Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The year is 2026. The world has ended and you're the only person left. But you don't know it because you spend all day inside, posting on Facebook, where you interact with bots agreeing with each other on how bad a movie was that none of you ever saw. 010
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Remembering with @stevenlowette.bsky.social the "realistic conference programme adjustments" made to theory talks at the ICHEP conference after the lack of a 750 GeV signal confirmation by ATLAS and CMS. Chicago 2016. 040
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Aurora lights, City Observatory at Calton Hill [4 AM pic taken by Edinburgh @edinburghppe.bsky.social PhD student Yiming Liu] 021
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 01/06/2025"It seems to be a lesson of history that the commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood as an amplification of the commonplace.” — Edgar Wind (1967) 010
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Um, let me help you. Every single lecture is carefully planned, advertised ahead of time, and delivered according to the schedule. Which is the opposite of 'random'. You are welcome. 😊 041
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Come to Edinburgh to work with our colleagues on LHCb! 020
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) aims to shape the future of physics with high-energy accelerators. What advances do we expect to make in fundamental physics with the next collider? - 3 years of studies - documented in 288 pages - by 369 contributors - with 1,477 references 021
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"A high precision W mass measurement at CMS". Friday afternoon Particle Physics Experiment @edinburghppe.bsky.social seminar at Edinburgh given by Josh Bendavid. 040
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A square wave can be expressed as the infinite sum of odd sine waves with ever-decreasing amplitudes and periods. This is an example of a Fourier transform, a powerful tool in maths & physics that can be used for encoding/decoding information stored in waves. 1/2 121
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Meeting room booked by students. 🙄 0112
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 29/12/2024That's some serious beef there between Cabibbo and Gell-Mann. 162
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 22/12/2024"20 years ago, I used to find the anthropic interpretation of the universe upsetting, in part bc of the difficulty it might present in understanding physics. Over the years I have mellowed. I suppose I reluctantly came to accept the universe was not created for our convenience in understanding it." 010
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 22/12/202411:30 AM, one day after Winter Solstice. Look how low on the horizon the sun is. 031
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Particle Physics Experiment (@edinburghppe.bsky.social) Xmas group meeting. Ben & Sally (@girliknow.bsky.social) reading "The Little Robot & the Mars Mystery", a Xmas story for children (and physicists, I guess). 161
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The School of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for the 2025 Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship. This four-year Fellowship specifically supports early-career, postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in the School’s academic community [*] www.ph.ed.ac.uk/research/res...ph.ed.ac.ukElizabeth Gardner FellowshipApplication details. 121
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 16/12/2024“What man among you has a hundred forty scripts for marking, and if one of them should be lost, would not leave the hundred and thirty nine in the wilderness and go seek that one which is lost until he would find it?” 020
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024The MacDonald Equation, by Freeman Dyson At the School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ of Edinburgh. 010
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A bit of a specialised paper title, but definitely a very accessible abstract. 010
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I am following lots of epidemiologists, Brexit, and Russia experts. I am not following enough Korea experts. 🫤 220
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I have seen on my timeline posts about hypothesis-testing and Type-I/Type-II errors. I would like to contribute a figure from my lecture notes to the public discussion. 120
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 27/11/2024"Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save face. Put yourself in his shoes - so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - nothing is so self-blinding." B.H. Liddell Hart 142
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A computer scientist who had his bike stolen tries to explain binary search to a cop 😄 0103
Reposted by Christos LeonidopoulosΜερέντα @memerenda.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Γιατί δεν κάθονται στο τουίτερ να πολεμήσουν; 7260163
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Things (some) academics obsess about - a thread 1/12 121
Reposted by Christos LeonidopoulosParticle Physics Experiment - PPE - Edinburgh @edinburghppe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We're delighted to share the news that Elena Villhauer has passed her PhD viva for her thesis on 'Defying 4D Gravity: Novel Searches for Signatures of String Theory via Non-minimal Dark Sectors, Scalar Cascades, Non-Commutative Black Holes, and Deep Learning'. Congratulations Elena! 0112
Christos Leonidopoulos @cleonidopoulos.bsky.social · 17/11/2024One of the great things about the new platform: you don't have Elon Musk's tweets popping up out of nowhere, all the time, for no reason whatsoever. 041