Cliff Burgess (@cburgescliff) 's Twitter Profile
Cliff Burgess

@cburgescliff

Theoretical particle physicist and one helluva guy. (Opinions expressed are too sensible to be official so must be my own.)

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linkhttp://physwww.mcmaster.ca/~cburgess calendar_today17-05-2013 22:18:23

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"A surprising theme that emerged from many participants was an increase in skepticism toward behavioral science." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Shayan Sardarizadeh (@shayan86) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sorry to disappoint the 11 million users who viewed this tweet and the 127,000 who liked it, but this is AI. It certainly isn't Tel Aviv.

Sorry to disappoint the 11 million users who viewed this tweet and the 127,000 who liked it, but this is AI. It certainly isn't Tel Aviv.
Michael McFaul (@mcfaul) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I detest the framing of US foreign policy debates as between "hawks" and "doves." The current discussion about whether to bomb Fordow is an excellent example of the limits of the oversimplified dichotomy. Instead, can we please discuss what strategies advance US interests and

Leo C. Stein is @duetosymmetry on bsky/threads/🐘 (@duetosymmetry) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I updated my notes on the magnetostatic multipole expansion at duetosymmetry.com/notes/magnetos… — mainly because Cyril Pitrou found an error (1/2 should have been ℓ/(ℓ+1)), and pointed me to Damour+Iyer (1991). Sorry for having wrong notes up for so long!

Cliff Burgess (@cburgescliff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This. At some point feminism (which is about fair treatment for everyone) got hijacked into neo-feminism, which seems to be a special-pleading war on young men driven by a zero-sum vision of people.

Cliff Burgess (@cburgescliff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apparently the Big Issue our government should be focussed on at this point in history is whether we call it ‘Ministry of Jobs & Families’ or ‘Ministry of Jobs, Families & People with Disabilities’. (I guess other groups can be added to the title later.) healthydebate.ca/2025/06/topic/…

Geoff Penington (@quantum_geoff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I want to be clear that my policy is only to use nuclear weapons in self defense and never as a preemptive first strike.* *Unless someone is particularly annoying and I’m having a bad day. And even then I’d almost certainly only use battlefield tactical nukes

Matt Burgess (@matthewgburgess) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a very cool, impressive nature paper that is worth reading. But the accompanying CNN headline is very misleading and almost certainly wrong, for the following reasons (links in next post): 1) The paper projects crop impacts forward assuming SSP3 economics and

This is a very cool, impressive <a href="/Nature/">nature</a> paper that is worth reading. But the accompanying <a href="/CNN/">CNN</a> headline is very misleading and almost certainly wrong, for the following reasons (links in next post):

1) The paper projects crop impacts forward assuming SSP3 economics and
Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On the impending war with Iran One thing you need to understand about wars is that very few engage into the long, protracted warfare on purpose. Almost every war of attrition was planned and designed as a short victorious blitzkrieg And then everything went wrong

Superconformal Hassaan (@hassaan_phy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The podcast episode with Dr. Pedro Vieira has been uploaded. We talk about integrability, holography, bootstrap and being a physicist. Go watch! #physics #scicomm youtu.be/60HrLNBzlNw