Just to flag two non-pony things I am doing this month:

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Two bits of news:

I will be joining a panel on "Physical Laws of a Novel Dimension" organised by Needling Haystacks at HarmonyCon today. (Just by video link.) If anyone is in Dallas, come along at 11am.

The first particle physics themed story I have commissioned will be published soon. Stay tuned.

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New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: The Sun, the Moon, and Some Family History, which my long-term readers may notice is a recycled Fimfiction post with pony references removed.

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New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: Dark Matter and Alien Life in North Yorkshire describing the Boulby Underground Laboratory. I did write a Fimfiction post on my last trip there in 2015. This gives a more general overview.

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That time of year again. When ponies dress up in Spooktacular costumes for their Nightmare Night fun, and particle physicists thrill everyone with tales of ghost particles and the dark side of the universe.

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Happy New Year everyone.

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Fancy writing a short story for 30$ per 1k and know your way around physics?
This has to be one of the coolest 'contests' so far.
Go have a look.
for science communication!

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Ferret kindly suggested I should do a post here to notify readers whenever I post something on my new Particle Physics Gadgeteering blog. I am happy to do this, but I fear I run the risk of being seen to be spamming my followers with non-pony-related stuff. So in an effort to make it look vaguely legitimate, I will accompany such announcements with pictures of ponies. I have just posted something on

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It's less than two days until we get to see the New Generation. But there is something else exciting before that. Tomorrow I am hosting a livestream: COLLIDE! Why particle physics at Oxford matters. Here's a video invitation:

And the livestream link:

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Darkest Abruzzo in which I give another story of working in underground laboratories.

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New Particle Gadgeteering post: Catching High Energy Aliens With Cherenkov Light

Cherenkov detectors are awesome.

New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: Preservation of Life in a Nuclear Age, telling a story of a memorable encounter with the late Joseph Rotblat (physicist and peace campaigner) which came back to me this week.

I have a new post on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, which is all about pony fiction. However (before you all rush off to read it) this one is not written for you (although you are still welcome to read and comment of course). This is my attempt to explain what I do on Fimfiction to my fellow science communicators, many of whom have only the haziest idea about what fan fiction is, and whose only knowledge of My Little Pony is vague memories of a plastic toy from thirty year ago. This is

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I’ve posted a personal story on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, “3D Dreams: A Tale of a Science Communication Adventure with the Welsh Animation Industry, which didn’t happen”. This might interest anyone curious about animation production. This is also a sort-of prequel to my involvement with Fimfiction as it got me into animations and thinking about ways to mix fiction and science.

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New Particle Physics Gadgeteering post: Studying an Eclipse from Deep Underground, which might look like a contrived attempt to attach an eclipse tag to an underground science story, but this is a true report of what I was doing during the 2006 solar eclipse.

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Any fans of Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact want to learn more about the mysterious ancient hieroglyphs that puzzled Daring Do and Twilight Sparkle in that story?

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Last week turned out much more exciting than expected. We got the first dose of Tell Your Tale on Thursday, which was very nice, but not quite the same level of awesomeness as the announcement from Fermilab on Friday that they’ve measured the mass of the W boson and it doesn’t fit the theory.

Let’s tell this tale.

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A short crossover between The Isle of Scaly and A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory based on plasma-wakefield and radio-frequency acceleration.

Blaize lifted her wings and stared at Sunny Starscout.

“Why are you here?”

“It’s… to help,” said Sunny

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For anyone interested in my real world adventures and general science stuff, I have now created a non-pony blog. Check out https://particlegadgeteering.wordpress.com/

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