Will the rumoured #PlanB vaccine passports incorporate approved vaccines administered outside the UK? The NHS Covid Pass only certifies vaccines administered in England and not the other home nations, let alone overseas.

Wordle 209 3/6 – nice distraction during my afternoon coffee breaks from the steadily increasing pile of work that’s already accumulating at the start of this postdoc. ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I just submitted my first solo (a more senior colleague assisted me for my first two) referee report for a peer-reviewed journal, and it strangely feels like a little career landmark. #AcademicChatter

Strongly agree with this. 90% of the errors I make as a theorist are resolved by checking for dimensionality. The fun (why I do what I do) lies in accounting for the remaining 10%.

Perhaps the only time I will ever agree with this guy.

We are all Tony Armstrong on this most blessed of days. #WorldCupQualifiers

As a theoretical physicist interested in the history of science I always imagined Hamilton’s ‘quaternion bridge’ to be a quaint, gorgeous bridge over the Liffey. The truth is a little less romantic! #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

This applies to both buildings I have ever worked in, though filled with wonderful scientists/human beings, and all but one of the other physics buildings I’ve ever visited.

Some very exciting results that will push quantum fluids research forwards in the next few years – first observation of quantum vortices in a dipolar BEC! So glad to have been involved with Ferlaino Group’s Thomas bland, among others, in predicting this theoretically in 2019.

Having just come back from a summer school with numerous positive cases, I have to agree with this.

That 'second great quintet' was quite something. Speak No Evil is one of my favourite jazz albums, too. RIP.

An unexpected highlight of UK academia: intersections between STEM and the Premier League. Public talk by Phil Giles, the DoF of Brentford FC, at NCLMathsStatsPhysics Sciences at Newcastle Newcastle University on Maths & Stats in football! Can I convince him to rescue Manchester United from its woes?

How do magnetic dipolar interactions affect vortex dynamics in 3D BECs? Exotic orbits, direction-dependent velocities and more! Find out more in our (me, Nick Parker, @dr__bag) new open source article on Physical Review A journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1… Joint Quantum Centre, Durham–Newcastle NCLMathsStatsPhysics Sciences at Newcastle

🚨 Preprint 🚨 Pairs of antiparallel vortex lines are unstable against decay into vortex rings, as seen in aircraft contrails on a sunny day. What directional dependence might this instability exhibit in a dipolar BEC? More ⬇️ NCLMathsStatsPhysics Sciences at Newcastle arxiv.org/abs/2407.04177