Joachim Kopp
@joachimkopp.bsky.social
Theoretical Physicist at JGU Mainz, neutrino enthusiast, dark matter hunter, quantum technology aficionado, dad. Opinions my own.
This one looks exciting!
Oo! Interesting #GravitationalWave candidate #S251112cm potentially from a *subsolar* mass source
If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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If real, the source is probably has chirp mass ~0.1–0.87 solar masses
False alarm rate 1 in 6.2 yr
GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/...
GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42...
Rating 📏🍬
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November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This one looks exciting!
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com
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Next Friday we are celebrating the inauguration of the Marietta Blau Institute for Particly Physics! 🤩 🥳
🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time!
➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...
🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time!
➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Next Friday we are celebrating the inauguration of the Marietta Blau Institute for Particly Physics! 🤩 🥳
🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time!
➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...
🖍️ Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s the time!
➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/mbi/veransta...
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
Reposted by Joachim Kopp
Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles.
#JWST 🧪🔭✨
#JWST 🧪🔭✨
October 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles.
#JWST 🧪🔭✨
#JWST 🧪🔭✨
Fantastic colloquium at @cern.bsky.social today by @fourform.bsky.social on "The end of measurement and the last lab", part of the ongoing workshop on Quantum Simulation & Computation in HEP (indico.cern.ch/event/1488240).
Bonus: autocorrect mishap leading to the invention of the "axion horoscope".
Bonus: autocorrect mishap leading to the invention of the "axion horoscope".
September 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Fantastic colloquium at @cern.bsky.social today by @fourform.bsky.social on "The end of measurement and the last lab", part of the ongoing workshop on Quantum Simulation & Computation in HEP (indico.cern.ch/event/1488240).
Bonus: autocorrect mishap leading to the invention of the "axion horoscope".
Bonus: autocorrect mishap leading to the invention of the "axion horoscope".
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Wissenschaft als Beruf besteht zu 20% aus Wissenschaft & zu 80% daraus, die immer gleichen Informationen (wie viele Drittmittel/Publikationen/Preise/Arbeitsverträge/...) in stets zusätzliche Arbeit provozierenden leichten Variationen in sehr viele unterschiedliche Formulare einzutragen. #IchBinHanna
August 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Wissenschaft als Beruf besteht zu 20% aus Wissenschaft & zu 80% daraus, die immer gleichen Informationen (wie viele Drittmittel/Publikationen/Preise/Arbeitsverträge/...) in stets zusätzliche Arbeit provozierenden leichten Variationen in sehr viele unterschiedliche Formulare einzutragen. #IchBinHanna
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JUNO neutrino detector switches on
www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/c...
www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/c...
China turns on giant neutrino detector
: 700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles
www.theregister.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
JUNO neutrino detector switches on
www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/c...
www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/c...
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Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today!
We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4
We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4
August 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today!
We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4
We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars
📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4
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Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.
Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.
August 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt
Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.
Bis zu 400.000 Menschen arbeiteten in den USA am Apollo-Programm, um Astronauten zum Mond zu bringen. Der politische und wirtschaftliche Aufwand war aus heutiger Sicht kaum vorstellbar. Technische Großprojekte heute (wie CERN oder ITER) sind vergleichsweise winzig.
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Squintern: The *slowest* meteorite travels at 25,000 miles per hour!
Me: No, *all* meteorites travel at 0 miles per hour.
Me: No, *all* meteorites travel at 0 miles per hour.
August 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Squintern: The *slowest* meteorite travels at 25,000 miles per hour!
Me: No, *all* meteorites travel at 0 miles per hour.
Me: No, *all* meteorites travel at 0 miles per hour.
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Reposted by Joachim Kopp
RIP Herwig Schopper, CERN director general from 1973 to 1976. He made LEP possible, and thus also the LHC. Not so long ago I worked with him on a book about the scientific discoveries at CERN.
Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...
Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...
