Science publishing cost and benefit

Posted on 05/06/2025 by Jon Butterworth

I shared the open letter Peter refers to on other channels, but this issue is important enough to keep on about it, and his post definitely worth a read. (I have published a lot in SciPost, and UCL is a sponsor of it.)

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Local Baryon Number at the LHC

Posted on 13/05/2025 by Jon Butterworth

A quick post to advertise a new preprint my collaborators and I put on the arXiv today. It is called “Local Baryon Number at the LHC” and is by me, Joe – one of my PhD students, or Doctoral Researchers, as they are now officially called at UCL – and Pavel and Hridoy, two theory collaborators I’ve enjoyed working before1, from Case Western Reserve2 University. I will explain briefly what we have been doing.

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Cocktail Update: Sbagliato and Jalisco Flower

Posted on 20/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

Ok, two of these posts in a row but it’s the holidays…

Sbagliato is a Negroni when you put sparking wine (in this case Blanquette de Limoux, see below) instead of gin. Sbagliato is Italian for “wrong”, but feels right at the mo.

The Jalisco Flower is tequila, elderflower, pink grapefruit and Blanquette again. Tastes nice, although I’m drinking the short red one myself.

Blanquette de Limoux is special because Susanna and I ordered a glass each by mistake when camping in rural Limoux sometime in the 90s, when we had very limited funds. We therefore had no dinner, but a good time anyway.

There was also a Twinkle1 earlier, but it went before I got a picture. Probably for the best.

  1. Vodka, elderflower and the Blanquette again. ↩︎
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Cocktail Update: Trilby

Posted on 17/04/2025 by Jon Butterworth

There is actual physics going on my life but right now there is also this. Gin, crème de violette, red vermouth, orange & angostura bitters. Yum.

I’d would say it counts as a variation on the negroni, and you might say “What’s the point in varying perfection”. But it’s a good one, worth a try IMO.

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