Minas Karamanis

Finally, Payel gave a quick shout out to what seems like an incredible piece of work recommending best practises for improving the situation for minorities in Astronomy. 🔭 ☄️
arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

That's very interesting to read! I'm wondering how much better (or worse) scientific research assistants like Denario (astropilot-ai.github.io/DenarioPaper...) would perform on this benchmark, that are tailored made for these kinds of research tasks.

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

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Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model

(some math, but one can follow without it )

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For John Green, Tuberculosis Is More Than A Disease | Atmos The bestselling author says our inability to fix solvable crises is an indictment of our empathy and shared humanity.

It's true: Tuberculosis is more than a disease. It's a form and expression of injustice. atmos.earth/for-john-gre...

Abuse of power at Germany's elite research institution – DW – 03/13/2025 The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...

Devastating, but sadly not surprising...

Why Machine Learning Models Systematically Underestimate Extreme Values A persistent challenge in astronomical machine learning is a systematic bias where predictions compress the dynamic range of true values -- high values are consistently predicted too low while low val...

Useful paper by Ting on biases in ML arxiv.org/abs/2412.05806 Very related to things Villar and I said in arxiv.org/abs/2405.18095

Lectures on Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics - YouTube

I really can't recommend highly enough the "Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics" by Frederic Schuller

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Happy 50th anniversary to the Areceibo message, now 0.2% of the way to its target, the globular cluster M13, 22,180 light years away.

I'm a professional astronomer, doing research in astronomy

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I'm glad to see lots of new people in this site since last week, especially astronomers and physicists. I wonder what happened 😅