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'we thank AIs for cross-checking calcs, the authors take full responsibility for the contents..'
so who were you cross-checking calcs with b4 AI? oh, u wnt flawless results? so all ur works b4 wr flawed? so being pointed out wrong by a human hurts ur ego?
Basabendu Barman retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Looking at the trend, there are two kinds of people who get faculty positions in the top-tier Indian institutes:
1) Prolific with strong connections
2) Below-average with strong connections
#academics
JCAP rejected our paper over a missing factor of 1/6. Truly, my faith in peer review is restored (also, I'm crying inside). #academia
At conferences, I often notice ppl from "premier" institutes staying within tight circles and being reluctant to engage with others. Given that science is fundamentally a collective enterprise, where does this sense of exclusivity come from?
Hi @vfsglobalcare @VFSGlobal , I need some info about Japan visa application from India, whom should I contact in this regard? Thank you in advance.
Job alert!
#academia #AcademicTwitter
We have a few positions for an Institute Postdoctoral position at the HEP group. Feel free to apply through this portal:
iitk.ac.in/dofa/index.php/in…
Basabendu Barman retweeted
In 1934, Enrico Fermi's paper on a theory of beta decay was rejected by Nature for lacking immediate experimental relevance -- "speculations too remote from reality to be of interest to the reader." This paper that introduced what is now known as Fermi interaction.
In 1964, Peter Higgs' paper on spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories was initially rejected for having "no obvious physical relevance". The paper introduced what is now known as Higgs mechanism.
It can be difficult to tell a super important breakthrough from useless speculation ahead of time.
Are they really referring to the classic classical mechanics textbook? #StrangerThings5
and most of these papers will be published in PRL (more like PROFL)
I emailed a colleague who is a neutrino expert for an opinion. I won't say who it was, but this was the response:
"They’ve killed—for the nth time—the existence of a sterile neutrino.
Will this be the end of the sterile-neutrino saga? Of course not.
Just wait. A fresh wave of papers with ever more sophisticated models will
emerge, featuring steriles whose masses or mixing angles vary with energy,
humidity, or even the political climate—carefully tuned so you can explain +
everything: LSND, MiniBooNE, and MicroBooNE, all at once.
…reminding us that the sterile neutrino is less a particle and more a tradition
of the field."
Basabendu Barman retweeted
Job situation in Indian theoretical high energy physics is worse than ever.
Most institutions are not interested in theorists because there’s not much grants in theory. Most IITs/IISERs consider 2 high energy theorists to be more than enough.
The worst part is that for the few available positions, there is a strong preference for students of Indian big shots. Stellar candidates are being rejected unless they have a local big shot to really push their case. Almost no one’s looking at the work. Even very strong letters from some of the top physicists in the WORLD isn’t cutting it.
For the first time we are set to lose almost an entire gen of high energy theorists to finance/ML.
This is not to discourage young physicists but to inform you of the reality.
Basabendu Barman retweeted
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94?
Happy Birthday Roger.
This is an excellent endeavour
Introducing the lecturers for our upcoming summer school on quantum physics for Palestinian students
scientists4palestine.org/pal… 1/
Basabendu Barman retweeted
Very honoured to host Dr. Terence Tao, Fields medallist, in our Gaza Excellence Talks on 23 June.
You may register here: univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webina…
We are organizing a weekly journal club (Tuesday, 1900 IST) on particle physics, gravity, cosmology:
researchseminars.org/seminar…
If you're interested to join and/or present a talk, contact me or any one of the organizers. #AcademicTwitter #academia
Sayantan Choudhury is undoubtedly the one accused, but what about those from reputable institutions who continue to endorse him? Who will hold them accountable?
Although I have known Sayantan Choudhury for many years, I believe the students making the allegations. I have now heard multiple allegations of abuse from independent sources
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
The Department of Physics @SRMUAP @srmap invites applications from exceptional candidates for a full-time faculty position (Assistant Professor) in Theoretical and/or Computational #Astrophysics and #Astronomy. Deatils below:
inspirehep.net/jobs/2912889
Personally, I find package-X to be extremely simple and user friendly. Few days back while searching for the source code I found out it has been terminated due to lack of funding. Just discovered it is still available here:
gitlab.com/mule-tools/packag…
