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Particle theory postdoc at Cornell, formerly Harvard and Stony Brook. Atlanta baseball fan
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Ashoke Sen with a response to III: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07883 But missed the opportunity to title it “New Ideas for Old Physicists”

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Not sure how I should feel about this page being linked from the calendar with my seminar later this week 😅 physics.illinois.edu/calendar/sem... (But @mrocek.bsky.social might appreciate it)

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

At the risk of Tom thinking I have it out for him, Section 1 being "Introduction" and Section 2 being "Conclusions" I think is a paper format we can all aspire to arxiv.org/abs/2502.01367

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We have enough institutions collapsing this month without the dictionary posting this nonsense…

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Irrationally upset by the number formatting being different in each of these papers: arxiv.org/abs/2208.08959 arxiv.org/abs/2307.15812 arxiv.org/abs/2501.17697

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This search covers the ~10 GHz range, that's more than enough of an excuse to make the prefix "Wonder" instead of "Giga" arxiv.org/abs/2501.17119

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most impactful (for me) technological breakthroughs in my career has been the arXiv fixing the "TeX Source" button to download a properly named .tar file.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

My resolution this year is to spend a little bit of time each day thinking about the Roman Empire

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Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

Just got a citation request before even seeing that the paper was on the arXiv 🤣

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Today I learned there's a double beta decay experiment named PIKACHU (Pure Inorganic scintillator experiment in KAmioka for CHallenging Underground sciences) which seems pretty clearly aimed at some of my old interests... arxiv.org/abs/2412.04712

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Surely some kind of record: Yesterday we re-submitted a paper to address some questions from the referee. They got it, responded, and it was accepted, all in under 3 hours! I’m happy, but now also a bit ashamed at the usual turnaround time for reports I write…

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Every timeout Kirby calls has me more convinced he’s actually Ted Cruz

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Thankful for the apparent meta-stability of the Higgs vacuum today 🙏 (figure from arxiv.org/abs/1707.08124)

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

I expect I know the answer, but still find it remarkable that so many institutions insist on using Interfolio when it's so incredibly bad at the really simple task it's built for and surely costs much, much more than most of the alternatives...

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Not sure if there's a single book, but Langacker is underrated imo (and great as a reference)

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