Ian Bailey

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Unexpected evidence that dark matter is light, but also pink and tastes of rhubarb.

Venus shining in the night sky above the trees.

Venus guiding me home last night.

Daffodils in bloom.

Spring has suddenly arrived in Lancaster.

Love is the deep inelastic scattering
Of my soul with yours:
All that is weak and strong revealed.
The structures of our bound hearts made manifest
In countless luminous collisions
That only we can detect.

The moon through tree branches.

Not a simulation of large scale structure in the early Universe, but the moon from the Fairfield orchard in Lancaster.

Where synesthesia and tensor calculus meet? Yours is a very organised whiteboard. I mostly pick the colour that's going to be visible on top of the other three layers of writing I can't erase.

Scientists aren't nice? I may need to rethink my career choices.

I think the late Michael Mosley recommended that. Standing on one leg I mean, not the coffee.

Physicists at dawn... A group of Daresbury physicists walking to DESY under an early-morning, blue sky flecked with clouds.

Physicists at dawn... Walking to DESY to talk about x-ray free electron lasers.

Travelling from Lancaster to....

Wind turbines at sea from the deck of my ferry to Amsterdam.

Travelling from to a UK XFEL / EU XFEL meeting at DESY, Hamburg. Waking up to windmills as the ferry from Newcastle approaches Amsterdam.

A small dalek and a whiteboard covered in layers of writing.

End of the week whiteboard palimpsest.

Photo of the Lancaster canal and fields on a frosty morning.

The Lancaster canal on the ride to Lancaster University this morning.

Axion experimentalist's invocation You axions that permeate this space, free the static light of my magnet. Here in the cold, dark home I have made for you, make these nebulous fields glisten. Invisibly wrap distant starlight and deliver it parenthetically to my waiting eyes. For you are only ever a loop away from flowing into view.

Thinking of my QSHS QSHS.org colleagues at Sheffield who are commissioning the collaboration's axion haloscope. #physics

Comparison of simulations of particle beam dynamics in bunch compressors using the Elegant and Ocelot simulation packages. Plots produced in Mathematica.

At Daresbury Lab today to give some lectures on particle beam dynamics to the Cockcroft graduate students. After years of doing this I'm finally starting to feel qualified, which probably means I'll get asked a lot of questions that I can't answer...

Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com

If you are looking for a physics PhD position in the UK then you may be interested in joining me and my colleagues in the Cockcroft Institute who are tackling one of the big challenges facing the next generation of x-ray free electron lasers:
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Adrift within a hidden sector
Axions soliloquize
Stabilising neutrons' moments
In their pseudoscalar skies.
Prating on a dark-lit gloaming:
Paraphoton meta hues.
Mumbling their cosmic story:
Rhythm, choirs and solitudes.

One of those mornings where the train and bus are both late by exactly the same amount, so that all connections work seamlessly. Very satisfying.

The iconic tower at Daresbury Lab, which originally housed a Van-de-Graff generator for the Nuclear Structure Facility, on a snowy morning.

At Daresbury Laboratory today to hear the status of the Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications  (CLARA) facility under construction here - www.fels-of-europe.eu/fel_faciliti...