Next Stop, Plzeň.
An article that highlights the annual ‘wasp watch’ survey in the UK and why it is important. A good
It may be the last thing on your mind as the wasp lands on your picnic. But before you swipe it away, scientists would like you to make a note of exactly what it is eating.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Attention to the strengths of physical interactions: Transformer and graph-based event classification for particle physics experiments
Luc Builtjes, Sascha Caron, Polina Moskvitina, Clara Nellist, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Rob Verheyen, Zhongyi Zhang
SciPost Phys. 19, 028 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.19.1.028
@Radboud_uni @uva_amsterdam #Nikhef #IFIC #UCL #BonnUniversity
What are the odds?
(and the transfer window is not over yet)
#LFC #UCL #mastodonfc
Visited #London for the first time and stayed near #UCL (University College London) where Ron Gillespie developed the ‘#VSEPR rules’ of molecular geometry before moving to #McMasterU in #Canada for a long and distinguished career as Professor of #Chemistry.
I couldn’t resist getting a Rules Vesper cocktail at the nearby Rules restaurant and toasting the memory of my dear old Professor and then collaborator!
We are now with: No Secrets, Just Trust: Securely Deploying Infrastructure Without Persistent Credentials by
Brian Maher (#UCL #ARC)
Secrets are evil!! It's difficult to manage them, update, audit its use...
What if we use trust anchors?
We can use ssh certificates that are automatically generated by our vault.
#stepup2025
And now, just before #stepup2025 lunch a quick review of the posters
- Designing support strategies for enabling cultural change in data practices for the physical sciences
- Research Data Stewardship at #UCL
- Building a Scalable, Open Research Data Repository with Ceph and Customised InvenioRDM
Next is another from #UCL #ARC, Jonathan is talking about DisCouRSE and how to create a community of leaders through cohorts to have an amplifying effect.
https://discourse-network.github.io
They've got some funding coming soon!!
#stepup2025
Next is me! I'll be quickly talking about why and how we are creating an #OSPO at #UCL.
Short answer: because it's fun and #OpenSource needs all the support it can take.
Mention to #HemeLB (a code where #UCL #ARC) and #Alya (#BSC) models combined
https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Complete_Simulation_and_Analysis_Data_for_Coupled_Alya-HemeLB_Model/27757932
#stepup2025
Andrea Townsend-Nicholson (#UCL) is #stepup2025 keynote, Bringing the Virtual Human to Life
Virtual Human is an ambitious project that could simulate drugs effects on your body, as well as simulate how diet and exercise impacts your body.
The trailer is cool, when will the whole movie come up? (I'm envisioning an apocalyptic style of #RSEs trying to fix software bugs in the virtual humans that then get replicated in the non-virtial bodies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZrAaDsfBYY
Liverpool set Harvey Elliot asking price as interest builds in #U21EURO player of tournament. #LFC want £40m+ with buy-back or £50m+ without. 22yo forward eyeing regular game time at elite (potentially #UCL) level so may look to go abroad @TheAthleticFC@sportsbots.xyz https://nytimes.com/athletic/64593…
This evening I met a Greek building automation specialist, a Serbian refrigeration engineer, and an English building services forensic analyst. Add in an Italian and two English historians and philosophers of science and two digital learning technologists and my brain is now so full of ideas that I'm worried that it might explode. #UCL
https://www.eucup.com/1113613/ Jeremy Doku smiling somewhere ##championsleague #2026FIFAWorldCup #2026WorldCup #2030FIFAWorldCup #2030WorldCup #Amorim #arneslot #arsenal #arteta #Belgium #Chelsea #England #FIFA2026 #FIFA2030 #FIFAWorldCup #FifaWorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup2030 #football #footballmemes #footballtrolls #funny #JeremyDoku #Liverpool #ManchesterUnited #manchestercity #Memes #PepGuardiola #PL #premierleague #Spurs #TROLLS #ucl #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #WorldCup2030
The draw for the second qualifying round of the @ChampionsLeague@sportsbots.xyz takes place today in Nyon, Switzerland at 11:00 (BST).
Our potential opponents:
Panathinaikos
Servette
SK Brann
Read our #UCL draw preview
I love it when I am required to attend off-site meetings in London as it gives me an excuse to ride my bike further than normal on commute days (not that I need an excuse, mind you). Today it was a meeting at UCL East out in East London so 9.5km ride (with only 30 metres ascent overall) on segregated cycle paths almost all the way (just a couple of 100 metre long "protection by paint" sections).
Bit warm and a bit muggy coming back late afternoon, mind you, maybe 27 degrees or more.