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Some thoughts after two parliamentary committee hearings
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Select committees
Well, the fight to stop the decimation of particle, astro and nuclear physics continues. The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology select committee session I mentioned in the previous…
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March 8, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Data Taking

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LHC event counter snapshot
March 23, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Cocktail Update: Penicillin and Sidecar lifeandphysics.com/2025/01/19/c... #LifeAndPhysics
Cocktail Update: Penicillin and Sidecar
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January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Yesterday in Parliament
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Yesterday in Parliament
Clive Lewis MP hosted a drop in session about the funding crisis in the science and technology research council (STFC). We had a busy two hours talking to MPs and Peers. I think and hope we had som…
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June 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Some history of UCL and particle physics lifeandphysics.com/2026/04/05/s... #LifeAndPhysics
Some history of UCL and particle physics
UCL is 200 years old this year, and there is a lot to celebrate. Physics and asronomy have been here since the start.
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April 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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This Wednesday I will be giving evidence on science funding to the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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A trip to the House of Commons
Having had a very interesting meeting at the House of Lords a couple of weeks ago, this Wednesday I will be giving evidence on science funding to the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Techno…
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March 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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The future of particle physics, part 94 lifeandphysics.com/2025/04/06/t... #LifeAndPhysics
The future of particle physics, part 94
A discussion on the future of particle physics is underway. When is it not, you might ask? And it is a good question, there is always something like this going on (hence the “part 94” i…
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April 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Experts lifeandphysics.com/2025/01/19/e... #LifeAndPhysics
Experts
It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker …
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January 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Fourheads
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Fourheads
So, is the above (a) a publicity shot from the stage adaptation of The Usual Suspects (b) four (one current, three previous) Heads of Physics and Astronomy at UCL.
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June 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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This resonated with some other discussions I've been pondering, so I wrote this:
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May 9, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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An “impossible” Higgs measurement becomes reality thanks to AI (and QCD) lifeandphysics.com/2026/04/14/a... #LifeAndPhysics
An “impossible” Higgs measurement becomes reality thanks to AI (and QCD)
Higgs bosons produced with high transverse momentum are a key probe for new physics. An event display of a possible Higgs boson event showing two back-to-back jets. One jet shows a clear separation…
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April 14, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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Where do all the particle physicists* go?
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Where do all the particle physicists* go?
When Catherine Heymans, Simon Williams and I gave evidence to the House of Commons Science, innovation and Technology select committee a few weeks ago (seems like years to be honest), we were set s…
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April 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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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…
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April 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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As promised...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Something I wrote recently about something I wrote a while ago about something I said six years ago about controversies in physics.
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HAPPy Days
If you are interested in the History and Philosophy of Physics, this 10th anniversary commemorative volume from the Oxford Centre for History and Philosophy of Physics might contain treats, possibl…
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November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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More, from @lucienheurtier.bsky.social, on the funding crisis in particle, astro and nuclear physics
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Cuts, Commitments, and Contradictions
After my previous post on the parliamentary committees last week, I think it is worth highlighing this blog post by Lucien Heurtier. Lucien is a postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physi…
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March 9, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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On #DarkMatter and a new measurement from the #LHC
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Missing Energy
Here’s a question you might not have asked yourself before. When protons collide in the Large Hadron Collider, how often are undetectable particles produced? Maybe a quick follow up question would be,...
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August 9, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Photons, hadrons and where they meet
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Photons, hadrons and where they meet
The next particle collider to be built, not counting the planned upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, seems likely to be the "Electron-Ion Collider" (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on...
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September 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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Local Baryon Number at the LHC lifeandphysics.com/2025/05/13/l... #LifeAndPhysics
Local Baryon Number at the LHC
A quick post to advertise a new preprint my collaborators and I put on the arXiv today. It is called “Local Baryon Number at the LHC” and is by me, Joe – one of my PhD students, o…
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May 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Aspen and the Edge of Atom Land #LifeAndPhysics

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Aspen and the Edge of Atom Land
I'm half way through the second week of my stay at the Aspen Center for Physics, where we have been discussing "Tightening the Gap Between Scattering Amplitudes and Events at the LHC at Higher Orders"...
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August 29, 2024 at 5:21 PM