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Academic freedom is under attack. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #universities #university #highereducation #academicfreedom

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Well, this is a thought-provoking one :) "While the technical challenges are formidable [...]" arxiv.org/abs/2504.10942

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Als DMS een teken van leven is dan zit er plankton op komeet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko en in een gaswolk in het centrum van de Melkweg. www.standaard.be/natuur-en-we...

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Science is reporting that DOGE is at NSF. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Nog voor Samson iets was, gingen wij met de lagere school naar een theatervoorstelling in Mechelen, met Danny Verbiest. Het liet zo'n indruk na dat hij nog steeds een van die weinige jeugdherinneringen is van lang lang geleden. RIP www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

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🎇The first proton beams of 2025 were whizzed around the detector a few days ago, and today we have some gorgeous beam splashes! 🥳 This is when protons crash into a barrier just before the CMS detector, and muons from the impact continue traveling through the detector. #BeamTime

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We've focused a lot on the effects of low sulfur fuel standards on recent warming, but in some ways whats happened in China is even a bigger story. They have reduced their SO2 emissions nearly 75% since 2005, resulting in ~0.06C (0.02C to 0.11C) warming.

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The LHC experiment collaborations #AtCERN receive Breakthrough Prize The prize is awarded to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on #LHCRun2 data up to July 2024. Read more: home.cern/news/press-r...

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One of the starting points will be some updated inputs from the ATLAS and CMS side on their prospects for HL-LHC. It's dear to my heart, since we spent a lot of time putting this together in record time across two collaborations. Interesting process in its own right. indico.cern.ch/event/143985...

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All my former and current PhD students and postdocs are there [except most recent ones]. A generation of awards :) breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/...

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An unexpected surprise. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, … breakthroughprize.org/News/91 @CERN

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Blijkbaar is "reaalpolitiek" voor De Wever dat Israël ongestraft vrijwilligers, journalisten, vaders, moeders, kinderen, baby's, ... ongehinderd mogen afslachten.

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The European particle physics community is reflecting on its future - a process which we call #ESPPU (European strategy for particle physics update). It's an update because we repeat the exercise every 7 to 10 years or so. What's going on? A #thread. europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch

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Dodenrit. 🗺️: www.instagram.com/geographic.d...

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Vandaag publiceert @amnesty.org hun rapport 'Unhoused and unheard – How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights'. Het is vrij ongezien dat Amnesty een rapport uitbrengt over een EU-lidstaat. www.amnesty.org/en/documents... 1/2

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While searching for additional Higgs bosons, the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social may have instead uncovered evidence for the smallest composite particle yet observed in nature – a “quasi-bound” hadron commonly called toponium. cerncourier.com/a/cms-observ...

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I never thought about this, the momentum of the target electron making fixed-target experiments less of a fixed-target. I guess this could have potentially significant implications also for past constraints from such experiments. Hopefully featured at the June LLP workshop. arxiv.org/abs/2504.00100

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Voilà! An update for the European strategy of some of the key benchmarks for the HL-LHC. The HL-LHC dataset will be amazing! This is what kept me up a lot the past weeks. Intense work over the last half year with a great crowd across the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Proud! arxiv.org/abs/2504.00672

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Breaking news! CERN has found quantum entanglement in sheep! 🐑 🐑

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Original, this made me smile... arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

An important new paper from the CMS experiment: an excess that could be induced by a top-quark bound state. Yes, a bound state of the heaviest elementary particles we know, that decays after 5x10^-25 seconds - but we still seem to observe the ripple of this effect. arxiv.org/abs/2503.22382

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Ginsparg gave a colloquium about arXiv a few years ago when he received an honorary doctorate at my university. It was amazing!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

submitted 32 days ago • 77 comments

Tomorrow at 14:30 CET the CMS experiment will stream a Virtual Visit of the cavern on the CMS Youtube Channel. Feel free to inform anyone who might be interested :) The magnet is on, so you will be able to see some magnet tricks as well :magnet: www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment

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Academic freedom is under attack. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #universities #university #highereducation #academicfreedom

Well, this is a thought-provoking one :) "While the technical challenges are formidable [...]" arxiv.org/abs/2504.10942

Als DMS een teken van leven is dan zit er plankton op komeet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko en in een gaswolk in het centrum van de Melkweg. www.standaard.be/natuur-en-we...

