Thank you to my friend @punsnparticles.bsky.social for an unforgettable visit to @cern.bsky.social and tour of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social detector!

Students, please, I am begging you: take advantage of office hours next semester. Go see your professors. They are just sitting there waiting for you and your classmates to stop by. They want to help you. You are not bothering them. Office hours is part of the class. Use this resource.

Need the menswear guy to tell me where the earring that fell into the lining of my suit jacket has gone

Happy CMS week to all who celebrate 🎉

It’s so beautiful that the golden spiral appears everywhere in nature. For example, sitting at my laptop, I notice my posture—

Throwback to the ECAL test beam which tested the new electronics that will equip the calorimeter at HL-LHC. This year, a single ECAL read-out unit (5x5 crystals), placed inside a dedicated box, was used as a detector for the test. 🏆📸Toyoko Orimoto | ECAL's Image of the Month

Your quarterly reminder that while overleaf may falter, vim will not

Posting into the void to ask if @overleaf.com is broken for anyone else or just me

wavefunctions when you observe them

Say "hi" to the new BTL-Tracker Support Tube! 👋 In a massive step toward CMS’ High-Luminosity era detector, a key component of the build has arrived at the #CERN laboratories. 🗞️ Find out more: cms.cern/news/btst-ke...

Do you pronounce numpy like “numpy” or “numpy”?

Aaaaaaand that’s a wrap on the 2024 LHC run!

I too hope to be immortalized for my mathematical errors

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Physics professor: Consider a particle trapped in an infinitely tall one-dimensional cup of radius r…

i love grad school haha

do i want to be different than i was on twitter? absolutely not.

For the record, the grad student who made the discovery is Madyson Barber, a NSF Grad Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, who led the Nature paper on the result. This is her 4th first author paper.

Went to the engagement farm and everyone knew you

Conspiracy theorists love to say “CERN is plotting the end of the world!” meanwhile we can barely plot nice-looking graphs

He was a skeeter boi She said “See you leeter boi”

My 15 minutes of fame as a scientist were in 2015 when I slightly improved the calculation of how long it takes to fall through the Earth, and was in the news for about two weeks. Here's a recording of a lecture I gave this year talking about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ud3...

Whichever research group finishes their unread stack of papers first gets a pizza party at the end of the semester

CMS celebrates 10 years of Open Data! 🎉 Making real collision data public revolutionised particle physics research. A decade later, CMS remains committed to transparency. 🗞️Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-cel... #CMSExperiment#CERN#ParticlePhysics#LHC#OpenData#Research#Science

Behind every great modern physics advancement is some of the most cursed code you’ve ever seen

this is probably one of my favorite pictures in astronomy

Nooooo that’s my emotional support folder of unread papers :(

Looks like I was off by a few days!

As an experimental particle physicist this one is easy and it’s not even close

I am not here to argue that diehard is a Christmas movie, I am here to argue that the polar express is a horror movie

Deeply confused by how hard the swiss go with advent calendars

Sometimes my jaw will drop seeing these images on ig or here and then I’ll remember it’s all just a few hours train ride from my house

does this advice count for phd theses too or no

I’m giving the Jura mountains until Friday to get their first snow of the year, any counterpredictions?

And here I thought this platform had a better handle on misinformation 😔

Happy LGBTQIA+ in STEM day from here at #CERN!

🥳Today we celebrate Pride in STEM day 2024, recognising our amazing colleagues who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, both at CMS and elsewhere! #pride #PrideInSTEM #LGBTQIA+ #CMSDetector

“Publish or perish” is an insult to my ability to multitask

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. Building a super thin MIP detector inside CMS to construct 4D vertices 2. The neutron lifetime discrepancy…

There are kaleidoscopes everywhere for those with the phone cameras to peek inside the support structure of their detector’s cooling system

At 200 followers I will build a muon collider demonstrator in my office

I’m putting together a team (assembling my thesis committee)

Ready for physics papers that start like “The question of whether neutrinos are their own skeptics has long remained unanswered…”

1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread)

It's Friday night! I've done enough this week. Not everything. Hoo boy. Not by a lot. But enough. YOU did enough this week.

something something if you can’t invalid handle me at my worst

And also, just on a personal level, I'm asking you to please do this. RFK II has made clear he wants to go after ADHD meds and antidepressants. I cannot function professionally without these drugs. I can't remember to brush my damn teeth half the time without these drugs.

[finishing an LHC collisions run] okay now let’s do a silly one

Using physics starter packs to find people who rock climb

I put together a starter pack for people working in particle physics experiments (for now only collider based). Suggestions are very welcome! ⚛️ go.bsky.app/TFne5pM

weirdest thing about working at CERN is the absurd amount of broken frenglish my colleagues and i have started using. “yeah dude pas de souci, it’s not grave” “what is this bordel” be serious