Christmas decorations display live neutrinos in the Southern French deep sea... www.nikhef.nl/en/news/kers... Merry Christmas! @km3net.bsky.social

Do you see the particles flying through our detector representation @nikhef.bsky.social?! #KM3NeT #Neutrino #Detector #Particle #Physics #Astrophysics #Outreach

After a wonderful 50th anniversary year in 2025, the management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2026. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nikh...

AI is rapidly becoming an indispensable technology in particle and astroparticle physics. To accelerate scientific discovery, Nikhef is establishing a dedicated AI R&D group to enable more, faster and better science across all its research programmes. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/arti...

... en daarna op bezoek bij @nikhef.bsky.social (nederlands instituut voor deeltjesfysica), waar o.a. het world wide web mede is 'uitgevonden' (nikhef.nl was in 1992 één van de drie internetsite ter wereld; de andere waren cern en slac)

Nikhef director Jorgen D’Hondt has appointed two associate directors to support him in representing Nikhef in national and international forums in particle and astroparticle physics. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/new-...

The CERN Council has released the recommendations of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. These were finalised in early December during a session in Ancona, Switzerland. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/euro...

The ALICE experiment at CERN has unravelled the formation of light atomic nuclei that are occasionally produced in collisions in the LHC accelerator. They are publishing their findings today in the scientific journal Nature. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/alic...

Theoretisch natuurkundige Jordy de Vries van de UvA en Nikhef ontvangt een ERC-beurs voor precisieberekeningen aan ondermeer drie vormen van bètaverval. Dat zou zonder grotere versnellers toch een aantal fysische raadsels kunnen beantwoorden. www.nikhef.nl/news/theoret...

Leuk dat jullie er waren! 🤩

Goed begin vd week voor 1e/2e jaars @nikhef.bsky.social PhDs! De onderzoeksschool organiseert regelmatig 'topical lectures (coördinator - @fladias.bsky.social). Deze week: neutrino's. Schitterende line-up 🤩. Niet de bedoeling dat we als staf aansluiten ... maar misschien doe ik het stiekem toch 🤫

It's a wrap! No more #LHC collisions this year - it's time for the "year end technical stop" op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/

One month ago the Beam Splitter (BS) tower was installed in the bottom part of the vacuum vessel at #ETpathfinder. Now that all filters have been tuned, the vacuum vessel can be closed. @maastrichtu.bsky.social @nikhef.bsky.social @einsteintelescope.bsky.social youtu.be/6-TxZI1W8tA

Merry Christmas Tree! 😀😍🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

PhD candidate Clara Gatius from Nikhef used the KM3NeT neutrino detector at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to search for dark matter. Watch the PAPERCLIP video in which Clara explains her thesis: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh1F...

The interaction of the heaviest known particles may offer insight into processes beyond the reach of existing accelerators. NWO is funding new research into the dance of top quarks with Higgs particles. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/danc...

PAPERCLIP video: How do you hang a mirror noise-free? Jesse van Dongen explains his thesis: www.nikhef.nl/en/focusblok... @egovirgo.bsky.social

Dit is je laatste kans om je Profielwerkstuk op Nikhef te doen! Voor 5 december zijn er nog een paar plekken vrij...

This week a huge poster is installed in a busy @nikhef.bsky.social corridor where the R&D department is housed with a view to the Nikhef R&D setup at @cern.bsky.social H8 beamline: youtube.com/shorts/nc8my...

A major replacement of all Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and batteries in the @nikhef.bsky.social (National Institute for Subatomic Physics) Data Center is underway. youtube.com/shorts/ZB0Pv...

Heavy-ion season underway 💪 On 14 November at 3:40 pm, a new #HeavyIon run started at the Large Hadron Collider, colliding lead ions at an energy of 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair.

#ThrowbackThursday to 1976 👷 Here we see an electrical vehicle called Pefra, which was often used by scientists and technicians to move around the 7km Super Proton Synchrotron’s (SPS) underground tunnel.

🏳️‍🌈 Yesterday it was #LGBTSTEMDAY #LGBTSTEMDAY #LGBTQIASTEMDAY! 🌈 We'd like to share the view of our management on KM3NeT as an inclusive working environment in STEM 🏳️‍🌈 And we'd like to remind you of: Diversity and Inclusion (lnkd.in/eQ4yBJuK) Code of Conduct & Ethical behaviour (lnkd.in/eUirycxc)

The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational wave detectors are today completing their longest observation period ever. The result: more than 250 new space-time vibrations in two and a half years. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/grav... @egovirgo.bsky.social @ligo.org

Eighty PhD students and postdocs are participating this week in the first international PHYSTAT winter school on artificial intelligence and statistics. In The Netherlands, organised by Nikhef. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nikh...

