| Review of “The Standard Model: A Primer” (Burgess and Moore, Cambridge Press 2007, 2012) | “About attraction, unbridled energy and the world of international models. Not at all standard.” |
| Review of “Introduction to Effective Field Theory” (Burgess, Cambridge Press 2020) | “Best use of fields since the Agricultural Revolution.” |
| Some of my coordinates | @CburgesCliff (and Twitter) or https://physics.mcmaster.ca/~cburgess |
| Metric signature | -+++ (don’t settle for less) |
Some solid physics today on #TheLifeScientific on @[email protected]. My guest is the fantastic Clifford Johnson @[email protected], renown expert on string theory and black holes as well as advisor on Hollywood sci-fi movies. Forget Dr Strange - I give you... Professor Weird.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jimalkhalili/status/1620332457966047234
(insert here) = quality journals.
Having been in my field for 20 years I can't think of a single piece of important work published in either Nature or Science.
@[email protected] has some good stuff but also publishes a lot of the worst papers, hype written for cites. https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating/status/1619827721554767872
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JosephPConlon/status/1620064930534936576
“But Eric, we already did that. We have ‘a small number of high quality journals, with strong editors’ embedded in a vaster sea of lower impact factor journals with weaker editors. E.G. @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PhysRevLett ++embedded in a sea of (insert here). No need to reinvent”
This, in physics too 👇
The best new ideas always have unanticipated benefits. So it's stupid to require people who want to do new things to enumerate the benefits beforehand. The best you can do is choose smart people and then trust their intuitions about what's worth exploring.
Still too soon…
Happy National Croissant Day!
Flaky, golden, buttery, sweet steaming croissants. That is all.
#thegoodlifefrance
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lifefrance/status/1619939482958200832
What advice would you give to a mentee who has just started meeting with a mentor?
Me to students: “Sure. Use any metric signature you want.”
How to Speak Cat.
How do you say "I'll kill you when you fall asleep"?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VergaraLautaro/status/1619841392397934593
Yes it is.
I think the fundamental problem here is thinking that you can measure transformational ideas with publication metrics. https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1618533624885698563
One fact that surprises a lot of people is that the US *government* spends a *larger* fraction of its GDP on healthcare than the Canadian government does. Private citizens also pay much more.
The free market provides a lot of things well, but healthcare isn't one of them.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/matthewgburgess/status/1619784180824694784
“One fact that surprises a lot of people is that the US *government* spends a *larger* fraction of its GDP on healthcare than the Canadian government does. Private citizens also pay much more. The free market provides a lot of things well, but healthcare isn't one of them.”
