Peter Onyisi
@peteronyisi.bsky.social
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 AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
AAUP @ Univ. of Houston Opposes Campus Censorship
CONTACT: Daniel Morales, JD, President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Chapter at the University of Houston, [email protected]
aaup-texas.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to their administration concerning the wave of censorship unleashed on instructors for spring courses
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The Regents have always had ultimate power over hiring and curriculum. Previously they were wise enough to take recommendations from experts in the areas involved. We urge the Regents to continue to rely on the considerable expertise of the university’s world class faculty!
UT Regents move forward with 'ultimate' power to oversee hiring, curriculum www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT Regents will have 'ultimate' power over college hiring, curriculum
Moving forward, UT Regents will have greater authority over what degrees are offered and who fills key leadership roles at the system's Texas public institutions.
www.statesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The Regents have always had ultimate power over hiring and curriculum. Previously they were wise enough to take recommendations from experts in the areas involved. We urge the Regents to continue to rely on the considerable expertise of the university’s world class faculty!
NERSC is proud to introduce its new AI-first system, "Misunderstanding"
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NERSC is proud to introduce its new AI-first system, "Misunderstanding"
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JUNO is taking data only since 2 months, and they have already measured the solar neutrino oscillation parameters theta_12 and Deltam_12^2 with world-leading precision:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593
Congrats in particular to my ULB colleagues involved!
arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593
Congrats in particular to my ULB colleagues involved!
First measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations at JUNO
Neutrino oscillations, a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavor mixing angles and neutrino mass-squared differences that are fundamental parameters of particle...
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
JUNO is taking data only since 2 months, and they have already measured the solar neutrino oscillation parameters theta_12 and Deltam_12^2 with world-leading precision:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593
Congrats in particular to my ULB colleagues involved!
arxiv.org/abs/2511.14593
Congrats in particular to my ULB colleagues involved!
Queens of the Stone Age? Queens of the Stone Age
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Queens of the Stone Age? Queens of the Stone Age
The only song named "Golden" I recognize
Crobot - "Golden" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Crobot
music.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The only song named "Golden" I recognize
UT: please list every one of your publications from the last year. No we do not integrate with ORCID or anything like that
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
UT: please list every one of your publications from the last year. No we do not integrate with ORCID or anything like that
As long as it avoids a quench I see nothing wrong with this
![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
As long as it avoids a quench I see nothing wrong with this
I feel OpenID Connect and I have reached a kind of détente
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I feel OpenID Connect and I have reached a kind of détente
A point I keep trying to make: this, too shall pass, and the people who would sell out their institutions for their careers and resentments will have to live in that environment
This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A point I keep trying to make: this, too shall pass, and the people who would sell out their institutions for their careers and resentments will have to live in that environment
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This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This insanity is going to pass (not tomorrow but eventually) and at that point there has to be real accountability for these institutions and decision-makers; at this level, it will likely be social and interpersonal more than anything
Honestly this feels like the dynamic with the sciences too
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Honestly this feels like the dynamic with the sciences too
Having a somewhat odd realization about phase vs group velocities for quantum wave packets and the sign difference between the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Having a somewhat odd realization about phase vs group velocities for quantum wave packets and the sign difference between the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian
It is a, let's say, interesting fact that "academic integrity" is discussed here primarily not as a question of, say, honesty or disclosure of conflicts but as one of "respect for differences" and "balanced treatment of disputed issues"
Texas Statement on Academic Integrity | University of Texas at Austin
www.utexas.edu
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It is a, let's say, interesting fact that "academic integrity" is discussed here primarily not as a question of, say, honesty or disclosure of conflicts but as one of "respect for differences" and "balanced treatment of disputed issues"
Dunno why the Schengen exit procedures at GVA have been incredibly slow the last few months, but it's pretty ridiculous
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Dunno why the Schengen exit procedures at GVA have been incredibly slow the last few months, but it's pretty ridiculous
Need more ATLAS shift music. The L1Calo Receiver Blues. The LUCID Calibration Boogaloo. It's A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Pixel Warm Start Sixteen Minutes
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Need more ATLAS shift music. The L1Calo Receiver Blues. The LUCID Calibration Boogaloo. It's A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Pixel Warm Start Sixteen Minutes
Congrats to the authors, I cannot stress how annoying this process is to measure
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
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Congrats to the authors, I cannot stress how annoying this process is to measure
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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
October 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
One of CERN's resident magpies
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
One of CERN's resident magpies
If the Hamiltonian flow of everyone in your neighborhood has brought them to bigotry, well...
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If the Hamiltonian flow of everyone in your neighborhood has brought them to bigotry, well...
"The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy" is a quote that pretty clearly terrifies certain people
October 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy" is a quote that pretty clearly terrifies certain people
The thing about her list of complaints about academia (protests! chronicling Western oppression! research with no practical benefit! the CDC for some reason!) is that they can only be addressed by reducing the scope of things people do in universities, which doesn't sound like "viewpoint diversity"
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.
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The thing about her list of complaints about academia (protests! chronicling Western oppression! research with no practical benefit! the CDC for some reason!) is that they can only be addressed by reducing the scope of things people do in universities, which doesn't sound like "viewpoint diversity"
brb expressing the size of the Argentina bailout in FCC-ee units
October 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
brb expressing the size of the Argentina bailout in FCC-ee units
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