As I move from Germany to New Zealand and look to start a PhD in Physics, I feel grateful I had the chance to support local science journalism, grateful my former #JHU students can carry it forward. Careful, honest science is the key to understanding (and holding onto) reality. #CitizenScience 🧪🔭⚛️

What Is Interesting About Conspiracy Theories? @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Sheraton Hotel in Connecticut is serving an IPA beer called "I'm Dead Inside" and it made me laugh-cry.

36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦

Have a little more faith in your own neural network. Learn to write well in science. We need honest, good science writing. Doesn't have to be perfect. All slides from the workshop "Psst . . . Your AI Is Showing: How to Put Your Own Voice in Scientific Papers" are here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🧪🔭⚛️

After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵

I have been alive for 15,353 days today. I have reached the # of Life, the Universe, and Everything. My birthday wish is that a) you do something kind today, b) read, skim, or share something I wrote for science, and c) do a little jig. 🧪⚛️ #highenergyastro www.jamiezvirzdin.com/publications...

Publications

arXiv preprint  ​ https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.01638​ December 1, 2025 ​ Using 14 years of data from the Telescope Array in Utah, this study searched for ultrahigh-energy photons...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7t... Jamie Zvirzdin links principles of physics with those of grammar and linguistics, adds a pinch of poetics, and serves up a tasty guide to scientific thinking and writerly writing. —Christopher Joyce, Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR www.subatomicwriting.com 🧪⚛️🔭✏️

Subatomic Writing Teaser Trailer

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Once upon a time my friends told me about a Science & Religion essay contest, that I had to do it. I wrote the damn thing in a week and won 2nd place and $5,000. At the heart of it is the symbol of the urbs quadrata, like the unit circle centered at a Cartesian origin. 🧪🔭⚛️ issues.org/shuddering-b...

I'm reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes to my son at night. Sherlock says in "A Scandal in Bohemia" (p. 187), "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Wise words. 🧪⚛️🔭

The world can be grim. What sustains us? Meaningful work and kind interactions sustain me, along with good memories. Teaching my son to read is one of these. (We loved these foam letters someone gave us!) His determination still fuels me. #parenting #love #education www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNiS...

Happy Scrub Five, Six, Seven

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We invite you to learn about the link between topology and space engineering when it comes to solving the three-body problem! Find out in our latest blog post by Arthur Limoge: structures.uni-heidelberg.de/blog/posts/2... #threebodyproblem #math #spaceexploration #topology

I am citable! Check it out: Zvirzdin, J. (2025, January 27). Psst . . . Your AI Is Showing: How to Put Your Own Voice in Scientific Papers. Workshop on Machine Learning for Analysis of High-Energy Cosmic Particles, University of Delaware. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #highenergyastro #ai ⚛️🧪

🧪⚛️🔭 Give back, nominate someone who helped you.

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Nominations are open for the 2025 #WileyResearchHeroes Prize! Know researchers making a difference through open science, inclusion, or innovation? 🧡 Celebrate the heroes of research. Nominate them now: 👉 ow.ly/PF9e50WLx0e

Props to @kurzgesagt.org for another fantastic and supremely important science video, this time on the benefits and costs of alcohol. Take a moment to watch it, please. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Or others. 🧪 youtu.be/aOwmt39L2IQ?...

Alcohol is AMAZING

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We just published our second paper on this topic! Our #TelescopeArray detectors help us understand energy mechanisms behind both cosmic rays 🌠and lightning.🌩️ Support your local scientists and the National Science Foundation! 💞💸 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #highenergyastro 🧪⚛️

Time‐Resolved Leader Spectra of Downward Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes Observed at the Telescope Array Surface Detector

Time-resolved leader spectra associated with two downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs)–a low peak current and a high peak current event–are presented The high-peak-current event exhibits ...

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Fantastic article by @rhettallain.bsky.social. I grow tired of physics problems that do not model real life. It only leads to physicists who do not know how to model real life. We need more of this, a careful examination of assumptions.⚛️

Rhett Allain@rhettallain.bsky.social · last yr.

