I feel like I can’t handle the pressure of research anymore. When my collaborator wasn’t making progress, I had to teach myself AQFT, string theory, SUSY, and so on. But once we came up with new ideas, I suddenly needed to learn TQFT, category theory, bordism, etc.

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World

Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize

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Timo Weigand’s lectures are so clear! I’ve finally understood things I missed while reading. It’s a magical feeling—vague but incredibly helpful. videos.cern.ch/record/3008647 ​Key takeaways: ​General forms of string vibration solutions ​Why closed strings involve gravity ​Why D-brane are necessary

What is String Theory?

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Modern physics is a collection of brilliant "No-go" signposts: ​🚫 Coleman-Mandula: Forbids non-trivial symmetry mixing (unless SUSY/CFT). 🚫 Weinberg-Witten: Restricts massless high-spin particles (hinting at Holography).

When I first studied QFT, the Coleman-Mandula theorem was often a footnote due to time constraints. Diving into AGMOO, I’ve finally realized its true beauty: CFT, SUSY, Quantum Groups, and QG can all be viewed as elegant relaxations of the CM constraints. ​

Really sad... haruhisa-enomoto.github.io/acadexit/

虽然没挂上号（意料之中） 走过站又恰好雪下大了 就去对面教堂暖和一会 拉丁语学的还是不到家 加上大写基本看不懂 志愿者大姐衣服很好看 门外很多人拍圣诞树🎄 想到近来友人遭遇 想不到大开方便之门的是宗教场所

看到鸽子就知道这家人还没搬走 原来以前普通教职工楼只有四层 教授小楼是三排连排 四栋校长小楼两个一排 以前觉得每栋楼都很高，小区也很大 现在没一会儿就走完了，觉得楼很矮

Today is my birthday. I don’t have any peers around to talk with, and I feel quite lonely. I’m reading the original edition of a book my professor gave me, with a kind of quiet reverence. I really like the old Beijing “qǐzi mó” 起子馍— it seems to be the local version of a scone.

Check arxiv.org/abs/2511.02753

I’ve lived in this noisy, miserable apartment for years. I never planted anything in the old flower pot left by a former tenant — yet after a month of rain, it bloomed on its own. I hope my research can blossom like that wildflower.

As research continues to be attacked (destroyed) elsewhere, European countries are installing new programs to attract researchers from around the world. Here is one from Ireland (deadline in October): www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

To appear today on the ArXiv. (For there’s a blog post here: asymptotia.com/2025/06/24/s...)

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...