Physics World Newsletter: CERN at 70, peer review and how to think outside the box
Bringing you the latest highlights from Physics World
Hello and welcome to your fortnightly update of the latest developments and opportunities in physics, tech and beyond. Big cheeses from the world of physics and beyond have been gathering at CERN this week to mark 70 years of the world’s biggest physics lab. It’s also been 2024 Peer Review Week – check out our podcast for the latest innovation in this important function. Finally, we’ve got careers advice from Fatima Gunning, an optics researcher with more than 200 papers to her name.?
Officials gathered this week for a ceremony to celebrate 70 years of the CERN particle-physics lab. The event was attended by 38 national delegations including the heads of state and government from six different nations as well as Princess Astrid of Belgium and the president of the European Commission. It marked the culmination of a year of events that showcased the lab’s history and plans for the future as it looks beyond the Large Hadron Collider.?
To mark this year’s Peer Review Week, check out the Physics World Weekly podcast, which features Laura Feetham-Walker - reviewer engagement manager at IOP Publishing. She explains how the publisher is raising awareness of the importance of constructive and respectful peer review feedback and how innovations can help to create a positive peer review culture. As Feetham-Walker explains, authors can receive unhelpful or rude feedback about their work, not only shaking the confidence of early career researchers but even dissuading them from pursuing careers in science altogether.?
With more than 200 research papers to her name, Fatima Gunning is a physicist at the Tyndall National Institute, a research flagship of University College Cork, Ireland, where she is also head of graduate studies, and education and public engagement. With further roles at the IPIC Research Ireland Centre for photonics and in the schools of physics and engineering and architecture at Cork, Gunning outlines her careers advice in the last “Ask me anything” column.?
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The final word…?
“If you’re slow to this, the risk is someone is ahead of you. It is all about being first.”??
Gerald Mullally, chief executive of Oxford Quantum Circuits, quoted in the Sunday Times.??
Mullally says that while quantum science can sometimes be overhyped, it could also be “transformational from the point of view of value and competitiveness”.??
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Editor-in-chief, Physics World?
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