Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Friday, 20 February 2015

Deerhoof!

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I'm going to see Deerhoof in London next week. If you're as excited about it as me, you might want to check out the video below ...

Monday, 16 February 2015

No physics PhDs were awarded in the UK before 1990

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The panel which judged the physics submissions as part of the recent REF has written an overview report on its findings. The panel was ...

Monday, 2 February 2015

Isotopes from 2014

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The annual update from the Isotope Discovery Project hit the arXiv preprint server last week. According to it, 2014 saw the first ev...

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

REF submissions online

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Just before Christmas I posted about the results of the REF2014 exercise, which the British government will use to decide how to alloca...

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Samarium from the stars

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Over the Christmas period, I enjoyed time with my family, sharing presents, eating more food than normal, and suchlike. One of the per...

Friday, 9 January 2015

Reflections on time in Oxford

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A friend from my undergraduate days has just written a very thoughtful blog post on his time there. It's kind of aimed at students w...

Saturday, 3 January 2015

Rila 2014 proceedings online

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Over the Christmas-New Year break, I didn't do much nuclear physics stuff, but while I visited family and friends for the first ...

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