Real Self-Energy

There are several interesting papers on the arXiv today. One of them, arXiv:2507.15949 , involves my former PhD supervisor. It's on the ...

Jesper Grimstrup kindly sent me an electronic copy of his new book,  The Ant Mill . He was also kind enough to give me some feedback on a fi...

In the news this week was the joint announcement  by the presidents of the European Commission and France of initiatives about welcoming t...

As a French citizen I should probably disavow the following post and remind myself that I have access to some of the best food in the world....

Just over a week ago the annual meeting of theoretical particle physicists ( RPP 2024 ) was held at Ju...

The latest (twitter) storm in a teacup on this subject nearly prompted me to return to my soapbox, but now my favoured news source (not the ...

For three successive Januaries now, since I started this blog in 2018, I posted a list of the things to look forward to, which for whatever ...