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Should The LHCb experiment rent out its cavern for luxury weddings during the long shutdown? (With mandatory hard hats of course). #spam @lhcb.bsky.social

Katy Perry rented the Globe for her 40th birthday party which also included some underground tour with other VIPs. So there is certainly experience at CERN with this kind of events. And yes, all of them had to wear hard hats for the cavern tour.

How hidden contributions power modern research The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

Research of today is a team sport. Much of it depends on scientists in research-support roles who remain largely unseen, uncredited and frequently underpaid.

Research is an ecosystem; every niche needs to be recognised

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Guter Artikel, danke!

Für jedes Drittmittelprogramm sollten auch verpflichtend die Gesamtkosten evaluiert werden. Also der Gesamtaufwand aller Antragsteller und Gutachter plus Overhead darf einen kleinen Bruchteil der verteilten Mittel nicht überschreiten.

Keine Drittmittelanträge zu stellen ist sicher keine Option

Kleine Korrektur, es sind inzwischen mehr als 250 Anträge pro Panel (gestiegen von 50-150 als typischer Mittelwert). Es gibt aktuell 91 ERC Review-Panels!!!

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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For context: almost all permanent jobs at CERN are only open to people already employed on fixed term contracts (excluding PhD students or fellows). So the few permanent jobs anybody can apply to are a very big deal.

Screenshot of the CERN job advertisement page

Hilarious job advertisement by CERN. A fixed term limited duration job in the FCC group is advertised as "Lead Experimental Particle Physicist", while the single annual permanent position with open profile, among the most prestigious positions in the field, is advertised as "Experimental Physicist"

Und dann gibt es noch die Fälle wo die Vertragsverlängerung leider etwas später kommt und damit der Aufenthaltstitel leider weg ist. #ResearchWonderland

Sind die Studierenden nicht alt genug um selber zu lesen?

Is your university spending large amounts of money on licencing fees for entertainment purposes? Somebody should audit this.

LHCb collecting more integrated luminosity than ATLAS and CMS. I don't remember seeing this ever.

„Ganze Studiengänge stehen vor dem Aus“, heißt es in einer Erklärung der „AG Ausfinanzierung“, die Studierende, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende und Lehrende gegründet haben, um das Ruder noch herumzureißen. Sie fordern, dass die Stadt Hamburg das Loch von etwa 30 Millionen Euro im Budget seiner größten Uni ausgleicht. Rechnen würde sich das, sagen sie, flössen doch von jedem in Hochschulen investierten Euro rund 1,90 Euro in die Stadt zurück.

Eigentlich ein No-Brainer...

Unfortunately not a new phenomenon. At least 10 years ago the number of "news articles" that simply covered a Twitter quote surged.

Noether's work was certainly instrumental in the development of Gauge theories throughout the 20th century, and in particular the way we describe the Electroweak and the Strong interactions in the Standard Model of particle physics.

Physics got very far in explaining all we observe by just assuming several symmetries in our universe (you should read about Emmy Noether), and a couple dozen constants. If there is an even more fundamental structure behind this from which all of this follows, is an open question.

No, the asymmetries in e+e- scattering originate from the structure of the Weak interaction of the Z-boson which favours coupling to left-handed particles (and right-handed antiparticles), which then results in biases in the observed angular correlations.

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Kein Widerspruch im Prinzip, diese Aussage ist aber kein gutes Beispiel.

Ja, alles korrekt, ich glaube nur nicht, dass es im Widerspruch zu Klingbeils Aussage steht. Ich habe zumindest nichts gefunden, dass er sich explizit auf das Nettoeinkommen bezieht, was in diesem Zusammenhang auch wirklich ungewöhnlich wäre.

1 % der Vollzeitbeschäftigten verdiente im Jahr 2024 mehr als 213 286 Euro brutto Der mittlere Bruttojahresverdienst, gemessen am Median, lag 2024 in Deutschland einschließlich Sonderzahlungen bei 52 159 Euro. Somit verdiente die Hälfte der Beschäftigten mehr als oder genau diesen ...

Das Medianbruttogehalt für Vollzeitbeschäftigte liegt bei ca. 4300€. Nettoeinkommen zu vergleichen macht nicht wirklich Sinn auf Grund der großen Unterschiede der Freibeträge je nach Familiensituation. www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr...

Der Punkt wird leider nicht erst kommen wenn die AI wirklich besser ist, sondern wenn die meisten, oder eher die meisten Entscheidungsträger, den Unterschied nicht erkennen können. Und das gilt natürlich nicht nur für Physiker.

Und ja, ich kenne auch Fälle wo Betreuer und Arbeitsgruppe gewechselt wurden, was dann aber eher nicht als systemisches Problem interpretiert wird. Ich würde auch sagen, dass die Arbeit in großen Kollaborationen solche Wechsel erleichtert, weil man schon früh mit anderen Gruppen/PIs in Kontakt kommt

Sehr wichtiges Thema, aber zumindest so explizit kann ich mich an keine (offene) Diskussion dazu erinnern. Etwas weiter gefasst gibt es aber Diskussionen zur Sichtbarkeit von Leistungen in großen Kollaborationen mit tausenden Co-Autoren.

I am sure that all of these presentations have been carefully rehearsed. Something that some more senior speakers should also consider to get the timing right.

I just finished chairing a session on the measurement of double Higgs boson production with 8 fantastic talks by PhD and master students from ATLAS, CMS and theory. I did not even get to use my -1 minute sign 😢

Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

UK particle physics and astronomy are facing “catastrophic” cuts while science spending received a record increase. Documents seen by ⁦‪@BBCNews‬⁩ suggest money has been diverted away to government research areas🧪. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DPG logo in front of a tree

Diese Woche bei der Frühjahrstagung der @dpgphysik.bsky.social in Erlangen und so langsam spielt auch das Wetter mit.