Lena Murchikova

Doctor but not the one who helps people. (Astro)physicist @the_ias

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

All science is either physics or stamp collecting (Ernest Rutherford)

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Very nice video promo for the IAS. And you can see me in it. :)

[Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) @the_IAS]

🎞️ At a moment when movies are at the forefront of everyone’s minds, the Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to present a 90-second film of its own: a new anthem video showcasing IAS and its mission of enabling foundational discovery.

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Audible’s Science and Tech section is an eclectic selection popular books on Quantum Mechanics, Universe, aviation regulations, and beekeeping.

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

I thought I’m the only one with this idea.

[oskarth @oskarth]

New idea: sleep hotels.

A place you can pay money for to stay over night, kind of like a hotel or airbnb, except they take sleep experience seriously (noise, light, temperature, bed quality, noise).

[Santiago @svpino]

Here is a completely free Computer Science curriculum for those with the discipline to go through it independently.

The curriculum follows the same degree requirements as an undergraduate computer science major and consists of courses from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, among other colleges.

The curriculum has four major sections:

1. Introduction: Students can review this section and decide whether this fits them.

2. Core: This section corresponds to the first three college years.

3. Advanced: This section corresponds to the final year of a Computer Science curriculum in college.

4. Final Project: Students can validate, consolidate, and display their knowledge by completing this project.

Assuming you spend around 20 hours per week, you can finish in two years.

I won't lie: completing a curriculum like this alone will be hard. Having the support of professors and other students is very important, but if you have the discipline and the will, this material is amazing.

The link to the repository is on the screenshot and its ALT description.

[CarlSaganDotCom @carlsagandotcom]

Reposting Carl Sagan calling out the media in 1987 because I don’t think enough people on Twitter heard this.

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Typical crime alert in the town of Princeton, NJ:
“TIGERALERT: Lewdness”

[Dr Abbey Ellis @abbeyinmuseums]

✨ On 23rd August at 6pm, I'll be delivering a FREE public lecture entitled 'What the Fake? The Art of Deception in the Modern Museum' at the Princeton Academy of Art, 138 Nassau Street, 08542.

Full details & tickets: https://t.co/AZKPnIInz6

Hope to see you there! 👏

[badger @badger69420]

How deep is the ocean?👀

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

@RudeliusTom Bs

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

@lpachter @MiaDoesAstro Aren’t you from this very Department which tried to save few thousands of $ on proper ventilation of a lab? When two grad students got brain damage, a few years apart from each other, the department tried to frame it as suicide instead of fixing the ventilation???

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Heard today that after Einstein’s death even his toilet was submitted to the archive…

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

IAS is like a train station. There is always someone leaving, there is always someone who just arrived. A friend once told me: sad thing about the Institute is that everyone is always leaving…

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Press release on our most recent work on black hole flickering

[Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) @the_IAS]

Researchers from IAS, @KITP_UCSB, & @Princeton have shown for the first time in a single model how gas travels in the center of the Milky Way—from being blown off by stars to falling into the galaxy's central #blackhole #SgrABlackHole @AAS_Publishing #ApJL https://t.co/E7gaewclRG

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

It was great to do the first in-person visit and give the first in-person talk. Thank you, Johns Hopkins University. @JohnsHopkins

[sunny @thePiggsBoson]

You solve one of these problems, you win 1 Million dollars.💰

The six (out of seven) millennium prize problems in mathematics stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

A Thread 👇

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

John von Neumann: "with four parameters I can fit an elephant"

Meanwhile, this paper https://t.co/n15oCHoK3U: "How to fit any dataset with a single parameter"

Here's a function with a *single* parameter. Even worse: it's differentiable and continuous!

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

Как же им тогда не стало очевидно… «В 2002 году к 50-летию президента России Владимира Путина группа российских ювелиров создала точную копию шапки Мономаха… [но] Передача главе демократического государства символа самодержавной власти была сочтена некорректной.»

[Lena Murchikova @LenaEarth]

“Do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?“ Carter’s security advisor: “What is more important in world history? Some agitated Moslems or the end of the cold war?“ Link to the source https://t.co/y9Gp5ufHwx

[Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @PKoppenburg]

In particle physics we work in experiments of thousands producing hundreds of papers. But each paper is written by a small team of anonymous physicists. Here's @DrNicole1865 @darktachyon and me mentioned by @harryvcliff . ☺️

[Science News @ScienceNews]

Flickering in the gas and dust of the accretion disk of a black hole provides hints of its mass. https://t.co/Nd7PmOwmtT