Naomi Gendler

file under “things that make me feel like a badass”: giving my first plenary talk at String Pheno at 5.5 months pregnant

17.07.2025 16:04 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isn’t a simpler explanation just that the linear parameterization is not justified? Any other model you take to give you a different parameterization of w seems to give you a way lower significance compared to ΛCDM

03.04.2025 16:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Possible Implications of QCD Axion Dark Matter Constraints from Helioscopes and Haloscopes for the String Theory Landscape Laboratory experiments have the capacity to detect the QCD axion in the next decade, and precisely measure its mass, if it composes the majority of the dark matter. In type IIB string theory on Calabi...

Our paper just got published in PRL!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

27.02.2025 15:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope the price of eggs reaches one billion dollars per dozen

20.02.2025 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.

13.02.2025 14:01 — 👍 191    🔁 54    💬 8    📌 1

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

this is a fucking insane list.

www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

12.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs

www.ap.org/the-definiti...

12.02.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

This seems incredibly important. A crossroads. If this doesn't end in compliance, I fear a very slippery slope to full authoritarian takeover.

11.02.2025 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

04.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 31137    🔁 9561    💬 1493    📌 857

And that’s a wrap on our workshop in Banff, “Prospects for the String Axiverse”!

Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed and gave talks. I had an awesome time learning more about and discussing axions and string theory.

Workshop videos posted here: www.birs.ca/events/2025/...

19.01.2025 21:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2

hahaha thank you leo, glad to be here 🫡

19.01.2025 03:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0