Patrick Meade

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 | 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 ...

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

So just to clarify is this just rejecting the additional EU funding outside of the normal CERN contribution or something else?

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."

I wonder if that will make CERN council pushback more and be less of a rubber stamp than with the prior DG?🧐

It’s an interesting lesson for today when we’ve become accustomed to developing one mega project at a time. Takes decades of development, but running experiments can easily erode the scientific case. So you have to balance ambition and flexibility, but the later is anathema to project management.

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

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

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

Yep completely agree with the sentiment about time scales. We're just in a difficult period historically since we need more collective effort/funding to push in some directions where we know what we'd like to look at and what we need, but r&d is always the first thing to get cut to support projects

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🧐

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🧪

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

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...

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

As if the dodgers didn’t have already enough advantages spending ~100M more per year than every other team 😂😂

YouTube video by Bad Boy of Science Legitimate Concerns Regarding CERN's New Collider Strategy

@cern.bsky.social 's Future Circular Collider program is scientifically well motivated.

However, concerns remain regarding financing, tech development and locking the community into a long term vision.

Prof @johnwomersley.bsky.social explains!

Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/Uojh2...

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Hard to imagine ever replacing the local bodega in NYC but then again it’s set against the swarm of Amazon delivery workers that descend on city streets everyday so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Does it suggest to form some sort of rudimentary lathe first?🙃

YouTube video by Bad Boy of Science Your Old TV is a Particle Accelerator!

Did you know that your old TV was an in home particle accelerator?

Old cathode ray tube TVs generated particles, accelerated them, diverted them, and smashed them into a phosphor coated screen to create images!

Link: www.youtube.com/shorts/4rPRg...

#physics

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Definitely one way to tell people even more explicitly to get on the same page 🤣 hopefully CERN councils definition of appropriate in appropriate level of support for future looking r&d is bigger picture appropriate…

European particle physics strategy update summary 😅

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Good old fashioned subtweeting is still alive🤣

Sad to see C.N. Yang passed away, a legendary physicist who despite his achievements was also one of the most underrated physicists of the 20th century and could have won multiple Nobel prizes not just one. He put Stony Brook University on the map and left an indelible impact on the YITP ⚛️🧪

The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Indeed!

Because the academy seems like a great idea and such...
Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us!
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DOE Establishes the Office of Science Advisory Committee The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).

It’s been disbanded and there is now a new structure www.energy.gov/science/arti...