Peter Onyisi
@peteronyisi.bsky.social
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Professor of Physics at UTAustin. Member of the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Particle wrangler, opinionated software user, fan of Texas State Parks, Austin FC, and Newcastle United; sometimes I pick up heavy things.
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The production of top quark pairs together with a W boson is a great way to test the quality of standard model predictions. This #CMSPaper measures provides boundaries on things like the difference between ttW+/- production, a very sensitive quantity to test the predictions arxiv.org/abs/2509.13512
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The definition of “viewpoint diversity” that figures like this promote implies *censorship* (the “must” part): curbing some forms of expression to boost others. It’s an invention of orgs who advocate government censorship of teaching/research + restrictions on protected political speech in colleges.
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
From 2023:
"People who lack experience, do not care about core organizational goals, will not listen to stakeholders, and are hell-bent on pursuing their narrow ideological agenda will ultimately destroy the organizations they are charged with leading."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
"People who lack experience, do not care about core organizational goals, will not listen to stakeholders, and are hell-bent on pursuing their narrow ideological agenda will ultimately destroy the organizations they are charged with leading."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/new-colleg...
New College is a warning about the price of populist incompetence
What happens when inexperienced radicals can't run public services
donmoynihan.substack.com
⭐️⭐️ Compact sent by the Trump administration to nine institutions of higher education, including UT Austin, available here:
I just saw a copy. Will send it in a series of screenshots to protect the source.