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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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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 11h
Frank Herbert supposedly saying “we don’t need AI, we need witches”. It’s a Dune joke, son.
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 3h
Great to have insomnia on the night I have to sleep early for work tomorrow. Ah but yesterday, I was deep asleep at 9 pm, eh?
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 4h
Preach
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 15h
Let's celebrate #ColumbusDay by walking into someone's house and telling them we live there now 😂
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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 · 18h
fortune cookie front: "Stay informed about current technology trends."Fortune cookie back:

LEARN CHINESE - No

(bù) (shì)
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 18h
Art
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12/10/2026
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 · 11/10/2026
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 · 08/10/2026
Spooky
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dammm that sounds nice. I went to the west coast mountains in Canada. I need to get lost in the woods/mountains
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I need a vacation (i had one a month ago)
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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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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazing
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even then! You contribute to society but they move the goalpost to “well are you doing something meaningful? Are you contributing to industry?” Or you took some else job… its a never ending argument.
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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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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great vibes
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🛌
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I dunno. I had 10 hours of sleep and somehow that didnt help
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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 · 06/10/2026
Can @chanda.blacksky.app sign my copy of The Edge of Time and Space, so I can claim I had had two future Nobel prize winner sign my books?
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That must have been scary at the time. Im glad for you!
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Crazy! Yes! TMJ is what I got diagnosed with. It just took 3 different doctors and 2 dentists to finally get the diagnosis. How long have you had it for?
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The doc was putting pressure in an area near my ears and suddenly I started losing sensation at my lips. He was like “thats normal”. Feels like magic lol
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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 · 02/10/2026
🙇
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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AH El CHUPACABRAS
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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 · 28/09/2026
👍
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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
Yeah actually yeah When my enemies scream 👌
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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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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What in the living fuck. I am so glad you resigned!
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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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Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D @staticpopcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exactly the point I am always complaining about. I am a physicist with a PhD working in a Canadian national lab and somehow it was harder for me to get a PR than a guy who just immigrated with work experience from another country. They deserve the PR dont get me wrong but why am I struggling…?
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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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