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I just gave my first of 3 @CERN Summer Student Lectures on Flavour Physics. Here's the one(ish)-minute recap. Full slides here: indico.cern.ch/event/1132632/
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Mark Williams
@QuarkWilliams
Particle Physicist funded by the @royalsociety, based at @Edinburgh_PPE. If you can't find me in my office I'm probably reading, running, or lifting stuff.
Edinburgh, UK Katılım Kasım 2017
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My plot of new hadrons found at the LHC made it to
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This but make it hyphen
Ben Galley@BenGalley
This morning I have spent 30 minutes deciding on the placement of a comma. Best job ever.
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@WKCosmo Right, but this forces authors to be explicit - no recourse to ignorance should AI misconduct be uncovered downstream
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@QuarkWilliams If I'm not committing academic misconduct, what is there to disclose? If I am committing academic misconduct, do you think I'm going to fill that in the little box?
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The problem with this is that there is a huge difference between "please format this csv file into a LaTeX table" and "please write 5000 words on string theory." One of them is academic misconduct and one isn't.
Nirmalya Kajuri@Kaju_Nut
Why do academic journals ask for disclosure of any use of AI in the paper? We don't have to list every tool used (like Mathematica) and the responsibility for the correctness of the results lies with authors, with or without AI. Thoughts?
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"I was born in a family of refugees, and my parents could barely read or write. My father finished sixth grade and my mother couldn’t read or write. It’s quite a journey. Science allows you to do it. Science is the greatest equalising force in the world."
The Nobel Prize@NobelPrize
This year’s chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born in Amman, Jordan, in 1965 to parents who were refugees from Palestine. When we spoke to him he shared his story: “I grew up in a very humble home, we were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to raise. I was born in a family of refugees, and my parents could barely read or write. My father finished sixth grade and my mother couldn’t read or write. It’s quite a journey. Science allows you to do it. Science is the greatest equalising force in the world. Smart people, talented people, skilled people exist everywhere. That’s why we really should focus on unleashing their potential through providing them with opportunity.” Today Yaghi shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their work developing metal–organic frameworks. Learn more about the prize: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…
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I gave this talk OTD in Fermilab's Ramsey Auditorium, in a celebratory event.
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Happy "End of Tevatron Operations" anniversary to all who celebrate (14 years!)
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I did this once! A nice person at the American Airlines desk rebooked me at no cost onto a different flight (from the airport I'd mistakenly arrived at).
Normalise arriving at the wrong airport!
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Heading to catch a flight? Make sure you’re going to the right airport. Seriously. Customer service managers at Dulles and National said travelers confuse the D.C.-area airports on an almost daily basis. wapo.st/3KyU8h7
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@nationalbook @NewYorker Do you have the list on a site that's not behind a paywall? Thanks!
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We are excited to announce the 2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction! | @NewYorker
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I'm at the Lepton-Photon conference in Madison, WI, this week. Among a great group of physicists there are three textbook legends: Michael Peskin, Francis Halzen, and Mark Thomson. I should have brought my book copies to get them autographed 📕😎
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🚨: Yes, it’s possible to safely jump into a black hole, scientists say
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@BristOliver e.g. do they carbonate the birthing pool water?
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@BristOliver Out of context, I found myself wondering how home births generate more CO2 than hospital births...
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@jamestanton Under a small angle approximation, that you'd dropped 12 metres in altitude
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Today's Pedagogical Puzzle:
What exactly does this road sign mean?
If I drive 100 meters down the road, I could then say ...?
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Surely, the energy comes from humans having to do additional work walking, so you’re shifting power generation to an inefficient biological engine that then needs to eat more food - with its attendant C02 emissions.
Not convinced this does anything, but happy to see data.
Science girl@sciencegirl
Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity
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Well, this is neat - fully-reconstructed B* -> Bγ decays, and order-of-magnitude improvement on their masses. Chapeau CMS! arxiv.org/abs/2508.05820
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The Higgs Centre is delighted to announce The New Directions in Theoretical Physics 5 conference will take place from Tuesday the 6th of January 2026 to Friday 9th of January 2026. For more information and to register, please visit the event indico here - edin.ac/3JivLU8
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Started work on this today - lots of fun stuff to share next month!
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