📍28 days later. Welcome to Boris Johnson’s 🇬🇧 dystopian domain. There are almost no mitigations anymore. Deaths surging every week… now with #DeltaVariant & new #DeltaPlus surging unchecked. What a cluster. P.s. also your mess too, Sajid Javid. #COVID19

Mandatory wearing of masks and practicing social distancing with masks during peak hours on public transport reduced infection rates by 93.5 and 98.1%, respectively ⁦Science Magazine⁩ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

293 Covid deaths today. Or one fifth of the total no. of road traffic fatalities in an entire *year*. Yet we have seat belts, speed limits, drink driving laws etc. I want to know why UK Prime Minister seemingly doesn’t give a damn about Covid deaths. RT if you do too.

Thesis submitted! Huge thanks to Matt Kenzie Val Gibson for the collaboration and support. Now onto catching up with sleep and back to research in a few days.

Any last-minute tip to mentally prepare for a Viva?

A 5-hour viva (left) and a PhD graduation (right) later, celebratory smiles

Uproot-browser, Aman 🇵🇸 and my project using Will McGugan's textual/rich, plotext, uproot, and hist to browse #cernroot files in a *terminal* without compiling anything, is looking good. Currently at github.com/henryiii/uproo… but just proposed to move into #ScikitHEP!

Any Irish researchers involved with James Webb Telescope? Preparing a piece for the radio and would be delighted to mention links people in Ireland (or Irish abroad) may have to the telescope.

Looking for a new colleague: Tenured University Assistant Professorship in Experimental High Energy Physics on ATLAS/LHCb at Cambridge in association with Murray Edwards College jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/34342/ Please spread the word!

Come work with us (Mika Vesterinen, Matt Kenzie and the rest of the brilliant team) at Warwick Physics. #hepjobs inspirehep.net/jobs/2071589

First overnight (shadow) shift in the LHCb Experiment control room. Still picking my favourite plot.

Live from CERN: Join us for the first collisions for physics at 13.6 TeV! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Some protons are about to have a very very bad day. You can watch the subnuclear carnage unfold LIVE below

Are the ICHEP2022 scientific timetable and slides of presentations really not accessible to people not registered?? Since when is this an accepted policy in HEP? I don't think that CERN and other experiments should participate under these conditions.

Six PhD positions in Physics at Università degli Studi di Cagliari, one of which reserved to foreigners. Among the possible topics, research with the LHCb experiment, Cagliari group. Deadline 30/8. If interested, get in touch as applications in Italy can be complicated. unica.it/unica/protecte…

Back to my fav working spot in Cambridge. This chap was my main PhD thesis writing companion.

Done!

New office Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

#HepJobs Join us at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca to work on the LHCb Experiment at CERN with an INFN grant reserved for non-Italian citizens! Info on our group: sites.google.com/unimib.it/lhcb… Info on the call: inspirehep.net/jobs/2706706

After years of campaigning by the IOP, CERN Ireland Users Group and many others, today's Irish budget included the funding to allow Ireland's application for CERN associate membership to proceed. IOP statement to follow... Institute of Physics DFHERIS Comms Simon Harris TD