Lessons from LEP – CERN Courier
The Large Electron Positron collider changed particle physics forever. As the field eyes up the next major collider, former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper describes what it took to make LEP…
cerncourier.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
RIP Herwig Schopper, CERN director general from 1973 to 1976. He made LEP possible, and thus also the LHC. Not so long ago I worked with him on a book about the scientific discoveries at CERN.
Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...
Read the interview in the CERN courier about the lessons from LEP cerncourier.com/a/lessons-fr...
How sad to hear that Tom Lehrer has left us. I vividly remember my first big scientific conference – Neutrino 2006 in Santa Fe. At an evening event, members of the Santa Fe Opera sang The Elements Song for us. A brilliant performance. I've been hooked ever since.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How sad to hear that Tom Lehrer has left us. I vividly remember my first big scientific conference – Neutrino 2006 in Santa Fe. At an evening event, members of the Santa Fe Opera sang The Elements Song for us. A brilliant performance. I've been hooked ever since.
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This is absurd.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is absurd.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
The red supergiant Betelgeuse is the bright feature in this image.
But that darker blue splotch is a *companion star* that's just been discovered—and it orbits so close to Betelgeuse that it's inside the larger star's outer atmosphere.
Let me guess:
2007 – $0
2012 – $100 (to the intern who designed it)
2013 – $1,000
2015 – $10,000
2017 – $100,000
2024 – $1,000,000
2026 – $25 (for a ChatGPT subscription)
2007 – $0
2012 – $100 (to the intern who designed it)
2013 – $1,000
2015 – $10,000
2017 – $100,000
2024 – $1,000,000
2026 – $25 (for a ChatGPT subscription)
June 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Let me guess:
2007 – $0
2012 – $100 (to the intern who designed it)
2013 – $1,000
2015 – $10,000
2017 – $100,000
2024 – $1,000,000
2026 – $25 (for a ChatGPT subscription)
2007 – $0
2012 – $100 (to the intern who designed it)
2013 – $1,000
2015 – $10,000
2017 – $100,000
2024 – $1,000,000
2026 – $25 (for a ChatGPT subscription)
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"𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦."
-- Steven Chu, Nobel Lecture 1997
-- Steven Chu, Nobel Lecture 1997
June 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦."
-- Steven Chu, Nobel Lecture 1997
-- Steven Chu, Nobel Lecture 1997
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Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
europa.eu
June 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC?
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
From the next application rounds, expect changes to the:
• proposal structure
• evaluation process
• extra funding you can request
• eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027)
More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv
and publicly funded geologists predicted the disaster, preventing massive loss of life.
The glacier collapse that buried Blatten, Switzerland, was caused by permafrost thaw. The thawing mountain face had dropped 4m cubic yards of rock on the glacier, pushing it down the slope www.npr.org/2025/05/29/g...
May 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
and publicly funded geologists predicted the disaster, preventing massive loss of life.
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The loss of their village is a tragedy for the inhabitants of #Blatten. But they are alive because geologists saw it coming. It was their worst case scenario. The village was evacuated. Unlike Goldau in 1806. 457 died. Thanks Geology.
May 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The loss of their village is a tragedy for the inhabitants of #Blatten. But they are alive because geologists saw it coming. It was their worst case scenario. The village was evacuated. Unlike Goldau in 1806. 457 died. Thanks Geology.
Don’t worry guys, BlueSky can be perfect so long as we all get along. First things first, we just need to agree whether vim or emacs is the better editor.
don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree on the best metagenomic classifier
don’t worry guys, bluesky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we just need to agree if pineapple belongs on pizza
May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Don’t worry guys, BlueSky can be perfect so long as we all get along. First things first, we just need to agree whether vim or emacs is the better editor.
Der #Exzellenzcluster PRISMA an der JGU Mainz geht in die dritte Runde!
Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Der #Exzellenzcluster PRISMA an der JGU Mainz geht in die dritte Runde!