I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

Triste noticia: ha fallecido nuestro compañero Pepe Bernabéu, figura absolutamente clave de la física en Valencia. Sad news: our colleague Pepe Bernabéu has passed away, an absolutely key figure in physics in Valencia.

NYUAD HEP Phenomenology group invites applications to a post-doctoral associate position. Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/173645

Today LHCb presented a new measurement of the decay of a B meson into a K* and a μ+ μ- pair Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees! 🧵1/6

THREAD: Resurgence or: How do physicists keep getting away with ignoring infinitely big things? I wrote about this back when everyone was still on twitter. Someone asked me a question and I think it's an excellent occasion to repost the thread. 1/20

No, theoretical physics isn’t broken; it’s just very hard There are many asserting that "theoretical physics is broken," and that's why there haven't been revolutionary new advances recently. On the other hand, maybe today's problems are just very hard. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics

HISTORY OF PHYSICS Unifying Hadrons with SU(3) Symmetry: On the discovery of the SU(3) Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula Early in the 20th century, the recognized elementary particles were the electron, proton, and neutron, along with the neutrino. After the discovery of mesons 1/

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.

Tomorrow Wednesday July 2, Xavier Bertou will balk about "Probing the Dark Sector One Electron at a Time: Skipper CCDs and the DAMIC-M Experiment" lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/w...

On Wednesday we will have Amitayus Banik talking about "The Sound of Dark Sectors in Pulsar Timing Arrays" lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/w...

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

Not good news for gravitational-wave or multimessenger astronomy "In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two [LIGO] sites and will support a reduced level for technology development" ☄️⚛️🧪🔭

The attack on basic science in the USA is real: The National Science Foundation just killed half of the Nobel prize winning LIGO experiments (essentially meaning: LIGO can no longer see where a gravitational wave comes from, just that it was there)

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Sad news for physics: Mary K Gaillard and Jonathan Rosner passed away. RIP 🙏 Mary K was on the original paper coining the word Penguin. Jon has followed closely and inspired @lhcb.bsky.social's exotics spectroscopy programme.

I just had to think about an interesting fact I learned a good week ago, which I had not realized before: CMS will have a track trigger in the HL-LHC based on independent track pT measurements in each double-layered silicon module; but ATLAS *can't do that*. This will be a major difference. Why? 1/4

Join us this Wednesday for a new #lawphysics webinar! This time we have #KevinKelly, who will tell us about searches for BSM physics at #neutrino experiments. Don't miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/w...

Neutrinos may or may not be shrinking, but this is a great new result from the KATRIN experiment: new direct upper limit on the (effective electron) neutrino mass of 0.45 eV (90% CL). This comes from precision measurements of tritium β-decays in a huge spectrometer: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This — and has been for a while — an all-hands-on-deck emergency situation for anyone who cares about the welfare of the world.

Hi all, we are having a new #lawphysics webinar this Wednesday! Neutrino factories are back! We will have #JuliaGehrlein giving a talk on this future facility. Don't miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/w...

[Press Update] CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ac...

Next in LAWPHYSICS: Tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 March, 15:00 UTC (10:00 am US Central time). Claudio Toni (LAPTh, France) will talk about "The Atomki anomalies and the X17". Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKRP...

This Wednesday we will have a #lawphysics webinar by #ClaudioToni. He will give an update on the #atomki anomaly, and the consequences on the #x17 boson interpretation. Don't miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/w...

Anyone here is discussing or made a thread on the DESi results??!!! 🤓

Combining data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument with data from other experiments shows signs that the impact of dark energy may be weakening over time—and the standard model of how the universe works may need an update. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/new-... 🧪 #physics

Worth a read! arxiv.org/abs/2503.05658

I a few hours, we will have a #lawphysics webinar by #MartinHirsch on long-lived heavy neutrinos. Don’t miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/w...

New preprint of High Energy Group at #PUCP "Bounds on neutrino-DM interactions from TXS 0506+056 neutrino outburst" #AlbertoGago JJP #GabrielZapata Link: arxiv.org/abs/2503.03823

"Physicists born this year will be the first generation to work on a potential operational FCC." True! ✅ The study for a Future Circular Collider (FCC) is underway, and if decided, it’s planned to be operational between 2045-2050. We are working today for the scientists of tomorrow! 🔬

Starting soon!

LAWPHYSICS is turning TEN years old! We celebrate a decade of bringing high energy physics research anywhere you can connect to YouTube! Join us for a special webinar tomorrow, Feb. 21, 15:00 UTC lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...

Dear all, please join us this Friday, as #lawphysics becomes 10 years old. We have four special guests, and plan to have a conversation regarding the status and perspectives for Latin American #HighEnergy, #Cosmology and #Astroparticle Physics. lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...

The most energetic neutrino ever observed just smashed into the Mediterranean and left a signal that was picked up by the K3Mnet neutrino telescope 2400m under the sea At the moment we don't really know where this neutrino came from, nor should they really be there. A short 🧵1/10

HISTORY OF PHYSICS What's wrong with this Lagrangean? by David Mermin. [This is so funny that I'll post it in full]

📢KM3NET DETECTS THE HIGHEST ENERGY NEUTRINO EVER OBSERVED This #KM3NeT_UHE event KM3-230213A is estimated to have a record neutrino energy of 220 PeV, or 220 million billion electronvolts ➡️For details: www.km3net.org/km3net-webin... #RecordNeutrino

My reaction to learning that most of the quantum pioneers were in their 20s when they made their big discoveries In my 20s: Well, at least Schrodinger was 38 when he made his big discovery At 39: Oh well 🧪

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

On Wednesday, Jaime Hoefken Zimt will talk about Dark Matter Interactions in White Dwarfs – A Multi-Energy Approach to Capture Mechanisms lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/w...

Finally, we get to the first #lawphysics webinar of the year! This Wednesday we have #JaimeHoefken giving a talk on #DarkMatter interactions within #WhiteDwarfs. Don't miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/w...

JWST fully solves the mystery of “Little Red Dots” How did those "Little Red Dot" galaxies get so bright and abundant so early on? It isn't just stars at work, but an active and _overmassive_ black hole, too. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...

Types of physics talks 🧵⚛️ The Student talk: Hi guys I did a thing 😊 😊 Please don’t hurt me.

Our colleagues at TIB have an opening to work on INSPIRE content selection. It's a great opportunity for someone interested in transition out of academia by using their HEP knowledge on an exciting ML project. Please share and get in touch for more info! inspirehep.net/jobs/2858518

#Indico is the most valuable contribution of #cern to humanity this century. I m at #neurips the >10000 attendees AI conference. Physicists, can you imagine the speaker flashing a QRcode at the beginning of his talk “my slides are there “ ? Or a whole 90’ session with several unannounced talks ?

Scientist types as #DnD classes: Fighter: The best way to approach any problem is to do an experiment first and ask questions later (assuming there is any question left to ask). Very high volume of fire, but needs a constant stream of money to pay for fancier and fancier equipment. 1/

Tomorrow, our guest at LAWPHYSICS will be Jack Shergold (IFIC Valencia), who will talk about the cosmic neutrino background. Join us! Wednesday, November 27, 15:00 UTC (9:00 am Chicago). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_5H...

This Wednesday we have a #lawphysics webinar on the #cosmic #neutrino background, given by #JackDShergold. This will be the last webinar of the year, do not miss it! lawphysics.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/w...