Prof. Brian Keating

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You can’t post random numbers and expect people to understand it

@hubermanlab That’s bush league. After a fellow assistant professor colleague was killed, his colleague said: “I know it’s tragic… but it helps my tenure chances.” Science is far more cutthroat than people think.

Robbing your competition of sleep and/or focus is the oldest trick in the books. I knew a scientist in a race to publish that would suggest The Wire to his competitors.

Yo mama’s so fat she weighs herself on the Kardashev scale!

Read the article here: news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/11/ast…

This is the first time we have needed Einstein's theory of gravity to explain the internal mechanics of a supernova. It confirms that these magnetic monsters are the true powerhouses of the deep cosmos.

Astronomers just witnessed something never seen before: the birth of a magnetar. This ultra-magnetic, spinning star is the engine behind the brightest explosions in the known universe.

@miquai Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=hj19i4…

Does AI Evolve? | Michael Wong (@miquai)

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🧟 Zombie Theories In science, some theories are killed by data. Others are killed by data but refuse to lie down. Researchers formally catalogued "zombie theories"—falsified frameworks that persist in textbooks, grant proposals, and clinical practice years after being empirically demolished. They survive because entire careers, institutions, and treatment protocols were built on them. Retracting the theory means retracting the people who built their work on it. Science progresses, as Max Planck darkly observed, "one funeral at a time.” Maybe because these Zombie theories survive because Zombies don’t have funerals?? Anyway, the problem isn't that scientists are corrupt. It's that they're human. Sunk costs feel real, even when the theory doesn’t. So my question to you isn't whether there are zombie theories in your field. There are. The question is which ones you're currently citing. Read More at the National Library of Medicine→ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC81…

@EMostaque Every age assumes its physics is sufficient until a new generation proves them wrong. That said, I have serious doubts that AI will independently discover new physics (as you know).

I don’t know why everyone is saying AI will discover new physics Isn’t the physics we have now good enough? Don’t need no new fangled physics

@Camp4 @vrexec And you can have better character than the richest man on earth at any income level.

@SpencerKlavan Surely you mean his “cave”!

If Plato were alive he’d be rolling in his grave

Read more here: BrianKeating.com and full story here newscientist.com/article/251519…

As Nobel laureate Adam Riess put it, if this were a movie about the making of our cosmological story, you would not want to go to the bathroom right now. The plot just took its biggest twist yet.

Theorists are already working on a rewrite. Some suggest hidden dimensions or new particles could explain this weird behavior. We are witnessing a historic moment where the script of the universe is being edited in real-time.

What does this mean? It means the "Big Freeze" might not be the only end-game. If dark energy weakens or strengthens, the fate of every galaxy, star, and atom could be different than we predicted.