christos.leonidopoulos

Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Univ of Edinburgh

@cleonidopoulos.bsky.social

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The year is 2026. The world has ended and you're the only person left. But you don't know it because you spend all day inside, posting on Facebook, where you interact with bots agreeing with each other on how bad a movie was that none of you ever saw.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The year is 2050. The world has ended and you're the only person left. But you don't know it bc you spend all day inside, posting on Twitter, where you interact with bots who slightly rephrase what you say. "Brownies are yummy!" they say to your tweet about how you love brownies.

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I am staying here mainly to keep track of who from the people I follow has not migrated to "the other side" yet, and follow them there when they do.

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@cubic_logic @mgpolitis Πρόβλημα το herding πολλών δημοσκοπήσεων σε πολλές αμφίρροπες πολιτείες (παρόμοιο με αυτό που συμβαίνει στις δικές μας εκλογές, ιδιαίτερα το Μάιο του 2023 όπου οι εταιρείες δημοσκοπήσεων στην Ελλάδα έπαθαν μεγάλη νίλα).

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People should not really blog about things they don't understand.

[Ben Recht @beenwrekt]

The Higgs Discovery did not take place. https://t.co/x6p2OuXXwA

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In Memoriam: Ian Shipsey
https://t.co/KRZt43BLbJ

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What happens if you let a theorist give the closing talk at a conference.

[With Goran Senjanović]

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That's a lot of work for these potentials to produce just the right amount of interaction between fundamental particles.

I'm just sayin'.

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“A London poet once said to me: I just don’t see the point gigging outside London cos every other city is just like London but not as good. Here's a photo of Edinburgh for you. There are volcanoes & castles & an underground city. Go out & check it out. London will still be there”

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Preparing for CERN's 70th anniversary event with my colleague @MamaPhysikerin

[Disclaimer: these are NOT my nails]

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@svchekanov Not this time.

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Athens of the North.

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All-group meeting for @Edinburgh_PPE at Univ of Edinburgh for the start of the academic year.

We have grown to 85 members!

@MamaPhysikerin is giving the overview of the group's activities, and I am taking pictures and posting on social media. Sounds about right.

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[In the picture:]
Specimen smuggled into Edinburgh by (very proud of himself) colleague who went recently on a trip to China.

End of second day of new academic year.
252 more days to go. ✌️🙏🥳

The End 11/11

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Things (some) academics obsess about.

A short story on the Hagoromo chalk. A thread. 1/11

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"My wife blinded me and I picked the Japanese produced one 10/10 times -for a final test I wore garden gloves and could still pick it out when blinded. It's not hard; the Japanese original feels like water flowing out of your hand onto the board." 10/11