Today I got the best peer review of my career (I’m a physicist with 150+ publications, Science, PRL). It was from GPT-5 Pro on a paper draft I’m writing. We’re entering a new era of science.

Today would have been my father's 78th birthday. He died aged 42. My stepfather and father-in-law didn't get old either, leaving behind two widows. Women, take good care of your men, they don't last long. 💞

“…it is an essential part of the craft of theoretical physics to be willing to risk wasting time.” 🎯

In today's video I have a look at a throught-provoking new paper from David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto that explains the origin of time... maybe youtube.com/watch?v=WkIuIM…

The hype cycle is finally over. That LLMs are not intelligent is now a generally accepted fact. I can't believe it took so much time and effort to get to this point.

Wie Verschwörungstheorien entstehen.

RETRACTION of a study on effects of probiotics inn Parkinson's. I flagged it last year. Cited 426 times pubpeer.com/publications/F…

Your 'moment of neo-fascist kakistocracy' for today: "All the climate science, and all of the other priorities that the last administration had at NASA, we’re going to move aside..." arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/…

The "news" is about a paper from 2021 that evidently has not made warp drives physically possible x.com/forallcurious/…

If you don't want me to say that your paper is shit, don't write a shit paper.

I'm not a scientist so can't evaluate scientists, but this is a cool scientist.

Economists always wanted to become ‘physicists’. Apparently, some physicists became ‘economists’!

It turns out that: “If it (mathematically) fits, I sits” - is kind of a bad strategy to do physics.

Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse youtu.be/9yPy3DeMUyI?si… via Sabine Hossenfelder whereas kuhn pointed out the disconnect between the way paradigms shift and the way the reigning paradigm is taught, drH points out that the makework fake publication economy is

RETRACTION of a clinical trial study on the effects of probiotics in multiple sclerosis. Retraction note doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu… Pubpeer pubpeer.com/publications/F… I didn't come across Asemi's papers until 2024. As you can see, people had been sounding alarms and flagging his

One of the biggest developments in physics right now is that dark energy seems to be getting weaker. A new paper finds that this is neatly compatible with string theory. youtube.com/watch?v=W3GDsM…

100k likes and I’ll eat a fast food meal

Over three million citations, an h-index approaching 1,700 and many 2025 papers that have been cited over 1,000 times. Can this be legitimate? buff.ly/F4IE2R0 (archived at buff.ly/0yVjvpu)

I recently talked to my kids (14 yo) about social media and they looked really scared and said they don't want "it" and they'd been talking about "it" at school and now I wonder what the hell their teachers told them.

I am actually quite happy with GPT 5. I mean, could always be better, but it does have its uses. I wouldn't have said the same thing last year, but some time earlier this year LLMs crossed a usefulness threshold for me. Or maybe I've just learned what *not* to ask...