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.
2018-07-21T11:41:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From NobelPrize on Twitter: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway, born #OnThisDay in 1899, is one of the world's most influential writers. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1020568062196625409/photo/12018-07-20T19:11:32Z via NavierStokes To: Public
A lovely night at #CERN (I mean, after all the rain and hail). https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1020384003277324294/photo/12018-07-20T07:21:16Z via NavierStokes To: Public
It's the anniversary of the first time a human being landed on the moon. Sending humans beyond earth was an amazing scientific and engineering achievement, an inspiration to people at home and abroad. May science continue to light the way in a dimming world. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1020204489352122368/photo/12018-07-19T14:21:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
This has been the last 24 hours at #CERN. At one point, I was convinced that creating an actual "murder board" complete with pins and string would be necessary to understand some code... https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1019949806368718848/photo/12018-07-19T12:32:50Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From ATLASexperiment on Twitter: [ATLAS News] ATLAS revealed key results at #ICHEP2018, including major developments in the measurement of Higgs boson properties, observations of key electroweak production processes and new high-precision tests of the Standard Model. Find out more: https://atlas.cern/updates/atlas-news/key-results-ichep-2018 https://twitter.com/ATLASexperiment/status/1019254601915293696/photo/12018-07-17T09:12:21Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Haunting bit of concept art. Finally had a chance to watch last week's NSF announcement of the #MultimessengerAstronomy observation. Wished I could have been there to ask 50 questions. Disappointed more local science press did not. https://twitter.com/apod/status/10188805061156085782018-07-16T22:11:46Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Heading to #CERN again tonight by way of London. Walking DFW Terminal D before my flight to get some exercise. I choose to believe these are @SMU Mustangs on the floor mural. #PonyUp (also, #PonyDown, #PonyStrange, #PonyCharm, #PonyBottom, and #PonyTop) https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1018979818761805824/photo/12018-07-16T01:30:56Z via NavierStokes To: Public
... time to go to #CERN. Sorry, @profcooley. https://twitter.com/wfaa/status/10186678109338705922018-07-15T15:22:23Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From guardianscience on Twitter: Mars is spectacular this month – here’s the best way to spy the red planet https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/jul/15/mars-is-spectacular-this-month-heres-the-best-way-to-spy-the-red-planet?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience2018-07-15T15:22:20Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From ivanov on Twitter: Today, at #scipy2018 sprints, I learned that not enough folks know about `git grep` Search the current checkout of only committed files, ignores other stuff. https://twitter.com/ivanov/status/1018229131161620481/photo/1AJ Jordan likes this.
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2018-07-15T00:01:39Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From BerkeleyLab on Twitter: What's new with DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project, now under construction @NOAONorth? A new website! Visit http://www.desi.lbl.gov for the latest project updates. https://twitter.com/BerkeleyLab/status/1018282243540873218/photo/12018-07-14T14:52:17Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Nigel_Lockyer on Twitter: What tastes better? Ice cream made with liquid nitrogen or liquid argon. Physicists will know this may be flavor dependent. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Lockyer/status/1017514219548356608/photo/12018-07-14T00:01:48Z via NavierStokes To: Public
It was an accomplishment fueled by an incredible @ATLASexperiment team and collaboration, fantastic data from the #LHC, and, as always, hard work. Happy @SMU could play a part in this chapter. #Higgs #bquark https://twitter.com/SMUDedman/status/10178817881554206732018-07-13T17:21:56Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Nigel_Lockyer on Twitter: Francis Halzen discusses how ICE CUBE data miners found a dozen neutrinos from the same BLAZAR where they found the single multi-hundred TEV neutrino that points to a flaring galaxy 4 billion lights years away. https://twitter.com/Nigel_Lockyer/status/1017452201147498496/photo/12018-07-13T13:53:25Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Learn more about the awesome and ubiquitous neutrino from @PBS @novapbs "The Ghost Particle": http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neutrino/ Available from streaming services, but the articles on the above page are excellent reading on the subject. #MultimessengerAstronomy2018-07-13T13:53:24Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Just over a year ago @SMU welcomed @uw_icecube physicist + @UWMadison professor Francis Halzen to share the context, vision, and history of neutrino telescopes with us and receive an honorary degree from SMU. Yesterday, #IceCube achieved a new milestone! #MultimessengerAstronomy https://twitter.com/SMUPhysics/status/8653478397230080012018-07-13T12:03:40Z via NavierStokes To: Public
I love papers with big discoveries and unassuming titles. Today, celebrate Anderson and Neddermeyer seeing the muon in light of #IceCube’s big detection of the origin of some high energy neutrinos: Phys. Rev. 51, 884 (1937) - Note on the Nature of Cosmic-Ray Particles https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1017739012868640769/photo/12018-07-13T11:42:26Z via NavierStokes To: Public
In a cosmic first, scientists detect ‘ghost particles’ from a distant galaxy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/07/12/in-a-cosmic-first-scientists-detect-ghostly-neutrinos-from-a-distant-galaxy/?noredirect=on https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1017735347223048192/photo/12018-07-12T21:31:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
So awesome to hear Olga and Naoko talk about the observation and its implications! "A 4 Billion Light-Year Journey Ends At The South Pole" https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628142995/a-4-billion-light-year-journey-ends-at-the-south-pole?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social2018-07-12T21:31:51Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From Fermilab on Twitter: Cool neutrino news out of @uw_icecube: Scientists trace high-energy cosmic neutrino to its birthplace. https://t.co/84vjLDQFHU