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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D

@staticpopcorn.bsky.social
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(He/him) Latino PhD physicist on experimental dark matter! 🌌🔭🇲🇽 in 🇨🇦🍁Now doing R&D in radiation inspection. Follow me for science, art, and cute animals. Also, occasional rant. Views my own.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A Cat's Life - Wonder by Gérard DuBois
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h
Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
Acrylic paint on a roughly 8x8-inch canvas. Yellow and brown grass background with a couple of pumpkins and white sheet-style ghosts floating over top.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 23h
Watching "Over the Garden Wall" for the first time. Very fitting 🍂
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy (Canadian) thanksgiving to y’all! I will be watching horror movies if anyone needs me.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 10/10/2026
get you a man who loves you like zelenskyy loves bombing russian refineries
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I got some sunlight today.
Me in a chairlift with a valley on the fall full of fall colours with a lake in the middle
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you are angry at IKEAs customer service for the amount of work you had to do for your furniture. You have to rethink your life choices.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I want to begin making rock statues. Like chisel the rock away and make like dark souls esque effigies and stuff. Its calling to me
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I want life to like chill for a month or two 🫠
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As an immigrant, I’m sick and tired of being valued for my “contribution to the economy.” I’m poor. My contribution to the economy is dismal, does that mean that i’m not a valuable member of society?
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the recent jwst images have been insane
A young star cluster filled with many stars that display Webb’s unique eight-pronged diffraction pattern. At its center is a yellow star which sports the largest diffraction pattern. To the left of the star, there is a region filled with yellow dust and gas that extends from the star to the left border of the image. This yellow region extends from the bottom, covering about two-thirds of the image. The yellow region has several blue stars of different sizes embedded within. The top third, which lies outside of the yellow region, holds a few bright protostars, within dense gray gas. Those stars illuminate the gas, making it appear blue. A few red outflows from other protostars are visible above this grayish-blue region. To the right of the central star, there is a clumpy, flame-like plume of red dust and gas with protostars that emit a soft white light within. The plume is surrounded by more dense gray gas and dust. 

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing: Alyssa Pagan.A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the center. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's center; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in color; bright, nearby stars are the same color.A star-forming region. The left two thirds of the image is blanketed in thick clouds of green and yellow gas and dust that form swirling patterns. Some of the gas is spread into thin, thready wisps. The right third of the image is the black background speckled with stars and multi-colored dots that represent distant galaxies. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds, with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long spikes and two shorter spikes created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors.
A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.
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Whimsy Bunny Doodles 🐇 @whimsybunnydoodles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a long day and tomorrow’s gonna be longer. But I have pizza and beer.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Really proud that my friend Naoko Kurahashi Neilson has played such a pivotal role in IceCube science, including leading the way on mapping the Milky Way through neutrino eyes! She's stellar! Leaders like Naoko helped make today's Nobel a possibility. 🧪⚛️🔭
physics.aps.org
Milky Way Viewed through Neutrinos
Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers have generated the first neutrino image of the Milky Way.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went to a physiotherapist today to see about a jaw problem I have been having for years… ended up being linked to my bad posture while working and gaming at computers. Crazy. Take care of your postures everyone!!
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Peach @voidpeaches.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
doing some soulstober drawings again this year! 🧡🎀
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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A pink and gray poster: featuring a guillotine shaded in black halftones. The words "IT ENDS HERE", and an arrow and a manicule pointing towards the head hole of the guillotine. A white star in the middle of it. at the bottom of the poster, a painting of flames in turquoise, with the words "nothing to lose" and other embelishments in pink.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Something about this Autumn is giving me emotional chills. The colours, the temperature, and slowness of it all. Brr
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This will help.
Me in sunglasses, a black hat, a Queens University hoodie holding a big glass of beer
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 26 is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (Nuclear Abolition Day), a day established by the UN General Assembly to enhance public awareness and action to reduce nuclear risks and achieve the common goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world. (1/2)
nuclearabolitionday.org
Joint Letter | Nuclear Abolition Day
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeaterday’s mid autumn festival almost put me on the edge of crying. I miss my family, and my past. I am anxious for the future. 😢
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy mid autumn festival!
