GoLP Day 2025 continues with the second part of the day, starting with an interactive game to spark discussion on the core values of our group and the hosting university @istecnico.bsky.social

#GoLPDay2025 poster session going strong! @golp-ist.bsky.social #IPFN @istecnico.bsky.social at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences

Our organization team @bolhaomuinos.bsky.social #ClaudiaRomao has everything ready for the next GoLP Day, this friday, back at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences!

I was recently with Carlos Fiolhais and Gonçalo M. Tavares in the Astrolábio TV show (thank you vey much for the invitation!) to talk about physics, art, and ethics (🇵🇹) Video here👇 www.nowcanal.pt/programas/de...

Four new MSc graduates @golp-ist.bsky.social #eppteam: Francisco A (radiation reaction in non ideal fields, top left), João J (RR & GR, bottom right), Manuel R (theory/sim fireball instabilities, bottom left), Margarida P (ML with PIC data, top right). Congratulations to all! 🎉🎊

My most recent op-ed on the 25 de novembro (de 1915) 👇

LA + Monuments

Our most recent paper is out on PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ) in the Oxford led collaboration where @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social plays a role on theory and simulations (with @pablojbilbao.com and Filipe C)

INCREDIBLE GAME INCREDIBLE SERIES INCREDIBLE SEASON THE @DODGERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPS 🏆 (MLB x GEICO)

Thinking of patenting my favorite method for ranking researchers: reading their papers and deciding whether they are good.

Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, Peter Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.”

Ready for the weekend!

We are ready for the announcement (and so are the Natas): @golp-ist.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social viewing gathering about to start!

This is going to be fantastic (and live! @istecnico.bsky.social ) 👇

Consagre-se Elmore Leonard www.publico.pt/2025/07/07/o...

Excellent, for kids and grown ups! 👇

"Beradt feels she must prove what she doesn’t have to prove, at least not so relentlessly — that fascism seeps into every crevice of life." Laurie Winer considers Charlotte Beradt's “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/things-still-to-be-salvaged/

Born #OnThisDay in 1831 was James Clerk Maxwell FRS. Considered one of the most talented physicists of all time, one of his many achievements was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together electricity, magnetism and light as aspects of the same phenomenon.

Amanhã na Feira do Livro de Lisboa, a apresentação de “Uma Ideia de Ciência” #ffms da @joanagsa.bsky.social com a @monicabettencourt.bsky.social e a Miriam Alves 👇

And a spectacular movie of four wave mixing in the nonlinear quantum vacuum by Lily Zhang (Oxford) showing light being generated from light-light (3 lasers) interaction in vacuum 👇

New paper in Communications Physics, a collaboration between @oxfordphysics.bsky.social and @istecnico.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social - a new tool to explore the extreme quantum vacuum. Work by Lily Zhang (Ox) et al at Peter Norreys’ team, and also with Rui T and Thomas G @golp-ist.bsky.social

The open link to @physicsworld.bsky.social piece on out paper is now here 👇

Congratulations @golp-ist.bsky.social members with teaching (T) & academic (A) awards @istecnico.bsky.social day 2025 - front row (left to right): @thales-silva.bsky.social (T) @diogodcarvalho.bsky.social (T) Gonçalo A (A), João J (T+A), José M (A) back: Gonçalo F (T), Jorge V (T), Afonso S (A) 🎉🎊

My most recent op-ed Jornal i about a recent debate at the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa on Science in the new political cycle and the general elections from last Sunday. ionline.sapo.pt/2025/05/20/a... 👇

Our recent paper @physrevd.bsky.social @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social by Kevin S and Nitin S was also picked by @physicsworld.bsky.social 👇

Why humanities are important for engineers (also in their training) @spectrum.ieee.org - of relevance also @istecnico.bsky.social: “if you take a moment to reflect on your training, conduct, and professional identity, you may realize that you owe much of this to the humanities.”

Science in the UK in 15 years - report from the Royal Society 👇

A Acad Ciências de Lisboa e o Conselho dos Labs Associados acolheram um debate, focado na ciência, com representantes do PSD, PS, CH, IL, BE, PCP e L - moderação @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social , comentários @joanagsa.bsky.social @speraltalisboa.bsky.social Miguel Seabra e @pedrobizarro.bsky.social 👇

Plasmas on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a @oxfordphysics.bsky.social - @istecnico.bsky.social paper 🎉 with @thales-silva.bsky.social @pablojbilbao.com @golp-ist.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@pablojbilbao.com prepared a summary, with the key messages and main results, of our most recent paper 👇

Thank you @publico.pt for the very nice newspiece about our recent work in Science Advances with @pablojbilbao.com @thales-silva.bsky.social developed @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social 👇 www.publico.pt/2025/04/21/c...

Here is the @physicsmagazine.bsky.social story 👇

Can plasma physics help constrain models for dark electromagnetism? Yes, it can. Letter in PhysRev D (Editor’s Suggestion) and a very nice feature in @physicsmagazine.bsky.social physics.aps.org/articles/v18... @golp-ist.bsky.social with Nitin S and Kevin S

@golp-ist.bsky.social at Dia Aberto @istecnico.bsky.social 2025 !

Now accepted for publication as a Letter in Physical Review D @apsphysics.bsky.social - @golp-ist.bsky.social @istecnico.bsky.social with Nitin S and Kevin S 🎉

Plasmas, Lasers, Fusion and Neutron Stars for the future scientists in Visão Júnior (Jan - Feb 2025)

A new anthology of António Maria Lisboa - “An extreme poetry” - selection and introduction by Joana Matos Frias (Letras/ULisboa) Penguin Clássicos @penguinlivros.bsky.social

My most recent recent op-ed @ Jornal i - recent events show a striking parallel with the early days of authoritarian contexts - I suggest a re-read of @philipcball.bsky.social ‘s “Serving the Reich” to understand the challenges and dilemas scientists are facing 👇

“They think they will reap the rewards of what follows. But they will also pay the price.” 👇

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

This is Paul Rosbaud, science editor for Naturwissenschaften (and a spy for the Allies), on events in 1933. From Serving The Reich.

Definitely a “must read” given all the turmoil worldwide and what this means for science and scientists (their families, their institutions, and the ethical dilemmas) @philipcball.bsky.social writes beautifully - not focused on Einstein, but his ethical standing is everywhere in this book

Isabel Sá-Correia has been elected Secretary General of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. Professors Luís Oliveira e Silva, Hélder Rodrigues, Carlos de Sousa Oliveira and Isabel Ribeiro will also take up positions at the institution. 🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/4b2bkbwp #TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa

Happy Holidays from everyone @golp-ist.bsky.social !

Wire mix: Rafael Toral The Portuguese experimentalist creates an exclusive mix of tracks that have been inspiring his own music in recent times www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

Another episode is out 👇

You can’t judge people only by how they treat you. The true test of character is how they treat those they don't like or need. Even if someone is kind to you, proceed with caution if they’re consistently unkind to others. Selective civility is a sign of deep-seated hostility.

New @golp-ist.bsky.social preprint (with Wenlong Z and Thomas G) - in e-e+ colliders beam pinch at the in (while e-e- diverge), while we find that, with disruption and SF-QED, e-e- also pinch/ compress, B field is amplified, moving into the non perturbative QED regime 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2412.09398