As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

I gave my talk today, on the "(In)consistency of the Real two-Higgs-doublet model", for the Scalars 2025 conference! 🎉 I had to give it remotely, because I still can't travel due to chronic fatigue. 😢 3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬

Amazing colloquium today by @burcinmp.bsky.social on "The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation"! #CarletonU ⚛️🧪

Age verification? I write code in FORTRAN.

Ahaha holy shit

Survived the first (half-)week of fall semester! 💪 - Met my two new graduate students; - Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course; - Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job; - Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student. #CarletonU

Heard from someone that a student from my stat mech class last year were gushing “I never thought the rice cooker is so amazing until I took Eugene’s class!” I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.

I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.

As a FORTRAN user and a woman in STEM, I love this! 🥰

A blog article I wrote up for my publisher on figuring out why my language development was different to other people. #Autistic blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...

Transformative work on improving inclusion for #autistic students -- focus is on kid-school, but relevant to #HigherEd as well!

My alma mater! 🥰

*Something* is coming soon, but I guess we'll never know what! #Ottawa #VaguePosting (Storefront where Haven coffeeshop used to be; apparently rented out now to a purveyor of mysterious squiggles.)

Are there new undiscovered extra Higgs like bosons that decay to top quarks? Those create instead a 'wiggle' (because of quantum interference) in the top quark pair invariant mass distribution. This paper looks for these wiggles. arxiv.org/abs/2507.05119

Very cool news about a newly-measured 'ultramassive' black hole, with some gorgeous gravitational-lensing pics. New mass-measurement method & led by a Brazilian PhD student! 3.5 x 10^10 M_sun, 10^4 x heavier than Sag A*. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Giving my first lecture (of 2) in about 2.5 hours! ⚛️ indico.slac.stanford.edu/event/9605/

In #HigherEd? Care about, well, anything? Read this. (It's mostly about AI slop.)

LUSH TREE CANOPY please and thank you!! 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

It me!

This thread is fascinating/horrifying/unsurprising (about using the plagiarism autocomplete bot):

The SLAC SSI summer school is now fully remote and free to register. indico.slac.stanford.edu/event/9605/

I told you we’d be back

Just got an invitation to referee a paper about triangles for the journal Contemporary Mathematics, published by "Wiser" (not Weiser). I am not a mathematician. I think this says something about their editorial standards.

Great talk today at #CarletonU in the Faculty of Science's ACE EDI series by Dr. Kori LaDonna of #UOttawa Dept of Innovation in Medical Innovation, about her transformative work on impostor syndrome and its flip-side, the "intruder paradox". #WomenInSTEM 🧪 science.carleton.ca/cu-event/ace...

My 5th Article in Psychology Today.

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💣 The Muon g-2 theory initiative dropped their update. Bottom line: the g-2 anomaly is gone. arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476 🧪⚛️

#CarletonU !

#CarletonU 's latest policy update for the Responsible Conduct of Research includes a new clause requiring any use of generative AI to be explicitly disclosed. Excellent move!

I gave this talk earlier today and it went great! Big thanks to the organizers for giving me the opportunity for my very first presentation on my experiences as an autistic person in STEM and how we can improve the environment for our neurodivergent colleagues and students.

We need a ban on undisclosed use of generative AI. Especially by corporate service providers. Pass it on.

Yay! 🎉

Attention physicists! The abstract deadline for the 2025 Women+ in Physics Canada Conference has been extended to May 2! Share your research with a national audience committed to advancing gender equity in physics. WIPC+ is open to all physicists - please share and encourage others to submit!

The abstract submission deadline for the Women+ in Physics Canada conference is quickly approaching (April 22nd). Early career gender minorities are invited to share their research and network with other early career physicists at WiPC+ 2025. 🇨🇦 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 🧪

Just over a week left to submit abstracts for the 2025 Women+ in Physics Canada Conference happening at @queensuglobal.bsky.social July 22-25! Visit queensu.ca/wipc2025 for more information!

This World Autism Appreciation Month, read the words of some amazing autistic women & nonbinary people! #ActuallyAutistic [a thread] Hannah Gadsby - Ten Steps to Nanette www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605183...

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Disappointing example of pathologization through ignorance. The puzzle-piece iconography is widely considered harmful (or even hate-speech) in the autistic community because it implies that autistic people are missing a critical piece of humanity. Also it's infantilizing. #ActuallyAutistic

I'm going to be giving a talk (online) in about a month for Imperial College London's Faculty of Natural Sciences Neurodiversity Week! www.imperial.ac.uk/natural-scie... Kind of nervous; it'll be my first-ever talk on this topic. #ActuallyAutistic

Meanwhile in Canada!

CUASA will welcome candidates for the federal election in the riding of Ottawa Centre to a forum at Carleton University on Thursday, April 10, from 12:00-1:00pm, in MacKenzie Building 3380. Register here to attend in person or online: forms.office.com/r/C2Cxmqm3p8 @caut.bsky.social

Today is #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, so we want to share some resources for autistic researchers and those supervising potentially neurodivergent researchers. Check out this great #OpenAccess guide by @helogan.bsky.social to make your research group more inclusive doi.org/10.48550/arX...

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by actively challenging narratives that frame autistic traits as undesirable. For more tips, see my autistic-friendly research group guide: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 ⚛️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

#OttCity’s Plant Your Place! program kicks off today, March 31. You can now apply to receive a free tree for your property. Help us build a greener, more sustainable future because tomorrow takes root today. Find out more: envirocentre.ca/plant-your-p...

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by recognizing that autistic people come in all genders, ages, ethnicities, and appearances. Tips for autistic-friendly research groups: see arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 ⚛️🧪 #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by refraining from touching others without their explicit consent. For more tips, see my guide to autistic-friendly research groups: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 [pdf] 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by providing ways to access services that do not require the use of speech. For more tips, see my autistic-friendly research groups guide: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by promoting quiet and scent-free working spaces. For more tips, see my guide to autistic-friendly research groups: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 (pdf) 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic

On y va! 🇨🇦 Let's go! Researchers are ready for #Elxn45! We'll vote for candidates who see that #TeamCanada needs a robust research sector to thrive.🗳️Les chercheur.e.s sont prêt.e.s à voter pour la recherche et ses atouts pour #ÉquipeCanada! Info: core-coeur.ca #VotonsRecherche #ResearchersVote

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. Academics can support our autistic colleagues and students by destigmatizing variations in body language and communication style. For more tips, see my guide to autistic-friendly research groups: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.17929 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM #ActuallyAutistic