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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · 09/10/2025

Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉 inspirehep.net/literature?q... inspirehep.net/literature/1... Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/09/2025

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 14/02/2025

Hey, guess what? This 🤡 is still doing the same thing at another colloquium. #APS did nothing. #Snowmass did nothing. Yet the #Physics community continues to give him a platform to spout his anti-accessibility rhetoric.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 09/01/2025

finished another #pyhf tutorial - this time at UH Manoa (University of Hawai'i).

giordon is standing by a chair with the audience in full view on the right hand side in two rows of tables. everyone including giordon is looking at the projector screen showing the pyhf tutorial website.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 11/06/2024

Truly the best captioning that money can buy.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 11/06/2024

it's hard to say if this is a session break or not (I assume so) but the autocraptions don't indicate anything... If there were actual Deaf attendees there in person, they would not be able to rely on this for any sort of announcements that are important for logistics or safety.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 11/06/2024

In case anyone is wondering, @ENERGY sponsored @CERN FCC week in the US is providing this as "captions"

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 31/05/2024

Pro tip: got a PDF file that's just too big to upload for an application? Here's a ghostscript command that does the heavy-lifting for you: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 02/05/2024

I'm shocked by the disparity between the quality of @StanfordMed and the (lack of) quality of the #ASL staff interpreters they have for their #Deaf patients. t.co/pKGJMEmaEw

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 07/04/2024

This was a nice surprise from @united and the pilot :)

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 06/03/2024

One of the best experiences/moments for me in the past few days was to meet @MarieCoppola68 in persona, and to find out that we have some overlapping interests in improving policy for the intersection of science funding and disability.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 14/02/2024

🧵 A 6-year journey to getting a paper out with the @ATLASexperiment involving the #statisticalcombination with 12(!!) analyses. Alt text will contain the caption for all figures in this thread, the pdf version of these figures can be found at t.co/3274gIXcnQ 1/16

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 11/12/2023

Particle Physicists looking for more funding. #P5 #Townhall #Fermilab

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 07/12/2023

It is absolutely important to have embargos on important announcements that impact your future career in particle physics. So definitely don't read science.osti.gov/-/media/hep/hepap/… before the meeting happens.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 20/11/2023

I acknowledge but I don’t understand. @CERN

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 27/10/2023

Update: Cornell fixed their application - so now all submitted!

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 26/10/2023

Just finished submitting all (11) faculty applications. List so far: UVic, Buffalo, KIT, Irvine, Notre Dame, Caltech, Cornell*, Harvard, UBC, UArizona, and NYU. * = application portal bug, cannot submit just yet

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 12/10/2023

I wonder if @Skype realizes how much @CERN keeps them in business. 😅

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 28/09/2023

I am discovering today that Germans do not understand the difference between cakes, pies, or tarts.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 26/09/2023

It's really weird to see a new HEP Faculty position open up at $INSTITUTE for a job you applied to already, got short-listed, and never got rejected. So instead of using the same short list to hire, they just do a new search instead? Ok...

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 20/09/2023

I'll be @CERN from Nov 11th to Dec 9th if anyone wants to invite me out to give a seminar talk or just hang out. #HEP

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 31/08/2023

If you are an email provider of longer than 10 years (such as say.. @CERN), you might want to consider that you have the obligation of not trying to screw up your users workflows and making sweeping changes to the email that forces your users to constantly re-adapt.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 28/08/2023

Apex, RuneScape, MapleStory, and probably all Fire Emblem games twitter.com/elyktrix/status/1695851…

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 17/08/2023

I've got a bunch of folks on my timeline who deal with grad admissions (for Physics primarily) who would definitely want to read/be-aware-of this paper. twitter.com/cientificolatin/status/…

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 10/08/2023

Now @Fermilab (Family Lab) is talking about reducing the evil corrections. Truly a Demon Immune Institution.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 10/08/2023

Definitely @Fermilab has the best #craptioning - great use of @ENERGY funding

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 09/08/2023

> Remember that the "=" syntax for coupling order means "<=". This is why we don't let physicists write code.

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 08/08/2023

The following places I applied to for a physics faculty position (2022-2023 cycle) never bothered to let me know if I was rejected or not: SMU, Harvard, UBC, Princeton, JHU, and UCSD. I don't understand why this is still a thing. Just send a courtesy email...

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 31/07/2023

"Your body can build up tolerance to radiation by microdosing with a neutron gun." 👀 twitter.com/jamieclimate/status/168…

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Dr. Giordon Stark @giordonstark.com · 19/07/2023

Need to dump this very niche, but useful knowledge for everyone else's benefit who uses #docker. This is a 🧵about #zombies (not the flesh-eating kind!) First, for context, when you spin up a docker image, the #CMD is your PID 1 process, e.g. a webserver or a database. 1/5

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