Ian Bailey
@irbailey.bsky.social
Accelerator physicist at Lancaster University and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology working on Free Electron Lasers, axion dark matter searches and precision measurements of the muon.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-3662
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-3662
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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April 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Unexpected evidence that dark matter is light, but also pink and tastes of rhubarb.
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Unexpected evidence that dark matter is light, but also pink and tastes of rhubarb.
Venus guiding me home last night.
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Venus guiding me home last night.
Spring has suddenly arrived in Lancaster.
February 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Spring has suddenly arrived in Lancaster.
Not a simulation of large scale structure in the early Universe, but the moon from the Fairfield orchard in Lancaster.
December 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Not a simulation of large scale structure in the early Universe, but the moon from the Fairfield orchard in Lancaster.
Scientists aren't nice? I may need to rethink my career choices.
When you organise and dissect things you learn about them. The PIE word for dissect eventually evolved into the Latin word scientia which means knowledge. When you don't know something people ascribe characteristics to you which is where we get the word "nice" from #language #linguistics
December 10, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Scientists aren't nice? I may need to rethink my career choices.
Physicists at dawn... Walking to DESY to talk about x-ray free electron lasers.
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Physicists at dawn... Walking to DESY to talk about x-ray free electron lasers.
Travelling from to a UK XFEL / EU XFEL meeting at DESY, Hamburg. Waking up to windmills as the ferry from Newcastle approaches Amsterdam.
December 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Travelling from to a UK XFEL / EU XFEL meeting at DESY, Hamburg. Waking up to windmills as the ferry from Newcastle approaches Amsterdam.
End of the week whiteboard palimpsest.
November 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM
End of the week whiteboard palimpsest.
The Lancaster canal on the ride to Lancaster University this morning.
November 28, 2024 at 10:21 AM
The Lancaster canal on the ride to Lancaster University this morning.
At Daresbury Lab today to give some lectures on particle beam dynamics to the Cockcroft graduate students. After years of doing this I'm finally starting to feel qualified, which probably means I'll get asked a lot of questions that I can't answer...
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
At Daresbury Lab today to give some lectures on particle beam dynamics to the Cockcroft graduate students. After years of doing this I'm finally starting to feel qualified, which probably means I'll get asked a lot of questions that I can't answer...
If you are looking for a physics PhD position in the UK then you may be interested in joining me and my colleagues in the Cockcroft Institute who are tackling one of the big challenges facing the next generation of x-ray free electron lasers:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers at Lancaster University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Accessing attosecond timescales – controlling the microbunching instability in Free Electron Lasers at Lancaster University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
If you are looking for a physics PhD position in the UK then you may be interested in joining me and my colleagues in the Cockcroft Institute who are tackling one of the big challenges facing the next generation of x-ray free electron lasers:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Adrift within a hidden sector
Axions soliloquize
Stabilising neutrons' moments
In their pseudoscalar skies.
Prating on a dark-lit gloaming:
Paraphoton meta hues.
Mumbling their cosmic story:
Rhythm, choirs and solitudes.
November 21, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Adrift within a hidden sector
Axions soliloquize
Stabilising neutrons' moments
In their pseudoscalar skies.
Prating on a dark-lit gloaming:
Paraphoton meta hues.
Mumbling their cosmic story:
Rhythm, choirs and solitudes.
One of those mornings where the train and bus are both late by exactly the same amount, so that all connections work seamlessly. Very satisfying.
November 20, 2024 at 8:42 AM
One of those mornings where the train and bus are both late by exactly the same amount, so that all connections work seamlessly. Very satisfying.
At Daresbury Laboratory today to hear the status of the Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) facility under construction here - www.fels-of-europe.eu/fel_faciliti...
November 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
At Daresbury Laboratory today to hear the status of the Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) facility under construction here - www.fels-of-europe.eu/fel_faciliti...