A meta-analysis of loneliness and risk of dementia using longitudinal data from >600,000 individuals - Nature Mental Health Using data from large longitudinal observational studies, the authors conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the association between loneliness and dementia.

Looks like I will have dementia at somepoint for sure.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Miscalculations! :(

I keep pushing too hard in middle games and keep losing positions I have.

Losing endgames now!

Why do I keep losing midgames?

Why does academia even take Letters of Recommendation/ Referees so seriously? Why still use them? :(

RIP Dr. Goodall, the second of Leakey's Angels. That hug from the chimp is a poetic, literary moment.
youtu.be/ClOMa_GufsA?...

I ditched LinkedIn completely after 2017 and haven't updated it in ages because I thought Twitter was the place to be for academia, but I guess most of the academic scientists are much more active now on LinkedIn than Twitter/ Bluesky. Finding it immensely difficult to adapt to LinkedIn now.

I like this one. Could be really helpful in designing parts for an experiment. Hopefully, photographs to CAD models that can be printed soon.
gencad.github.io

Always happy that I share my birthday with her! :)

Just had an interviewer tell me that what I am doing cannot be considered quantum sensing! :)

I would also highly recommend When We Cease To Understand The World by the same writer.

There is a form of chess called centaur chess, a format in which a human and an engine team against another human and engine. Perhaps, we might have something like that in the future.

increasing the complexity of the simulation, I could see the code falter. I feel they could be a great place to begin when we are writing code, with better comments, but I don't ever see it performing the task of a PhD researcher completely. All were tried out in free versions available.

Been trying out some prompts on LLM models from my PhD thesis. I don't expect AI/ LLMs to ever replace a PhD student completely, but it certainly does make some tasks easier. I was mostly asking it to write code for numerical simulations, it performed well for known tasks, but as I started

If you thought it was difficult to talk to your family about your research, try explaining what a "postdoc" is.

Don’t go looking for people on dating apps. Your soulmate is waiting for you in graduate school. You need to get a PhD.

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his love for music.

Although he didn't study them exhaustively, Raman discovered that the rich tonal quality of the tambura and veena (shown below) was due to the peculiarity of the bridge.

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Grapes of math: Quantum breakthrough bears fruit Macquarie University physicists have transformed a viral microwave trick into serious science, showing how ordinary grapes could make quantum sensors more powerful. The discovery could lead to smaller...

🍇 🧪 Turning grapes into quantum sensing aids instead of wine this holiday - at least EQUS researchers are!

They have discovered that ordinary supermarket grapes could help improve quantum sensors, potentially making quantum technology smaller and more affordable.

More info here 👇🏻

Enid Blyton's descriptions of food like jam tarts and scones made them sound magical to me. But later when I actually tasted, found them extremely ordinary.

The more I read Road To Reality, the more I realize it's the kind of book that I wish to write one day.

Defended today. All through the course of my undergrad, Master's and years of RAship, my bio on internet platforms used to be "aspiring physicist". Still unsure if I can consider myself a physicist now.

the World Championship was on the line and catches on quickly after the blunder played out :)

The live audience cheering there is mostly made up of chess players and coaches, some with IM titles. Some calculated the line quickly the moment there was a blunder, some take time and rely on engines and some get it after the line is explained. And yes, the excitement was quite high this time as

This is my favourite workday of the year (better even than Nobel Prize in Physics announcement day!), because it's the day when my colleagues and I @physicsworld.bsky.social announce our selection of the year's most important advances in physics. 🧪⚛️🔭 #quantum

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It's that time for recommending Books of the Year. I seemed to spend a heck of a lot of my time reviewing this year, so I have quite a few to choose from. In no particular order...

There's one theory that says the Nordic/ Scandinavian model is effective and works only because the Nordic countries are extremely homogeneous.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have taken a ride in a hospital MRI machine a few times. One leaves all metal objects outside the MRI room. One fills out a lengthy questionnaire.

e.g. Any surgical implants?
Any body piercings?
Any pins, rods, screws, nails, plates, wires?

But there's a question they don't ask.

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This is an incredible story! :)

I did that for some of my coil designs.