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Physicist. Cyborg. Storyteller. My name is Davide De Biasio. I have a PhD in theoretical physics, a bunch of robotic implants and a keen interest in stories. I live my life as a science communicator. davidedebiasio.com
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I am surprised and saddened that hundreds of students graduate from QFT courses thinking that renormalisation is a trick and having no idea what an EFT is.

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What if the universe hides a tiny extra dimension just a few micrometers across? How may string theory shape the world we observe? Where shall we look for experimental signatures of quantum gravity? 1/4

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A world where many possess nuclear bombs is tragic and dangerous. Yet, one in which only a few have them - and wield that power to subjugate, dominate and exterminate with impunity - is even worse. 1/2

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Let me be clear: there wasn't a single instance in which Elon Musk displayed a sound grasp of physics – despite pretending otherwise. He was a charlatan long before his Nazi era.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know how sick you get when Elon Musk opens his mouth on history and politics? Well, that's how physicists have felt for years. The man is the biggest bluff of the third millennium, a mishmash of Reddit threads and clickbait YouTube videos. Now, with a fresh sprinkle of neo-Nazism.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the table of contents page

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know if the European leaders will stab #Ukraine in the back. I do know, however, that no one will force me to call ‘peace’ an agreement that neither restores the country's legal borders, nor punishes war criminals. Peace is such only when it's just.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I'm ready to die on this hill: the Ukrainian resistance is one of the clearest examples of modern anti-imperialism – and should be treated accordingly. Seeing Ukraine as a ‘proxy’ is not only anti-historical, but deprives an entire people of agency, desires, and aspirations of freedom. 1/N

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

On my 🇮🇹 YouTube channel (luckily for all non-speakers!) I'm hosting a weekly commentary on the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Each session lasts over two hours, with explicit calculations and digressions into contemporary research. The audience's passionate response fills me with joy – and hope! 🔭🧪🔬

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I strongly advise you to go follow the ISQG official profile!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Can we chop the world forever? Will there come a time, in our shift from cells to molecules, atoms, and particles, when reality will reject our attempts to dissect it? Is there a point beyond which the concept of ‘part’ loses any meaning? youtu.be/4LPBZerOcpA 🔬🧪⚛️🔭 #physics #science #quantum #bit

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So... What do the 'cancel culture is bad' people think of the latest developments? All I hear is an unsurprising silence. If anyone needed proof, free speech was never the point. Never.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Authors if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "The night tore with a whistle, ripped open by Tupoc’s blows. Shreds of bark flew against him. He spat. With the free hand, he wiped his face—slick with sweat, gnats, and splinters of wood."

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

At @stsucl.bsky.social I spent a wonderful year learning about the interplay between science, society, history, and culture – while sharpening my science communication tools. Plus (as you can see from their post), they are way kinder than I’d deserve!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus is one of the strongest #DEI advocates in the Western canon.

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What kind of procedure do we employ when we slice up the world, picking out chairs, sandwiches, and parrots? And what do atoms have to do with all this? Check out the lecture I gave at UCL's Chemical Engineering Department, discussing the philosophy of atoms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQx... ⚛️🔭🧪🔬

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

“We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his protectedness: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.” Adorno

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

attempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM. go.bsky.app/NvQERru

submitted 111 days ago • 55 comments

No observation can actually tell you if my weird pronounciation resembles more “Qkwaark” or “Qkwork”. I call this the quœrk confinement.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Over the past thirty years, science communication around the quest for a theory of quantum gravity has become awfully polarised. From all fronts -and there are many, in this case- information and propaganda, thorough criticism and strawmen mixed like milk and coffee. 🧪⚛️🔭 1/5 #science #physics

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out I’m moving to Krakow, in Poland! 🥟🇵🇱 Is there anyone around here who works on quantum gravity, string theory, or foundations/philosophy of physics? Let’s connect! #physics #poland ⚛️🧪🔭

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Whatever your discipline, I urge you to engage with philosophical works problematising its foundations. Here, for example, is a fresh paper by @mattfarr.bsky.social on the ways in which relativity conflicts with our intuitive notion of time. This is stuff physicists should read! #physics 🧪⚛️🔭

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

submitted 115 days ago • 852 comments