The NA62 Collaboration has recently refined the measurement of a rare particle decay.
Studying the one-in-ten-billion kaon decay allows researchers to stress-test the #StandardModel of particle physics.
Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...
No snark intended, I’d recommend looking at what these facilities are doing - PPD and TD tend to be for the STFC science areas, but eg ASTeC is doing lots for industry & medical, RAL space has lots for industry, Hartree/Quantum/SCD are broad computing for U.K. science.
We are back to 2007 when the offered PPARC merging with CCLRC or with EPSRC. The arguments then that EPSRC does not handle long-timescale projects and funding lead us to STFC. Perhaps we can now lead back to splitting CCLRC (which serves all UKRI) and restoring PPARC for the curiosity?
Who could have thought that holding multiple roles could lead to conflicts of interest?
The whole templates exercise for projects is inconsistent with ‘do less but better’ - there is no exploration of the better, just preparation suitable for salami-slicing. Less but better would need a prioritisation exercise, not a trimming one.
These cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world | Jon Butterworth
V poor judgment on their part.
ROFL Good to find a little light in the dark! And I am guessing Robin thinks the same
I’m simply shocked. So many things to say on this, but the BBC seems to have lost its sense of reason - the requirements of the newsroom should not become a restriction on all its output. You will be undiminished, it is our collective loss.
For one heady moment I thought you had got into watching old episodes of Babylon 5
Sorry to miss you - again! Maybe at WOMAD when it returns….
Unless … that’s not the moon, it’s the remains of the Death Star? ;-)
On shift for the NA62 experiment at CERN - it’s not all glamour!
nice picture, I must use your photographer ;-)
For this week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social I wrote about the Vera Rubin Observatory. I don't often get excited about new telescopes, but this one's special.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
Oh mercy, now I see the error of my ways!!
Honoured they let an aging particle physicist into the team photo!
A giant collage of selfies shaped in the roughly-plus-shape of LSST Camera's focal plane
Did someone say #NationalCameraDay? 📷
We wanted to celebrate ours by creating a giant 3200-megapixel group photo inspired by our LSST Camera...and here it is, featuring many of YOU!
Grab this epic group photo at rubinobservatory.org/gallery 🔭🧪
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Oh, we know! Greetings from Lancaster
Just gave a short talk on the Data release Processing for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in our Lancaster ‘First Look’ event. Lancaster&RAL will process 25% of the data over 10 years
Rubin Observatory's massive 8.4-meter telescope beneath the night sky through the observatory's open dome slit. THe night sky is visible through the slit in the upper half of the image. The teal telescope structure is at bottom right and fills much of the image. It is tilted left of vertical by about 45 degrees. The denser glowing band of the Milky Way is visible through the open dome oriented from upper left toward lower right.
You're gonna need a bigger data management system... 🚤🦈
In 10 years, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data processing will generate around 500 petabytes. Managing all of this data is an international job. 🔭🧪
📷: RubinObs/NSF/DOE/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/W. O'Mullane
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An illustrated global map showing Rubin Observatory's data paths with red lines. The data start in Chile before following one of two paths north to California: the first goes directly from Chile under the ocean, and the second goes from Chile to Brazil, then to Florida, then to California. From California, the data are sent to Europe: first to France, and from France to the UK.
🇬🇧 The United Kingdom's UK Data Facility and IRIS network will process about a quarter of Rubin’s data.
With this global data coordination, Rubin will not only #CaptureTheCosmos...it will fuel discoveries around the globe! 🔭🧪
There’s a lot of Pinot noire, Gamaret and gamay produced around Geneva - but not much sign of it in the U.K. The quality is good though it is relatively pricey even locally.
EPCC installs a new hypervisor, that will serve new virtual machines to the Somerville cloud
As @vrubinobs.bsky.social nears completion, we're bracing ourselves for the onslaught of data. The UK is hosting one of Rubin's data facilities, in @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and RAL. Find out more about Rubin's data challenges here: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-d...
My immediate reaction is “what, London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Luton? What about the rest of the U.K.? And when do we take measures to break this crazy hub-and-spoke model that has pulled all the long-hauls to hubs and *decreased* connectivity for most.
Exactly - even those who can pay cannot get them around here, there are no stocks to be found
Yet another Unit dating joke in the War Games colourised edition. Nice. The choice of appearances was a nice touch too…
If ever an old Dr Who story would benefit from some editing it’s the War Games!
Happy Doctor Who Day - my first on Bluesky. 61years going on 2500(or maybe 4 billion)