A wooden table with a red box and two mooncakes. There is also a blue bag with bunnies
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👀 cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
"The national executive board of Canada's largest union, CUPE, has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government's Bill C-39 limiting the constitutional right to strike if it is passed unamended through Parliament."
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hype
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyway, i don’t think we should be using people’s contribution to the economy to determine their value.
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Zuccnini @zuccnini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rainy Puddle [ #art #oc #watercolor ]
Watercolor illustration depicting a Jammy looking down at a puddle in the rain. Jammy is wearing a blue umbrella hat.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Mexican-American studies has been dissolved by our racist and xenophobic leadership, and a candidate for state office publicly complains about UT students with brown skin - mariachi performing on campus becomes a critical and radical act. ¡Ya basta! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was in Banff! I already want to come back!!!
Me standing in the middle of a walkable street. I am smiling, and wearing a jacket with my hands in its pockets. Behind me is a multitude of people. On the background a mountain sits showered by evening sunshine.
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
when the flowers wilt, their little souls find a new friend in the grim reaper
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It hadn’t occurred to me that one of the reasons Canadians in general, and Albertans in particular, have come to believe that moving here from abroad is easy, is that all they need to do to move to say, Mexico, for six months is buy a plane ticket. No questions asked.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Winter is coming and I just bought a bunch of new gear for my espresso machine. This year, I will get good at latte art and good espresso making!!
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 💔 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/moment-of-truth-131231782
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I saw some mushrooms today. They very fungi 🍄‍🟫
Red spotted mushroom and on the back another yellow mushroomA birch log covered in slightly tinted yellow fungi A very bright red small mushrooms peeking from logs
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is crazy. I hate it.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
NEW SCIENCE ALERT! 🚨🧪🔭⚛️ PRESENTING . . . How to Simulate Axion Dark Matter With Relativistic Effects! I'm excited to share two preprints that went up on the arXiv last night, both with my postdoc Dr. Hoang Nhan Luu. arxiv.org/abs/2609.11055 arxiv.org/abs/2609.11056 WHAT? Let's get into it! 🧵
arxiv.org
A Tale of Two Gauges: Effective Field Theory for Relativistic Behavior of Cosmological Axions
In this work, we present a formalism to model the relativistic behavior of axions. The relativistic behavior of axions is surprisingly difficult to model precisely, as it involves oscillations on time...
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There is a cute small skunk living near my apartment. I have seen them once on a late night arrival. THE PROBLEM is the fella keeps stinking the entire apartment building. Little dude, I want to have my windows open!!
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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ranma
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The dark matter news has given me are renewed me to read more into the field once again. At work, someone asked to explain LZ results 🤩
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Marty Essen @martyessen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tormentor of dogs. #photography #animals
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
😃Have my particle physics cousins spotted an actual #DarkMatter particle? I'm v excited! The chances of this 16 June 2023 blip just being noise, are about the same as the chance that today is my birthday (which it is not, but it is for some of you). We need more data to know for sure!!!! 🤞🧪⚛️🔭
A slide from a talk entitled "A single event - LZ230616). It shows some plots.  I honestly don't know what the axes are, because particle physicists never label their axes in human readable form - one of my pet peeves.  But anyway, far away from the main body of data is a tiny dot, something unusual.  Is it dark matter?   Who knows.  But it's definitely something special!
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's easy
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Britt Wilson @britterson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A little ceramic pot with a sad face. Hand lettering around him says “he’s crying because you used A.I. instead of your brain.”
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Mengxuan Li🍄画集予約受付中 @mengxuanli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Aviary of Weinfurt 🕊
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Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Being an ice agent. Never. I don’t care what the options are. I’ll starve or die first.
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
yearning is a science 🌌
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some highlights of my Guadalajara trip last week!
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