@badboyofscience.bsky.social
Uni of Cambridge and LHC physicist (Graduated) Science communicator and YouTuber The Bad Boy of Science Linktree: https://linktr.ee/badboyofscience
I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
medium.com/@steve.desch...
Was a pleasure, Steve! Thanks for taking the time!
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Had the pleasure of chatting with Prof Steve Desch (@deschscoveries.bsky.social) regarding Avi Loeb's latest claims that an interstellar object might be a hostile alien probe.
Spoiler alert: It isn't.
We break down Loeb's weak, cherry picking arguments.
Full link: youtube.com/watch?v=B4wp...
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Had the pleasure of chatting with Prof Steve Desch (@deschscoveries.bsky.social) regarding Avi Loeb's latest claims that an interstellar object might be a hostile alien probe.
Spoiler alert: It isn't.
We break down Loeb's weak, cherry picking arguments.
Full link: youtube.com/watch?v=B4wp...
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Carbon-14 may be the most important radioisotope ever discovered.
It has revolutionised our understanding of the past, helped demystify bio pathways and confirmed anthropogenic climate change.
Come learn about its incredibly fraught discovery!
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=47tPQWHL190
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Carbon-14 may be the most important radioisotope ever discovered.
It has revolutionised our understanding of the past, helped demystify bio pathways and confirmed anthropogenic climate change.
Come learn about its incredibly fraught discovery!
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=47tPQWHL190
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My final thoughts on the now infamous Sean Carroll vs Eric Weinstein debate and the absurdly inflated play that Eric - and his ideas - get in online spaces.
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=VIOV...
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My final thoughts on the now infamous Sean Carroll vs Eric Weinstein debate and the absurdly inflated play that Eric - and his ideas - get in online spaces.
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=VIOV...
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A huge hitโฆ sadly
06.06.2025 17:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
My thoughts on the Sean Carroll and Eric Weinstein debate.
Eric's ideas only exist in the worlds of YouTube grievance, culture war nonsense, and the negative space left by the perceived failings of string theory.
tl;dr Eric lost badly.
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Full video: youtu.be/27RVNYSc2lw
My thoughts on the Sean Carroll and Eric Weinstein debate.
Eric's ideas only exist in the worlds of YouTube grievance, culture war nonsense, and the negative space left by the perceived failings of string theory.
tl;dr Eric lost badly.
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Full video: youtu.be/27RVNYSc2lw
This month's bonus episode is about the rise of the lab leak theory from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by prominent liberal journalists.
30.05.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 421 ๐ 73 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 46The legacy of the promotion of the ragbag of unevidenced and often mutually exclusive lab leak theories by a motley crew of lunatics, conspiracists and MAGA proto-Fascists is that that this will all happen again - the same way it did in 2019.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Breaking: The muon discrepancy seems to be officially gone. The Muon gโ2 experiment at @fermilab.bsky.social
has just announced its final magnetic moment of the muon, improving precision by 1.8x. This is now in agreement with updated calculations published last week by the Theory Initiative ...๐งต
Yeah, it's nonsense
02.06.2025 08:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Short summary of the recent Sean Carroll vs Eric Weinstein debate:
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Short summary of the recent Sean Carroll vs Eric Weinstein debate:
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Here's a video bsky.app/profile/badb...
09.05.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Who knew? The LHC is the philosopher's stone. ๐งชโ๏ธ
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The ALICE experiment at @cern.bsky.social
has quantified the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider.
It turns out that the world's most powerful particle collider is also a philosopher's stone!
Check it out!
Link: youtube.com/shorts/WOJXq...
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The ALICE experiment at @cern.bsky.social
has quantified the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider.
It turns out that the world's most powerful particle collider is also a philosopher's stone!
Check it out!
Link: youtube.com/shorts/WOJXq...
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The video is an adaption of my lecture about pseudoarchaeology from the #SAA2025 meetings and a workshop on public engagement (co-organized with Milo Rossi aka @miniminuteman.bsky.social )
Available on YouTube (link above) and Spotify (link here)
open.spotify.com/episode/68a2...
[NEW VIDEO] Archaeology is under siege from popular anti-intellectual influencers. I document threats and harassment and provide actionable strategies for promoting public educational content
Watch, like, comment, and share to boost visibility ๐งช๐บ #AncientBlueSky
youtu.be/F5PvwzgfKKw
We are hiring a PhD student working on analysis of CMS Run 3 data with focus on the search for Higgs boson pair production through decays of heavy resonances in final states with multiple b quarks, and work on detectors for the CMS upgrade.
More info: v22.desy.de/e67416/recor...
Will check when I stop teaching :)
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Had a brilliant time discussing the claims that biosignature gases may have been found in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b with exoplanetary scientist @distantworlds.space
These claims appear to be very premature.
Want to know more?
Link: youtu.be/4d1WhtUiCRg
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Had a brilliant time discussing the claims that biosignature gases may have been found in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b with exoplanetary scientist @distantworlds.space
These claims appear to be very premature.
Want to know more?
Link: youtu.be/4d1WhtUiCRg
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