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Martin Bauer

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Martin Bauer

@martinmbauer

Working on particle physics, quantum sensors, dark matter. Associate Prof at @IPPP_Durham @durham_uni, FLF @UKRI_News, Science board member @STFC_Matters

Durham

Joined July 2021

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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
May 15
The University of Nottingham is threatening to gut one of the UK’s best physics and astronomy departments by placing 56 out of 71 staff at risk of redundancy If you oppose these disastrous cuts please consider signing this open letter nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Sep 5, 2024
We didn’t
Epic Maps 🗺️
@theepicmap
Sep 4, 2024
Why did humans stop building wonders?
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Jan 15, 2023
I just learned that the first formula for calculating the n-th decimal digit of pi (without calculating all the preceding digits) has been found by Simon Plouffe in 2022 😲
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Mar 6, 2025
When you struggle with first year linear algebra
Andrew Tate
@Cobratate
Mar 4, 2025
The Matrix is attacking me.
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
May 19, 2025
Yes, it has really been an utter disaster
Bret Weinstein
@BretWeinstein
May 18, 2025
Industrial agriculture, food science and pharmaceutical medicine have been a disaster for human health.
Readers added context
Life expectancy in the last century has more than double world wide. The las century's advancements in modern food sciences and healthcare have improved our health enough to make us live longer lives than ever. ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Nov 20, 2024
No it isn’t. That’s the whole point
Тsфdiиg
@tsoding
Nov 20, 2024
Did you know that this weird elongated S is just a for-loop?
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
May 24, 2024
It’s amazing how caffeine really is the only drug that has achieved this level of social acceptance. Imagine someone saying : ‘the first line of cocaine in the morning is one of my favourite things in life’ or ‘without my morning joint I can’t function’
Lex Fridman
@lexfridman
May 23, 2024
First coffee in the morning is one of my favorite things about life.
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Mar 11, 2025
Reminder that it is possible to demonstrate the regular manipulation of 'election' results in Russia based on the official data
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Mar 9, 2025
Europe has cancelled more elections than Russia
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Jan 8, 2023
What?
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
May 27, 2024
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Fermat's Library
@fermatslibrary
May 26, 2024
132 is the sum of all the 2-digit numbers made from its digits. It is the smallest such number.
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Jul 17, 2022
Physics is when nature checks your math.
Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Aug 1, 2023
Every superconductor is a room temperature superconductor if people just quit whining and put on a thick sweater
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Aug 9, 2024
What is a proton made of? Early scattering experiments probing the substructure of the proton found an interesting result. Instead of being made just from point-like particles (quarks), there seemed to be more going on inside the proton A🧵1/6
GIF
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Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer
Aug 18, 2025
Terence Tao: "This is not a routine policy shift - it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and freedoms that have sustained American science for generations."
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