ATLAS turns into a cosmic-ray laboratory with proton-oxygen collisions The ATLAS Collaboration reports its first measurement of proton-oxygen collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These results transform the ATLAS experiment into a cosmic-ray laboratory, helping...

What do you get if you bring a Hydrogen ion together with an Oxygen ion?
Well... it kind of depends how violently you bring them together 😊
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Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot.

This was Mueller’s FBI:

I see the AQA 2025 GCSE formula sheet includes area of trapezium and of a circle which seems on the excessive side to me, but some of the higher level formulae included seem fair enough. www.aqa.org.uk/news/gcse-ma...

yes, it's arguable like that depending on whether you are trying to assess knowledge, skills or understanding. At uni level it's useful giving formula sheets so that you can set more challenging questions and not have people simply be unable to start or go astray by slightly misremembering formulae.

Well there is a subtlety here, if the formula is given then the candiadtes won't get marks simply for remembering formulae but rather for the application of them to actually do something useful.

An open letter has been sent to Lord Vallance from 57 heads of UK physics departments and institutes, including all of the heads of physics departments of the Russell group.

www.iop.org/about/news/o...

The Apprentice's Sorcerer Or I how I learned to start worrying and love Claude Code

🤖NEW POST ON AI🤖

Perhaps you're thinking like Brenda from Bristol, 'not another one!' but... I felt that lots of writing about Claude Code doesn't really show you how it works. So I thought well, why not? And along the way some bad literary allusions. 1/n

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Post a banger not in English youtu.be/rmv8m1d3PVc?...

Ah found it, it Way of X #1

I've seen this partly reference in one of the Krakoan-era x-men storylines (Way of X, Legion of X or Uncanny Spiderman I think) which had Nightcrawler (canonically Roman Catholic) being questioned about the fact that the god he puts his faith in is the only one who never turns up in their universe.

Marvel's Immortal X-Men Implies Jesus Christ Was Actually a Mutant A former X-Men supervillain hints that Jesus Christ, himself, may have actually been a mutant in the Marvel Universe in Immortal X-Men #1.

Not a character, but (fairly) recently implied to have been a mutant
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El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

A Classic of the Nueva Canción that speaks to the moment

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Dragons | Developer Update | January 2026 YouTube video by MarvelSnap

Love the usage of and collaboration with the marvel multiverse TTRPG in this month's Snap developer update www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7TV...

Missing dog in Hamburg, Germany 👇
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Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?

We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).

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As I have seen others say, he was a tremendously kind man who was very supportive and encouraging of those he taught and/or supervised.

Professor Robin Devenish (1942–2025) - Hertford College | University of Oxford It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Hertford Emeritus Fellow Robin Devenish, who died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on 27 October. Robin was appointed to a Un...

Sad news. It was fantastic to be taught by Robin as a student and then to work with him as a colleague.

There's still time to apply for our Career Development Fellowship scheme, which aims to support the retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. The deadline for this application round is Wednesday 19 November: royalsociety.org/grants/career-developmen...

Resonant laser ablation selectively destroys pancreatic tumours – Physics World A mid-infrared femtosecond laser tuned to the collagen absorption peak can ablate pancreatic cancer while preserving healthy pancreatic tissues

Tuning the treatment laser to the collagen absorption peak could enable efficient pancreatic tumour ablation with minimal damage to healthy tissue. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/resonant-l...

UK immigration costs: an international comparison of skilled worker, researcher and student visas in 2025 | Royal Society 2025 update to the Royal Society's analyses of upfront immigration costs in the UK and 17 other leading science nations.

Here’s the link to the full @royalsociety.org report on UK researcher visa costs compared to other countries
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.

The final release before they discontinued expansions improved it a lot.

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

Aerial view of Oxford at sunrise, showcasing historic buildings and a vibrant sky.

Daybreak over the Bridge of Sighs 🌅

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• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students. • Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7. • Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Cancer research ‘set back years’ as visa fees drive scien... With vital studies being shelved and foreign experts turning down jobs, leading charity urges ministers to act

“High visa fees are putting off some of the world’s most talented scientists from coming to the UK,” said Foulkes, with “We need to be able to compete for the world’s best scientists.” research institutes forced to divert funds from labs to pay fees.”
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The Sofa

A song that brings Wolf Alice's excellent new album "The Clearing", to a satisfying conlcusion.

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The openstax textbooks are pretty great if you weren't already aware of them: openstax.org/details/book...