Roland Pease
- Intriguing, frustrating read on a Nobel injustice. If the experiments of CS Wu (tho' post-deadline) had been critical in the committee's deliberations, holding back a year would be an option. Or they could have made belated amends in 1980, when Fitch & Cronin got theirs for another broken symmetry.
- Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...
- A running commentary on the House of Commons Sci/Tech committee from the Astronomer Royal of Scotland is quite refreshing.
- Popcorn at the ready: the UKGov Science, Innovation & Technology Committee is about to quiz Sir Ian Chapman about UKRI’s new strategic objectives. Will they ask him about the devastating cuts planned for UK astronomy? Let's hope so. 🔭🧪 📺 Watch live from 9:30am: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
- "The perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty" ... just a few of the words in this excoriating order.
- I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- A leak today that has nothing to do with Peter Mandelson.
- Richard Carrington's likeness. An example (for me) of an unknown unknown.
- Neat account of the rediscovery here. ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
- It's really quite ironic this administration is using lockdown and social isolation to control the spread of a dangerous virus. It's almost like they're learning the real lessons of 2020.
- 👀 Milhoan, who doesn't like the term established science, 'seems to see the rapid growth [in measles] as a chance to understand how dangerous measles is for unvaccinated people.' “We’ll have a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles." Really? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- "MAHA" health experiment (and no, it's not randomised, double-blinded). Just screw the victims. bsky.app/profile/luck...
- So much for building the knowledge economy.
- UK physics research and science facilities face ‘substantial’ cuts. Major cuts will hit UK science facilities and government research grants for physics and astronomy over the next four years, Research Professional News can reveal. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
- Looks even worse than I'd thought. (Paywalled) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-u...
- Some pushback bsky.app/profile/resp...
- Nobel winner and senior scientists slam cuts to UK physics. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
- A thorough takedown of MAHA nonsense. TL/DR "Great story. But completely inaccurate."
- It's almost like someone was ashamed of what was going to be said inside the event.
- I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
