Stephen Sekula steve@hub.polari.us
Dallas, TX, USA
Husband; Associate Professor of Physics; I teach at SMU in Dallas, TX; I study the Higgs Particle with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; writer and blogger; drummer; programmer; teacher; scientist; traveler; runner; gardener; open-source aficionado.
2019-07-16T00:50:42Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I just voted in the @APSphysics election! All #APSPhysics members: I urge you to take a moment to click on your ballot, review the candidates carefully, and vote!2019-07-15T23:01:01Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From SMUPhysics on Twitter: Congratulations to Dr. Dan Jardin for the successful defense of his PhD thesis! #SuperCDMS https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics/status/1150899161547640833/photo/12019-07-15T22:50:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From JLab_News on Twitter: Born #OTD 95 years ago in 1924, César Lattes discovered the pion – a particle made up of a quark and an antiquark – along with Cecil Powell and Guiseppe Occhialini. #science #history #TBT https://twitter.com/JLab_News/status/1149301085183598593/photo/12019-07-15T22:50:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From keratx on Twitter: Summer heat in Texas at or near 100 degrees is uncomfortable, but also dangerous if you’re not careful. An emergency medicine physician warns not to take the heat for granted. #VitalSigns @keranews | @srbkera https://www.keranews.org/post/heat-related-illness-why-you-cant-take-sun-granted2019-07-14T22:20:48Z via NavierStokes To: Public
TIL I learned how to query the @inspirehep API and then I wrote a python program and OMG I love being a physicist with an obsession for all the data. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1150528876881358849/photo/12019-07-13T12:32:16Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Political chaos roils Alaska as universities face devastating cuts https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/07/13/hang-political-chaos-roils-alaska-universities-face-devastating-cuts/?noredirect=on2019-07-12T23:20:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From kratsg on Twitter: Me: You: Me: Oh, you wanted to make matplotlib look like plots that physicists in the @ATLASexperiment make? Here you go: https://github.com/kratsg/ATLASstylempl2019-07-11T00:50:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From HEPfeickert on Twitter: Poster and LaTeX source is up on my GitHub: https://github.com/matthewfeickert/SciPy2019-Poster2019-07-11T00:50:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From HEPfeickert on Twitter: Thanks to everyone at #SciPy2019 who came and asked me great questions about pyhf! https://twitter.com/HEPfeickert/status/1149109067115302914/photo/12019-07-09T20:50:49Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From NWSFortWorth on Twitter: Rain and thunderstorm chances will return Wednesday Night as a weak cold front moves into North Texas. #txwx #dfwwx #ctxwx https://twitter.com/NWSFortWorth/status/1148694738033401861/photo/12019-07-08T18:00:44Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Pleased to announce that a reading of Chapter 7 our our book, "Reality in the Shadows," is now available. This chapter lends itself to a one-off reading: https://t.co/ia9xZayguD Thanks to co-authors @Dr_JimGates and Frank Blitzer, and our publisher, YBK, for being awesome.The Joy of Pulling things Apart
2019-07-06T22:10:43Z via NavierStokes To: Public
"The Joy of Pulling things Apart"
Before I wanted to be a physicist – I mean, really wanted to become a physicist – I learned the joy of tinkering. I am sure it started earlier than when I remember it actually happening (memory is funny that way), the first first recollection I have of fully losing my fear of pulling the …
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From GNU Social :RT @debian Upcoming Debian 10 Buster! https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/upcoming-buster.html #Debian10Buster
2019-07-06T14:30:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Michael_A_Kagan on Twitter: In the ATLAS group @SLAClab we're looking for a postdoc to work on applications of machine learning in high energy physics and on data analysis. If you're interested, check out the job ad here: http://inspirehep.net/record/17391212019-07-05T21:21:02Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From SMU on Twitter: Signs of life on one of Saturn's icy moons? 🌕👀 Titan is calling to SMU researchers - who could determine the possibility even before @NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft arrives. 🔭➡️ https://blog.smu.edu/research/2019/07/03/smus-titans-in-a-jar-could-answer-key-questions-ahead-of-nasas-space-exploration/ https://twitter.com/SMU/status/1147252450203774976/photo/12019-07-05T21:21:01Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From smuresearch on Twitter: Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn’s icy moon – Titan – has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter. Read more about the "Titans in a Jar" SMU is creating. https://blog.smu.edu/research/2019/07/03/smus-titans-in-a-jar-could-answer-key-questions-ahead-of-nasas-space-exploration/2019-07-05T14:20:57Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From PhysicsCentral on Twitter: At Physics Central we are proud to join @APSPhysics in celebrating #LGBTSTEMDay. Regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you belong in physics, and we’re thrilled to have you. To celebrate, we’ll be sharing the experiences of LGBTQ+ scientists. https://twitter.com/PhysicsCentral/status/1147137587297079296/photo/12019-07-04T23:00:53Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From HEPfeickert on Twitter: Happy #HiggspendenceDay to everyone! It has truly been an amazing 7 years of knowledge growth since the discovery announcement. :) https://twitter.com/HEPfeickert/status/1146888325246214170/photo/12019-07-04T23:00:52Z via NavierStokes To: Public
It is raining very gently even while the sun is out. Quite beautiful. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1146914743258615808/photo/12019-07-04T17:51:23Z via NavierStokes To: Public
If something is broken, try to fix it. If you've truly understood a thing, you can't make the problem worse (it's already broken) and you might make it better! Our knowledge of the universe is broken, in that it's incomplete: try to fix it. You probably can't make things worse. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1146836524916514816/photo/1