Andreas Warburton
@awarb.bsky.social
Citizen. Biker. Radio op. High-energy subatomic particle physics professor. Work/Play/Love hard. he|him VA2WBT 🇨🇦🇨đź‡đź‡¬đź‡§ 🇮🇳 Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/ See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
Belle II has now accumulated the world's largest ÎĄ(4S) dataset, surpassing Belle! Leveraging the cleanness of B mesons produced from electron-positron annihilation at ÎĄ(4S), this dataset opens the door to a new era in the quest for physics beyond the Standard Model. www.kek.jp/en/press/202...
Our Belle II matter-antimatter collision detection experiment, in action (beams on).
The Belle II detector and SuperKEKB matter-antimatter collider have now ended the 2025 run. The coming weeks will see inspections and tweaks to improve performance. Thank you to all the shifters, from various continents, for the great run. We're looking forward to 2026 operations! belle2.jp
From Montréal, Merry Christmas 2025 to you too, InnoCube aka TUBSAT-31. #TUBspace #SatNOGS network.satnogs.org/observations...
Félicitations à @fxpbourassa.bsky.social pour l'obtention du prix de thèse de la division 'biological Physics' de l'American Physical Society ! Le doublé après le prix similaire de @biophyscanada.bsky.social ! @mcgill.ca www.aps.org/funding-reco...
Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montréal rooftop station at a distance of 375km. Routine, except perhaps that I was in seat 13A of that particular plane, holding the phone. #peaknerd www.airnavradar.com/stations/EXT...
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years home.cern/news/news/kn...
New position for the all-sky camera I built during covid. Project antennas, departing aircraft, moon rising, altocumulus arriving, sunrise beginning. Meanwhile, Einstein@Home calculations to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (sometimes called pulsars).
#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
Smoke in the city: Hundreds of buildings. Three churches. One Moon.
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86. Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies
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34 degrees Celsius at times on today's all-electric ride. Put 200km on the new mesh armour gear: hoodie and pants. They're a game changer for adapting to #climate-change
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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A Hubble Network satellite, launched 6 days ago and capable of receiving signals from a 3.5mm Bluetooth chip on Earth from a distance of 600km, is detected by my rooftop ground station in Montréal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
Auroras during a full moon in Fairbanks, Alaska
Jurassic Special Set: Thick Beef & Garlic Onion Beef burger, Umami Spicy Zaku Zaku Juicy Chicken burger, medium fry, Mac Fizz Pineapple Melon beverage. Cost: about CA$13 (plus some very minor stomach pains).
On May 3rd, join McGill Physics Outreach & TSI Outreach for “From Planets to Particles: An Exploration Mini-Fair” at the Rutherford Physics Building. Stop by between 10am-4pm for hands-on activities and demos about gravity, life on other planets, energy, and more! Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iGE
Three McGill professors and 25 students and postdoctoral researchers are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
McGill researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics  - McGill Reporter
McGill researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Appreciated, recognition of many individual scientist laureates, collectively devoting significant parts of their lives to scientific advancement by cooperating in huge collaborations, here via contributions to the post-Higgs-discovery LHC Run 2 physics program. breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1
Breakthrough Prize – Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize – Laureates
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Kyle Cranmer@kylecranmer.bsky.social · 2y agoAn 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
Bluesky has now replaced twitter as the top platform for finding out if there was an earthquake in LA
