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Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. @TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. She/her. Dr.

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Published: July 12, 2026 13:03

Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be…

Published: July 9, 2026 19:16

For reasons, I've spent a bunch of time in the last few weeks diving into ✨ quantum error correction ✨ which is a shockingly fascinating bit of theoretical physics that will be absolutely essential for getting quantum computers to actually achieve all the…

Published: July 6, 2026 01:56

I am from LA and my grandma was Mexican so of course I am rooting for Mexico but going solely by the real-time reactions online I am also sort of rooting for the game to continue to be as chaotic and unhinged as possible

Published: July 6, 2026 01:03

Enjoying watching this epic @cosmicshambles.com documentary about music: youtu.be/quj8JVU-usw The first episode features me, @chrislintott.bsky.social, and @helenczerski.bsky.social talking about music physics! https://youtu.be/quj8JVU-usw

Published: July 5, 2026 13:19

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion…

Published: July 5, 2026 00:33

It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in…

Published: July 4, 2026 19:28

In my neighborhood there’s a public square with a big screen where they are broadcasting what must be nearly every one of the World Cup games and each game draws a crowd and every team has people from that country cheering them on and it’s just a really…

Published: July 4, 2026 01:54

Had a great time this week collaborating with @paulskrzypczyk.bsky.social and @perimeterinstitute.ca student Pedro Nobrega Lauand on a really fun interdisciplinary theory project! Can’t wait to get the last few calculations tidied up; I think it’ll be a…