Davide De Biasio
Physicist. Cyborg. Storyteller.
My name is Davide De Biasio. I have a PhD in theoretical physics, a bunch of robotic implants and a keen interest in stories. I live my life as a science communicator.
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- Reposted by Davide De Biasio“The campaign for intersex people’s human rights has come a long way in the past two decades… Unfortunately, as this research shows, it is still dangerous to be born this way.” Politics aimed at enforcing binary sex result in harmful interventions on intersex people. We must resist such politics.
- 🚨📰📣Breaking physics news! In October, the Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC) study group completed its full suite of technical design reports. However, CEPC will not be considered for inclusion in China’s next five-year plan (2026–2030). 1/3
- “Although our proposal that CEPC be included in the next five-year plan was not successful, IHEP will continue this effort, which an international collaboration has developed for the past 10 years,” says study leader Wang Yifang. 2/3
- “We plan to submit CEPC for consideration again in 2030, unless FCC is officially approved before then, in which case we will seek to join FCC, and give up CEPC.” cerncourier.com/a/cepc-matur... 3/3
- Reposted by Davide De BiasioThe Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), a 100-km electron–positron “Higgs factory” proposed in China, has reached the technical-design stage but will not be included for approval or construction in the country’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). cerncourier.com/a/cepc-matur...
- Working at the CERN Courier is a great honour, and I am deeply grateful for it. This time, we had the pleasure of wrestling with the history of quarkonia, the X17 anomaly, ATLAS's confirmation of a top-antitop excess, and much more. I hope you'll enjoy our latest issue!
- The new CERN Courier looks ahead, to the future of particle physics - and back to the outstanding year of 1964. The story of quarkonia spans all six decades, and its final chapter is now being written. Plus: data preservation, X17, dark energy and more. cerncourier.com/p/magazine/
- I jumped on board as the train was shooting past at supersonic speed, but working on such a significant issue is a honour I struggle to capture in a post. Go and read the new #CERNCourier – before I get too emotional!
- One hundred years ago today, Werner Heisenberg wrote to Wolfgang Pauli of radical ideas about quantum mechanics. As this special anniversary edition of #CERNCourier shows, a century has not sufficed to fully understand or apply the theory. Read it now: cerncourier.com/p/magazine/
- Reposted by Davide De BiasioOne hundred years ago today, Werner Heisenberg wrote to Wolfgang Pauli of radical ideas about quantum mechanics. As this special anniversary edition of #CERNCourier shows, a century has not sufficed to fully understand or apply the theory. Read it now: cerncourier.com/p/magazine/
- The CERN Courier has been the high-energy physics magazine for almost seventy years. On a smaller scale, it has been my personal, essential source of information on the field. It is thus with great pleasure that I announce I have joined it as an Associate Editor. I’ll do my best!
- I’ll spend my next week at Helgoland, celebrating 100 years of #quantum mechanics on Heisenberg’s legendary eureka island. If you’ll attend the conference as well, come shake my hand! 🧪🔬🔭
- Reposted by Davide De BiasioJust found this (Italian!) YouTube breakdown of Laws of Physics by physicist @davidedebiasio.bsky.social on his channel Spazi Attorcigliati. He dives into the first 20 pages—ontology, nomology, laws as constraints. I'm honored! Thanks to #ChatGPT I could follow along! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBD...
- How many parallel worlds are there out there? How many copies of you, living almost identical lives, are reading these very lines? How can we answer such questions?
- Hugh Everett, while searching for the meaning of quantum mechanics, was confronted with a reality that split and proliferated endlessly. He realised that each experiment has the power to create as many worlds as are its possible outcomes.
- When you flip a quantum coin, there is a copy of you that sees heads and one that gets tails. It's a bold, radical proposal. Maybe, enough to grasp what physics suggests about the nature of the universe.
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- I am surprised and saddened that hundreds of students graduate from QFT courses thinking that renormalisation is a trick and having no idea what an EFT is.
- What if the universe hides a tiny extra dimension just a few micrometers across? How may string theory shape the world we observe? Where shall we look for experimental signatures of quantum gravity? 1/4
- In my latest interview for the ISQG (International Society for Quantum Gravity), I had the pleasure of discussing these and several other questions with Dr. Miguel Montero, from the Instituto de Física Teórica in Madrid. 2/4
- He’s at the forefront of the swampland program, trying to assess which apparently consistent particle physics models can couple to a quantum theory of gravity. 3/4
- Did you know that the “dark dimension hypothesis” suggests our universe might contain an extra spatial dimension at mesoscopic scales—potentially just a few micrometers across? youtu.be/3trCZghXTsE?... 4/4
- A world where many possess nuclear bombs is tragic and dangerous. Yet, one in which only a few have them - and wield that power to subjugate, dominate and exterminate with impunity - is even worse. 1/2
- The great challenge of nuclear disarmament is to move from "many" to "none" without passing through "few". It is an almost impossible task, but our very survival depends on it. We must find a solution. 2/2
- Let me be clear: there wasn't a single instance in which Elon Musk displayed a sound grasp of physics – despite pretending otherwise. He was a charlatan long before his Nazi era.
