Exciting new results from the LZ experiment: new constraints on DM–nucleus scattering, a 4.5σ detection of the solar neutrino flux, and a measurement of the weak mixing angle. lz.lbl.gov

I’m giving a public talk on magnetic monopoles at Book Club Bar in Manhattan’s East Village on January 20 at 8 pm. No physics background needed — it should be a lot of fun, and it’s guaranteed to attract a good crowd! 🧲 More info here: bookclubbar.com/events/39753...

Finally got to check out the IBM quantum computer next to the Brachiosaurus at O'Hare. Thanks to @kylecranmer.bsky.social ky.social for the tip!

Is it the name of a cat or the name of a particle physics experiment? forms.gle/f3mGxKjt6jAe...

‼️ Stack Overflow and Physics Stack Exchange are in steep decline — largely due to the rise of LLMs. I plotted out the data 📉 #LLMs #Physics #StackExchange #StackOverflow

📄 New paper out! "Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons" w/ Isabel Garcia Garcia and Ken Van Tilburg 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867

This was a lot of fun!

It was great watching the SPHEREx launch from @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social! It's not every day you get to see an instrument relevant to your own science get blasted into space.

Took a while to go through this material. Highly recommend reading even just his papers with 1000+ citations. A phenomenal legacy. On first meeting him as starry eyed grad student remember wondering where the bodyguards were 🧪⚛️

The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...

The Simons Foundation, which funds Quanta as an editorially independent magazine, created this video to honor the life of mathematician, investor and philanthropist Jim Simons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvjG...

Endowed my gingerbread houses with a softly broken Z2 symmetry this year. Happy holidays!

Chris Dessert @nyuphysics.bsky.social bringing us the thermal axion background in the axiverse