Jaki Noronha-Hostler
@jnoronhahostler.bsky.social
You're missing out if you're not catching the Illini Women's Basketball games! They just won 100-28 this afternoon. 😱
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You're missing out if you're not catching the Illini Women's Basketball games! They just won 100-28 this afternoon. 😱
Recent write-up from me on the STAR collaboration's exciting new results for the search for the QCD critical point!
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Criticality in Nature’s Strongest Force
Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of a critical point in the hot quark–gluon “soup” that is thought to have pervaded the infant Universe.
physics.aps.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Recent write-up from me on the STAR collaboration's exciting new results for the search for the QCD critical point!
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
New method to find sub-threshold binary neutron star mergers from gravitational waves AND they found one!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
September 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New method to find sub-threshold binary neutron star mergers from gravitational waves AND they found one!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Virtually attending the talk of Mateus Reinke Pelicer, who is presenting the MUSES cyberinfrastructure at the INT today.
September 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Virtually attending the talk of Mateus Reinke Pelicer, who is presenting the MUSES cyberinfrastructure at the INT today.
I just ran a recent paper that I'm writing through chatGPT to see if I was missing any obvious references. Dear lord, I hope nobody is relying on it for references! 😱 It suggested that would have been "right enough" for or a non-expert, but would have been very misleading.
September 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I just ran a recent paper that I'm writing through chatGPT to see if I was missing any obvious references. Dear lord, I hope nobody is relying on it for references! 😱 It suggested that would have been "right enough" for or a non-expert, but would have been very misleading.
New group photo, feels like we're starring in drama series!
August 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New group photo, feels like we're starring in drama series!
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC for the first time ever 🚀
On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions.
On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions.
July 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC for the first time ever 🚀
On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions.
On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions.
Yay!! 🥳
Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed!
atlas.cern/Updates/News...
Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed!
atlas.cern/Updates/News...
ATLAS takes a breath of oxygen
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN dives into uncharted waters, recording its first-ever collisions of oxygen and neon ions. These are not your typical heavy-ion collisions. Oxygen and neon nuclei are far s...
atlas.cern
July 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yay!! 🥳
Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed!
atlas.cern/Updates/News...
Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed!
atlas.cern/Updates/News...
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
2025 Saturated Glue (SURGE) Collaboration Meeting at UCLA — thank you all for making it so productive!
Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏
Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏
June 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
2025 Saturated Glue (SURGE) Collaboration Meeting at UCLA — thank you all for making it so productive!
Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏
Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏
Caught the Botafogo-Atletico Madrid game over the lunch break at our SURGE collaboration meeting in LA. Both the meeting and the game were awesome!
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Caught the Botafogo-Atletico Madrid game over the lunch break at our SURGE collaboration meeting in LA. Both the meeting and the game were awesome!
Vai pra cima deles mengo! 🥳 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽
June 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Vai pra cima deles mengo! 🥳 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽
I’m cheering so hard for Botafogo right now! 📣
June 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I’m cheering so hard for Botafogo right now! 📣
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Dead stars that can be up to a million times hotter than the sun are effective "zero temperatures" for everything that I care about. 😱
Dead stars that can be up to a million times hotter than the sun are effective "zero temperatures" for everything that I care about. 😱
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.
Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
June 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Dead stars that can be up to a million times hotter than the sun are effective "zero temperatures" for everything that I care about. 😱
Dead stars that can be up to a million times hotter than the sun are effective "zero temperatures" for everything that I care about. 😱
Rereading Rolf Hagedorn's famous paper on Hagedorn states/statistical bootstrap model and am very amused by this intro
June 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Rereading Rolf Hagedorn's famous paper on Hagedorn states/statistical bootstrap model and am very amused by this intro
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Not good news for gravitational-wave or multimessenger astronomy "In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two [LIGO] sites and will support a reduced level for technology development"
☄️⚛️🧪🔭
☄️⚛️🧪🔭
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Not good news for gravitational-wave or multimessenger astronomy "In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two [LIGO] sites and will support a reduced level for technology development"
☄️⚛️🧪🔭
☄️⚛️🧪🔭
New paper out! How does the initial state in heavy-ion collisions at large densities translate into flow observables? We develop a new way to quantify the geometrical shape of these initial states and show this strongly correlates to the final state flow observables!
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16038
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16038
May 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New paper out! How does the initial state in heavy-ion collisions at large densities translate into flow observables? We develop a new way to quantify the geometrical shape of these initial states and show this strongly correlates to the final state flow observables!
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16038
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16038
I got to pretend to be an experimentalists a bit and see sPHENIX! They even let me in the hard hat area.:D It's so cool to see where the magic happens
May 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I got to pretend to be an experimentalists a bit and see sPHENIX! They even let me in the hard hat area.:D It's so cool to see where the magic happens
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
May 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.
The physics that connects the Big Bang, dead stars (neutron stars), and nuclear experiments comes from the strongest force in nature. Previous tools to study these regimes were mostly proprietary. Through the NSF CSSI we established the MUSES collaboration to create open-source codes. #WithoutNSF
May 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The physics that connects the Big Bang, dead stars (neutron stars), and nuclear experiments comes from the strongest force in nature. Previous tools to study these regimes were mostly proprietary. Through the NSF CSSI we established the MUSES collaboration to create open-source codes. #WithoutNSF
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler
"Scientists are being encouraged to share the stories of what NSF funding makes possible, and what is at stake, with the hashtag #WithoutNSF. Share your stories on social media and tag AAG so we can follow and amplify."
#AAG
#AAG
May 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"Scientists are being encouraged to share the stories of what NSF funding makes possible, and what is at stake, with the hashtag #WithoutNSF. Share your stories on social media and tag AAG so we can follow and amplify."
#AAG
#AAG
How do you connect neutron stars and lab experiments of heavy-ion collisions? Both are on the same phase diagram of the strong force, but with different charge fractions so one uses the symmetry energy expansion to connect these 2 regions. But there are issues..
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18764
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18764
arxiv.org
April 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How do you connect neutron stars and lab experiments of heavy-ion collisions? Both are on the same phase diagram of the strong force, but with different charge fractions so one uses the symmetry energy expansion to connect these 2 regions. But there are issues..
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18764
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18764
Why is this so true? 🤣
Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool
April 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Why is this so true? 🤣
Illinois Physics at Quark Matter 2025!
npl.illinois.edu/news/npl_qm25
npl.illinois.edu/news/npl_qm25
NPL groups present many new results at Quark Matter Conference in Frankfurt. Graduate student wins conference award.
NPL groups present many new results at Quark Matter Conference in Frankfurt. Graduate student wins conference award.
npl.illinois.edu
April 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Illinois Physics at Quark Matter 2025!
npl.illinois.edu/news/npl_qm25
npl.illinois.edu/news/npl_qm25