When you think of particle accelerators, you probably think of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. But did you know our School of Physics has had its fair share of particle accelerators over the years? Dr Adam Steinberg shares some remarkable #UniMelb particle accelerators → unimelb.me/47s1psa

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

We must fund medical research properly. With the Trump administration slashing healthcare spending in the United States, Australia has a unique opportunity to become a global leader in medical innovation and biotech. With the stroke of a pen, the government could make it happen today.

Today, leading medical researchers from across the nation are stepping into Parliament, joining my call for the government to release the funds being withheld from the Medical Research Future Fund. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.

astronomers have ever been the same, but “Marduk bless the king!” is a lot more fun than the ARC National Interest Test

Max the physics doggo crashed out hard after so many cuddles and pats and sniffs at @unimelb.bsky.social today.

Very pleased to find that my proposed DP project on the beam dynamics of next generation magnets in accelerators (with @tessacharles.bsky.social and Prof Rob Appleby) has been successfully funded — this is first ever ARC DP in accelerator physics (that I’m aware of…). 🤓🙌

ARC says Discovery Projects outcomes will be tomorrow (Tuesday). Linkage Projects (2025, round 1) on Wed. Over past ~year, it's often been at about 11am (Canberra). My bot will pick up the change to RMS & post immediately. ARC should email outcomes to lead CIs, but might take an 1hr or so for DPs

The discovery that sparked a revolution in physics: #OnThisDay in 1897, JJ Thomson announced the existence of the corpuscle, later known as the electron — right here at the Ri! ⚛️ Watch the full talk with @suziesheehy.bsky.social: youtu.be/aXg3edeUrtc

It’s been a big week and now en route home from Canada where I was the Lansdowne Visiting Fellow at @uvic.bsky.social and TRIUMF. So many great chats, now looking forward to building some new collaborative projects with Magdalena Bazalova-Carter’s group.

ARC has provided a bit of info about Discovery Projects EOI shortlisting process here ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/sites/defaul... 🔹27.7% success rate – 1127 shortlisted of 4063 EOIs 🔹43 EOIs with "disparate scores" were rescued 🔹All EOIs reviewed by 3 College of Experts assessors Breakdown across panels👇

Wanna hear how this brilliant accelerator physicist thinks? A fabulous interview ... Follow @suziesheehy.bsky.social astrophiz.com/2022/04/15/a...

Boek tip . @suziesheehy.bsky.social

I am dreading having to drop things to hurriedly prep a new EOI if my outcome is unsuccessful this year, but I simply refuse to waste my own time in this way by prepping another EOI — don’t forget we’ve all written two rounds of applications for our projects to get to this point.

Looking forward to my first AIP congress since I was an undergrad!

Celebrating my first ever post here with this pic of (most of) my research group at @unimelb in the XLAB — with our illustrious visitor and old friend Prof Emmanuel Tsesmelis (@cern & @universityofoxford.bsky.social) after delivering a colloquium today on the FCC (Future Circular Collider).