Liam Gaffney
@lpgaff.bsky.social
Nuclear physicist and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Do most of my work at CERN’s radioactive ion beam facility, ISOLDE.
Happy birthday HIE-ISOLDE!
CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility
The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social
home.cern
CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility
The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social
home.cern
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy birthday HIE-ISOLDE!
CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility
The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social
home.cern
CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility
The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social
home.cern
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Why must it be big news that they’ve used all the power and might of the LHC to measure the nuclear shape of stable neon isotopes? Something that was done in small university labs in the 1970s, and can be done routinely with low-energy beams and gamma-ray spectrometers?
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the #BigBang.
Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...
Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Why must it be big news that they’ve used all the power and might of the LHC to measure the nuclear shape of stable neon isotopes? Something that was done in small university labs in the 1970s, and can be done routinely with low-energy beams and gamma-ray spectrometers?
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The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...
Making molecules with superheavy elements could shake up the periodic table – Physics World
New atom-by-atom technique demonstrated for the first time with nobelium might ensure that elements at the bottom of the table are grouped correctly
physicsworld.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Bubble Chamber Breakthrough lifeandphysics.com/2025/04/07/b... #LifeAndPhysics
Bubble Chamber Breakthrough
As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday1. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home…
lifeandphysics.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Bubble Chamber Breakthrough lifeandphysics.com/2025/04/07/b... #LifeAndPhysics
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The total cut off of deliveries to Ukraine is shockingly punitive. This is money already spent, equipment already built by industry for Ukraine, much of it has little utility to the US military. And it is just going to be sitting there in warehouses idle, as Ukrainian forces fight on.
March 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The total cut off of deliveries to Ukraine is shockingly punitive. This is money already spent, equipment already built by industry for Ukraine, much of it has little utility to the US military. And it is just going to be sitting there in warehouses idle, as Ukrainian forces fight on.
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Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
Zelensky thanks America for four minutes straight
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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March 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.
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Huge congratulations to Professor Brianna Heazlewood on this incredible achievement—our first ever Blavatnik Awards finalist! 🎉👏
Huge congratulations to Professor Brianna Heazlewood from our Department of Physics, who has been named a finalist in the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK—a first for the University of Liverpool! 👏
Read the full story ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/02/19/l...
Read the full story ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/02/19/l...
February 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Huge congratulations to Professor Brianna Heazlewood on this incredible achievement—our first ever Blavatnik Awards finalist! 🎉👏
Hello, I’m going to start posting here rather than on the other website from now on. Hopefully I’ll share some physics things a little more often!
February 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hello, I’m going to start posting here rather than on the other website from now on. Hopefully I’ll share some physics things a little more often!