Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Physics Nobel Prize this week... the Quark Gluon Plasma/nearly perfect fluid is LONG overdue for one, but my bet is on condensed matter/materials due to standing biased :/ 100
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-Hostler - J - @thepostfuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.smilepolitely.com/culture/ten-...smilepolitely.comTen years of access to scientists: Astronomy on Tap returns to PYGMALION - CultureWhen I think about space, the universe, and its vastness, I feel deep existential dread. We are but tiny blips. I have a lot of questions, and there isn’t an ask-an-astronomer hotline I can call, ... 011
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Physics research projects summed up in one photo 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Apparently the algorithm here at Blue Sky is convinced that I only want to see animals and astro stuff. That's about right, but it could throw some soccer and basketball into the mix as well! 000
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerSean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If I understand this, two mathematicians (one at Anthropic) combined a great deal of human effort with LLM input to come close to a famous problem, showing that the Navier-Stokes equations of fluid mechanics developed singularities. But someone from OpenAI might have peeked at their ChatGPT logs... 1211322
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Congratulations to Dr Débora Mroczek for successfully defending her PhD thesis today! Her work built inference pipelines to extract the neutron star equation of state from data. 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026MUSES postdocs Isaac Legred and Mateus Reinke Pelicer led this hierarchal Bayesian analysis + ML to constrain particle and nuclear properties of the dense matter equation of state. Opening up such a large parameter space allowed the possibility of heavy neutron stars! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13268 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The US men's team looks totally different than in years past. They're playing with a confidence that I have never seen before. Coming back to score twice (granted one was offsides) after losing Balogun was incredibly impressive 100
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Whew, scary game, but Brazil is on to the round of 16! 🥳 It was a very intense 2 hours in my household today... 110
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Big news from the MUSES collaboration! We're rolling out the results from our Calliope release that now enables equations of state for heavy-ion collisions relevant to the beam energy scan. Lots of new modules and feature coming out soon! arxiv.org/abs/2606.26326 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026For those at Hard Probes, check out our Illinois theory talks and posters! Talk Weds Kevin Pala "Causality of jets coupled to relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations"indico.cern.ch 100
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Ivory Coast is playing like crazy! It really looks like they could score again! 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Carli Lloyd to Clint Dempsey "On the women's side we didn't have too many number 9 issues" In response to Dempsey complaining that the men's team didn't have a good number 9 before Balogun. 🫠 Bit of an understatement given the existence of Mia Hamm :) Really glad for Lloyd's voice there. 100
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Congratulations to Dr Nanxi Yao on successfully defending her thesis yesterday! Her work has built the framework for connecting laboratory experiments to neutron stars. 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Amazing that we made number 2 on this list! And here I am complaining that we don't have a light rail and better connections to Chicago/St. Louis/Indianapolis. www.travelandleisure.com/us-cities-wi...travelandleisure.com9 U.S. Cities With the Best Public Transportation—Besides New York CityThese U.S. cities make it easy to get around without a car, according to experts. 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Wonderful day to be an Illini! dailyillini.com/news-stories...dailyillini.comCow from Large Animal Clinic runs loose, travels to Main Quad - The Daily IlliniA cow got loose while being unloaded from a trailer and traveled through campus, drawing crowds of onlookers before being safely captured. 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Very excited to see our paper published on how to do the symmetry energy expansion with strangeness, correctly accounting for isospin asymmetry! journals.aps.org/prc/abstract...journals.aps.org 120
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026March Madness is getting WILD today 100
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Yes, PLEASE! Also, please connect St. Louis-Champaign-Indianapolis! 😍 www.news-gazette.com/news/local/t...news-gazette.comNew bill would have IDOT plan for hourly rail service from Chicago to ChampaignIf residents of Champaign-Urbana are tired of driving over two hours — plus traffic — to get to Chicago, now’s the time to let state legislators know, says High Speed 110
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Got to see Jordan Chiles compete in the Illinois-UCLA gymnastics match this past weekend. What an incredible athlete! 110
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I really know nothing about Curling, but somehow I'm deeply invested in this USA-Switzerland match! 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026We're North & Central America's Quantum City here in Urbana-Champaign, IL! worldquantumday.org/quantum-city...worldquantumday.orgWQDWorld Quantum Day 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I had an idea to connect properties of (hyper)nuclei to chemical potentials. Considering that a nucleus is quantum many-body object with many crazy happenings going on, it's pretty shocking that it works this well. Biggest surprise was a large strangeness chemial potential! arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05824 030
