Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The 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". 071
Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Really enjoyed this talk by Raphael Buosso on the cosmological constant and why "dynamical dark energy" is very unlikely youtu.be/FvRcycZAPG8?...youtu.beRaphael Bousso: "Why it’s a cosmological constant?"YouTube video by Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) 040
Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Are 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 110
Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 12/08/2025For 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 163
Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 15/01/20252024 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... 33511
Reposted by Ciaran O'HareFun Fact Science with Kovi @funfactscience.com · 07/11/2024In 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 open.spotify.com/episode/7dDO...open.spotify.comBah Bah Black Hole Have You Any Mass : Guest : Ciaran O'HareScience, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist · Episode 1122
Ciaran O'Hare @cajohare.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I 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 0235