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.
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Today's applicable quote from "The Avengers": Captain America: "Dr. Banner: now might be a really good time for you to get angry." Bruce Banner: "That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry."CERN Open Days (https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-open-days-exp...
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# [CERN Open Days](https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-open-days-explore-future-us) ## 14-15 September 2019 On 14 and 15 September 2019, CERN will open its doors to the public for two special days at the heart of one of the world’s largest particle-physics laboratories. The CERN Open Days have become a regular feature of the period that we call the “long shutdown” during which our accelerators stop for around two years, to benefit from upgrades and renovation work. And Long Shutdown 2 has just started. Similar to the 2013 edition, the 2019 Open Days will give people the chance to discover our facilities both underground and on the surface. Debates, film screenings, theatre performances, experimental workshops and, of course, dozens of visit points spread all over the site will take you to the heart of our Laboratory, in direct contact with the science of today and tomorrow. #cern #lhc #opendays2019 #science #physics #technology #computing #laboratory #outreach #geneva #genève #switzerland #suisse Reshared from Stephen Sekula on Diaspora:Government shutdown freezes Dallas scientists' work — and paychecks - Dallas News
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Another awesome @friscoisd ISM Research Showcase! Shout out to @ISMReedy! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1085709479772147712/photo/12019-01-17T01:30:49Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Another awesome @friscoisd ISM Research Showcase! Shout out to @ISMReedy! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1085709479772147712/photo/12019-01-17T00:20:48Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Last year, I was privileged to serve as a research mentor to a @RHSFrisco High School student as part of the outstanding @ISMReedy program. @profcooley and I are excited to check out the #research showcase tonight. Seeing young researchers so motivated rekindles our motivation. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1085691622485094400/photo/12019-01-15T23:41:00Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From gfbertone on Twitter: The Faculty of Science @UvA_Amsterdam has opened six tenure-track positions for women in the fields of astronomy, informatics, biodiversity & Earth sciences, physics, mathematics, life sciences or chemistry. Deadline: 4 Feb 2019 http://www.uva.nl/en/faculties/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/macgillavry-fellowship/macgillavry-fellowship.html https://twitter.com/gfbertone/status/1084786521331376134/photo/12019-01-15T22:50:54Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From JHUAPL on Twitter: Waiting for new #UltimaThule pics? More flyby images are on the way! In addition to the homepage (https://t.co/S0Hjquzxr9), the @NASANewHorizons team will also post new images on the raw image site in the coming days! http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/UltimaThule-Encounter/ https://twitter.com/JHUAPL/status/1085243917258407936/photo/1Dispatches From the Border, Part 1
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From ESA_History on Twitter: #OTD 14 January 2005, #ESA's #Huygens landed on #Titan. This was the first landing on a body in the outer Solar System. This is the first image from the surface of this alien world... http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/First_images_from_Titan https://twitter.com/ESA_History/status/1084742608910409729/photo/12019-01-14T15:50:59Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From esa on Twitter: Take a look at #Titan through infrared eyes thanks to @CassiniSaturn, as we recall the Huygens probe’s thrilling descent to the moon’s surface 14 years ago today #OTD http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/01/Seeing_Titan_with_infrared_eyes https://twitter.com/esa/status/1084792258069696512/photo/12019-01-14T15:40:55Z 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, awarded the 1954 #NobelPrize in Literature, is one of the world's most influential writers. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1084814144250019842/photo/1diaspora* version 0.7.9.0 released!
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## diaspora\* version 0.7.9.0 released! As scheduled, a new minor release is now released. Over the past six weeks, we have managed to collect **11 commits** made by **4 contributors** for this minor release. A huge thanks to all the contributors from diaspora\*'s amazing community! If you want to help make diaspora* even better, please [check out our getting started guide](https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Getting_started_with_contributing). Please [see the changelog](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/releases/tag/v0.7.9.0) for a complete list of changes made in this release. ### Notable Changes * The `/public` stream should be much faster now if you are using PostgreSQL. This is just the first step of many to come to improve the performance of all streams and tag pages. * The recent change to support full-resolution photos introduced issues with the thumbnails. This issue has been addressed. * The mobile-optimized interface now supports ignoring users. ### Updating For podmins, update instructions are available as usual [in the wiki](https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Updating#Updating_a_production_install_to_a_new_minor_version). For those of you who have been testing the release candidate, run `git checkout master` before the update to get back to the stable release branch. --- Next minor freeze (0.7.10.0): 2019-02-10 Next release (0.7.10.0): 2019-02-17 diaspora\* Rapid Release: [ICS feed](https://letterbox.0b101010.org/home/mail@diasporafoundation.org/Release.ics), [HTML version](https://letterbox.0b101010.org/home/mail@diasporafoundation.org/Release.html). --- #diaspora #announcement #release #0790 Reshared from David Morley on Diaspora:Energy Flow Networks: Deep Sets for Particle Jets. (arXiv:1810.05165v2 [hep-ph] UPDATED)
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NavierStokes' master branch got some shiny updates tonight. * diaspy support, which replaces cliaspora, has been long stable (I've used it for, like, a year) but never made it into master. That's finally changed! * Recent versions of python libraries on which PyPump depends (requests) changed their behavior enough to break all releases of PyPump that aren't the master branch. This is addressed in this issue: https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump/pull/154. Anyway, bottom line: I upgraded master of NavierStokes to work with PyPump 0.7+, and I highly recommend the master branch. Enjoy! https://github.com/stephensekula/navierstokes #gnuverse
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NavierStokes' master branch got some shiny updates tonight.- diaspy support, which replaces cliaspora, has been long stable (I've used it for, like, a year) but never made it into master. That's finally changed!
- Recent versions of python libraries on which PyPump depends (requests) changed their behavior enough to break all releases of PyPump that aren't the master branch. This is addressed in this issue: https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump/pull/154. Anyway, bottom line: I upgraded master of NavierStokes to work with PyPump 0.7+, and I highly recommend the master branch.
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A walk through Karlsruhe. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53532
2019-01-14T00:34:50Z via NavierStokes To: Public
Good times in Manchester. (from 2014) https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53531
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These are a few of my favorite things...! https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53525
2019-01-13T18:50:42Z via NavierStokes To: Public
From GNU Social :RT @smj NCSA TELNET could take you where you wanted to be #retro #computing #decdate