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 🤷‍♂️

Illuminating talk by @bravelittlemuon.bsky.social today on exploring the weak boson partonic content of the muon at our GGI muon collider workshop. As a community we’re developing a better sense of when it works for gapped IR free gauge theories as well as the work still needed to be done! 🧪⚛️

Only a 60M cut to NSF from Senate CJS, a LOT better than PBR!

Great talk from Kirill Melnikov about the ultimate theoretical limits/challenges for precision physics at the LHC and future colliders during our GGI muon collider workshop. ⚛️🧪

Great to be back at the GGI for our program on high energy muon collider facilities, hopefully we can continue to expand the already unparalleled physics case! ⚛️🧪 www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

Just saw July 2 was Hans Bethe’s birthday. He passed away at 97 while I was in grad school at Cornell. He wasn’t really around at that point, but maintained a well-deserved almost mythical stature on campus (at least in physics).

Amid the Trump administration's attacks on science, the National Academies are undergoing upheaval—a 30% reduction in its 1200-person staff by year's end, and possibly a vote of no confidence for its leader, Marcia McNutt. Jeff Tollefson & I report: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

HISTORY OF PHYSICS On theorists and experimentalists. Lev Landau. Speech delivered on Arpil 8, 1960. Physicists are additionally divided according to a specific principle, which is not encountered in any other science, namely: a physicist is either an experimenter or a theorist... 1/

Great opportunity to work with an awesome physicist and person on muon colliders!

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Not the biggest fan of 6 am flights, but the views of NYC coming out of LaGuardia are always nice

Pretty far away from “everything” in physics terms but a nice article on the 21cm line

That was a clutch putt