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safavi.bsky.social
Building cool quantum, photonic, and nanomechanical stuff at Stanford.
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1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread)

submitted 105 days ago • 19 comments

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Protecting the ocean has always been a bipartisan effort, in Congress and across multiple White House administrations. In the face of ill-conceived attacks on @noaa.gov, it's time to raise our voices. My thoughts in defense of NOAA and #OceanScience: mbayaq.co/4k8vEsx

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 8 days ago • 83 comments

First paragraph of peer review file on recent Microsoft paper —

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end. (this is an experiment in thread transfer)

submitted 670 days ago • 53 comments

The spikes you see coming out of stars in telescopic images mostly arise from the diffraction of light as it flows past the support arms that hold the secondary mirror in place. Diffraction is well understood, so which kind of support arms leads to which pattern is predictable. (I made this pic)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Was looking up some old work by Marc Levenson and Shelby after a long meeting with Marty Fejer and students ... and I stumbled upon this: doi.org/10.1016/0030... Have y'all (especially @johannesfink.bsky.social @mankei-tsang.bsky.social) seen this paper?

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

In the latest development in the raw milk saga, X is now unpasteurized.

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Thanks Victor! (Also @mickeykats.bsky.social )

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

"...Satoshi has about $90 billion worth of bitcoin that’s never been touched since the cryptocurrency’s earliest days, much of which .. would be stealable by anyone who could break elliptic curve cryptography.. Arrr, ’tis avast Hilbert space!"🧐 scottaaronson.blog?p=8567

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year! I’m looking for a postdoc to join our new lab at UC Berkeley starting in summer 2025 (flexible). We are building Hybrid quantum systems based on neutral atoms platform with nanophotonics and superconducting circuits. ⚛️⚡️❄️ suleymanzadelab.com

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

More people should write articles like this! Great read…

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments