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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 4d

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 ⚛️🧪

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 12d

“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...

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

www.nytimes.com

Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 20d

Indeed!

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Larry Lee @larrylee.bsky.social · 20d

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!
inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 20d

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

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).

www.energy.gov

Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 20d

HEPAP

a man in a suit and tie is holding a cat with the words `` gone but not forgotten '' above him .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a cat with the words `` gone but not forgotten '' above him .

media.tenor.com

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 21d

If you're wondering how rare the Yankees' ninth-inning Tuesday night was... it's never happened before 👀

(H/T OptaSTATS on X)

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 22d

This isn’t what the article nor what the players said. Definitely abhorrent behavior by some US fans(also turns out it wasn’t thrown but knocked out of someone’s hand), but we don’t need to embellish the stories either.

Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 23d

This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.

Footage shows moment Rory McIlroy's wife Erica is hit by can of beer by fan in shocking incident

Video footage of the shocking incident involving Rory McIlroy's wife Erica at the Ryder Cup has been shared online

www.ladbible.com

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · 28d

Sad to see JoAnne Hewett stepping down as lab director of BNL. I think having a positive vision for a national lab is under appreciated in modern times, and JoAnne definitely brought that when she came.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Somewhere between outsourcing and crowdsourcing, gravitational wave researchers got 1,000 participants on Kaggle to create the best algorithm to identify continuous GWs (shed by a swiftly tilting neutron star). Top 10 submissions reduced compute by 1–3 orders of magnitude. arxiv.org/abs/2509.06445

Top 10 solutions plotted against a naive search (solid black line). x-axis is basically a signal to noise ratio; as signal:noise gets larger, the y-axis value (probability of detection– false positive) approaches 1.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Sep 1

Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why?

David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder

w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:

US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants

The decision will hinder lawsuits against grant terminations, legal specialists say.

www.nature.com

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Aug 11

That’s not the goal, that’s just what technology can potentially do. We need to be careful about not conflating the two concepts.

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sridhara Dasu giving a great talk on accelerator/detector synergies at the 2nd US muon collider workshop, I also learned that SLD was not just the SLAC large detector but also referred to as slow lingering death 😅 🧪⚛️

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

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Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · Jul 30

When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it

Home

Il Museo Galileo è una delle principali istituzioni internazionali di storia della scienza. Unisce un museo di strumenti scientifici a un istituto dedicato alla ricerca, alla documentazione e alla div...

www.museogalileo.it

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Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · Jul 25

Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Jul 25

I hope Fiesole was relaxing at least. See you in Chicago!

Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Jul 24

@chrisquigg.com giving a great talk about synergies between neutrino physics and muon colliders at our GGI workshop, while wearing a potentially ominous original SSC t-shirt😅 🧪⚛️

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Jul 18

If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood.

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Matt Reece @mreece.bsky.social · Jul 13

NASA finally posted their annual ROSES call for proposals, five months late. I was hoping to apply for the Astrophysics Theory program, which is offered every other year. This should be an on year, but it’s not there. Of course, Harvard isn’t currently eligible for federal grants anyway.

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Patrick Meade @theorydad.bsky.social · Jul 13

Would have preferred Alcaraz, but Sinner played great. Looks like we’re in the era of the big two for the foreseeable future.

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