@awarb.bsky.social
Citizen. Biker. Radio op. High-energy subatomic particle physics professor. Work/Play/Love hard. he|him VA2WBT ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ณ Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/ See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
Our Belle II matter-antimatter collision detection experiment, in action (beams on).
05.02.2026 09:35 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0McGill in winter: sanctuary of knowledge, of reason
18.01.2026 14:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The 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!
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From Montrรฉal, Merry Christmas 2025 to you too, InnoCube aka TUBSAT-31. #TUBspace #SatNOGS network.satnogs.org/observations...
20.12.2025 12:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Annonce du prix de Franรงois sur le site de l'APS
Fรฉlicitations ร @fxpbourassa.bsky.social pour l'obtention du prix de thรจse de la division 'biological Physics' de l'American Physical Society ! Le doublรฉ aprรจs le prix similaire de @biophyscanada.bsky.social ! @mcgill.ca www.aps.org/funding-reco...
05.11.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montrรฉal 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...
22.10.2025 10:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years
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There is a UFO at 0:02.
18.08.2025 01:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New 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).
18.08.2025 01:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0#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.
09.08.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Summer thesis reading day capped off with the VE3STP net run by champlainrepeater.ca at sundown.
07.08.2025 00:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mary 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...
RIP Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness ๐ค
22.07.2025 18:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A view in the Bois de Vincennes in #Paris on 24th June.
13.07.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 68 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 034 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
13.07.2025 00:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
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12.07.2025 07:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A 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 Montrรฉal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
29.06.2025 11:37 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Auroras during a full moon in Fairbanks, Alaska
22.06.2025 11:40 โ ๐ 147 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Jurassic 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).
19.06.2025 11:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Joke Describe your perfect date. That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate
25.04.2025 12:43 โ ๐ 1886 ๐ 457 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 26On May 3rd, join McGill Physics Outreach &ย TSI Outreach forย โFrom Planets to Particles: An Exploration Mini-Fairโ 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 CERNโs Large Hadron Collider.
Read the full story โก๏ธ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
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
06.04.2025 13:16 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Bluesky has now replaced twitter as the top platform for finding out if there was an earthquake in LA
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