Students and young postdocs—Apply by April 1 for the Summer Session of the US Particle Accelerator School uspas.fnal.gov/programs/202...

Well worth watching!

Many informative talks at the 60th Anniversary Conference of the Rencontres de Moriond moriond.in2p3.fr/60years/agen...

Action photo of my after-dinner talk at the Restaurant du Sénat, Paris, celebrating 60 years of the Rencontres de Moriond

Third- and fourth-year undergraduates: apply by 31 January for the DESY Summer Student Program, www.desy.de/f/students/2...

In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023... Happy Holidays!

For your holiday gift-giving and reading, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic....

Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics.

In celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (quantum2025.org), A New Year’s Gift for Students and Teachers of Quantum Mechanics doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Life before LaTeX …

Charming and informative conversation about the origins of USCMS and the LHC Physics Center @fermilab.bsky.social

2025 Pleasure of Reading Percival Everett, James Samantha Harvey, Orbital David Lodge, The Writing Game Han Kang, Greek Lessons Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind Gertude Stein, Paris France Mariah Fredericks, The Wharton Plot Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story

2025 Notable Reading: Public Life Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance Timothy Snyder, On Freedom Jason Stanley, Erasing History

2025 Notable Science Reading Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics Carl Zimmer, Airborne Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions Emily Monosson, Blight Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege

RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.

Digital editions of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions 30% off at press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Slides indico.cern.ch/event/148089... and video cds.cern.ch/record/2948480 for my keynote address, "From the November Revolution toward the Millennium: Discoveries, Insights, Tools," at the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics

Many excellent presentations and conversations this week @cern.bsky.social for the 4th Intl Symposium on the History of Particle Physics: indico.cern.ch/event/148089...

An exemplary recipient!

And who was Marietta Blau? A pioneer of the emulsion method. bit.ly/GraceSimplic... pp. 70–

C. N. Yang has died at age 103. Nobel Laureate for his work on parity nonconservation with T. D. Lee, he conceived non-Abelian gauge theories (now central in our efforts to describe the fundamental interactions) with Robert Mills.

Congratulations to Pierre Fayet, winner of the 2025 Larkin Award of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (UMinnesota) for pioneering the supersymmetric standard model cse.umn.edu/ftpi/larkin-...

I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.

Not a prediction, but a declaration: the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics should go to David Nygren for the conception of the Time Projection Chamber.

"Reflections on the 15-Foot Bubble Chamber at Fermilab" lss.fnal.gov/archive/misc...

And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...

Thanks to @sc.edu physics for an excellent visit and lively colloquium audience!

And do read "On Freedom," a challenging and inspiring work!

Chicago! youtu.be/6JNDa20HIz0

A thoughtful reminder of the enlightened National Defense Education Act of 1958, which immeasurably aided the development of US science and scholarship from Steven Greenblatt: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Happy 180th birthday to @sciam.bsky.social, a trustworthy and inspiring source of information (and occasional whimsy), and thanks to its exceptional staff for their insight and breadth of vision. SciAm was a beacon of my youth!

One of many pleasures of backpacking through Belgium on the GR5 (Hook of Holland to Nice) is the obligation to sample the local nectars: photos.app.goo.gl/rKMLpqeGCdX3...

The AAPT Awards Committee invites nominations for all AAPT awards, citations, and medals. Nomination deadline is December 1. ow.ly/bafO50MNP65 #AAPTAwards #AAPT #Physics #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics

The 16th International Neutrino Summer School opens today at Fermilab indico.fnal.gov/event/68891/

Anticipating the new academic year …

Slides from my July 28, 2025 talk, "Colliders: Evolution and Promise," at the GGI Workshop, Exploring the Energy Frontier with Muon Beams agenda.infn.it/event/47981/...

Fine obituary for my friend and colleague, Mary K Gaillard, who contributed greatly to the search for charmed particles and other key aspects of the standard model of particle physics: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students

As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course or enrichment.

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

I foresee the next Carl Hiaasen deconstruction of Floridian high culture.

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

For me: No evidence for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents

A question to open the day: For you, what is the most surprising result from the LHC?

Ebook versions of Gauge Theories on sale at 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Recommended (by me!) for your summer reading, now at a favorable discount for both print and ebook. www.amazon.com/Grace-All-Si...

Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...

@cmsexperiment.bsky.social in popular culture: kottke.org/25/06/large-...

RIP John Peoples, Fermilab's third director (1989–1999), a decisive scientific leader.

Newly published and worth your attention: Alec Nevala-Lee's riveting account of the life and work of Luis Alvarez (Nobel Prize 1968), bubble-chamber impresario, forensic analyst of dinosaur extinction, and much more. wwnorton.com/books/978132...