FWIW: ‘parsec’ is a measure of distance, not time, but that doesn’t make the Millennium Falcon’s Kessel Run any less impressive.

Schon gewusst? Im Asterix-Film Mission Kleopatra ist General Chorus mit seinem schwarzen Helm und dem schwarzen Umhang so von hinten zu sehen, dass er an die Figur des Darth Vader aus dem Film #StarWars erinnert. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #Asterix [1/2]

Hat zwar nichts mit Asterix zu tun, aber ich weiß aus sicherer Quelle, dass es eine nicht geringe Fan-Schnittmenge gibt. Und ich finde sowohl das Zitat als auch das Bild einfach nur klasse: "Das Leben genießen du sollst!" #starwars #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

Gravitationswellen als mögliche Kandidaten für Ursprung der Dunklen Materie: Neuartige Berechnungen erforschen das frühe Universum / Forscher vom #ExzellenzclusterPRISMA ++ beteiligt 👉 prisma.uni-mainz.de/2026/04/01/gr… #Teilchenphysik #DunkleMaterie #Universum #Physik #Gravitationswellen

Two neutron stars may have formed the first known ‘superkilonova’ www.popsci.com/science/firs...

Two neutron stars may have formed the first known 'superkilonova'

The historic explosion was 1.3 billion light-years away from Earth.

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Exciting new results from the LZ experiment: new constraints on DM–nucleus scattering, a 4.5σ detection of the solar neutrino flux, and a measurement of the weak mixing angle. lz.lbl.gov

RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.

This one looks exciting!

Christopher Berry@cplberry.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/... GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42... Rating 📏🍬 [🧪🔭⚛️]

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Next Friday we are celebrating the inauguration of the Marietta Blau Institute for Particly Physics! 🤩 🥳 🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time! ➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...

CepC proposal will not be included in China’s next 5-year plan cerncourier.com/cepc-matures...

CEPC matures, but approval is on hold – CERN Courier

The Circular Electron–Positron Collider (CEPC), a 100-km electron–positron “Higgs factory” proposed in China, has reached the technical-design stage but will not be included for approval or constructi...

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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles. #JWST 🧪🔭✨

Fantastic colloquium at @cern.bsky.social today by @fourform.bsky.social on "The end of measurement and the last lab", part of the ongoing workshop on Quantum Simulation & Computation in HEP (indico.cern.ch/event/1488240). Bonus: autocorrect mishap leading to the invention of the "axion horoscope".

Wissenschaft als Beruf besteht zu 20% aus Wissenschaft & zu 80% daraus, die immer gleichen Informationen (wie viele Drittmittel/Publikationen/Preise/Arbeitsverträge/...) in stets zusätzliche Arbeit provozierenden leichten Variationen in sehr viele unterschiedliche Formulare einzutragen. #IchBinHanna

JUNO neutrino detector switches on www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/c...

China turns on giant neutrino detector

: 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles

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Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.

Squintern: The *slowest* meteorite travels at 25,000 miles per hour! Me: No, *all* meteorites travel at 0 miles per hour.

We've *gotta* revive this as a pet name for future colliders en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perhaps...

RIP Herwig Schopper, CERN director general from 1973 to 1976. He made LEP possible, and thus also the LHC. Not so long ago I worked with him on a book about the scientific discoveries at CERN. Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...

Lessons from LEP – CERN Courier

The Large Electron Positron collider changed particle physics forever. As the field eyes up the next major collider, former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper describes what it took to make LEP…

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How sad to hear that Tom Lehrer has left us. I vividly remember my first big scientific conference – Neutrino 2006 in Santa Fe. At an evening event, members of the Santa Fe Opera sang The Elements Song for us. A brilliant performance. I've been hooked ever since.

Al Yankovic@alyankovic.bsky.social · last yr.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

This is absurd. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image. But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.

Let me guess: 2007 – $0 2012 – $100 (to the intern who designed it) 2013 – $1,000 2015 – $10,000 2017 – $100,000 2024 – $1,000,000 2026 – $25 (for a ChatGPT subscription)

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Theorists' take on Quantum 👩🏻‍🏫👨‍🏫 We recently invited our community #AtCERN to describe quantum. Now, it's the turn of the physicists to share their insights. Hear from Miguel, Wilke, and Irene as they share their perspective on what #quantum is.

"𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦." -- Steven Chu, Nobel Lecture 1997

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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and publicly funded geologists predicted the disaster, preventing massive loss of life.

Alec Luhn@alecluhn.com · last yr.

The glacier collapse that buried Blatten, Switzerland, was caused by permafrost thaw. The thawing mountain face had dropped 4m cubic yards of rock on the glacier, pushing it down the slope www.npr.org/2025/05/29/g...

The loss of their village is a tragedy for the inhabitants of #Blatten. But they are alive because geologists saw it coming. It was their worst case scenario. The village was evacuated. Unlike Goldau in 1806. 457 died. Thanks Geology.