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Science and teaching
“Sir, – Dr Yvonne Kavanagh of the Institute of Physics Ireland (‘Time to focus on science and research’, Letters, February 5th) rightly asserts that in order to put science and innovation at the...
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UCC’s Séamus Davis wins international prize for work in quantum physics
“Prof Séamus Davis has been awarded an international prize for his contributions to quantum physics. The Olli V Lounasmaa Memorial Prize for 2020 was awarded to the UCC-based scientist for his...
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Second-Year Physics Students Return to In-Person Lab Practicals
“Second-year physical science students return to in-person practicals today, after being informed in an email from College on Friday that laboratory practicals ‘are going ahead’. The labs will now be...
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Leaving Certificate Matters
“On the last day of the first week of a very busy term I’ve finally cleared a backlog of things and thought I’d take a break for a quick comment about the arrangements for this year’s Leaving...
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Girls, Physics and ‘Hard Maths’
“There was an appropriately hostile reaction from people who know things yesterday to bizarre comments by Katharine Birbalsingh who is apparently a UK Government commissioner for something or other who...
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A Dress Code for Physics?
“This image has been doing the rounds on Physics Twitter recently, accompanied by a mixture of incredulous, amused and angry comments. It’s from the instructions from the 13th International Particle...
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Revisiting the Case for Irish Membership of CERN
“At last week’s Irish Theoretical Physics meeting I had the opportunity to have lunch with particle physicist Professor John Ellis (of King’s College London). Among other things we discussed whether or...
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Putting girls off Physics
“I see that Katharine Birbalsingh has resigned from her job as UK Government commissioner for social mobility. Apparently she feels she was ‘doing more harm than good’. If only the rest of the...
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ChatGPT and Physics Education
“Following on the theme of ChatGPT, I see that Phil Moriarty has done a blog post about its use in Physics Education which many of my readers will find well worth reading in full …” (more) [In the...
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Teaching in Base 60
“Some time ago – was it really over a decade? – I wrote a piece about the optimum size of modules in physics teaching. I was still in the United Kingdom then so my ramblings were based on a framework...
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