- Do you know how sick you get when Elon Musk opens his mouth on history and politics? Well, that's how physicists have felt for years. The man is the biggest bluff of the third millennium, a mishmash of Reddit threads and clickbait YouTube videos. Now, with a fresh sprinkle of neo-Nazism.
- Reposted by Davide De BiasioHere is the table of contents page
- I don't know if the European leaders will stab #Ukraine in the back. I do know, however, that no one will force me to call ‘peace’ an agreement that neither restores the country's legal borders, nor punishes war criminals. Peace is such only when it's just.
- I'm ready to die on this hill: the Ukrainian resistance is one of the clearest examples of modern anti-imperialism – and should be treated accordingly. Seeing Ukraine as a ‘proxy’ is not only anti-historical, but deprives an entire people of agency, desires, and aspirations of freedom. 1/N
- Like most resistance movements, it sought help wherever it could find it. Europe lagged behind: it was inconsistent, slow, and psychologically subjugated to the tsar, despite having skin in the game. I would have liked Europe to do more, to be self-sufficient. Sadly, this did not happen. 2/N
- To deduce from the reliance on American aid that a dream of independence rooted in the history of Central and Eastern Europe is a US plot signals deep imperial thinking. It's a sick Cold War legacy obscuring the plain truth. 3/N
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View full threadI'm Italian. I've lived in Germany, the UK, and now Poland. This is my story – and I want to be on the right side of it. youtu.be/LIUoFuSuvTM?... 9/9
- On my 🇮🇹 YouTube channel (luckily for all non-speakers!) I'm hosting a weekly commentary on the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Each session lasts over two hours, with explicit calculations and digressions into contemporary research. The audience's passionate response fills me with joy – and hope! 🔭🧪🔬
- I strongly advise you to go follow the ISQG official profile!
- We're excited to share that the International Society of Quantum Gravity is now online! Follow, like, and share our pages to help grow the ISQG community and spread the word about the groundbreaking work happening in quantum gravity! Instagram: isqg2024 LinkedIn: company/isqg Website: isqg.org
- Can we chop the world forever? Will there come a time, in our shift from cells to molecules, atoms, and particles, when reality will reject our attempts to dissect it? Is there a point beyond which the concept of ‘part’ loses any meaning? youtu.be/4LPBZerOcpA 🔬🧪⚛️🔭 #physics #science #quantum #bit
- So... What do the 'cancel culture is bad' people think of the latest developments? All I hear is an unsurprising silence. If anyone needed proof, free speech was never the point. Never.
- Authors if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "The night tore with a whistle, ripped open by Tupoc’s blows. Shreds of bark flew against him. He spat. With the free hand, he wiped his face—slick with sweat, gnats, and splinters of wood."
- At @stsucl.bsky.social I spent a wonderful year learning about the interplay between science, society, history, and culture – while sharpening my science communication tools. Plus (as you can see from their post), they are way kinder than I’d deserve!
- “Matter tells space-time how to curve; space-time tells matter how to move”. Watch our brilliant MSc Science Communication graduate, Davide De Biasio @davidedebiasio.bsky.social deliver this lecture at the Royal Institution on the promises and problems of string theory. youtu.be/B-47G6XKFfA
- Jesus is one of the strongest #DEI advocates in the Western canon.
- What kind of procedure do we employ when we slice up the world, picking out chairs, sandwiches, and parrots? And what do atoms have to do with all this? Check out the lecture I gave at UCL's Chemical Engineering Department, discussing the philosophy of atoms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQx... ⚛️🔭🧪🔬
- Reposted by Davide De Biasio“We can tell whether we are happy by the sound of the wind. It warns the unhappy man of the fragility of his house, hounding him from shallow sleep and violent dreams. To the happy man it is the song of his protectedness: its furious howling concedes that it has power over him no longer.” Adorno
- Reposted by Davide De Biasioattempting to collect #scicomm focused #physics and #astronomy accounts into one #starterpack! this list is by no means complete—if I've missed you, please just shoot me a DM. go.bsky.app/NvQERru
- No observation can actually tell you if my weird pronounciation resembles more “Qkwaark” or “Qkwork”. I call this the quœrk confinement.