Science is reporting that DOGE is at NSF. www.science.org/content/arti...

Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

Nog voor Samson iets was, gingen wij met de lagere school naar een theatervoorstelling in Mechelen, met Danny Verbiest. Het liet zo'n indruk na dat hij nog steeds een van die weinige jeugdherinneringen is van lang lang geleden. RIP www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

🎇The first proton beams of 2025 were whizzed around the detector a few days ago, and today we have some gorgeous beam splashes! 🥳 This is when protons crash into a barrier just before the CMS detector, and muons from the impact continue traveling through the detector. #BeamTime

We've focused a lot on the effects of low sulfur fuel standards on recent warming, but in some ways whats happened in China is even a bigger story. They have reduced their SO2 emissions nearly 75% since 2005, resulting in ~0.06C (0.02C to 0.11C) warming.

The LHC experiment collaborations #AtCERN receive Breakthrough Prize The prize is awarded to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and concerns the papers authored based on #LHCRun2 data up to July 2024. Read more: home.cern/news/press-r...

One of the starting points will be some updated inputs from the ATLAS and CMS side on their prospects for HL-LHC. It's dear to my heart, since we spent a lot of time putting this together in record time across two collaborations. Interesting process in its own right. indico.cern.ch/event/143985...

All my former and current PhD students and postdocs are there [except most recent ones]. A generation of awards :) breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/...

An unexpected surprise. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, … breakthroughprize.org/News/91 @CERN

Blijkbaar is "reaalpolitiek" voor De Wever dat Israël ongestraft vrijwilligers, journalisten, vaders, moeders, kinderen, baby's, ... ongehinderd mogen afslachten.

The European particle physics community is reflecting on its future - a process which we call #ESPPU (European strategy for particle physics update). It's an update because we repeat the exercise every 7 to 10 years or so. What's going on? A #thread. europeanstrategyupdate.web.cern.ch

Dodenrit. 🗺️: www.instagram.com/geographic.d...

Vandaag publiceert @amnesty.org hun rapport 'Unhoused and unheard – How Belgium’s persistent failure to provide reception violates asylum seekers’ rights'. Het is vrij ongezien dat Amnesty een rapport uitbrengt over een EU-lidstaat. www.amnesty.org/en/documents... 1/2

While searching for additional Higgs bosons, the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social may have instead uncovered evidence for the smallest composite particle yet observed in nature – a “quasi-bound” hadron commonly called toponium. cerncourier.com/a/cms-observ...

I never thought about this, the momentum of the target electron making fixed-target experiments less of a fixed-target. I guess this could have potentially significant implications also for past constraints from such experiments. Hopefully featured at the June LLP workshop. arxiv.org/abs/2504.00100

Voilà! An update for the European strategy of some of the key benchmarks for the HL-LHC. The HL-LHC dataset will be amazing! This is what kept me up a lot the past weeks. Intense work over the last half year with a great crowd across the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Proud! arxiv.org/abs/2504.00672

Breaking news! CERN has found quantum entanglement in sheep! 🐑 🐑

Original, this made me smile... arxiv.org/abs/2503.22795

An important new paper from the CMS experiment: an excess that could be induced by a top-quark bound state. Yes, a bound state of the heaviest elementary particles we know, that decays after 5x10^-25 seconds - but we still seem to observe the ripple of this effect. arxiv.org/abs/2503.22382

Ginsparg gave a colloquium about arXiv a few years ago when he received an honorary doctorate at my university. It was amazing!

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

Tomorrow at 14:30 CET the CMS experiment will stream a Virtual Visit of the cavern on the CMS Youtube Channel. Feel free to inform anyone who might be interested :) The magnet is on, so you will be able to see some magnet tricks as well :magnet: www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment

The world’s largest particle-physics laboratory is approaching a pivotal moment in its history https://go.nature.com/4c5dcgK

A lot of publicity for the Signal app on my timeline lately...

Which came first?