Of all the solutions, that is one of them

Check out the second update to the Genesis FOA

They just completely changed the rules for collaboration with other institutions at the 11th hour on a funding call that many institutions in the US are submitting hundreds of grants for.

If all your US colleagues are bald next week, this is why

How can you forget Wilson Hall, where most physicists at Fermilab work, the towering building rising out of the flatness that is Illinois?

Today we're setting a record for high temperatures. Less than a week from now we're setting it for low temperatures.

I mean, I knew that LLMs were garbage, but here is some quantifiable proof. chatgpt cannot figure out the author of a paper (clearly written at the top). It can't even say anything meaningful about language which is supposed to be their expertise, then really, what is the point?

I do have a paper on the subject, but probably at least 1000 other people do too, so the odds it randomly picked me seem very low, unless it knows something it isn't supposed to.

It then says that the text "in the new paper is consistent with the author’s known style, not an outlier." lol

I asked chatgpt if it thinks a paper I saw on the arXiv was written by LLMs. It then offered to do a deeper dive by comparing it to previous papers by the same author.

It then proceeds to compare it to one of my papers stating that the author of the original paper is me?!?

Point and clicks are great.

The difference between different qualities of photography is almost never the camera, rather the photographer.

Plus, there's so much to learn it can be overwhelming. Starting by simplifying part of the problem is always a good idea.

A nice writeup about my project with an undergrad student last year.

We were the first to measure the density of the Sun with neutrino data, which was pretty cool! Charlie Gourley did a great job on the project!

phys.org/news/2025-03...

There is some irony here in that one could use the tools of the paper to study the citation curve.

Fermilab in an email today: "We're going to look in everyone's cars more often because Americans keep shooting each other." (paraphrase)

Dinosaur Comics! you also need a spacesuit to go to the moon. and a rocketship. you need a rocketship, and a spacesuit, and a sausage.

www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

rm: "in the late 70s and early 80s"

Author uses AI for literature review, cites only four papers.

Boring plots are sometimes the most important plots

If you think you're okay using genAI for part of your paper such as your literature review, then you should probably just delete that whole section.

And the NuFast-Earth paper is published in PRD! doi.org/10.1103/jgw1...

The referee was great fun, so thanks to whomever that was!

In the meantime, we have added a number of features to the code and cleaned it up, with more features in mind. Let me know if you are interested in using it

And the 11.3B number will be quietly revised up in a month.

New Marvel movie just dropped: Exploring the CondaVerse

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A picture of text from Terry Pratchett's "Eric." The highlighted part says "'What're quantum mechanics?' ' I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."

Sometimes it feels like that, yes.

Nice!

Closet to us... that we know of!

Ahhhhh!!!!!

Text stating that Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige won an astronomy prize and a photo of her surrounded by 19 men.

"Woman receives astronomy prize; has to stand for photo flanked by 19 men"

(Gwenhaël Wilberts Dewasseige won the Paul and Marie Stroobant prize in theoretical or observational astronomy)

The whole world did that for 1-2 years once, but then we all collectively deleted it from our memories

Statistical isotropy of the universe and the look-elsewhere effect Recently, Jones et al. [arXiv:2310.12859] claimed strong evidence for the statistical anisotropy of the universe. The claim is based on a joint analysis of four different anomaly tests of the cosmic m...

I cannot comment on the technical details of this, but I very much like the idea of considering a look elsewhere effect on the number of studies done. arxiv.org/abs/2602.10178

(See also the statistical significance of the 750 GeV diboson event, haha)

SNEWS

SNEWS on @xkcd.com !

xkcd.com/3208/

There were many alternative acronyms proposed, including POTATOES: POinting to ThAT Old Exploding Star