Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪

Okay, NSF is for some reason under an appendix, but they do have directorate-level numbers. Cuts pretty much across the board, including zeroing out SBE? which I suppose is what would happen with a 54% cut. Also worth looking at those FY26 estimates... www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

It will never be the best public transit system, but there’s definitely a special unmatched quality the DC metro will always have

More coverage of the move in Science. I had not realized the programs were managed (though had separate accounts) prior to 2003.

If well managed this amplifies the science and makes sure people focus on the interesting questions and technologies. If poorly managed this guts both programs. Fingers crossed for good management, there are interesting times ahead!

Turner, on the EPP report: It's going to stay fresh for 40 years. If there are bumps in the road for the first few years, we still have time to implement the vision.

Poignant and funny moment from CN Yang memorial, was Marilyn Simons recalling her and Jim’s friendship with him and still having the old dictionary the YITP gave Jim for the talks that started the connection of Physics/Math through YM theory(bc Jim was a bad speller😅) 🧪⚛️ @simonsfoundation.org

Incredible news of CN Yang’s lasting impact, thanks to Drs. Zhang and Luo for their generous gift that helps the Yang Institute for Theoretical physics carry on his legacy into the future @stonybrooku.bsky.social ⚛️🧪 news.stonybrook.edu/university/h...

Interesting Yang anecdotes, he often is remembered for opposing Chinese particle colliders, but he actually wanted his institute to go into accelerator physics. Physics is an experimental science and the machines are becoming too big and so he thought it was imperative to come up with smarter ways⚛️🧪

George Sterman beginning the scientific/personal part of the symposium honoring CN Yang’s contributions to Stony Brook university and beyond ⚛️🧪

Job alert: Data preservation for ALEPH data. I worked on ALEPH as a student, and as a junior faculty member analyzed archived ALEPH data to search for the Higgs. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/7440001...

Gotta say @f1tv.bsky.social is a lot more interesting this year so far!

Such a cool way to show people the “invisible” microscopic world whizzing around them! ⚛️🧪

The ultimate area denial weapon against parents now has a stealth mode 😒🤬

Morning commute snow in NYC feels like adding insult to injury right after a historic blizzard

Trying to plan R&D for long term scientific projects in the current funding environment ⚛️🧪

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."

This seems especially short sighted by the UK after just having a Brit start as the CERN DG www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Latest batch of the Epstein files has plenty more physicists. Going through them slowly, in no particular order.

The article is good but not sure it’s hard to know what to think about or look for, just hard to look resource wise/technologically🧐

I'll go with hard. The existential questions about our universe and EWSB have only become sharper since the LHC, the problem is that only collider experiments are relevant for them generically. If the world were less myopic now we'd invest more in R&D, but accelerator breakthroughs take time/suport🧪

Science and Technology Facilities Council told staff it needs to reduce its spending by £162 million by 2029-30, requiring “substantial savings” to be made. 😬 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Impressive to watch in NYC during snow storms PlowNYC: nyc.gov/plownyc

@cern.bsky.social 's Future Circular Collider program is scientifically well motivated. However, concerns remain regarding financing, tech development and locking the community into a long term vision. Prof @johnwomersley.bsky.social explains! Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/Uojh2... ⚛️🧪

Did you know that your old TV was an in home particle accelerator? Old cathode ray tube TVs generated particles, accelerated them, diverted them, and smashed them into a phosphor coated screen to create images! Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/4rPRg... #physics ⚛️🧪

European particle physics strategy update summary 😅

Sad to see C.N. Yang passed away, a legendary physicist who despite his achievements was also one of the most underrated physicists of the 20th century and could have won multiple Nobel prizes not just one. He put Stony Brook University on the map and left an indelible impact on the YITP ⚛️🧪

The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Because the academy seems like a great idea and such... Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us! inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853

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If you're wondering how rare the Yankees' ninth-inning Tuesday night was... it's never happened before 👀 (H/T OptaSTATS on X)

This isn’t what the article nor what the players said. Definitely abhorrent behavior by some US fans(also turns out it wasn’t thrown but knocked out of someone’s hand), but we don’t need to embellish the stories either.

Sad to see JoAnne Hewett stepping down as lab director of BNL. I think having a positive vision for a national lab is under appreciated in modern times, and JoAnne definitely brought that when she came.

Somewhere between outsourcing and crowdsourcing, gravitational wave researchers got 1,000 participants on Kaggle to create the best algorithm to identify continuous GWs (shed by a swiftly tilting neutron star). Top 10 submissions reduced compute by 1–3 orders of magnitude. arxiv.org/abs/2509.06445

Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why? David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways: -$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated -future legal challenges will be much harder w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:

Sridhara Dasu giving a great talk on accelerator/detector synergies at the 2nd US muon collider workshop, I also learned that SLD was not just the SLAC large detector but also referred to as slow lingering death 😅 🧪⚛️

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it

Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

@chrisquigg.com giving a great talk about synergies between neutrino physics and muon colliders at our GGI workshop, while wearing a potentially ominous original SSC t-shirt😅 🧪⚛️

If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood.

NASA finally posted their annual ROSES call for proposals, five months late. I was hoping to apply for the Astrophysics Theory program, which is offered every other year. This should be an on year, but it’s not there. Of course, Harvard isn’t currently eligible for federal grants anyway.

Would have preferred Alcaraz, but Sinner played great. Looks like we’re in the era of the big two for the foreseeable future.

Short summary of Senate Appropriations hearing: Bipartisan agreement to keep funding at FY '24 levels for NASA/NSF passes 21-6 Van Hollen adds an amendment on FBI HQ which passes thanks to Murkowski Republican members change votes to no, threatening the bill. Now in... indefinite recess 🤷‍♂️