The break down of a recent Australian Research Council grant scheme by field of research. How kind of them to allow a few non-engineering grants this year...

And by the way: the ARC's Discovery program of grants is, according to them, intended to "fund fundamental, ‘blue sky’ research".

Really enjoyed this talk by Raphael Buosso on the cosmological constant and why "dynamical dark energy" is very unlikely youtu.be/FvRcycZAPG8?...

Are stellar-mass primordial black holes ruled out as dark matter? Hawkins and Garcia-Bellido launch a barrage of criticisms at the OGLE microlensing survey analysis. Some of the language used in this paper makes me wince... arxiv.org/abs/2509.05400

For those in Sydney on Saturday afternoon, I will be speaking all about cosmology and the Big Bang at this event at the very nice Chau Chak Wing Museum

2024 was yet another exhausting year keeping track of updates on our quest to find the axions. I have been trying my best to collect the exponentially growing literature on my GitHub AxionLimits: github.com/cajohare/Axi...

In our latest episode we chat with Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney) about #darkmatter, quarks, and the Venn diagram of #astronomy and particle #physics.

If you watch closely you can see the exact moment @scienceactually.bsky.social mind gets blow

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I feel like I need to break the ice here somehow... I suppose I will just announce that I will be posting my annual AxionLimits yearly round-up on this account soon, so stay tuned i guess