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Just caught the insane Illini upset over Maryland! This team is on fire! Go Illini! 📣🏀 050
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Congratulations to the Illinois Women's Basketball team on making history today! They just won against Purdue, putting them at a 12-1 record for the season, 2-0 in the Big Ten, which is their best starting record ever! 🤩 🏀 Can't wait for their next home game! 🥂 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 09/12/2025What happens to fluids moving at the speed of light when they're far-from-equilibrium? Imagine you had something like ink and you wanted to see how it spread across such a relativistic fluid, we now can study that in our code CCAKE! arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22852 020
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 30/11/2025You're missing out if you're not catching the Illini Women's Basketball games! They just won 100-28 this afternoon. 😱 051
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Recent write-up from me on the STAR collaboration's exciting new results for the search for the QCD critical point! physics.aps.org/articles/v18...physics.aps.orgCriticality in Nature’s Strongest ForceExperiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of a critical point in the hot quark–gluon “soup” that is thought to have pervaded the infant Universe. 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 15/09/2025New method to find sub-threshold binary neutron star mergers from gravitational waves AND they found one!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 010
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerClaudia Ratti @claudiaratti.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Virtually attending the talk of Mateus Reinke Pelicer, who is presenting the MUSES cyberinfrastructure at the INT today. 041
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I just ran a recent paper that I'm writing through chatGPT to see if I was missing any obvious references. Dear lord, I hope nobody is relying on it for references! 😱 It suggested that would have been "right enough" for or a non-expert, but would have been very misleading. 100
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025New group photo, feels like we're starring in drama series! 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025There's a few quotes from me at the very end :) www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...bnl.gov2025 Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting Celebrates Past and Looks to the FutureSessioins cover 25 years of discoveries at RHIC; latest findings and challenges; path to the EIC; posters, awards, and more! 000
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerCERN @cern.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Oxygen and neon collisions at the LHC for the first time ever 🚀 On 1 July, the four large #LHC experiments recorded particle collisions between oxygen and proton beams for the first time ever. Last week, they went a step further with oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon collisions. 1275
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Yay!! 🥳 Also, nice to see Illinois Physicist Riccardo Longo getting interviewed! atlas.cern/Updates/News...atlas.cernATLAS takes a breath of oxygenThe ATLAS Experiment at CERN dives into uncharted waters, recording its first-ever collisions of oxygen and neon ions. These are not your typical heavy-ion collisions. Oxygen and neon nuclei are far s... 000
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerZhongbo Kang @zhongbok.bsky.social · 26/06/20252025 Saturated Glue (SURGE) Collaboration Meeting at UCLA — thank you all for making it so productive! Great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. Exciting progress, new energy, and a bright future ahead. Let’s keep moving forward together 💪💪🙏🙏 121
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Caught the Botafogo-Atletico Madrid game over the lunch break at our SURGE collaboration meeting in LA. Both the meeting and the game were awesome! 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Vai pra cima deles mengo! 🥳 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽ 🥅+⚽ 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I’m cheering so hard for Botafogo right now! 📣 000
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Dead stars that can be up to a million times hotter than the sun are effective "zero temperatures" for everything that I care about. 😱 030
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Rereading Rolf Hagedorn's famous paper on Hagedorn states/statistical bootstrap model and am very amused by this intro 110
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerChristopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Not good news for gravitational-wave or multimessenger astronomy "In FY 2026 NSF will operate only one of the two [LIGO] sites and will support a reduced level for technology development" ☄️⚛️🧪🔭 78743
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025New paper out! How does the initial state in heavy-ion collisions at large densities translate into flow observables? We develop a new way to quantify the geometrical shape of these initial states and show this strongly correlates to the final state flow observables! arxiv.org/pdf/2505.16038 010
Jaki Noronha-Hostler @jnoronhahostler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I got to pretend to be an experimentalists a bit and see sPHENIX! They even let me in the hard hat area.:D It's so cool to see where the magic happens 020
Reposted by Jaki Noronha-HostlerMarshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/05/2025What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered. 13513257
