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Gordon Watts retweeted
18 Nov 2022
Happy LGBTQ in STEM Day! π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
The ATLAS Collaboration @CERN is committed to improving the visibility and representation of the LGBTQ community in STEM. We're proud to support our LGBTQ colleagues β on #LGBTSTEMday and every day!
ALT Pride flag held outside, in front of the ATLAS Mural.
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29 Sep 2022
Congrats to my @iris_hep colleague!!
29 Sep 2022
Our most accessed poster was @HEPfeickert's #SciPy2020 poster on pyhf, a python library for differentiable likelihoods with histograms: zenodo.org/record/3961236
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Gordon Watts retweeted
26 Sep 2022
Fascinating thread.
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23 Sep 2022
I work with these two and better things can't be said!
23 Sep 2022
Shoutout to our @datascience_uw postdocs Alex Held @alheld_ & Matthew Feickert @HEPfeickert who work at the intersection of data science and high energy particle physics. Both are @iris_hep leaders engaged with #scikithep, @PyHEPConf & @SciPyConf. #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek
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22 Sep 2022
No wonder my life is littered with so many unfinished projects!
20 Sep 2022
WRITING ADVICE:
If youβre having a hard time getting started on a project, simply start a second project, get it to a critical point, then use the original project to procrastinate work on the second now more stressful project. Repeat as needed until the universe disintegrates
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17 Sep 2022
Pretty much the definition of working in this field. What is extra fun is when you realize sometimes this is a reflexive property!
14 Sep 2022
you ever meet someone at a similar career stage and immediately realize they're better than you in every conceivable way?
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1 Sep 2022
You know it is late when you read "Issue generating PAW files with MC21a" - why is anyone using PAW with MC21a!?!? And then... oh. "PRW, not PAW".
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Gordon Watts retweeted
25 Aug 2022
Today the @WhiteHouse announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by @SPARC_NA, @petersuber, @mbeisen, and so many more. #OpenAccess whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updβ¦
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25 Aug 2022
I've discovered that perhaps physics conference badges are lacking... Ok, perhaps next #snowmass? #badgelife
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Gordon Watts retweeted
I don't know who needs to hear it but "universities should only teach subjects whose graduates get high-paying jobs" is a sign of a society that knows the price of things and the value of nothing
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Gordon Watts retweeted
20 Aug 2022
The state's first LGBTQ-affirming affordable senior housing community, Pride Place, is being built in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. On its ground floor will be the GenPRIDE Center, a place to help create community for LGBTQ seniors. π³οΈβπ 1/2
π· : GenPride
ALT Artist's rendering of the Pride Place building
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20 Aug 2022
Oh so true. And I have to keep making more and more mistakes to keep up with the new students!!
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18 Aug 2022
Driving 8 hours from Ottawa to Metuchen, NJ today, as part of move from France back to Seattle. European me is like - no one drives that long! Take a train! American me is like ehhh, no problem. That is a 2 Dr. Pepper trip at most.
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