Research: Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays with #machinelearning at #TelescopeArray. Past: Science editor and #ScienceWriting faculty at Johns Hopkins. Essays: The Atlantic, Orion, Aeon, etc. Book: #SubatomicWriting (JHU Press). I worship MacGyver and Picard.https://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3mkd3vxa5t22dAs I move from Germany to New Zealand and look to start a PhD in Physics, I feel grateful I had the chance to support local science journalism, grateful my former #JHU students can carry it forward. Careful, honest science is the key to understanding (and holding onto) reality. #CitizenScience 🧪🔭⚛️25 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkd3vxa5t22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3mg4pgwkg722yThe Sheraton Hotel in Connecticut is serving an IPA beer called "I'm Dead Inside" and it made me laugh-cry.03 Mar 2026 02:20 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4pgwkg722yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3mdzvoixx4s2rHave a little more faith in your own neural network. Learn to write well in science. We need honest, good science writing. Doesn't have to be perfect. All slides from the workshop "Psst . . . Your AI Is Showing: How to Put Your Own Voice in Scientific Papers" are here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15115279 🧪🔭⚛️04 Feb 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzvoixx4s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3m7u5wgfipk2mI have been alive for 15,353 days today. I have reached the # of Life, the Universe, and Everything. My birthday wish is that a) you do something kind today, b) read, skim, or share something I wrote for science, and c) do a little jig. 🧪⚛️ #highenergyastro https://www.jamiezvirzdin.com/publications.html13 Dec 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7u5wgfipk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3m4vb5jqtqc2thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7ttcrzW9o Jamie Zvirzdin links principles of physics with those of grammar and linguistics, adds a pinch of poetics, and serves up a tasty guide to scientific thinking and writerly writing. —Christopher Joyce, Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR www.subatomicwriting.com 🧪⚛️🔭✏️05 Nov 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vb5jqtqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3m37z6wg73k2xOnce upon a time my friends told me about a Science & Religion essay contest, that I had to do it. I wrote the damn thing in a week and won 2nd place and $5,000. At the heart of it is the symbol of the urbs quadrata, like the unit circle centered at a Cartesian origin. 🧪🔭⚛️ https://issues.org/shuddering-before-the-beautiful-trains-of-thought-across-the-mormon-cosmos/15 Oct 2025 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3m37z6wg73k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lyxcaiv6ac24I'm reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes to my son at night. Sherlock says in "A Scandal in Bohemia" (p. 187), "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Wise words. 🧪⚛️🔭16 Sep 2025 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyxcaiv6ac24https://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lyrxpdzryk2lThe world can be grim. What sustains us? Meaningful work and kind interactions sustain me, along with good memories. Teaching my son to read is one of these. (We loved these foam letters someone gave us!) His determination still fuels me. #parenting #love #education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNiS9StMWGA14 Sep 2025 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyrxpdzryk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lxdoz5mnks2hI am citable! Check it out: Zvirzdin, J. (2025, January 27). Psst . . . Your AI Is Showing: How to Put Your Own Voice in Scientific Papers. Workshop on Machine Learning for Analysis of High-Energy Cosmic Particles, University of Delaware. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15115279 #highenergyastro #ai ⚛️🧪26 Aug 2025 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxdoz5mnks2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lxcwfmjvhc2s🧪⚛️🔭 Give back, nominate someone who helped you. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcwfmjvhc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lwtutywwnk2uProps to @kurzgesagt.org for another fantastic and supremely important science video, this time on the benefits and costs of alcohol. Take a moment to watch it, please. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Or others. 🧪 https://youtu.be/aOwmt39L2IQ?si=Kk06XymwmyxVeRyR20 Aug 2025 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtutywwnk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lwtcuzuhes2sWe just published our second paper on this topic! Our #TelescopeArray detectors help us understand energy mechanisms behind both cosmic rays 🌠and lightning.🌩️ Support your local scientists and the National Science Foundation! 