Tag Archives: STFC

Discover Your Paper’s Other Side

Posted on 19/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Good to see that an STFC employee has come up with some money-saving ideas in response to the government’s appeal. I’m not qualified to comment on the salary freeze. The point about end-of-year flexibility is so obviously true it is … Continue reading →

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Brain Drained

Posted on 16/08/2010 by Jon Butterworth

This post also at the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.5 of Smashing Physics. On Saturday I went to a leaving party for Lily Asquith of LHCSound fame. Lily was one of our PhD students on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Having graduated, … Continue reading →

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Engineering a Decline?

Posted on 13/07/2010 by Jon Butterworth

See also Chapter 3.3 of Smashing Physics. In a way, I am quite impressed by the Royal Academy of Engineering. They have managed to speak very clearly in response to some difficult questions from our new political masters. What they … Continue reading →

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Fun with data

Posted on 22/06/2010 by Jon Butterworth

Quick one, rather than my usual finely-honed prose. I am very busy and am having lots of fun. We are writing papers on jet data from ATLAS. I love this, and as I tweeted I am just so impressed by … Continue reading →

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