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. davidedebiasio.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3mgu3qw6fqs2oIn the 1960s, Dutch physicist Martinus Veltman had a problem: checking that certain particle models wouldn't yield silly infinities. That's the sort of puzzle theorists normally crack with blackboards and chalk, along with large cups of coffee.12 Mar 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgu3qw6fqs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3m45twxngik2c🚨📰📣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). 1/327 Oct 2025 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3m45twxngik2chttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lyfezl2aek23Working 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Sep 2025 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfezl2aek23https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3ltjzsyrnzc2mI 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jul 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjzsyrnzc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lqyradn6q225The 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!07 Jun 2025 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqyradn6q225https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lqyr5qub4225I’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! 🧪🔬🔭07 Jun 2025 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqyr5qub4225https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3ll4vi2wm4c27How 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?24 Mar 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4vi2wm4c27https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lkl6zynufs2mI 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.17 Mar 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkl6zynufs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lk6ox2lvns24What 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? 1/412 Mar 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6ox2lvns24https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3ljclkgh7qc2cA 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. 1/201 Mar 2025 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljclkgh7qc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3liokdeljrs24Let 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.21 Feb 2025 10:01 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3liokdeljrs24https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3liok3ctahs2wDo 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.21 Feb 2025 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3liok3ctahs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lilvzmdro22dhttps://youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?si=uylwTG-Rw61BFkJV20 Feb 2025 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lilvzmdro22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3li7n6squt22kI 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.15 Feb 2025 11:42 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3li7n6squt22khttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3li4r2nmqg22jI'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/N14 Feb 2025 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3li4r2nmqg22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3li2mhrys3s2aOn 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! 🔭🧪🔬13 Feb 2025 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2mhrys3s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lhswz3oud224I strongly advise you to go follow the ISQG official profile! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Feb 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhswz3oud224https://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lhlc2s7o6s2xCan 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 https://youtu.be/4LPBZerOcpA07 Feb 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhlc2s7o6s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lhbye4qm3k2bSo... 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.03 Feb 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbye4qm3k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lh47cnpocs2qAuthors 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." [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Feb 2025 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh47cnpocs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lgs5ecdans2tAt @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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jan 2025 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgs5ecdans2thttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lgivk62jxk2bJesus is one of the strongest #DEI advocates in the Western canon.24 Jan 2025 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgivk62jxk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidedebiasio.bsky.social/post/3lfwviusq722eWhat 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! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oQxBYvDm8A ⚛️🔭🧪🔬17 Jan 2025 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:hstdnhj4om3gt7cb4dli3o7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwviusq722e