#python #physics - how do you model the motion of a mass on a spring when the spring is not actually massless? #iteachphysics rjallain.medium.com/physics-lab-...

I remotely operate sensitive cosmic-ray telescopes in the West Desert of Utah. Wild that we can pick up the light from this wildfire. Be safe, Sevier County! Select Band="Fire Temperature RGB" www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/wfo_ban... #Utah #UofU #TelescopeArray #highenergyastro 🧪

Word to the wise, this happened yesterday. I'm in Europe and move frequently for my husband's job. I value staying in touch with friends across the globe. But to be locked out of both Facebook and Instagram with NO warning made me realize I need to write down names/other contact info ASAP.

Scientists can regain public trust by a) being honest in their work and b) not being so proudly inaccessible in their writing. The best physics writing uses different kinds of stories, and I also tell my own. aeon.co/essays/to-un... @aeon.co #scicomm #writing #editing #publishing #highenergyastro ⚛️

To understand physics, we need to tell – and hear – stories | Aeon Essays

Don’t be intimidated by physics: it is made of stories and metaphors. Learn these and the field will open up to you

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If you research the physics ⚛️ of extreme objects/particles/environments or high/ultrahigh-energy emissions from space, sign up to post to our #Bluesky #highenergyastro feed. I moderate this feed as part of the most excellent Astrosky Ecosystem.🔭 Join us!🧪 astrosky.eco/feeds/highen... @emily.space

Our friends at @natcomms.nature.com are hiring an editor for quantum physics and technology. Can be based in China, the US, Spain, or Italy. Full details here: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #Careers #EditorialJobs #Quantum #Physics

Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics/Technology), Nature Communications - Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Milan, Madrid (Hybri job with Springer ...

Title:  Associate or Senior Editor (Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies), Nature Communications Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York...

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!!! new on work led by U.C. Berkeley postdoc, Yuhan Yao 🦖 incl. comments from @gymleadererica.bsky.social et al. "Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found 'Space Jaws.'" 🧪🔭☄️ #womeninSTEM #highenergyastro science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

NASA's Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole - NASA Science

A sneaky black hole betrayed its presence to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in a newly identified tidal disruption event.

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Hey, the PDF of my 3-hour workshop at the U. of Delaware has over 100 downloads now! Not bad! zenodo.org/records/1511... If you teach science, give your students the time and opportunity to find their own #writing voices. Textbook I wrote for my #JHU students: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... 🧪⚛️🔭

And here is one of the solutions to the 3-Body Problem. There are hundreds! It is a good reminder that we often focus too much on a problem and not enough on the solutions. This is Christopher Moore's original (nontrivial) solution from 1993: youtu.be/EQ5K6KTVaQc ⚛️🧪 #highenergyastro

JZ 3-Body Solution Short Animation 06-21-25

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I find it wildly cathartic to be taking both #Chaos and #Cosmology this semester at #JHU. Insane amount of work but marvelous material (Thank you @stevenstrogatz.com and @bsryden.bsky.social for your writing styles!). Dramatic music for (melo)dramatic times. ⚛️🧪 #highenergyastro youtu.be/HGbs1mcju0Q

JZ 3-Body Problem Short Animation 06-21-25

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My Australian Shepherd is absurdly beautiful even when covered in mud after many miles of trail running with my husband. I will never get over how marvelous she is. Husband's pretty great too. 😂 #pets

This is Andrew being acted upon by the cat force, which is far more powerful than any other force in the universe. Dimensionally speaking, 😺 Force = (Mass of 🐈) * (Length of 🐈)/(Time the🐈decides to remain)^2 . . . * ♾️. It's a very positive force. 😹🩵 ⚛️🧪

A room with a GREAT view. Currently waiting for lightning to clear up before we can open #UofU #TelescopeArray doors and capture ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray particles. Also studying for #JHU graduate course, Chaos and Its Applications. Also, cat. #highenergyastro #fundscience 🧪⚛️ #particlephysics

Happy 18th anniversary to us!