💞💸 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD043812 #highenergyastro 🧪⚛️20 Aug 2025 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwtcuzuhes2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3luysiwsegc2cFantastic article by @rhettallain.bsky.social. I grow tired of physics problems that do not model real life. It only leads to physicists who do not know how to model real life. We need more of this, a careful examination of assumptions.⚛️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2025 04:56 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3luysiwsegc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lutq4vaq7k22I remotely operate sensitive cosmic-ray telescopes in the West Desert of Utah. Wild that we can pick up the light from this wildfire. Be safe, Sevier County! Select Band="Fire Temperature RGB" https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/wfo_band.php?wfo=slc&band=FireTemperature&length=24&dim=0 #Utah #UofU #TelescopeArray #highenergyastro 🧪26 Jul 2025 04:30 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lutq4vaq7k22https://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lumtcclv422iWord to the wise, this happened yesterday. I'm in Europe and move frequently for my husband's job. I value staying in touch with friends across the globe. But to be locked out of both Facebook and Instagram with NO warning made me realize I need to write down names/other contact info ASAP.23 Jul 2025 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lumtcclv422ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lukomzonbk2yScientists can regain public trust by a) being honest in their work and b) not being so proudly inaccessible in their writing. The best physics writing uses different kinds of stories, and I also tell my own. https://aeon.co/essays/to-understand-physics-we-need-to-tell-and-hear-stories @aeon.co #scicomm #writing #editing #publishing #highenergyastro ⚛️22 Jul 2025 14:10 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukomzonbk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3ltma5d6v422lIf you research the physics ⚛️ of extreme objects/particles/environments or high/ultrahigh-energy emissions from space, sign up to post to our #Bluesky #highenergyastro feed. I moderate this feed as part of the most excellent Astrosky Ecosystem.🔭 Join us!🧪 https://astrosky.eco/feeds/highenergy @emily.space10 Jul 2025 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltma5d6v422lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lsdvbbs2lk2sHey, the PDF of my 3-hour workshop at the U. of Delaware has over 100 downloads now! Not bad! https://zenodo.org/records/15115279 If you teach science, give your students the time and opportunity to find their own #writing voices. Textbook I wrote for my #JHU students: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12825/subatomic-writing 🧪⚛️🔭24 Jun 2025 10:29 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsdvbbs2lk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3ls4cs3efgc2mAnd here is one of the solutions to the 3-Body Problem. There are hundreds! It is a good reminder that we often focus too much on a problem and not enough on the solutions. This is Christopher Moore's original (nontrivial) solution from 1993: youtu.be/EQ5K6KTVaQc ⚛️🧪 #highenergyastro https://youtu.be/EQ5K6KTVaQc21 Jun 2025 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls4cs3efgc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3ls4bjy7qyk2mI find it wildly cathartic to be taking both #Chaos and #Cosmology this semester at #JHU. Insane amount of work but marvelous material (Thank you @stevenstrogatz.com and @bsryden.bsky.social for your writing styles!). Dramatic music for (melo)dramatic times. ⚛️🧪 #highenergyastro youtu.be/HGbs1mcju0Q https://youtu.be/HGbs1mcju0Q21 Jun 2025 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls4bjy7qyk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lqtrkouyvs2hMy Australian Shepherd is absurdly beautiful even when covered in mud after many miles of trail running with my husband. I will never get over how marvelous she is. Husband's pretty great too. 😂 #pets05 Jun 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqtrkouyvs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lqc7omhyg22qThis is Andrew being acted upon by the cat force, which is far more powerful than any other force in the universe. Dimensionally speaking, 😺 Force = (Mass of 🐈) * (Length of 🐈)/(Time the🐈decides to remain)^2 . . . * ♾️. It's a very positive force. 😹🩵 ⚛️🧪29 May 2025 07:40 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqc7omhyg22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lq4ulnjfx22sA room with a GREAT view. Currently waiting for lightning to clear up before we can open #UofU #TelescopeArray doors and capture ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray particles. Also studying for #JHU graduate course, Chaos and Its Applications. Also, cat. #highenergyastro #fundscience 🧪⚛️ #particlephysics27 May 2025 04:38 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq4ulnjfx22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jamiezvirzdin.com/post/3lp76wrwuec23Happy 18th anniversary to us!15 May 2025 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:curm4ncx66fzzygplesli77a/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp76wrwuec23