Fun trip to Fermilab to give a plenary on a FCC-ee future for CERN at DPF2026. FCC-ee + a US based muon collider could lead to a revolutionary century for science and technology!⚛️🧪

Happy to be visiting Jefferson Lab to talk about how a muon collider can bridge High Energy and Nuclear Physics ⚛️🧪

New: NSF is tightening its conflict of interest rules in what could be a headache for the understaffed agency. Starting in August, reviewers will no longer be able to participate in a panel with any proposals from their own institution. My reporting for @science.org:

NSF imposes stricter conflict-of-interest rules for grant-review panels

Researchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency

science.org

Group photo from our workshop 50 years of jets: celebrating the science of George Sterman, great multigenerational experience united by one particularly special individual! ⚛️🧪

A possible future for US HEP and NP ⚛️🧪

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

washingtonpost.com

In the context of the FY27 PBR it helps to go back to Robert Wilson’s famous testimony to Congress about funding for the NAL(Fermilab) in FY1970 and ask the natural question, why are there some people so hell-bent on tearing down so much of what makes this country worth defending?⚛️🧪

Okay, NSF is for some reason under an appendix, but they do have directorate-level numbers. Cuts pretty much across the board, including zeroing out SBE? which I suppose is what would happen with a 54% cut. Also worth looking at those FY26 estimates... www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Strangely, there is no section for NSF, though they do have a topline number...

It will never be the best public transit system, but there’s definitely a special unmatched quality the DC metro will always have

More coverage of the move in Science. I had not realized the programs were managed (though had separate accounts) prior to 2003.

Energy Department merges nuclear and particle physics programs, unsettling researchers

In spite of synergies, physicists worry both fields are being sidelined in favor of AI

science.org

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: DOE is reorganizing the Office of Science, per email. Notably, it appears to be combining high energy physics and nuclear physics. Unclear if this keeps the funding pools separate. (I'll ask) Apologies for the low-res image; that's what they sent. On the right is the current org chart.

If well managed this amplifies the science and makes sure people focus on the interesting questions and technologies. If poorly managed this guts both programs. Fingers crossed for good management, there are interesting times ahead!

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: DOE is reorganizing the Office of Science, per email. Notably, it appears to be combining high energy physics and nuclear physics. Unclear if this keeps the funding pools separate. (I'll ask) Apologies for the low-res image; that's what they sent. On the right is the current org chart.

Turner, on the EPP report: It's going to stay fresh for 40 years. If there are bumps in the road for the first few years, we still have time to implement the vision.

Poignant and funny moment from CN Yang memorial, was Marilyn Simons recalling her and Jim’s friendship with him and still having the old dictionary the YITP gave Jim for the talks that started the connection of Physics/Math through YM theory(bc Jim was a bad speller😅) 🧪⚛️ @simonsfoundation.org

Incredible news of CN Yang’s lasting impact, thanks to Drs. Zhang and Luo for their generous gift that helps the Yang Institute for Theoretical physics carry on his legacy into the future @stonybrooku.bsky.social ⚛️🧪 news.stonybrook.edu/university/h...

Interesting Yang anecdotes, he often is remembered for opposing Chinese particle colliders, but he actually wanted his institute to go into accelerator physics. Physics is an experimental science and the machines are becoming too big and so he thought it was imperative to come up with smarter ways⚛️🧪

George Sterman beginning the scientific/personal part of the symposium honoring CN Yang’s contributions to Stony Brook university and beyond ⚛️🧪

Job alert: Data preservation for ALEPH data. I worked on ALEPH as a student, and as a junior faculty member analyzed archived ALEPH data to search for the Higgs. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/7440001...

HEP Physicist - Data Preservation (EP-FCC-2026-37-GRAP)

Job Description: Are you excited about giving a second life to a vintage but invaluable set of data, which has the potential to significantly enhance the quality of the preparation studies for the nex...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

Gotta say @f1tv.bsky.social is a lot more interesting this year so far!

Such a cool way to show people the “invisible” microscopic world whizzing around them! ⚛️🧪

Tristan du Pree@tristandupree.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lecturing this week on particle accelerators and detectors, gonna make our own cloud chamber today 🧑‍🔬

The ultimate area denial weapon against parents now has a stealth mode 😒🤬

Morning commute snow in NYC feels like adding insult to injury right after a historic blizzard

Trying to plan R&D for long term scientific projects in the current funding environment ⚛️🧪

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world | Jon Butterworth

If plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ...

theguardian.com

You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."

This seems especially short sighted by the UK after just having a Brit start as the CERN DG www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

UK’s science superpower hopes hit as Labour slashes physics funding

University funding for astronomy and physics research cut by almost a third as government seeks to concentrate budget on areas that prioritise economic growth

thetimes.com

Latest batch of the Epstein files has plenty more physicists. Going through them slowly, in no particular order.

The article is good but not sure it’s hard to know what to think about or look for, just hard to look resource wise/technologically🧐

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 6mo ago

Particle physics hasn't yet found the new physics needed to resolve its deepest mysteries. It’s hard to know what to think about or look for. But the most devoted particle physicists are thinking and looking all the same.

I'll go with hard. The existential questions about our universe and EWSB have only become sharper since the LHC, the problem is that only collider experiments are relevant for them generically. If the world were less myopic now we'd invest more in R&D, but accelerator breakthroughs take time/suport🧪

Natalie Wolchover@nattyover.bsky.social · 6mo ago

First column for Quanta Magazine's new essay section, Qualia. I take stock of particle physics, a field in crisis. What happened, and what now? Commentary here from many angles. Please lmk your thoughts, or any tips or topic ideas I should look into. 🙏 www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-...

Science and Technology Facilities Council told staff it needs to reduce its spending by £162 million by 2029-30, requiring “substantial savings” to be made. 😬 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts - Research Professional News

Exclusive: Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks £162m cost savings, with existing projects facing axe

researchprofessionalnews.com

Impressive to watch in NYC during snow storms PlowNYC: nyc.gov/plownyc