Andrew Hardy

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation on Simons Foundation

Our new Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation will develop powerful tools from #physics, #math, computer science and theoretical #neuroscience to understand how large neural networks learn, compute, scale, reason and imagine: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/18/s...

Incredible!

For people less versed in MtG lore, would you be willing to list the name of the card / artist or the Scryfall link for these? Incredible work btw.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

i hear that you and your lab have sold your chalkboards and bought compute credits

i hear that you and your lab have sold your compute credits and bought chalkboards.

i hear that every theorem that *you* know is more relevant than every theorem that *i* know

Come see my talk on how simple Hubbard physics can contribute to strangeness in metals at #MarchMeeting on Monday @5PM!

Caption "A scientist undertaking high-risk calculations in the Hazardous Mathematics Laboratory" Image A scientist wears an armoured hazmat suit. His face is intense and sweat drips from his brow. His hands are encased in heavy duty gloves which reach into a metal box. He peers into the box through heavy-duty perspex at a notebook in which he is making complex calculations with a biro.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com #science #mathematics

This is just stupid. Surely, getting rid of the ORI will have no negative consequences. SMH.

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast
FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

As a young researcher, I find this legacy of dubious claims disheartening. Nobody wants to dedicate the beginning of their career to work that might be based on bogus results. This steers a lot of people away from what could otherwise be a very productive field.

Some strong criticism of Šmejkal et al.'s work on altermagnetism and its potential for spintronics.

US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences

Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

@quantamagazine.bsky.social always manages to find problems I had never considered. Very curious to see some consequences, especially Schmalian's hope for infinite T SC!

University of Kentucky president just put out statement that Trump’s proposed NIH cuts “will cost UK tens of millions of dollars annually,” and hurt local economy and its work to advance health of the state — “including cancer, heart disease, children’s health, Alzheimer’s and opioid use disorder.”

you know what's a good idea as the climate changes, is firing the people working on crop yields

White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

🧪 ⚛️ Congress doesn’t have to follow the presidential budget request, and frequently doesn’t, but that this is even being floated is terrible. Remember, NIH and DOE Office of Science will likely face similar “recommendations”.

Man this account was mostly going to be about science, but here we are 😭.

YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

Amongst all the insanity these days, this seems like an appropriate framework to understand their ill-intents.

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

🧪⚛️ Holy cow. Threats to layoff 25-50% of NSF (!!!). This would be a complete disaster. Anyone who thinks cutting the workforce at a $9B/yr agency by this much will lead to greater efficiency is just out of their mind. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Moment's Peace: Can we stop the posts please guys. Can we all cool it with the gags, riffs, spoofs, and epic shit. People are trying to do mental health

Now we just need @apsphysics.bsky.social to start posting journal updates here as well!

Enhanced Strange Metallicity due to Hubbard-$U$ Coulomb Repulsion A model of electrons that has a particular Coulomb repulsion and is coupled to a 2D bosonic bath shows a quantum critical point where traditional Fermi-liquid physics breaks down, resulting in a so-ca...

Excited to see my work from my time at CCQ-Flatiron out as an Editors Suggestion in Physical Review Letters
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Share the decks you two built!

Curious if there's a decision process for picking cards?

something really freshing about seeing someone doodle something on a $50 card. Magic the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

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