New low at Edinburgh Airport . This is the (not moving) queue just to get to the stairs to the passport hall

Today we announce Mark Thomson as the UK's preferred candidate to be the next Director-General of CERN.

Mark is one of the foremost physicists of his generation: he's the best candidate for CERN, for everyone.

Read more 👉 gov.uk/government/new…

Today, I am announcing my candidacy for the next Director General of CERN and am honoured to do so with full UK government support. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

If you know of anyone who might be interested in a PhD on ATLAS Experiment studying Quantum Entanglement/QCD/Muon Trigger, or on LHCb Experiment studying Exotic hadrons/New Physics searches, Gla particle physics UofG PhysAstro would love to hear from them: gla.ac.uk/schools/physic…

New arXiv.org preprint arxiv.org/abs/2401.07564: Focus topics for the ECFA study on Higgs / Top / EW factories [thread] 🧵

Happy New Year’s Day running! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

sunshine on Edinburgh ☀️❄️

The 2nd ECFA workshop on Physics, Experiments, and Detectors for a Higgs/top/electroweak factory is underway! Looking to the future beyond the LHC agenda.infn.it/event/34841/ ILC (International Linear Collider) CLIC FCC study

Everybody’s favourite film festival is back! 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇭

Evening took an unexpected turn 🇨🇭

📢 #UKatCERN

The UK Strategy for Engagement with CERN, from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Science and Technology Facilities Council is out today.

Thanks to everyone who contributed quotes and comments.

Please have a read, and share as widely as possible across your networks.

gov.uk/government/pub…

[Press Release] ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on #antimatter

The result is a milestone in the study of the properties and behaviour of antimatter

Find out more: home.cern/news/news/phys…

When a cancelled flight is not so bad 🇨🇭☀️🏊🏻😊

If you’re in Geneva in the next two weeks then go and see Don Carlos — dress rehearsal tonight was *stunning*: wonderful principals (hey Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Stéphane Degout !), orchestra, chorus & production. Five hours of possibly the most glorious of all Verdi? 💕

Very early start for a sunrise lake swim! 🇨🇭

#OnThisDay 4th September 1962,
Britain’s last city tram network - Glasgow Corporation Tramways - closed. Its parade of final trams attracted crowds of 250,000 people. [The *very* last tram survived, btw, volunteers need just a few quid to complete it: glasgowslasttram.net]

Great nameplate (Edinburgh)

Towards the end of some very-much-needed time away