A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation
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Discover Your Paper’s Other Side
Good to see that an STFC employee has come up with some money-saving ideas in response to the government’s appeal. I’m not qualified to comment on the salary freeze. The point about end-of-year flexibility is so obviously true it is … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science Policy
Tagged not (yet) on the Guardian, research funding, STFC
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Self Reference
I guess every blogger has to blog about blogging at some point. I was on a panel of science bloggers at a talkfest organised by Alice Bell and Beck Smith last week, so it has been on my mind, and … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Particle Physics, Science, Science Policy, Writing
Tagged Dr Evan Harris, not (yet) on the Guardian, open source
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Money (That’s What I Want)
Once you pay someone enough to allow them to live comfortably, bunging more money at them is not a terribly effective motivator. In Britain, or England at least, we seem to have great trouble really accepting this. The banks crashed despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Particle Physics, Science, Science Policy
Tagged ATLAS, geekpop, not (yet) on the Guardian, research funding, spoofjenks
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A Mammoth of Research
You know, there’s so much science on TV and in the papers these days. I mean, I share in the glory of science every bit as much as people who actually work at it. I certainly know much more than … Continue reading
Posted in Rambling, Science, Science Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged not (yet) on the Guardian, research funding, spoofjenks
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Fun with data
Quick one, rather than my usual finely-honed prose. I am very busy and am having lots of fun. We are writing papers on jet data from ATLAS. I love this, and as I tweeted I am just so impressed by … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, cern, LHC, Neutrinos, not (yet) on the Guardian, STFC, zeus
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Survival of those that Fit
I noticed the other day that suddenly more people were looking at my blog. So it goes - Wordpress give you lots of cool graphs to obsess over. However, that particular demon is a mere spotty imp compared to the citation-count ogre. … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Science, Science Policy
Tagged ATLAS, not (yet) on the Guardian, pentaquark, research funding, string theory, zeus
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Wellcome to Physics
A couple of days ago I took part in a “packed lunch” discussion at the Wellcome Exhibition, about CERN, the LHC, and my work at UCL. A lot of fun. I turned up with a piece of the LHC we built … Continue reading
Posted in Particle Physics, Science
Tagged ATLAS, cern, Higgs, LHC, not (yet) on the Guardian, Relativity, teaching, Wellcome
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Off Topic
This post is life, not physics. I claim no special expertise in this field. I have always been anti-Tory. Some of this comes from growing up in Manchester in the 1980′s and seeing the human consequences of Tory economic policy. … Continue reading
Labour and STFC
So shortly after I wrote about the parties’ science policies and what their attitude to STFC might mean (here and here), Gordon Brown did reply to the CaSE letter, and also produced a science manifesto. He even specifically referred to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Science, Science Policy
Tagged Dr Evan Harris, election, lord drayson, not (yet) on the Guardian, research funding, STFC
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