Congratulations to Paula Zweynert, who has just completed her bachelor thesis with us on electroweak multiparticle production at LHC! You can download her thesis from our webpage at particle.uni-graz.at/en/structure...

Hey, immerhin nicht Ziegenstall & Altarstein. Die sollen sich nicht so.

Steinkreis, skaliert auf Gartengröße!

And one more PhD position in my group @uni-graz.at on quantum gravity, this time using numerical simulations, known as #CDT, to get to the graviton: inspirehep.net/jobs/3144581

I think the one, overwhelming message places like Austria, France or Germany should take from the recent elections in Hungary, Poland and Brazil is: They tried willingly rightwing, natonalistic, authoritarian regimes, and decided they wanted to get rid of it, because they did not deliver.

Meh. You have my best wishes for a quick solution.

Thread, which really makes the central point about why we need to change, fundamentally and quickly:

"Energy security and costs are important. Being alive is more important than both of these. If you've forgotten that, fix your fucking heart."

Paper writing: 2.7%
Outreach: 2.1%

Reading papers: 0.3%

Teaching in a classroom: 13.9%
Activism: 10.9%

Working directly with PhD/Master/Bachelor student: 8.8%
Administration: 8.8%
Research by myself: 8.6%
Catching up with the arXiv: 5.3%
Teaching preparations: 5.0%

Writing my textbook: 4.9%
Examinations: 4.4%
Proposal writing: 3.8%
Refereeing: 2.7%

March the semester started again, but since I did most of the teaching of this year in the previous semester, there is a bit more time for other stuff #ProfAtWork. Also, with more catastrophes impending, more time is needed to prepare.

Email (mostly administration): 17.6%

Ok, so there is substantial progress for the #GCP. The metal construction will carry the upper levels such that our big lecture halls will not have need for any columns, which would obstruct view.

Deep adapation. Und dann ins Handeln kommen.

Du findest das persönlicher als einfach alles anzuzünden?

I wrote up what the Iran War and crisis in the Strait of Hormuz means for the world. If this continues to spiral, we may be heading for a very different world than the one we currently inhabit. The last bit of normal may be gone for a generation.

www.thedissident.news/the-last/

See also their own statement at tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/

ArXiv, the pioneering preprint server, declares independence from Cornell As an independent nonprofit, it hopes to raise funds to cope with exploding submissions and “AI slop”

This was necessary (we actually had this as an item of concern during the deliberation on the European Strategy Update for Particle Physics). Preservation of knowledge by independent entities becomes more and more crucial. Thanks @arxiv.bsky.social

www.science.org/content/arti...

The first five PhD position of our doc.fund project are now open for application - see inspirehep.net/jobs/3129302 for details.

Work with us @uni-graz.at in particle physics and quantum gravity. E.g. with me on the consequences of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect in quantum gravity!

Weak and Higgs physics from the lattice The manifestly gauge-invariant and non-perturbatively complete lattice formulation of the weak interactions and the Brout-Englert-Higgs effect is connected to the usual perturbative description in phe...

Our #Lattice2025 proceedings is available! It contains a number of preliminary results never seen before from the lattice. Special highlights are the first electroweak PDFs and a spectral function for the Higgs. All fits nicely into the picture of weak physics we develop - arxiv.org/abs/2603.12882

To all the new followers - welcome!

This account is a fairly irregular mix of stuff from our research into the most fundamental laws of nature, #TalkCollapse and towards a #JustCollapse, and stuff happening around our University.

Bei Bedarf sind meine DMs immer offen für dich.

Ätzend und unfair. Du hast mein Mitgefühl, und was du sonst noch gebrauchen kannst!

Ich wünschte, sie wüssten das nicht.

Terrified not only for kids, but also for my students, and, yes, myself and basically everyone.

Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant Approaches Gauge symmetries play a central role, both in the mathematical foundations as well as the conceptual construction of modern (particle) physics theories. However, it is yet unclear whether they form a ...

We wrote together (with others) a book about what we do, which is, as a preprint, freely available at arxiv.org/abs/2110.00616 - but I am afraid that it is too technical.

Philosophy of Astrophysics This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics.

The course material is, unfortunately, not freely available, for copyright reasons.

A resource, which will we (I do it together with a philosopher) use heavily in the course is this book, which is actually open access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Teaching in a classroom: 0.6%
Teaching preparations: 0.2%

Working directly with PhD/Master/Bachelor student: 6.9%
Activisim: 6.4%
Examinations: 5.7%
Administration: 5.3%

Catching up with the arXiv: 4.1%
Writing papers: 4.1%
Proposal writing: 3.7%
Writing my textbook: 3.2%
Writing talks: 2.7%
Outreach: 2.2%

Refereeing: 1.3%

February was no teaching, but a lot of workshops and visits, and thus talks and politics played a big role in my time as #ProfAtWork. But also a bit of time for research.

Listening to talks: 20%

Email (mostly administration): 12.9%
Science politics: 12.0%

Research by myself: 8.5%

Wow, something clearly happens, as the #GCP now rapidly grows! The aim is that the outer shell is done by the end of the year, and we are clearly on a good path.

A little belated, but welcome everyone back for the summer semester! I am looking very much forward to meeting you, especially in my courses on gauge theories and philosophy of physics!