Next up in the talks from the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium: Nima Arkani-Hamed offers Two Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate. (He previously was giving three cheers, but he's changed his mind just a bit.) Comments from me, of all people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QL...

Join us for the department's Resnick Lecture today at 3:30PM in Schafler Auditorium featuring Don Lincoln from @Fermilab presenting "Talking about science: Engaging the media, the government, students, and your mom"

Today's department-wide colloquium is at 4pm and will feature Ashvin Vishwanath from Harvard present "The Return of Anyons: From twisted layers to quantum platforms." Please join us in Schafler Auditorium!

Join our department-wide colloquium today at 3:30 in Schfler Auditorium - Matthew Evans from MIT will present "Gravitational Waves: Sources and Next-Gen Observatories"

Today the honorary pewter crab mallet was passed from the department's outgoing Chair, Bob Leheny, to the incoming Chair, Tyrel McQueen. Thank you Bob and good luck Tyrel! Special thanks to Kelley Key for organizing the "Welcome Back" Crab Feast for the department

Tonight! 7pm at Guilford Hall Brewing - 3 FREE astronomy talks for Astronomy On Tap!

Please read Adam Reiss' new important new article, "My Recent Experience Advocating for Science" on @aas.org aas.org/posts/news/2...

The department gets their first look at the largest and fastest astronomical camera every built from the Rubin Observatory! #RubinFirstLook #capturethecosmos @vrubinobs.bsky.social

The Rubin Observatory watch party is underway! @vrubinobs.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook #capturethecosmos

Graduate student Xiaolong Li preps the department with a seminar on the background of the Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social #RubinFirstLook #capturethecosmos

Today's the day — it's officially T-0! GET READY: Your full First Look at images from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is just hours away! We're about to reveal the preview of the greatest cosmic movie ever made 🎬 #RubinFirstLook #CaptureTheCosmos 🔭🧪 ⌚️ 11am US EDT 🔗: ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

The new 90 GHz telescope receiver has arrived at the CLASS site! 📡✨ The team pictured will now assemble and test the receiver before putting it on the telescope! #NSFfunded

Fun piece from @rossandersen.bsky.social about the "Hubble tension"--the problem that different methods for measuring the expansion of the universe give apparently incompatible results, which is leading some researchers to believe that something is drastically wrong with standard cosmological ideas.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Reiss is the focus of the new article by Ross Andersen published in @theatlantic.com "The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong"

Congratulations to astrophysicist Rosemary F.G. Wyse on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences. @jhuphysicsastro.bsky.social hub.jhu.edu/2025/05/01/r...

JHU Physics Fair Returns! THIS SATURDAY - 4/26 - 11am - 5pm, Throughout Bloomberg Center - “Professor Extraordinaire," Ibou Bah, will present “The Waviness of Things” at 12:30pm and 4:30pm that is sure to be a highlight! Full schedule and details: physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/events/annua...

Mindscape 310 | Marc Kamionkowski on Dark Energy and Cosmic Anomalies. Is evidence accumulating that we need to change the standard ΛCDM cosmological model? #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Music for the Stars featured in KSAS Magazine! magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/03/musi... via @jhuartssciences.bsky.social

It was an honor to host Eric Cornell as 2025 Brickwedde Lecturer in Physics last week! Recordings of his two talks are now available for department members to watch: livejohnshopkins.sharepoint.com/sites/Physic...

Mark your calendars for the return of the department's PHYSICS FAIR - April 26, 2025, 11 - 5 at Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on the Homewood campus! physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/events/annua...

Welcome David DeMille, who joins @JohnsHopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atomic/Molecular Physics and Precision Measurement. A pioneering physicist, DeMille is joining the Hub for Imaging and Quantum Technologies cluster. (1/4) hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/03/d...

Music for the Stars concert is THIS THURSDAY, 2/27, at 7:30PM in Bloomberg Center for Physics & Astronomy! FREE!!

Johns Hopkins study led by Marco Chiaberge hints at a likely way to counter cartilage damage in long space journeys - Jumping! hub.jhu.edu/2025/02/13/a... #spacetravel

Technicians have successfully integrated NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s payload—the telescope, instrument carrier, and two instruments—to the spacecraft that will deliver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function while there. 🔭 🧪

🎉The department’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been named an Outstanding Chapter for 2024 by @aip.bsky.social! Criteria for Outstanding SPS Chapter recognition includes participation in SPS meetings, outreach efforts, and student recruitment 🎉

#NewResearch: "White dwarfs are one of the best characterized stars that we can work with to test underlying theories of run-of-the-mill physics in hopes that maybe we can find something wacky pointing to new fundamental physics," said Nicole Crumpler hub.jhu.edu/2024/12/18/w...

In a new paper published by The Astrophysical Journal today, a team led by PhD candidate Nicole Crumpler has detected a long-theorized but very subtle effect in the White Dwarf “mass-radius relation.” physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/2024/12/18/j...