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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such terrible news. Lost one of the Good Ones. RIP Mark

Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Paper day. In a proposal last year we minimally describe the entire dark sector using two scalar fields, motivated by an approach to the cosmological constant problem. We recently fit this model to cosmological data and find it works better than LCDM, because it resolves the Hubble tension.

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

To fathers everywhere. Enjoy it (and enjoy them) while you can 💕

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Coffee break, snack and some bread ready for the oven

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I understand pride in construction, but this might be a bit over the top

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 04/06/2025

#HepJobs Junior faculty and post-doc positions in the @lhcb.bsky.social group at @tu-dortmund.bsky.social . Strong group, very involved in the trigger. Apply! inspirehep.net/jobs/2928524

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This is a lovely experiment and all, but didn’t the resolution to this puzzle come from the theory side? 🧪⚛️

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

🚨 Oh wow. Calling the side of the world where it's still dark. Look up!! Look up!! The mega sun burp has arrived 😮 #AuroraAlert Notes: Get far away from streetlights & look for a silvery shimmer in the sky. Prop your smartphone up on a wall to take a long exposure & reveal the colours. 🤩 🔭🧪

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wildflowers in the woods last weekend

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Freya Blekman @freyablekman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The attack on basic science in the USA is real: The National Science Foundation just killed half of the Nobel prize winning LIGO experiments (essentially meaning: LIGO can no longer see where a gravitational wave comes from, just that it was there)

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Only 600 citations? Better step up your game there Al…

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Glorious day Sunday. Wish I could convey the fragrance too

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Area Man Claims To Be Strongest Leader in World But Can’t Ask El Salvador a Favor

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Trump’s sanctions against the US seem to be working…

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

To drive home the point that you do not need crazy theories to have w appear to move through phantom territory in a DESI-like way, we added a plot to this paper from last fall. 🧪⚛️ arxiv.org/abs/2410.11099

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The fact that there has been so much wanton self-inflicted damage should not numb us to the continuing damage.

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Spectacular even without the launch. If you must have launch failure this is the place to do it.

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You add a side. 🤷‍♂️ (Mathematicians. Sheesh.)

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

But also fear death, just a little 😁😳🤔

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Happy Saturn ring plane crossing day to all who celebrate.

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Stunning arboreal creatures discovered as road kill while driving by…🤷‍♂️

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“The value today of philosophy to physics seems to me to be something like the value of early nation-states to their peoples…the insights of philosophers have occasionally benefited physicists, but generally…by protecting them from the preconceptions of other philosophers.” - Steven Weinberg

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Early Universe from Home (25-28 February 2025) earlyuniverse.cosmodiscussion.com Recordings www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Early Universe from Home 2025 - YouTube

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

At some point it doesn’t really matter anymore if he really is a KGB asset. If he just behaves like one then it is the same thing.

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It's not clear whether Elon really wants to stop the spending. He came in dressed the wrong way to address these issues…

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

General mood

Mike and Walter from breaking bad (2 bald men, one pointing angrily at the other)
WE HAD A GOOD THING
BUT YOU JUST HAD TO BLOW IT UP

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Wow. Really lost the plot there

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 24/02/2025

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Very sad. This seems to be the future the anti-vaxxers want 🤷‍♂️

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Sesh Nadathur @seshnadathur.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Well, looks like March 19th is going to be an interesting day in the cosmology world. Two big surveys - DESI and Euclid - have coincidentally chosen the same day to announce some data releases and related exciting results in big press releases! And the Arxiv will be flooded on March 20th ... 🔭🧪

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This Harper's article is written by a woman at a social event, perhaps a cocktail party, in 1941. Who will "go nazi" when given the opportunity for gain by doing so? Remarkably, but unsurprisingly, the answer is what you're seeing in America in 2025. See for yourself. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Researchers with the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) report that their under-construction array of light sensors in the Mediterranean Sea has measured the signature of a neutrino that had ~10^17 eV (hundreds of PeV) of energy, making it the highest-energy neutrino ever detected." ⚛️ 🧪 🎢

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Record-setting cosmic neutrino breaks in a new telescope

An analysis of the highest-energy neutrino ever detected has researchers questioning the frequency at which such energetic particles pelt our planet.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#PlanetaryParade fans: all 7 planets are now in the sky for ~1hr after sunset. Mercury joins the pack low on the Western horizon but it's hard to see, hiding in the sunset glare with Saturn. Tried to catch it this evening, but the weather Gods had other plans so here's Venus and Jupiter instead! 🧪🔭

A view overlooking a city. Up above the sky is clear with two bright stars (Jupiter up above and Venus to the right). There is a big bank of clouds below Venus where Mercury and Saturn should be.

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Jason Schneiderman @jadasc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It took me a moment to find this again, but… *stares in English major* bsky.app/profile/q.ph...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

*stares in historian*

Post on Threads showing AI misinterpreted a paper and now there are scientific papers with incorrect citations

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Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Quantum computing is an exciting field and most experts believe we'll build a useful device within decades. But quantum-hype from tech companies do the field a massive disservice. To cut through the bullshit I'd recommend following... ⚛️ 🧪 🧵 1/

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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Quick explainer of how a topological quantum computer works from 2012... Wow, I was so.. tall www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z5Q...

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Braiding Majorana fermions with Microsoft Surface

YouTube video by Sergey Frolov

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