99% background, 1% astrophysical. @ForrestResearch Fellow at UWA in (astro)physics. Militant Bayesian with uninformative priors. Contentedly discontent.
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Seeing as this was an absolute banger, I did it properly, with some help from Claude to speed up messing around with scraping the Nobel website:
Which subatomic particle has produced the most Nobel prizes:
Electron: 10 directly associated
Neutrino: 5
Quarks/gluons: 5ish
Neutron: 3ish?
Proton: 2ish, more if you fold in quarks/antiproton
Higgs: 1
W/Z, Pion: 2 each
Tau: 1, but shared with neutrino
Technically 0 for muons
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Now make it apply to consultancy too
“AI-hallucinated citations should be treated as research misconduct.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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We really need a multimessenger binary neutron star merger soon because ‘this posterior is not informative so we choose to disregard it and [do thing that inflates significance]’ is, while objectively a hilarious statement, not an acceptable way to do science.
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I get why we need 2fa for supercomputer access, but can we bring back the good old days, when all members of an unnamed collaboration (that I have no current association with) got told to please stop mining bitcoin on the compute nodes
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Fiona H. Panther retweeted
Want to know how to grow the strongest field in the Universe?
Check out our latest work on the complete chronology of the kinematic, KHI-driven (RTI-onset) dynamo in binary neutron star mergers:
arxiv.org/abs/2611.05880
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If you want to hear me talk about GW astronomy and this paper, in November I’ll be at the AIP WA branch AGM: aip.org.au/event-6893138
and the Ripples Through Time Symposium: indico.global/event/17644/
Then at this year’s AIP Congress in Sydney in December aip.org.au/CONGRESS
Ask not what you can do for an Australian GW detector; ask what an Australian GW detector can do for you!
Out on arXiv today: multimessenger astrophysics drives the case for an Australian GW detector by providing precision localisations!
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There comes a point in the life of every little girl where they choose which animal they are going to fixate on for a while.
My child is very particular, but I guess it’s cheaper than having to buy a pony?
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Ask not what you can do for an Australian GW detector; ask what an Australian GW detector can do for you!
Out on arXiv today: multimessenger astrophysics drives the case for an Australian GW detector by providing precision localisations!
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Anyway: this is the paper for you if you love Fisher forecasts (@NikoSarcevic?!) and the future of Australian multimessenger astronomy!!
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I am absolutely begging journals to distinguish ‘got Claude to refactor some plotting code’ from ‘made an AI slop figure’ and actually listen to the way researchers are using AI before writing the most opaque AI declaration policies
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A Type Ia supernova (the kind that’s good for cosmology) in our own local neighbourhood (astronomically, 9 Mpc is basically down the street)! wis-tns.org/astronotes/astro…
Also ideal for studying in-situ nucleosynthesis if you’ve got a gamma-ray spectrometer handy…
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Oh if only someone wrote a paper five year ago about how important this would be for understanding nucleosynthesis, and why we really need a gamma-ray telescope that can do this:
academic.oup.com/mnras/artic…
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