Personal homepages, research pages and long-running blogs kept by physicists (high energy, lattice, mathematical) and by philosophers. These websites contains notes and blogs on physics, philosophy, and related topics. Many of these pages are maintained by active researchers and contain a wealth of information, including lecture notes, research papers, and personal insights.
- Matt Strassler - Harvard; QFT and LHC phenomenology. Blog "Of Particular Significance" plus a large set of reference articles on fields, particles and the Higgs mechanism.
- Peter Woit - Columbia mathematics. "Not Even Wrong", running since 2004. String theory criticism and math-physics commentary.
- Sabine Hossenfelder - quantum gravity phenomenology. "Backreaction"; blog now largely superseded by her video output.
- Gerard 't Hooft - Utrecht, emeritus, Nobel 1999. Hosts the self-study curriculum, see #Free lecture notes and self-study.
- Sean Carroll - Johns Hopkins; cosmology and foundations of QM. Blog, GR lecture notes, Mindscape podcast.
- John Baez - UC Riverside; mathematical physics and category theory. Home of "This Week's Finds". Current blog: Azimuth.
- Jacques Distler - UT Austin; string theory. Blog Musings, technical, renders LaTeX natively via itex/MathML.
- Clifford V. Johnson - UC Santa Barbara; string theory, JT gravity. "Asymptotia", physics plus science-in-media work.
- Scott Aaronson - UT Austin; quantum complexity. "Shtetl-Optimized", moved from scottaaronson.com/blog.
- Terence Tao - UCLA. Mathematics rather than HEP, but the template for a research-level personal blog.
- Michael Nielsen - independent; quantum computation, tools for thought, research practice.
- Michael Creutz - Brookhaven, emeritus. The originator of lattice Monte Carlo. Full publication list, code and lecture material.
- Martin Luscher - CERN / Mainz. Distribution point for openQCD, DD-HMC and related simulation codes.
- Sourendu Gupta - TIFR Mumbai. Finite temperature and density QCD; extensive teaching notes. Also an ICTS profile.
- Ashoke Sen - ICTS-TIFR; string theory, string field theory. Also an ICTS profile.
- Sunil Mukhi - IISER Pune and ICTS-TIFR; string theory. Legacy TIFR page still live; also an IISER Pune faculty page. Includes non-physics writing and Indian classical music pages.
- Sourendu Gupta - TIFR Mumbai; lattice QCD. Also listed above.
- Suvrat Raju - ICTS-TIFR; quantum gravity, black holes, foundations of QFT. Also an ICTS profile.
- Indian String Theorists - directory maintained at IIT Madras. Institution-by-institution index with links; the fastest way to locate an Indian theorist's page.
- David Tong - DAMTP Cambridge. Complete free lecture note library. Directly relevant: Gauge Theory and Quantum Field Theory.
- How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist - 't Hooft's curated curriculum, elementary mathematics through QFT. Companion page How to become a BAD theoretical physicist.
- John Preskill - Caltech quantum information and computation notes; the default reference in the field.
- David Chalmers - NYU; philosophy of mind. Complete papers archive; co-founder of PhilPapers.
- Ted Sider - Rutgers; metaphysics. All papers, full teaching material, and his textbook "Logic for Philosophy". CV.
- Brian Weatherson - Michigan; epistemology. Blog Thoughts, Arguments and Rants.
- Eric Schwitzgebel - UC Riverside; philosophy of psychology. "The Splintered Mind", still posting.
- Wolfgang Schwarz - Edinburgh; formal epistemology and decision theory. Papers, blog, and a tree proof generator for propositional, first-order and modal logic.
- Richard Zach - Calgary; logic and history of logic. Also runs the open-source Open Logic Project and "forall x: Calgary".
- Nick Bostrom - Oxford; existential risk. Full paper archive including the simulation argument and anthropic bias work.
- Toby Ord - Oxford; ethics, existential risk, moral uncertainty.
- Peter Singer - Princeton; applied ethics, effective altruism.
- Kenny Easwaran - UC Irvine; formal epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of mathematics.
- John Danaher - Galway; ethics of technology. Long-form commentary on papers and books.
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John D. Norton - Pittsburgh HPS; the single largest free resource here. Note sites.pitt.edu, not the older pitt.edu path.
- Einstein for Everyone - roughly 40 chapters on relativity, its history and philosophy, at entry level and without heavy mathematics.
- Paradox: Puzzles of Chance and Infinity.
- PhilSci-Archive - the arXiv equivalent for philosophy of science, run by the Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science. Where Wallace, Maudlin, Callender and most others in this area actually post preprints, in preference to personal pages.
Use these to find a homepage that is not listed above. Author profiles almost always carry a link to the personal page.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - the canonical reference for philosophy. Author pages link to homepages and ORCID.
- INSPIRE-HEP - literature and author database for high energy physics. Author profiles link homepages, ORCID and arXiv listings.
- arXiv - preprints. Per-author listings such as arxiv.org/a/detar_c_1 give a stable feed of one person's output.
- PhilPapers - the philosophy analogue of INSPIRE; profiles, papers, and links to personal pages.
- PhilSci-Archive - preprints in philosophy of science.
- Indian String Theorists - IIT Madras directory of Indian theorists.
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine - for pages that have gone.
Gilles Castel lives on. I found is work useful for using latex with vim, with use of Snippets and Ultisnips, which turns out to be useful in coding as well.