Mubtasim Fuad

Intriguing data from the Perseverance rover on Mars, but too soon to attribute it to the existence of life. Science takes time, that's okay.

MINDSET THERAPY KEANU REEVES ONCE SAID "I'M AT THAT STAGE IN LIFE WHERE I STAY OUT OF DISCUSSIONS. EVEN IF YOU SAY 1+1=5. YOU'RE RIGHT, HAVE FUN."

I think I’m at this point with the “doctors are pharma shills/root cause of disease” crowd. You do you buddy, I’ll see you for your cataract surgery.

Leonard Susskind recalls a pivotal moment in physics: a meeting with Gerard ’t Hooft and Stephen Hawking. Hawking argued that black holes destroy information, an idea that sounded plausible, yet troubling. Ultimately wrong, but transformative. The brilliance wasn’t in the answer, but the question.

YouTube video by Curt Jaimungal Frederic Schuller: The Physicist Who Derived Gravity From Electromagnetism

Frederic Schuller, talking about research and teaching:
youtu.be/Bnh-UNrxYZg

Physics Grifters: Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a Crisis of Credibility This is the story of how a circle of popular science communicators, who built their brands on championing free inquiry, worked to suppress scientific critique. Of how Eric Weinstein, the man who co…

Tim Nguyen breaks his silence on the Eric Weinstein episode.

Highlights: EW implying legal action against a podcast Tim critiqued GU in, Curt Jaimungal revoking his invitation to Tim, Sabine deleting Tim’s post from her blog but Lex Fridman cancelling EW

timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/p...
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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the pandemic should be celebrated. Yet in the US, research into mRNA vaccines is being cut. While sadly not unexpected, it’s irresponsible as we argue in our editorial this week 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Physics Tree: academictree.org/physics
A family tree for physicists — trace lineages, mentors, and collaborations across generations.
Fascinating to see how ideas and people are connected in physics!
Let’s contribute and help grow the tree!

Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position.

But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time.

If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.

Writing about Robertson-Walker cosmology, and therefore digging a bit into the history. For some reason you don't hear too much about Howard P. Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker, but of course they have interesting stories associated with them. #physics ⚛️ 🧪 🧵

Title card for Mindscape episode with David Tong.

Mindscape 321 | David Tong on Open Questions in Quantum Field Theory. I *know* you've been worried about why the electroweak theory cannot be defined on discrete spacetime. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Here's an excellent website by @jrdmb.bsky.social: jrdmb.netlify.app.
It contains a comprehensive resource on cosmology, categorized into different sections like talks, lecture notes/materials, codes/tools, online books, papers, personal sites (of researchers), and so on.

Had the privilege to attend the lectures by Ashoke Sen, Suvrat Raju, Michele Cicoli, and others on string theory, black holes, and cosmology at ICTP PWF Jamal Nazrul Islam Winter School 2025.
The lectures are now available online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I asked ChatGPT to create an image that shows how it feels about me.

Recently moved one of my research groups from Slack to Zulip. It is an open-source platform with LaTeX support, unlimited history, and topic-based threads.
Now enjoying cleaner, more structured academic discussions with nothing lost.
If interested, check it out: zulip.com/for/research/

Nowadays, I also like using this script (github.com/hanschen/rof...) to quickly search and open PDFs from my Zotero library smoothly! 🔍📚

I just tweaked it to display item types and themed it to match my setup and taste.

#Zotero #Rofi #Linux #Productivity

I have updated the arXiv CLI script for Python 3!
You can get paper info + download PDFs/sources right from your terminal.
It's originally from the String Theory Wiki, thanks to @nworbmot.bsky.social!
Here's the script link: gist.github.com/rafisics/aa8...
Perfect for shell-loving researchers!

I keep a collection of links and resources on physics, math, books, academia, LaTeX, Linux, and more:
mubtasimfuad-site.github.io/resources/
Check it out! And, if you have any recommendations, feel free to share.

Here’s how I’ve revamped my Zotero setup for a seamless, cross-platform workflow in study and research, featuring the settings and plugins I'm using for academic productivity: mubtasimfuad-site.github.io/posts/zotero/
Feel free to check it out and share your thoughts!

With many physicists arriving daily at Bluesky I’ve created a comprehensive list -which I update daily- with Cosmologists, Astrophysicists, Gravitational Wave Astronomers, Particle Physicists… Please SHARE so it reaches more people! 🤩 Warning: it may contain Mathematicians

bsky.app/profile/did:...