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.

Thursday, 26 November 2020

A proper Zoom backdrop, finally

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We have been having some work done at home, to have our loft changed into a bedroom and an office for home working. We have had a bookshel...

Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Online teaching & Maple Calculator

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It's the middle of the semester, and it's my busiest semester, in which I teach two full 15-credit final year modules – i.e. I am t...

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Monday, 19 October 2020

Open Access Royal Society (one week only)

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While we wait for all academic publishing to be properly open access, Royal Society Publishing have kindly opened up their pretty extensive ...

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Lattice calculations of nuclear vibrations

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I just received a notification that the penultimate article in the special topic in Frontiers In Physics that I am co-editing has appeared...

Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate 2020

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Roger Penrose was announced this morning as the winner of half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, with the other half being shared equally ...

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Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Science books of the year

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I saw yesterday that the Royal Society published their shortlist for their science books of the year . There are 6 in the shortlist: The W...

Wednesday, 16 September 2020

arxiv-vanity

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The document format pdf is pretty good when you want to make nice-looking output for printing for your scientific paper. It's not alwa...

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