This week, the Netherlands contributed its national input to the discussion on the new European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP). This involves more than just choosing a larger accelerator, says Eric Laenen, member of the ESPP Strategy Group. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/fcc-...

Op een speciale bijeenkomst op CERN hebben de lidstaten eind vorige week besloten de studies naar een toekomstige deeltjesversneller voort te zetten. Fysisch is het project favoriet, maar meer huiswerk is gewenst, aldus de raad. www.nikhef.nl/news/cern-li...

The 4th Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting has started in Opatija, hosted by the University of Rijeka. Over the next four days, participants will discuss key aspects of the ET collaboration and design — shaping the future of #gravitationalwave research.

Ik ga zometeen de stad in om een papieren @trouw.nl te kopen. Moeten jullie ook doen. Leuk artikel over een nieuw (en gehonoreerd) idee van @nikhef.bsky.social onderzoeker @ernst-janbuis.bsky.social: neutrino’s detecteren mbv geluid. Bijvangst: communicerende walvissen! Artikel van Jean-Paul Keulen

NWO Roadmap funding for two key Nikhef projects: KM3NeT and fast detectors www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nwo-...

Watch our Science & Society video now and be inspired! youtu.be/uf25aYpMWFY

Er zijn nog plekken beschikbaar voor het Profielwerkstuk op Nikhef op 5 December... Geef je snel op! outreach.web.nikhef.nl/profielwerks...

A week ago, on Thursday, October 30, 2025 @nikhef.bsky.social (National Institute for Subatomic Physics) celebrated its 50th anniversary with 250 participants, six external speakers, a panel discussion, an inspiring Nikhef video about Science & Society and the six former directors at the Rode Hoed:

See here the last installation day (8) of the spectacular Artwork by Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, which was unveiled two and a half weeks ago in the lobby of the newly renovated @nikhef.bsky.social Title: An Improbable Super Event youtu.be/DF-3Li0kpVs

Inspiring science and society was the theme of today’s meeting at the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, organised by Nikhef with representatives from government, business and education. Nikhef is once again marking its 50th anniversary with this event. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nikh... #nikhef50

It was a very festive opportunity to talk about everything particle physics today! #nikhef50

Mark Thomson, the next Director General @cern.bsky.social talked about collider physics at CERN and right now, Robbert Dijkgraaf is taking us through the future of European Science #nikhef50

The Nikhef50 festivities have started at De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam! #nikhef50

We zijn klaar voor de 50 jaar Nikhef festiviteiten in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam! #Nikhef50

Gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have observed two recent collisions of black holes that appear to originate from previous collisions. www.nikhef.nl/en/news/ligo... @egovirgo.bsky.social @ligo.org

See how well the new artwork by Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch is visible from outside @nikhef.bsky.social (National Institute for Subatomic Physics)

‪Here is a summary of the second day of the installation of the spectacular Artwork by Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, which was unveiled last week (October 16) in the lobby of the newly renovated @nikhef.bsky.social Title: An Improbable Super Event youtu.be/gugNEdTZzFU

Lausitz in Saxony officially a third candidate location for the Einstein Telescope www.nikhef.nl/en/news/laus...

Nieuw kunstwerk bij de ingang van het @nikhef.bsky.social. Gisteren onthuld door de kunstenaar, Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch

Watch the 'making of' video of the new gorgeous art work by Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, installed in the newly renovated Nikhef building in Amsterdam! Video by @mjkraan.bsky.social youtu.be/XVlgN5WzeDY

The day after the unveiling of Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch's artwork in the entrance hall of @nikhef.bsky.social (National Institute for Subatomic Physics), Jop is still 'present' on video 😊

Kunstenaar Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch en opdrachtgever Nikhef hebben vandaag in de hal van het gerenoveerde instituut in Amsterdam een spectaculair dynamisch lichtschilderij onthuld. www.nikhef.nl/news/een-exp...

Today at 4:30 PM, the unveiling of Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch's artwork in the entrance hall of @nikhef.bsky.social (National Institute for Subatomic Physics): An incredibly super event

Vandaag wordt op Nikhef het kunstwerk (door Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch) voor ons recent gerenoveerde gebouw onthuld ... Vanmiddag ook een onthulling hier op Bluesky! 🥳

🚨 New positions 🚨 We have two open PhD positions, and one postdoc position, to search for double-Higgs production in the LHC Run-3 data, together with the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social group at @nikhef.bsky.social: jobs.nikhef.nl