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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Congratulations to the class of 2025! 🎓🎉@brownphysics.bsky.social

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tomorrow's lecture in my class is about pitfalls to avoid when designing figures -- quite a fun topic to prepare! 🧪

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

… and today, another @ippog.bsky.social masterclass! With six high school classes, we discussed proton structure, jets, and how AI intersects with particle physics. It was a treat to moderate the VC with one of @atlasexperiment.bsky.social’s most ‘heavy metal’ physicists, Martin Rybar!🧪🔬

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I was happy to host an @ippog.bsky.social particle physics masterclass VC today! High school students from Poland & Greece compared LHC data analyses, and asked about life working at @cern.bsky.social. 🧪🔬 We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I once again want to plug one of the 'simple tool' websites I use the most when prepping #physics talks and lectures: www.unicodeit.net, made by @svenkreiss.bsky.social and Kyle Cramner. I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪

A screenshot of unicodeit.net that shows conversion from LaTeX syntax to unicode symbols.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I took advantage of the holiday weekend to get some lecture prep done, and clearly made the most of it. 🧪

A schematic of the plum pudding model of the atom and a photo of plum pudding are presented in the top frame, with the caption "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture."

In the bottom frame, J. J. Thompson says "They're the same picture."

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Getting ready to teach some Modern Physics this term … 🧪

A selection of physicists involved in the subject’s development during the early 20th century, carefully stylized as the Taylor Swift Eras tour poster.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Nova Scotian sunrise 🌅🦞🇨🇦

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

The original @cern.bsky.social x Lego collab? 🧪 From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier: "[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."

The cover of the July-August 1975 issue of the CERN Courier, which shows a 2d histogram made from lego bricks to visualise data from an experiment at CERN.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Getting ready for the kick-off event for CERN’s 70th anniversary this year, a set of discussions about art & science. You can follow along online here! www.youtube.com/live/JNPnrfQ...

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Today is my first day as research faculty at Brown! Getting settled in, need to next bring in some books and plants … 📚

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

I had a great time at DESY this week learning about the bleeding-edge of AI in particle physics at #ML4Jets2023! Many thanks to the organisers @GregorKasieczka, @freyablekman, & all for their hospitality! 🔬🎉🤖🧪

A selfie, where I am standing in front of the "gluonstrasse" sign at DESY grinning

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Saturday morning hike in Zermatt ... ⛰

The Matterhorn reflected in the Riffelsee

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Getting high-quality signals w/o noise from pile-up is one of the biggest experimental challenges at the #LHC. We're improving @ATLASexperiment reconstruction in #Run3 w/ timing information⏰ and #AI🤖, presented this week at #BOOST23! learn more: atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Signal-… 🧪

An animated gif of signals in the ATLAS experiment liquid argon calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider. Signals are shown for all cells, then with noise-suppressing clustering, then with an additional requirement on calorimeter timing information.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Arrival in California 🌴🌺🌁

A palm tree and a pink flower tree through the open roof of a terrace

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

And because good things often come in pairs at the LHC, please enjoy this second event display of another would-be-signal-candidate! 🧪✌️✌️

An event display of an event with four jets in the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

For the connoisseurs : this is the distribution of events in the search in the m4j-<m2j> plane... 🧪

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

It was a lot of fun to work on a search again! We didn't see any significant 4-jet resonances in the @ATLASexperiment Run 2 data, but if we had, it could have looked something like this. You can read about this search today on the @arxiv : arxiv.org/abs/2307.14944 (🎉🎉)(🎉🎉) 🧪

An event display of a spectacular event with four jets in the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

Finally at home for long enough to see the hibiscus blooming -- two at once today! 🌺🌺

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

On Twitter, I mostly followed scientists: here, I hardly follow anyone. So, scientists, please introduce yourselves and share your best STEM follows (of all stripes)!

DALLE 2 : "an abstract painting of a diverse gathering of scientists"

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

It was a treat to talk about a photon & multijet measurements from the LHC at #SMatLHC 2023 today! Although I couldn't go to @Fermilab, hopefully I still illuminated the many results of @ATLASexperiment & @CMSExperiment from afar.💡🎉🔬

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Evidence that people have made it back to CERN from the Vancouver ATLAS Week.

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Matt LeBlanc @boostamos.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Good morning from #CERN! I'm a scientist studying quarks and gluons with the #ATLASexperiment, to learn about the #StrongForce and search for new particles. You can expect: 🎉 The latest results with jets ☕️ Slice of life around CERN ❌ Next to nothing about the 90s sitcom #Friends (wrong guy)

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