Patrick Meade
@theorydad.bsky.social
Dad and occasional particle theory professor
Sad to see C.N. Yang passed away, a legendary physicist who despite his achievements was also one of the most underrated physicists of the 20th century and could have won multiple Nobel prizes not just one. He put Stony Brook University on the map and left an indelible impact on the YITP ⚛️🧪
October 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Sad to see C.N. Yang passed away, a legendary physicist who despite his achievements was also one of the most underrated physicists of the 20th century and could have won multiple Nobel prizes not just one. He put Stony Brook University on the map and left an indelible impact on the YITP ⚛️🧪
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The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The mathematician Pasha Galashin recently proved that the amplituhedron, a shape that encodes particle interactions, can be built from patterns that arise in origami. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
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October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Dr. Kornbluth wrote.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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Because the academy seems like a great idea and such...
Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us!
inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853
Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us!
inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853
INSPIRE
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October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Because the academy seems like a great idea and such...
Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us!
inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853
Come join us! We're hiring an Asst Professor in Particle Theory at @UTKPhysAstro! Tell your friends and do some science with us!
inspirehep.net/jobs/2977853
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If you're wondering how rare the Yankees' ninth-inning Tuesday night was... it's never happened before 👀
(H/T OptaSTATS on X)
(H/T OptaSTATS on X)
October 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If you're wondering how rare the Yankees' ninth-inning Tuesday night was... it's never happened before 👀
(H/T OptaSTATS on X)
(H/T OptaSTATS on X)
This isn’t what the article nor what the players said. Definitely abhorrent behavior by some US fans(also turns out it wasn’t thrown but knocked out of someone’s hand), but we don’t need to embellish the stories either.
This is America. Where we have turned golf violent. European players have vowed to never return to America to play the sport.
Footage shows moment Rory McIlroy's wife Erica is hit by can of beer by fan in shocking incident
Video footage of the shocking incident involving Rory McIlroy's wife Erica at the Ryder Cup has been shared online
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September 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This isn’t what the article nor what the players said. Definitely abhorrent behavior by some US fans(also turns out it wasn’t thrown but knocked out of someone’s hand), but we don’t need to embellish the stories either.
Sad to see JoAnne Hewett stepping down as lab director of BNL. I think having a positive vision for a national lab is under appreciated in modern times, and JoAnne definitely brought that when she came.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sad to see JoAnne Hewett stepping down as lab director of BNL. I think having a positive vision for a national lab is under appreciated in modern times, and JoAnne definitely brought that when she came.
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Somewhere between outsourcing and crowdsourcing, gravitational wave researchers got 1,000 participants on Kaggle to create the best algorithm to identify continuous GWs (shed by a swiftly tilting neutron star). Top 10 submissions reduced compute by 1–3 orders of magnitude. arxiv.org/abs/2509.06445
September 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Somewhere between outsourcing and crowdsourcing, gravitational wave researchers got 1,000 participants on Kaggle to create the best algorithm to identify continuous GWs (shed by a swiftly tilting neutron star). Top 10 submissions reduced compute by 1–3 orders of magnitude. arxiv.org/abs/2509.06445
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Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why?
David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
September 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why?
David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."
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Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:
US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants
The decision will hinder lawsuits against grant terminations, legal specialists say.
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:
-$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated
-future legal challenges will be much harder
w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social:
Sridhara Dasu giving a great talk on accelerator/detector synergies at the 2nd US muon collider workshop, I also learned that SLD was not just the SLAC large detector but also referred to as slow lingering death 😅 🧪⚛️
August 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Sridhara Dasu giving a great talk on accelerator/detector synergies at the 2nd US muon collider workshop, I also learned that SLD was not just the SLAC large detector but also referred to as slow lingering death 😅 🧪⚛️
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Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
July 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."
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When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it
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Il Museo Galileo è una delle principali istituzioni internazionali di storia della scienza. Unisce un museo di strumenti scientifici a un istituto dedicato alla ricerca, alla documentazione e alla div...
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July 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it
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Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...
July 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...
@chrisquigg.com giving a great talk about synergies between neutrino physics and muon colliders at our GGI workshop, while wearing a potentially ominous original SSC t-shirt😅 🧪⚛️
July 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
@chrisquigg.com giving a great talk about synergies between neutrino physics and muon colliders at our GGI workshop, while wearing a potentially ominous original SSC t-shirt😅 🧪⚛️
If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood.
July 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you see this, post a video game that transports you to your childhood.
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NASA finally posted their annual ROSES call for proposals, five months late. I was hoping to apply for the Astrophysics Theory program, which is offered every other year. This should be an on year, but it’s not there. Of course, Harvard isn’t currently eligible for federal grants anyway.
July 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NASA finally posted their annual ROSES call for proposals, five months late. I was hoping to apply for the Astrophysics Theory program, which is offered every other year. This should be an on year, but it’s not there. Of course, Harvard isn’t currently eligible for federal grants anyway.
Would have preferred Alcaraz, but Sinner played great. Looks like we’re in the era of the big two for the foreseeable future.
July 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Would have preferred Alcaraz, but Sinner played great. Looks like we’re in the era of the big two for the foreseeable future.
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Short summary of Senate Appropriations hearing:
Bipartisan agreement to keep funding at FY '24 levels for NASA/NSF passes 21-6
Van Hollen adds an amendment on FBI HQ which passes thanks to Murkowski
Republican members change votes to no, threatening the bill.
Now in... indefinite recess 🤷♂️
Bipartisan agreement to keep funding at FY '24 levels for NASA/NSF passes 21-6
Van Hollen adds an amendment on FBI HQ which passes thanks to Murkowski
Republican members change votes to no, threatening the bill.
Now in... indefinite recess 🤷♂️
Senate committee on appropriations markup meeting is starting now. They'll be discussing a lot of stuff, but in particular, science agencies like NSF & NASA.
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
Yesterday Sen. Moran indicated funding would be 33.9 billion, preserving FY '24 numbers.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
Full Committee Markup of Commerce, Justice, Science; Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA; and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Short summary of Senate Appropriations hearing:
Bipartisan agreement to keep funding at FY '24 levels for NASA/NSF passes 21-6
Van Hollen adds an amendment on FBI HQ which passes thanks to Murkowski
Republican members change votes to no, threatening the bill.
Now in... indefinite recess 🤷♂️
Bipartisan agreement to keep funding at FY '24 levels for NASA/NSF passes 21-6
Van Hollen adds an amendment on FBI HQ which passes thanks to Murkowski
Republican members change votes to no, threatening the bill.
Now in... indefinite recess 🤷♂️
Illuminating talk by @bravelittlemuon.bsky.social today on exploring the weak boson partonic content of the muon at our GGI muon collider workshop. As a community we’re developing a better sense of when it works for gapped IR free gauge theories as well as the work still needed to be done! 🧪⚛️
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Illuminating talk by @bravelittlemuon.bsky.social today on exploring the weak boson partonic content of the muon at our GGI muon collider workshop. As a community we’re developing a better sense of when it works for gapped IR free gauge theories as well as the work still needed to be done! 🧪⚛️
Only a 60M cut to NSF from Senate CJS, a LOT better than PBR!
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Only a 60M cut to NSF from Senate CJS, a LOT better than PBR!
Great talk from Kirill Melnikov about the ultimate theoretical limits/challenges for precision physics at the LHC and future colliders during our GGI muon collider workshop. ⚛️🧪
July 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Great talk from Kirill Melnikov about the ultimate theoretical limits/challenges for precision physics at the LHC and future colliders during our GGI muon collider workshop. ⚛️🧪