM
A recent cartoon for New Scientist 🧪
#Physicists Build a 'Mad-Scientist' Antimatter Beam to Test #Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
www.sciencealert.com/physicists-b...
www.sciencealert.com/physicists-b...
Physicists Build a 'Mad-Scientist' Antimatter Beam to Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity does not discriminate.
www.sciencealert.com
September 18, 2026 at 7:04 AM
#Physicists Build a 'Mad-Scientist' Antimatter Beam to Test #Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
www.sciencealert.com/physicists-b...
www.sciencealert.com/physicists-b...
What I can tell you is that not one professional society that represents physicists or astronomers in the United States has convened scientist practitioners who are also science communicators to talk about how we are going to face these policy challenges in community with the public 🧪
April 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
What I can tell you is that not one professional society that represents physicists or astronomers in the United States has convened scientist practitioners who are also science communicators to talk about how we are going to face these policy challenges in community with the public 🧪
Ok.
I have information that might blow your mind, Gerri-Leigh, but:
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS and PARTICLE PHYSICISTS are not the same kind of scientist.
I have information that might blow your mind, Gerri-Leigh, but:
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS and PARTICLE PHYSICISTS are not the same kind of scientist.
August 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Ok.
I have information that might blow your mind, Gerri-Leigh, but:
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS and PARTICLE PHYSICISTS are not the same kind of scientist.
I have information that might blow your mind, Gerri-Leigh, but:
MEDICAL RESEARCHERS and PARTICLE PHYSICISTS are not the same kind of scientist.
I'm not a scientist but I think physicists are really fucking up with their so-called "laws of physics". Just write some better ones???
September 9, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I'm not a scientist but I think physicists are really fucking up with their so-called "laws of physics". Just write some better ones???
when i worked in restaurants I was taught to stir in a figure-8 pattern, like this America's Test Kitchen video demonstrates
as a professional scientist (not a chef), I remember that advice & wonder: has anyone actually modeled the effects of different stir patterns?
maybe the physicists know? 🧪
as a professional scientist (not a chef), I remember that advice & wonder: has anyone actually modeled the effects of different stir patterns?
maybe the physicists know? 🧪
March 18, 2026 at 10:11 PM
when i worked in restaurants I was taught to stir in a figure-8 pattern, like this America's Test Kitchen video demonstrates
as a professional scientist (not a chef), I remember that advice & wonder: has anyone actually modeled the effects of different stir patterns?
maybe the physicists know? 🧪
as a professional scientist (not a chef), I remember that advice & wonder: has anyone actually modeled the effects of different stir patterns?
maybe the physicists know? 🧪
“Physicists just pulled off perhaps the coolest road stunt a scientist can do: they loaded a truck up with antimatter and went for a drive.” Via @sciam.bsky.social
And here I thought driving was already a ridiculously dangerous thing to do…
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phys...
And here I thought driving was already a ridiculously dangerous thing to do…
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phys...
Physicists just took a road trip with a load of antimatter. Here’s how it went
Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them
www.scientificamerican.com
March 26, 2026 at 7:02 AM
“Physicists just pulled off perhaps the coolest road stunt a scientist can do: they loaded a truck up with antimatter and went for a drive.” Via @sciam.bsky.social
And here I thought driving was already a ridiculously dangerous thing to do…
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phys...
And here I thought driving was already a ridiculously dangerous thing to do…
www.scientificamerican.com/article/phys...
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too
Embracing the glitches in gravity could give us a unified theory of reality | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
September 28, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too
James Clerk Maxwell was a highly significant physicists but "greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein"? Ever heard of some guy called Darwin for example?
Greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, died #OTD 1879; formulated Theory of Electromagnetism, four equations which underpin modern information & communication technologies.
Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh
Monument George Street Edinburgh | James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Edinburgh
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
James Clerk Maxwell was a highly significant physicists but "greatest scientist between Newton & Einstein"? Ever heard of some guy called Darwin for example?
Through oral histories, you can discover so much about how a scientist got to where they are and get a fuller picture of history: https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/stories-from-black-physicists-in-our-collections-part-three
Stories from Black Physicists in Our Collections: Part Three
www.aip.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Through oral histories, you can discover so much about how a scientist got to where they are and get a fuller picture of history: https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/stories-from-black-physicists-in-our-collections-part-three
You are one of the physicists who helped a lot!
The former NASA scientist, however, was Lynnae Quick. <3
The former NASA scientist, however, was Lynnae Quick. <3
August 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
You are one of the physicists who helped a lot!
