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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/09/2026

Today, science became a target for Russia. My heart goes out to the heroes searching for people trapped inside Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. As well as to the families and loved ones of the victims of horrific attacks across the country.

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CERN @cern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday CERN! 🎉 #OnThisDay 72 years ago, CERN officially came into being, bringing together 12 founding Member States with a shared vision for science and international collaboration. Discover the story behind 72 years of science: home.cern/about/who-we...

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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Switzerland: today, voters were called to decide per referendum on two ballots bringing up to 710 votes organised nationwide since 1848. Today’s ballots were two Initiatives. ➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland #CHvote #Abst26 #Votazioni #Votaziuns

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Chris Quigg @chrisquigg.com · 24/09/2026

I am sad to report that a formidable colleague, Ken Lane (Boston U), has died. Ken made many notable contributions, among them his work on the Cornell charmonium model, dynamical symmetry breaking in the form of extended technicolor, and supercollider physics. He shared the 2011 Sakurai Prize. RIP!

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 24/09/2026

A bit of history of particle physics that takes an unexpected turn today. In 2003 the BaBar experiment at SLAC reported a particle decaying to a Ds meson and a neutral pion, with a mass of 2317 MeV. arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0...

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 22/09/2026

C'est quoi ce dictionnaire ? 😬 Le bon échoué bien demain. Le bon échalotes bien demain. Le bon échouer bien demain.

il échoit bien demain. échoit n'est pas reconnu.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 15/09/2026

c'est la mort qui t'a assassinée 😢

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 15/09/2026

La petite ville de Pornainen, en Finlande, est désormais chauffée par la plus grande "batterie de sable" commerciale au monde : un silo de 13 m de haut rempli de 2 000 tonnes de stéatite concassée, chauffée grâce à de l’électricité produite à partir de sources renouvelables.

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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An update @koppenburg.ch! A week and a half in, and the arXiv is humming with theoretical takes on LZ230616.

Chart showing cumulative arXiv preprints mentioning "LUX-ZEPLIN," by original submission date. Light blue curve begins in bottom left on October 7, 2013, the first preprint submission date, and curves to the top right to a count of 130 total preprints by July 27, 2026. A solid black diamond at coordinates (9/1/2026, 131) denotes the announcement date of LZ230613, the candidate dark matter detection event. From September 1, 2026, to September 10, 2026 inclusive, an additional 44 preprints mentioning LUX-ZEPLIN have been posted, nearly all of which are dark matter theory papers.

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DuncanYoudaho @danlearnsstuff.com · 07/09/2026

Famously, Hawking has had multiple public bets with books and dirty magazine subscriptions being the prize. Wikipedia has its own page on these throughout history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...

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Scientific wager - Wikipedia

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 06/09/2026

Why is everyone so excited about static maps, while 99% of map uses are on an interactive device? #mercator

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 05/09/2026

Oh! Before and after app update. 😍

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 05/09/2026

Sent on 31 July in Edinburgh. Arrived today. @royal-mail.bsky.social is about half the speed of the Roman Cursus Publicus 2000 years ago.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 05/09/2026

While the Higgs mechanism gives mass to particles that's only 1 to 2 % of your mass. The rest is due to the kinetic energy of quarks and the strong interaction in the protons and neutrons that make up everything.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 01/09/2026

Exciting! First Run-3 paper with gas being injected in the VELO. And for the first time we use hydrogen resulting in proton-proton collisions with a centre-of-mass energy of 113 GeV.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 27/08/2026

Wow. Les escrocs qui vous appellent parlent le suisse-allemand maintenant.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 25/08/2026

Pas de triche. Partagez la dernière photo de votre appareil photo. (Quelques essais de mon nouveau pocket pour la montagne)

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 24/08/2026

Binary date of birth? I don't think any applies to me.

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Jürgen Sörgel @jurgen-sorgel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So let me sum up: Patrick's neutrinos (English) Patricks neutrino's (Dutch) Patricks Neutrinos (German) 🤪

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 16/08/2026

Ooops. My local newspaper picked a random image of an eclipse as illustration. 🙄

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Buffer @buffer.com · 11/08/2026

Most of what makes Bluesky different is invisible from the feed! It runs on the AT Protocol, an open network that no single company fully controls, and that shapes everything here, from how blocks work to what happened when a state tried to restrict it. A few lesser-known facts: 🧵

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Rainn Wilson as Dwight: Shhh & Wink

ALT: Rainn Wilson as Dwight: Shhh & Wink

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 11/08/2026

Erwin Schrödinger not a paedophile after all(?). While googling Schrödinger I found this article by @jolauki.bsky.social (in its French version in my local newspaper) about how biographer Walter Moore invented Schrödingers "Lolita syndrome" based on incomplete reading of his memoirs.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 08/08/2026

Helping at the Nyon triathlon. World university championships.

triathletes out of the water running to the bikes

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 07/08/2026

That's not how I remember Bristol

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 06/08/2026

C'est la guette. Il a sonné 10. Il a sonné 10. #lausanne

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 04/08/2026

I guess it's the "pulse" that got me this invitation. #predatoryConference

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Sam Gregson @badboyofscience.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Did you know that despite the claims that the Higgs Boson was the final puzzle piece of the Standard Model, there is another Standard Model particle that we have still never unambiguously observed? It isn't a quark or a gluon... So what is it?... Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbC... ⚛️🧪

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The Standard Model Particle We've Never Seen...and how to find it. [Re-post]

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 29/07/2026

Me: Oh no! I printed in single-sided! All this paper wasted! 😱 Also me: Let's fix it by printing it again, double-sided.

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 29/07/2026

Final readings of @lhcb.bsky.social papers: we have 7 papers these two weeks. And that's not yet counting the new results that will be shown at ICHEP. #LHCbEditorialBoard

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 28/07/2026

I just heard someone at @cern.bsky.social say "tre milliarde lire" and now wonder in which millennium I am.

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