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lorenoheer.bsky.social

Scientist: PhD in mathematics. Working in hyperbolic geometry, analysis in metric spaces and mathematical physics (gravitational waves and general relativity), broad range of other scientific interests. Here mostly to connect with researchers. he/him

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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 342 comments

🧪 Another report on the #health benefits of #coffee - it boosts beneficial gut bacterium. www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

#MutualAid for 🔭 affected by the illegal firings and attacks on 🧪 by the Trump-Musk administration! Thanks to all involved in organizing this ✊🏽 www.choircollaboration.com/mutual-aid

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Breaking🚨 Uni of Lausanne now holds the sad title of being the first university in Switzerland to fire (sorry, "not renew the contract") of a professor, my friend and comrade Prof Joseph Daher, for his solidary with the pro-palestinian students. Sign in solidarity here 👇 clads.ch/solidarite-e...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Yesterday I spoke with Prof Grant McArthur from Peter Mac about a new study that has huge implications for melanoma treatment - "the long term follow ups indicate a significant proportion of patients are actually being cured" Incredible news on the skin cancer front! soundcloud.com/jess-mcguire...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

You've probably seen @lschiff.bsky.social @camitchell.bsky.social @rouhiroo.bsky.social @petersuber.bsky.social & my posts about the declaration to #DefendResearch. Today I've written about it in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/d...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Please help us get the word out: our 6 wk astrophysics 🧪🔭summer research program for international MSc students is open for application! Note this is aimed at students from disadvantaged regions or under-represented groups in astro! I will host one position on black holes ⚫️! aspire.science.uva.nl

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

New results from several of my colleagues in the Planetary Interiors and Geophysics group at JPL (which we lovingly refer to as PIGS).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trying out PixInsight. No idea how to do any of the processing properly. But here is some picture.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

A very fascinating paper went up on the arXiv today! Jesse Han & El-Badry et al. reanalysed the 21 known 'hypervelocity' stars in the #milkyway. They find strong evidence that the LMC (Large Milky/Magellanic Cloud) has a supermassive black hole at its core! 🤯 arxiv.org/abs/2502.00102

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 21 days ago • 604 comments

Gameboy snake game I programmed when I was 14-15. Spoiler: It sucks. Also can't play and film at the same time.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9% This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic.