"I was giving a lecture on the Lagrangian formulation of quantum field theory to a class of about ten unicorns." - Macgyver 2016

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Gonna write a fanfiction “Harry Potter and the Jane Street Sponsorship” where the divination class gets taught by a jaded quant researcher.
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I am and always will be impressed by how far in life my mother has come using her own incredible intellect, dedication, and ingenuity. Her grace in handling the detestable statements made by my father's side of the family is admirable and anyone who knows her will know her 1/2
Happy Gold Digger Day! 35 years ago my husband's mother called me a gold digger (when I had been going out with her son for 6 months. For anyone who grew up in poverty but climbed out of it using your brains and scholarships, you'd recognise the insult in being called such a
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remarkable spirit and kindness in adversity is something the rest of us can only hope to model. And I am also lucky to have a mother who knows when it's important to stand up and share your story. I love you mama. 2/2
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Happy Gold Digger Day! 35 years ago my husband's mother called me a gold digger (when I had been going out with her son for 6 months. For anyone who grew up in poverty but climbed out of it using your brains and scholarships, you'd recognise the insult in being called such a
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I have accepted a dare from @BewareTheStars and things I have actually written are on @archiveofourown Not under my name, but A head pat and a promise of tea; if you can figure out which author is me...
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Theoretical high energy physicists who don't care about social media outreach
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“I don’t know why they’re defunding dark matter research!” Says famous science communicator who advocated for defunding hep-th, “I didn’t know the ‘Defund Unprofitable Science Party’ would defund *my* area.”
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X is currently a dumpster fire of leopard eating faces party nonsense but the recent stuff aiming at hep-th and mathematical physics in general from Sabine Hossenfelder is w i l d.
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technically every project in abstract algebra is a group project
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every function is differentiable if you’re not a coward
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thesis examiner: “can you tell us about the real world applications of your research?” theoretical physicist:
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god was seriously cooking when he invented quantum mechanics
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Weird, a post of mine disappeared. I posted that @BewareTheStars had dressed as Galadriel from Númenor for Halloween - suddenly can't find it anywhere! Boo to whatever copyright bot thought "I'll have that!"
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phd students be like "i know my worth" and then make $25k in grad school
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Urrrrrr...All major papers of Victor Ambros are shared with his wife Rosalind Lee.... Does the nobel committee just hate women called "Rosalind"???
Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨ This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee. #NobelPrize
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E = mc^2 AI
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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in academia, they don’t say “i disagree with you” instead they say “are you familiar with the literature?” which means “you are fucking stupid” and i think that’s beautiful
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astrophysics girlfriend: would you still date me if i was a wormhole?
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if Jesus Christ were alive today he would condemn large language models
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