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.

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Picketing at –7ºC

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It was cold this morning. –7ºC, at least according to my phone (edit: According to a BBC News story , the lowest recorded temperature,...

Thursday, 22 February 2018

Striking to save our pension

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Today is day one of a strike by members of the UCU trade union, of which I am a member, and therefore a striker. I don't think...

Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Nuclear Data Community Pleased, as Punch-Card Format Superseded

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Via my fellow nuclear physicist @tmertzi , I read an interesting article (dating back to 2016) from Lawrence Livermore National Labor...

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Congratulations, Dr Barton

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Yesterday my PhD student Matthew Barton successfully defended his PhD thesis on the self-consistent application of the time-dependent dens...

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

RIP Mark E Smith

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I've been known to post music on this blog for various reasons, including as tributes to artists who have recently died. As one of th...

Friday, 2 February 2018

Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart 1949-2018

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A few days ago I received the latest copy of Nuclear Physics News International , a quarterly magazine about nuclear physics and its ap...

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Lecture Capture

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I attended a meeting today which was a demonstration of the abilities of the lecture capture software we have at the University. It's...

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