The former NASA scientist, however, was Lynnae Quick. <3
The former NASA scientist, however, was Lynnae Quick. <3
Yep that’s right— every single scientist, from geologists to climate scientists to conservation biologists to chemists to physicists— actually just dreams to gene-edit designer embryos for wealthy clients 🙄
If you’re a scientist and you disagree, you’re lying.
If you’re a scientist and you disagree, you’re lying.
September 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yep that’s right— every single scientist, from geologists to climate scientists to conservation biologists to chemists to physicists— actually just dreams to gene-edit designer embryos for wealthy clients 🙄
If you’re a scientist and you disagree, you’re lying.
If you’re a scientist and you disagree, you’re lying.
Also this essay from @lacymjohnson.bsky.social is one that every scientist, especially physicists, should read 🧪
www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/
www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/
The Fallout
In St. Louis, America's nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies.
www.guernicamag.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Also this essay from @lacymjohnson.bsky.social is one that every scientist, especially physicists, should read 🧪
www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/
www.guernicamag.com/the-fallout/
Climate scientist Chris Bretherton leads a team training a neural network on data from real clouds. Their model is already competing with traditional simulations to make seasonal forecasts.
Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds | Quanta Magazine
The planet is getting hotter, but one factor in particular makes it hard to tell just how hot it will get. Physicists and computer scientists are racing to solve the problem of clouds.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 21, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Climate scientist Chris Bretherton leads a team training a neural network on data from real clouds. Their model is already competing with traditional simulations to make seasonal forecasts.
Many of the best rocket scientists in the world were German nazis.
Many of the best nuclear physicists in the world were German Jews.
They... didn't like each other.
But the US was like, "Why not both?" So after the war we brought all of the Jewish physicists and nazi rocket scientists to the US.
Many of the best nuclear physicists in the world were German Jews.
They... didn't like each other.
But the US was like, "Why not both?" So after the war we brought all of the Jewish physicists and nazi rocket scientists to the US.
April 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Many of the best rocket scientists in the world were German nazis.
Many of the best nuclear physicists in the world were German Jews.
They... didn't like each other.
But the US was like, "Why not both?" So after the war we brought all of the Jewish physicists and nazi rocket scientists to the US.
Many of the best nuclear physicists in the world were German Jews.
They... didn't like each other.
But the US was like, "Why not both?" So after the war we brought all of the Jewish physicists and nazi rocket scientists to the US.
The physicists of Florence quantumfrontiers.com/2026/06/28/t...
The physicists of Florence
A scientist in Florence can’t avoid bumping into colleagues. When visiting the Renaissance’s birthplace last summer, I ran into a fellow physicist even on a Saturday morning. I was wandering …
quantumfrontiers.com
June 29, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The physicists of Florence quantumfrontiers.com/2026/06/28/t...
Partners in both life and research, the physicists Roger Guimerà and Marta Sales-Pardo recently developed a “machine scientist” algorithm that is proving to be a powerful tool for scientific discovery. (From the archive) buff.ly/0dgSvHG
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Partners in both life and research, the physicists Roger Guimerà and Marta Sales-Pardo recently developed a “machine scientist” algorithm that is proving to be a powerful tool for scientific discovery. (From the archive) buff.ly/0dgSvHG
After weeks of criticism, Microsoft promised to show new data about its Majorana 1 quantum computer at the biggest meeting of the world's physicists. Researchers in the room tell New Scientist they were not impressed with what they saw.
Microsoft’s quantum computer hit with criticism at key physics meeting
After weeks of criticism, Microsoft promised to show new data about its Majorana 1 quantum computer at the biggest meeting of the world's physicists. Researchers in the room tell New Scientist they were not impressed with what they saw.
www.newscientist.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
After weeks of criticism, Microsoft promised to show new data about its Majorana 1 quantum computer at the biggest meeting of the world's physicists. Researchers in the room tell New Scientist they were not impressed with what they saw.
Remember when? Onion vs real.
June 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Remember when? Onion vs real.
In either case, Perón isn’t asking any other scientist to check up on Richter—in fact, the policy is that no physicists may talk to other physicists, for fear of LEAKS, so Richter's free to do his thing pretty much unsupervised
February 1, 2024 at 6:03 PM
In either case, Perón isn’t asking any other scientist to check up on Richter—in fact, the policy is that no physicists may talk to other physicists, for fear of LEAKS, so Richter's free to do his thing pretty much unsupervised
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too
Embracing the glitches in gravity could give us a unified theory of reality | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com
October 1, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem – and clear up other cosmic mysteries, too