Michael retweeted
“…theoretical physics grants will be almost 70 per cent lower from October 2026”
These are catastrophic cuts that will end the careers of many UK researchers and dismantle theory groups in several UK Universities
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I agree with everything in this article. The cuts to particle, nuclear and astro physics research in the UK will be devastating, not only to the fields themselves but also to universities more widely and, in the longer term, to industry and therefore the economy as a whole. They were not thought through, there was little or no consultation, and I do not believe they have the support of parliament. The SI&T select committee has been ignored, indeed pretty much everyone who knows anything about the successful but delicate research ecosystem in the UK has been ignored.
"It may be that the government has decided that our field is not strategically important, so heavy cuts are appropriate... they should do so with their eyes wide open to the potential implications in the future for the UK workforce"
Malcolm Fairbairn
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We've published a letter to DSIT and UKRI about the funding pressures at Science and Technology Facilities Council, which could put some areas of scientific research at risk.
Read it here: committees.parliament.uk/pub…
ALT Screenshot of a letter from the science, innovation and technology committee to Lord vallance and Sir Ian Chapman
Michael retweeted
I’ve spoken to many physicists and the unanimous reaction was how impressed they were by the committee’s preparation and questions
“This is unacceptable,” as @ChiOnwurah put it, was a pitch-perfect summary of the situation
Today the SITC committee held a crucial session, hearing from the PPAN community, but also from Prof. M. Dougherty about how #STFC will avoid cutting fundamental science.
The committee named the situation "unacceptable" and proposed ways out of it.
A great step forward. 🧪🔭
Michael retweeted
They called me a zero, they called me a constant. They told me I could never change. Well, who is evolving now?
Phys. Rev. A 108, 052825 (2023) - Deuterium spectroscopy for enhanced bounds on physics beyond the standard model journals.aps.org/pra/abstrac…
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Added @AlicePapers data on "Charm production and fragmentation fractions at midrapidity in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV" to hepdata.net/record/ins269787…
The @IPPP_Durham invites applications for postdoc positions in theoretical particle phenomenology
inspirehep.net/jobs/2712105
Michael retweeted
Hunting for Neutral Leptons with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays. (arXiv:2303.11352v2 [hep-ph] UPDATED) relevance:66% arxiv.org/abs/2303.11352 #darkmatter @LucienHeurtier @spannowsky
Michael retweeted
'A duality connecting #neuralnetwork and cosmological #dynamics' by @KrippendorfSven and @spannowsky @LMU_Muenchen @IPPP_Durham @DurhamPhysics hits 500 downloads! bit.ly/3dYr963 #machinelearning #HEP #cosmology #fieldtheory #AI #gravity #astrophysics #HPC #quantum
Michael retweeted
Hunting for Neutral Leptons with Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays. (arXiv:2303.11352v1 [hep-ph]) relevance:67% arxiv.org/abs/2303.11352 #darkmatter @LucienHeurtier @spannowsky
Michael retweeted
The Academic Freedom Index 2023 shows a "significant decline" for the UK
Our academic freedom is being harmed by universities' addiction to insecure contracts, political interference by government & marketisation
These issues are polluting the entire sector & causing real harm
The Academic Freedom Index 2023 Update is out! With @vdeminstitute we show that the decline in academic freedom affects half of the world's population. #academicfreedomindex #academicfreedom
@VolkswagenSt @ScholarsAtRisk @euatweets @isanet @timeshighered
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Michael retweeted
Some details about the strike today. Not only are our salary rises sub-inflationary, our salaries have been systematically devalued relative to other professions across our society. The two coloured lines are a postdoc and reader while black lines are from HMRC. #ucuRISING 1/4
Michael retweeted
Interesting.
Number of highly cited scientists/engineers by country among top 100K most cited in the world and those numbers normalized by size of country.
(Source: elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.…)
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Reviewer 2 asked for this xitter.cf/mralexthfc/status/1602… – at Milton Keynes, England