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Yannick Ulrich
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Research fellow in #particlephsyics at @liverpooluni.bsky.social, previously at @psich.bsky.social, @ipppdurham.bsky.social and @unibern.bsky.social (he/him)
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Yannick Ulrich @yannickulrich.com · Dec 9
👋 Hi Bluesky,

I'm Dr Yannick Ulrich (he/him), researcher in #particlephysics at @liverpooluni.bsky.social, #NeuroDivergent and passionate about #EDI and #AcademicMentalHealth.

Excited to meet all of you 💜
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livuniresearch.bsky.social
Dr Yannick Ulrich, @liverpooluni.bsky.social research fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded a €1.5 million @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant to improve predictions for several important experiments in particle physics ⚛

👉

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/09/03/e...
ERC grant to advance precision predictions in particle physics  - University of Liverpool News
ERC grant to advance precision predictions in particle physics
news.liverpool.ac.uk
September 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Very excited to be leading an #ERCStG project at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social! We will develop a new kind of Monte Carlo tool for next-generation precision #particlephysics experiments that improves how photons are simulated.

A brief 🧵
erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 3
📣 Good news! 📣

Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out!

Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe.

Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN

🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope
🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
September 7, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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zjayres.bsky.social
The media must be held to account. The rascist, relentless hounding of Jason Arday trussed up as some kind of "trial by public opinion" is unconscionable. My heart goes out to his family at this time. Academia has to do better. We have to do better.
August 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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starstryder.space
After seeing the headline "SpaceX IPO: How to Buy and Why You Shouldn't" on @barrons.com, I decided it was time to read the prospectus. I'm only a few pages in and folks... the implications of this document ...

Do you want to go on a journey with me? Because I'm about to enter the rabbit hole.
White Bunny Mascot Walking in Woods
Alt: White Bunny Mascot or Furry Walking in Woods. It's vaguely ominous in an uncanny valley sort of way.
static.klipy.com
June 1, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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Have worried about how everyone is just shrugging their shoulders about the inevitability of the 'AI' rollout (even if they see its problems). Nice to see some pushback by @karenhao.bsky.social, framing 'AI' as the political project it so clearly is
thenewsagents.co.uk The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · May 29
Data centres using as much energy as London. Exploitation of workers and the working class. A total lack of democracy in something set to change all our lives.

Tony Blair says we should all embrace AI now. AI expert Karen Hao says he's wrong on every level

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
The chilling truth about the AI industry | The News Agents
Tony Blair says we have no choice but to let AI into our lives. Journalist and author Karen Hao says he’s wrong, and we should be more concerned about the industry’s unchecked growth.
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
May 31, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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aniloza.bsky.social
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/ 3:03 PM · May 14, 2026 · 66.7K Views Relevant View quotes Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich · 1h If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/ Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich · 1h We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/ Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich · 1h The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/ Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich · 1h Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
May 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Love this idea!
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jan 10
On New Year's Eve, my daughter half-jokingly suggested that I resolve to spend 2026 embroidering a news diary--sewing one small icon to represent each day's events. I thought-- sure, I'll do it; might be a good way to process everything. Well, I'm one week in, and oof, what a knotty year it's been.
February 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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astroroyalscot.bsky.social
🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭

"Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people"

✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io
cplberry.bsky.social Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · Feb 5
An excellent open-letter enumerating the dangers to early career researchers and then wider society of proposed changes to UK science funding

ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

Early-career researchers may like to add their signatures

🧪⚛️🔭 #AcademicSky #UKpol
Early Career Researchers Response to UKRI Investment Approach
ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io
February 6, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Such embarrassing shortsightedness by the UK Government, esp given who the CERN DG is right now..
resprofnews.bsky.social Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jan 30
BREAKING: UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m

Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds

Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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I made this Foundation-themed tote bag for a friend but kept forgetting to actually post the pictures.. the art work is mostly from the recent TV show because I couldn't find original work by Asimov. Very happy with how it turned out, esp. since this was my first attempt at goldwork 🪡
A black tote bag with the imperial coat-of-arms from the TV show Foundation embroidered on in yellow thread. The lower half of the bag has the word FOUNDATION on it using the stylised font of the TV show. The shoulder strap of the bag has the owner's name in Elvish characters embroidered on using copper thread A closeup of the coat-of-arms of the tote bag. It shows a circular emblem with a central shape resembling a starburst that radiates six lines towards the edge. The central starburst contains a cross in made using red wire stitched to the fabric. On either side are two smaller stars
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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very much looking forward to @rfkuang.bsky.social's Manchester event tonight!
August 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Had a great time at the Liverpool Pride today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (un-cancelled & put together by @sahirhouse.bsky.social) with the @liverpooluni.bsky.social's LGBTQIA banner (thanks to @davidmartipete.bsky.social for organising 💜)
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectScouseDolls
July 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It's utterly shocking that this could happen in a democracy.. Fantastic and engaging reporting and impressive perseverance in getting this story out by @lewisgoodall.com and @newsagents.bsky.social
lewisgoodall.com Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jul 15
Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story.

The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdc6...
The secret court that silenced the News Agents...until now
YouTube video by The News Agents
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Blaming behaviour like this (or that Nazi salute) on being neurodivergent (autism in this case) is extremely offensive to the vast, vast majority of ND folk who don't go around harassing people.. makes me sick every time someone tries this 😡
thenewsagents.co.uk The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · Jul 10
"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock & then blaming your neurological diversity?"

Gregg Wallace has blamed allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour on his autism diagnosis.

Emily & Jon aren't buying it.

articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq7JwKL6Z4...
Gregg Wallace’s autism defence: ‘The definition of narcissism’
Gregg Wallace has sparked outrage by blaming allegations of inappropriate behaviour at the BBC on his recent autism diagnosis, and his "cheeky chappie" persona with critics calling him narcissistic an...
articles.globalplayer.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Some nice positive news out of Florida for a change. Happy Pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ and thanks for sharing @erininthemorning.com
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jun 3
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.

So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.

They opened the drawbridge to block them.

So they marched to a different bridge.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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After Labour's lurch right on immigration now this.. why exactly are these people still trying to court Reform voters (who wouldn't vote for you anyway) while alienating their own base? It clearly worked very well for the Dems all these times..
profrachelgan.bsky.social Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · Jun 2
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:

“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”

Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Great to be @cern.bsky.social for a workshop on negative weights in Monte Carlo generation (weather could be better though)
A picture of the CERN Globe of Science and Innovation at night. It is raining and the lights of the Esplanade des Particules reflect in the puddles.
May 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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I know I'm late to the party but still.. please consider co-signing 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
May 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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some much needed good news #TransRightsAreHumanRights
jupitors.bsky.social Danielle @jupitors.bsky.social · Apr 25
You know I said I was contacting Spoons to find out how they were going to deal with the toilet issue?

Well... Get rekt transphobes.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
April 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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this is utterly terrifying.. I don't think I'll be able to suggest students (or anyone really) attend conferences in the US with good conscience for quite some time
xkcd.com Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Enjoyed visiting @psich.bsky.social last week for a small McMule Collaboration meeting and a mini-hike near the lab
Photo of PSI from the Aussichtspunkt Besserstein in Villigen
April 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Looking forward to talking how we can understand the universe through precision measurements!
livuniresearch.bsky.social Research@LivUni @livuniresearch.bsky.social · Feb 21
Register for our first annual Research Fellows Showcase - Collaboration for Impact - @liverpooluni.bsky.social academic and research staff, postgraduate research students and professional services staff.

09.30am-4.10pm - 26th March 2025, Mountford Hall

liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/fellowships/2025/
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I've heard so many stories like this in private, great to see Rachel putting it out there 👏
adriguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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@newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com looking forward to the show 🤩
Stage at the Bridgewater Hall Bridgewater Hall from the outside
February 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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scurry.bsky.social
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
February 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM