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- Newest recordings today from CosmoVerseLectures@YourDesk WG on observational cosmology and systematics. Hee-Jong Seo: Cosmology with BAO Shi-Fan Chen: LSS from Theory to Observables At their site cosmoversetensions.eu/event/cosmov... and yt channel www.youtube.com/@cosmoverses... #cosmology
- Just want to say how much I enjoy the beautiful natural scenes that so many post here. One of mine is these rock cavities called tafoni, photo from Pescadero Beach, south of SF. Thanks @whereisyvette, @ultrawimp, @mcnees, @cburgescliff and others too numerous to name for your frequent scenic photos
- Two newly released CosmoVerseLectures@YourDesk video recordings by @stsci.edu researchers #cosmology Louise Breuval - Cepheid variables in the distance ladder: youtu.be/GIi7-w0cung Gagandeep Anand - Tip of the Red Giant Branch Stars as Distance Indicators: youtu.be/rbLhBw-fUwI
- Colin Hill (ACT) and Simone Ferraro (DESI) on Implications of Recent Cosmic Data, in group discussion moderated by Daniel Green, at the recently formed Quantum Cosmology seminar series. Recorded today, May 1. #cosmology www.youtube.com/watch?v=We50...
- New Quantum Cosmology series, thanks @bahramshakerin.bsky.social for spotting it. No website for it (at least yet) & only info I've seen about it are comments by Mark Van Raamsdonk (apparently one of the organizers) at the beginning of first talk in the series at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfQx...
- Quantum Cosmology seminar series on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@quantum-cos...
- CosmoVerse: new Lectures@YourDesk series to "provide early stage researchers with an in-depth understanding of the technical details of leading measurements ... of cosmic tensions with a real focus on the underlying analysis." First video recordings: Tamara Davis and Julien Lesgourgues & schedule
- Another of simon's useful web tools that he uses LLMs to code for him. He posts in his weblog how each was created, usually with prompts and transcripts showing the process. A web page links to them at tools.simonwillison.net and that page includes a link to a github repo with the code for each.
- I vibe coded up a web tool for pretty-printing incomplete JSON, using GPT4.5 for the initial version and then Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking to fix some bugs and improve the visual appearance Tool: tools.simonwillison.net/incomplete-j... - prompts and transcripts: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/28/...
- Today begins 3rd and final season of Bosch: Legacy, which followed 7 seasons of original Bosch series. Titus Welliver is awesome in this role, as convincing and riveting a character portrayal as was James Gandolfini in The Sopranos and Michael Chiklis in The Shield.
- David Spergel - Recent Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Implications for our Understanding of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, March 19 #Cosmology CERN Theory Colloquium cds.cern.ch/record/2927483
- 2nd Nordic Cosmology Meeting is underway at University of Helsinki, slides available for most talks. Event is from March 12 - 14. #cosmology
- Saw that @alphaxiv.org now has an AI feature to create paper overviews (using Mistral OCR and Claude), so I created one for new DES paper 2503.06712. Includes figures, key findings, etc. Once created, it's publicly available to everyone at the overview link. alphaXiv also has a cosmology community.
- Today the U of Helsinki Cosmology seminar series released 3 talk videos given from Jan 15 to Feb 19 by Denis Werth, Simone Blasi, and Philippa Cole. Usually they're posted shortly after the talk, but on occasion they're released in a batch like this. www.helsinki.fi/en/news/unit...
- A California weekend gold country thread of the adventures of Natalie, Simon, and Cleopaws.
- A new talk today by Colin Hill at Universidad de Chile - Uncovering Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the Cosmic Microwave Background Based on arxiv.org/abs/2406.02546, arxiv.org/abs/2409.10514, and 250x.xxxxx in prep Cosmology talks/lectures database app: jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html #cosmology
- In addition to her published papers, there are at least 9 publicly available research talks by Priyamvada Natarajan on her work. Congrats to her on this award. jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=...
- Priyamvada Natarajan is the winner of the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for #Astrophysics. Natarajan was selected for her groundbreaking contributions to advancing our understanding of dark matter substructure in galaxy clusters, the formation and fueling of black holes. ww2.aip.org/aip/awards/p...
- Natural sci Q&A @seanmcarroll.bsky.social How does the philosopher's mindset inform or help your work as a physicist (link card) Thru most of recorded history the space betw philosophy & science was negligible, what's lost by separating world of ideas from world of science youtu.be/G2mSlh-z89o?...
- Cosmology Researcher Talks database 2024 stats: 1132 talks by 899 speakers re 1180 arXiv papers Top 10 sources: 94 Cosmology fr Home 93 Perimeter Inst 92 Kyoto U, YITP 80 CosmoVerse 76 Misc 57 KITP 52 ICTP-SAIFR 42 CERN 31 Neutrinos fr Home 30 Parity Violation fr Home jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html
