Andreas Warburton
@awarb.bsky.social
Citizen. Biker. Radio op. High-energy subatomic particle physics professor. Work/Play/Love hard. he|him VA2WBT 🇨🇦🇨🇭🇬🇧 🇮🇳
Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/
See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/
See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
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Andreas Warburton
@awarb.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I'd like to extend a warm hello to old Twitter/X friends and contacts joining me here. I've initially used the Sky Follower Bridge extension to make a first migratory pass. I saw a lot of false positives, but let the algorithm privilege efficiency over purity. All are welcome here!
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Félicitations à @fxpbourassa.bsky.social pour l'obtention du prix de thèse de la division 'biological Physics' de l'American Physical Society ! Le doublé après le prix similaire de @biophyscanada.bsky.social ! @mcgill.ca www.aps.org/funding-reco...
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Félicitations à @fxpbourassa.bsky.social pour l'obtention du prix de thèse de la division 'biological Physics' de l'American Physical Society ! Le doublé après le prix similaire de @biophyscanada.bsky.social ! @mcgill.ca www.aps.org/funding-reco...
Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montréal rooftop station at a distance of 375km. Routine, except perhaps that I was in seat 13A of that particular plane, holding the phone. #peaknerd www.airnavradar.com/stations/EXT...
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montréal rooftop station at a distance of 375km. Routine, except perhaps that I was in seat 13A of that particular plane, holding the phone. #peaknerd www.airnavradar.com/stations/EXT...
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years
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home.cern/news/news/kn...
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years
home.cern/news/news/kn...
home.cern/news/news/kn...
New position for the all-sky camera I built during covid. Project antennas, departing aircraft, moon rising, altocumulus arriving, sunrise beginning. Meanwhile, Einstein@Home calculations to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (sometimes called pulsars).
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New position for the all-sky camera I built during covid. Project antennas, departing aircraft, moon rising, altocumulus arriving, sunrise beginning. Meanwhile, Einstein@Home calculations to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (sometimes called pulsars).
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#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
Smoke in the city: Hundreds of buildings. Three churches. One Moon.
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Smoke in the city: Hundreds of buildings. Three churches. One Moon.
Summer thesis reading day capped off with the VE3STP net run by champlainrepeater.ca at sundown.
August 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Summer thesis reading day capped off with the VE3STP net run by champlainrepeater.ca at sundown.
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Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86.
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...
RIP Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness 🤟
July 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
RIP Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness 🤟
34 degrees Celsius at times on today's all-electric ride. Put 200km on the new mesh armour gear: hoodie and pants. They're a game changer for adapting to #climate-change
July 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
34 degrees Celsius at times on today's all-electric ride. Put 200km on the new mesh armour gear: hoodie and pants. They're a game changer for adapting to #climate-change
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In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
A Hubble Network satellite, launched 6 days ago and capable of receiving signals from a 3.5mm Bluetooth chip on Earth from a distance of 600km, is detected by my rooftop ground station in Montréal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
June 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A Hubble Network satellite, launched 6 days ago and capable of receiving signals from a 3.5mm Bluetooth chip on Earth from a distance of 600km, is detected by my rooftop ground station in Montréal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
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Auroras during a full moon in Fairbanks, Alaska
June 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Auroras during a full moon in Fairbanks, Alaska
Jurassic Special Set: Thick Beef & Garlic Onion Beef burger, Umami Spicy Zaku Zaku Juicy Chicken burger, medium fry, Mac Fizz Pineapple Melon beverage. Cost: about CA$13 (plus some very minor stomach pains).
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Jurassic Special Set: Thick Beef & Garlic Onion Beef burger, Umami Spicy Zaku Zaku Juicy Chicken burger, medium fry, Mac Fizz Pineapple Melon beverage. Cost: about CA$13 (plus some very minor stomach pains).
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Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate
April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate
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On May 3rd, join McGill Physics Outreach & TSI Outreach for “From Planets to Particles: An Exploration Mini-Fair” at the Rutherford Physics Building. Stop by between 10am-4pm for hands-on activities and demos about gravity, life on other planets, energy, and more!
Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iGE
Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iGE
April 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
On May 3rd, join McGill Physics Outreach & TSI Outreach for “From Planets to Particles: An Exploration Mini-Fair” at the Rutherford Physics Building. Stop by between 10am-4pm for hands-on activities and demos about gravity, life on other planets, energy, and more!
Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iGE
Register here: mcgill.ca/x/iGE
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Three McGill professors and 25 students and postdoctoral researchers are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
McGill researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - McGill Reporter
McGill researchers help ATLAS Collaboration share in 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
mcgill.ca
April 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Three McGill professors and 25 students and postdoctoral researchers are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
Read the full story ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/ipB
Appreciated, recognition of many individual scientist laureates, collectively devoting significant parts of their lives to scientific advancement by cooperating in huge collaborations, here via contributions to the post-Higgs-discovery LHC Run 2 physics program. breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1
April 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Appreciated, recognition of many individual scientist laureates, collectively devoting significant parts of their lives to scientific advancement by cooperating in huge collaborations, here via contributions to the post-Higgs-discovery LHC Run 2 physics program. breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1
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Bluesky has now replaced twitter as the top platform for finding out if there was an earthquake in LA
March 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Bluesky has now replaced twitter as the top platform for finding out if there was an earthquake in LA
Digital FT8 communication with German station DL8YHR on the 10m band, software controlled with the SDR-Control app running on the same cell phone taking the video, from my Arctic research station (just kidding -- it's the Montreal condo in a Canadian blizzard). #radio #snow
February 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A story about Amy.
February 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A story about Amy.