Apologies to the copy editors employed by APS who have to add "boson" after "Higgs" about 60 times in our paper for no reason other than the Physical Review being silly

European particle physics strategy update summary 😅

Computer Modern ftw

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 ⚛️🧪

If you see this post a bridge. (Roberto Clemente Bridge, Pittsburgh)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Can confirm lol.

Important:

Awful news: CMB-S4 is cancelled. This experiment was massively exciting for the cosmology community. It would have told us about the state of the universe some 400,000 years after the big bang, at a level of precision we can now only dream about ⚛️🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

My heart is with my Iranian friends and their families. May everyone live.

The president's budget proposal cuts billions in funding from the DOE Office of Science, NIST, NASA, and the NSF — but there’s still time to change it. Tell your lawmakers why they should stand up for science using our letter-writing toolkit, targeted to your state: go.aps.org/3RP9EWF

It continues to astound me just how much everything can be so awful and so unserious at the same time

atmospheric signatures of life: the “Majorana quasiparticles” of planetary astronomy

Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, orders that all recipients be notified of the TRO within 24 hours and that a compliance report be filed with the report within 48 hours. TRO: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Colored Feynman diagrams from MadGraph? Is this their April Fools' Day celebration this year?

Belle-II weighs in on the RD/RD* anomaly? 👀 (indico.in2p3.fr/event/35965/...)

Hard to overstate how disruptive this will be for a generation of particle physicists, specifically

Ashoke Sen with a response to III: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07883 But missed the opportunity to title it “New Ideas for Old Physicists”

Not sure how I should feel about this page being linked from the calendar with my seminar later this week 😅 physics.illinois.edu/calendar/sem... (But @mrocek.bsky.social might appreciate it)

At the risk of Tom thinking I have it out for him, Section 1 being "Introduction" and Section 2 being "Conclusions" I think is a paper format we can all aspire to arxiv.org/abs/2502.01367

We have enough institutions collapsing this month without the dictionary posting this nonsense…

Irrationally upset by the number formatting being different in each of these papers: arxiv.org/abs/2208.08959 arxiv.org/abs/2307.15812 arxiv.org/abs/2501.17697

This search covers the ~10 GHz range, that's more than enough of an excuse to make the prefix "Wonder" instead of "Giga" arxiv.org/abs/2501.17119

One of the most impactful (for me) technological breakthroughs in my career has been the arXiv fixing the "TeX Source" button to download a properly named .tar file.

My resolution this year is to spend a little bit of time each day thinking about the Roman Empire

Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)

Just got a citation request before even seeing that the paper was on the arXiv 🤣

Today I learned there's a double beta decay experiment named PIKACHU (Pure Inorganic scintillator experiment in KAmioka for CHallenging Underground sciences) which seems pretty clearly aimed at some of my old interests... arxiv.org/abs/2412.04712

Surely some kind of record: Yesterday we re-submitted a paper to address some questions from the referee. They got it, responded, and it was accepted, all in under 3 hours! I’m happy, but now also a bit ashamed at the usual turnaround time for reports I write…

Every timeout Kirby calls has me more convinced he’s actually Ted Cruz

Thankful for the apparent meta-stability of the Higgs vacuum today 🙏 (figure from arxiv.org/abs/1707.08124)

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I expect I know the answer, but still find it remarkable that so many institutions insist on using Interfolio when it's so incredibly bad at the really simple task it's built for and surely costs much, much more than most of the alternatives...

Not sure if there's a single book, but Langacker is underrated imo (and great as a reference)

i voted, here's why substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why doesn’t CERN have a mascot?

Going to start waking up every morning scared that Jim Cline is going to eviscerate my work out of nowhere from now on...

I have a lot of misgivings about all my work being on Overleaf nowadays, but for starters, why is every remotely mathematical/scientific word excluded from its dictionary??

A bit late, but Dan Garisto had a nice story last month in MIT Tech Review about the current state and future of particle physics at the energy frontier. I was quoted a few times, mostly for my enthusiasm following last year's P5 report: www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/20/1...

A nice article about the path towards a muon collider in Science this week: www.science.org/content/arti...

Highlights of the P5 report are up!

There are a lot of bizarre minus signs and factors of two out there that exist only for historical reasons, but is there any more obnoxious than the sqrt(2) in the Fermi constant?

Well, I finally made it on here, I might as well make use of it... In case anybody was curious what I've been up to, my friends at Harvard and I just finished some work on zero modes on axion strings: arxiv.org/abs/2310.01476 (my first time posting on hep-th!)