Liam Gaffney

Thank you!

They added the responsible user of the device as the e-group for the whole of CERN

This ⬇️, the other Infrastructure project deprioritisations, the 30% cuts planned at STFC, are not "doing fewer things better". These long term endeavours are already streamlined like a whippet. This UKRI funding rebalancing will result in the UK losing world leading science. #UKRI #STFC #physics

I, along with many other UKRI, STFC and RS fellows are signing this open letter on the STFC cuts. The proposed reductions will devastate UK astronomy and the researchers who make it possible. Please read, share, and, if a fellow, sign.

advancedfellows-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html

#astro

He also managed to conflate the cancelled projects (funding from the UKRI infrastructure fund) with budget pressures in STFC. Cutting those projects doesn’t save STFC any money from their budget line, so they are going to have to cut even more.

UK’s science superpower hopes hit as Labour slashes physics funding University funding for astronomy and physics research cut by almost a third as government seeks to concentrate budget on areas that prioritise economic growth

"Physics isn't a luxury we can afford to throw away through confusion and cuts."

Following our response to STFC's funding reductions yesterday, it's great to see this news covered in @thetimes.com. (1/4)

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

U.K. physics community braces for deep funding cuts Research council to slash funding for particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy by 30%, prompting alarm across the research community

@iop.org found in 2019 alone #physics generated 11% of UK GDP. Now #STFC, which overseas much of UK physics public research funding, aims to cut curiosity-driven research by 30%. Robbing the future to pay for the present will never be a successful economic strategy. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

This letter more or less confirms that once again the need to fund the ‘fixed’ costs of STFC - essentially the labs - those of us who work in areas funded by the council can go swivel. So stupid and shortsighted.

Image of a researcher looking through a microscope with text overlay that reads 'Our response to vital science cuts announced by Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

New Science Technology & Facilities Council (STFC) letters confirm major funding reductions to areas including particle, nuclear and astrophysics, with a similar process expected for national facilities and labs. While investment in quantum, AI and green tech is welcome, the IOP warns cutting (1/3)

Some initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵

www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

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screenshot from the current homepage of CERN

Happy birthday HIE-ISOLDE!

CERN celebrates 10 years of accelerated radioactive beams from the HIE-ISOLDE facility

The current homepage splash features the rather photogenic silicon detector of the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, built at @livuniphysics.bsky.social

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And look what the largest part of the total is, and the one that has grown the most…….

She can take equity out of the house to pay the bill very simply. If she owns a £2m pound house, the bank will happily give her £20k to cover it for the next few years.

Was there a follow up on this? Would love to know more about the book

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

That’s an insult to San Marino and Cyprus!

Why must it be big news that they’ve used all the power and might of the LHC to measure the nuclear shape of stable neon isotopes? Something that was done in small university labs in the 1970s, and can be done routinely with low-energy beams and gamma-ray spectrometers?

4^2 / 3^2 / 45^2

Making molecules with superheavy elements could shake up the periodic table – Physics World New atom-by-atom technique demonstrated for the first time with nobelium might ensure that elements at the bottom of the table are grouped correctly

The first nobelium-containing molecules ever made + directly identified could herald a shake-up at the bottom of the periodic table as scientists reassess the physical phenomena that give heavy and superheavy elements their chemical properties. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/making-mol...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.

🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Avignon in the south of France is lovely. Good balance of history, tourism, weather and accessibility by train (Eurostar+TGV).

It’s May and my brain hasn’t updated the year yet

It’s also from the future

ISOLDE already exists 😉

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Bubble Chamber Breakthrough As I am sure everyone is well aware by now, UCL won a share of an enormous prize yesterday1. After half a century of valiant defeat and occasional failure to turn up, football really is coming home…

Bubble Chamber Breakthrough lifeandphysics.com/2025/04/07/b... #LifeAndPhysics

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