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The NAS report on the future of particle physics is out. Strong endorsement (#1 priority) is a muon collider. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...

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The National Academy of Sciences particle physics report begins w/ Rec 1: The US should host the world’s highest-energy particle collider around the middle of the century. This requires the immediate creation of a national muon collider R&D program to enable the construction of a demonstrator... 🧪⚛️

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MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪 The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read! (I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.) nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Huge news, and a confirmation of what NSF staff have suspected/feared for a while.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Vamos Carlos!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I have no idea how this ends up, but the derivative is definitely non-zero!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like every movie about a dystopian future is turning into a quasi documentary too quickly

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

The amount of damage this does to US science is beyond comprehension.

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Beautiful blue sky at Fermilab! I’m always happy to visit and give the w&c seminar. Today’s talk will be on understanding the interplay of precision and energy at the LHC and beyond. 🧪⚛️

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Knicks in 7 LFG!!!!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. used to be about bringing in the best talent from all over the world, but rather than coming up with an efficient immigration process for students, this seems to be the exact opposite with potential devastating consequences for the country www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Very cool Van Gogh exhibition at the NY botanical gardens just started, I highly recommend it for all ages

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I haven’t seen it mentioned here yet, but we have gotten word from CERN that both Mary K Gaillard and Jonathan Rosner have died. Their paper with Ben Lee was the entry to charm physics for so many of us, but each had separately a large impact on particle physics.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It was a great privilege to “hood” two of my doctoral students today, Artemis and Matthew. They survived their PhDs as well as a new first for me, a fire and evacuation during the doctoral ceremony!

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Very difficult—but important—to get this kind of specific detail, even when the influence seems obvious: "In the resulting depositions, top NIH officials said that a representative of DOGE, Rachel Riley, provided the officials with at least five lists of specific grants to cancel."

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Nerd fashion of Summer 2045

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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 24 days ago • 960 comments

I love this photo of the Fermilab Theory group in 1974 including Mary Gaillard and Shirley Ann Jackson. 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Source: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

Did not expect Jon Rahm to fold so badly down the stretch, congrats to the undisputed #1 Scottie Scheffler for winning the PGA championship apple.news/A7saqtENQTHe...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve never seen anything like this: a murmuration of black flies. The rain led to them all leaving the grass and trees. “Come to Wisconsin they said. The flies aren’t that bad they said” 😜

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

New: We have the list of ~190 Harvard NSF grant terminations from internal agency sources. About $148 million intended funds killed. Over 1/3 are from the MPS directorate—roughly 75 math and physics grants.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

LETS GO KNICKS ONE MORE HALF

submitted 31 days ago • 54 comments

Let’s go Knicks!!!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

🧪 How can (largely) the same congress that voted in 2023 to authorize doubling the NSF budget now sit idle while the agency is strip-mined, all while loudly fretting about competition from China? www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Glances at text notification. It’s the female faculty group text… Oh fun what’s up “Bad news Thursday instead of bad news Friday…” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Holy crap the Knicks win again!!!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Mitchell Robinson is making Shaq look like he was gifted from the free throw line

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

While €500M is not that much in general, if directed towards young professors, it can drain the US talent pool. 🧪 www.reuters.com/science/eus-...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

In light of the skinny budget (55.8% reduction), 6 past NSF directors and 7 NSB chairs have sent the House Committee on Appropriations a letter advising doubling the NSF budget. "We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Bad for science is definitely a conservative choice, this would destroy US science, hopefully Congress pushes back hard

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 44 days ago • 40 comments

Update: After Friday's purge, per multiple internal sources, the number of awards terminated from NSF is 1040.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Great talk by @chrisquigg.com reminiscing back to meeting Fred Goldhaber for the first time, and how Fred influenced his career and some of the science that came out of it ⚛️🧪

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

George Sterman kicking off the Fred Goldhaber memorial symposium discussing some of Fred’s work on nuclear physics and multiparticle production. Fred’s career spanned an enormous range of physics topics being celebrated today🧪⚛️ scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/45808

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

This Friday I'll give a colloquium at @nikhef.bsky.social, summarising the 263(!) inputs submitted to the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Important discussion for our international particle physics activities the coming years, or even decades! indico.nikhef.nl/category/40/

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Fermilab's Diktys Stratakis reviews the prospects for building a ring-shaped particle accelerator that smashes muons together. Muons are 200 times as heavy as electrons, so they radiate much less energy-sapping synchrotron radiation.

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