Matthew Feickert
@matthewfeickert.com
Research scientist at UW-Madison data science institute working on #LHC #physics and data science with the ATLAS experiment @ CERN and IRIS-HEP. PhD @ SMU
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Make sure you catch my latest for @wired.com -- with comment from @defcon.bsky.social and @blackhatevents.bsky.social founder Jeff Moss, and @adafruit.com founder + engineer Limor Fried: www.wired.com/story/this-h...
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
At New Zealand's Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Make sure you catch my latest for @wired.com -- with comment from @defcon.bsky.social and @blackhatevents.bsky.social founder Jeff Moss, and @adafruit.com founder + engineer Limor Fried: www.wired.com/story/this-h...
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Students, apply for a CERN summer studentship. Greatest experience ever!
Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s...
(It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)
Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s...
(It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)
Summer Studentship
Programme overview Join the CERN Summer Student Programme and dive into cutting-edge research. You’ll work on advanced scientific and technical projects, contributing directly to CERN’s…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Students, apply for a CERN summer studentship. Greatest experience ever!
Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s...
(It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)
Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s...
(It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)
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Northern lights in interior Alaska.
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Northern lights in interior Alaska.
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DSI Director and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Professor @kylecranmer.bsky.social has been honored with the inaugural Pritzker Prize in AI for Science for his role in establishing a powerful new approach to data analysis that leverages advances in machine learning and AI. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/11/10/d...
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
DSI Director and @uwmadphysics.bsky.social Professor @kylecranmer.bsky.social has been honored with the inaugural Pritzker Prize in AI for Science for his role in establishing a powerful new approach to data analysis that leverages advances in machine learning and AI. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/11/10/d...
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Here we are again: stunned & full of hope, because of you–each of you wonderful humans in the #Python community. Since we shared the news about our withdrawal from the NSF grant opportunity two weeks ago, we've received >$160,000 in donations across 1,937 donors, which includes 313 new Members–WOW!
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here we are again: stunned & full of hope, because of you–each of you wonderful humans in the #Python community. Since we shared the news about our withdrawal from the NSF grant opportunity two weeks ago, we've received >$160,000 in donations across 1,937 donors, which includes 313 new Members–WOW!
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I am incredibly honored to have received the inaugural AI in Science Research Excellence Prize from the Margot and Tom Pritzker Foundation
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I am incredibly honored to have received the inaugural AI in Science Research Excellence Prize from the Margot and Tom Pritzker Foundation
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Fifty years ago today
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Fifty years ago today
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I am very excited about my "Deeper Talk" seminar hosted by the Institute for Underground Science at #surf. If you would be interested in learning more about the @snolabscience.bsky.social science program and the recently developed 15-year vision for […]
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November 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I am very excited about my "Deeper Talk" seminar hosted by the Institute for Underground Science at #surf. If you would be interested in learning more about the @snolabscience.bsky.social science program and the recently developed 15-year vision for […]
[Original post on mastodon.cooleysekula.net]
[Original post on mastodon.cooleysekula.net]
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In honor of my recent academic promotion, I got to choose a book for our library to buy and put a bookplate in, so I chose this book by Greg Wilson. Tonight was the ceremony for me and the other 145 people promoted this year, where I got to see it in person.
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In honor of my recent academic promotion, I got to choose a book for our library to buy and put a bookplate in, so I chose this book by Greg Wilson. Tonight was the ceremony for me and the other 145 people promoted this year, where I got to see it in person.
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Apply for the next #URSSI winter school on research software engineering, 15-17 Dec in Portland, OR: urssi.us/blog/2025/11...
For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills.
Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!
For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills.
Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!
URSSI Blog
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November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Apply for the next #URSSI winter school on research software engineering, 15-17 Dec in Portland, OR: urssi.us/blog/2025/11...
For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills.
Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!
For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills.
Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!
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🚨 Job Alert
We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.
Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!
Deadline: Nov 30th
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We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.
Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!
Deadline: Nov 30th
inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448
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October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🚨 Job Alert
We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.
Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!
Deadline: Nov 30th
inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448
We're hiring our first Postdoc to work with us on our @erc.europa.eu Project on Generative AI for Particle Physics.
Check out the details below and don't hesitate to get in touch or spread the word!
Deadline: Nov 30th
inspirehep.net/jobs/3075448
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This was a tough but necessary decision - I posted my own notes on this here, from the perspective of a current PSF board member simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/...
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No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics
October 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics
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In our little deep dive series we're now exploring how cross-compilation in the Conda ecosystem works: prefix.dev/blog/cross-c.... Back in the days, @conda-forge.org rolled this out widely to support osx-arm64 early on, and now for linux-aarch64/ppc64le.
Cross compiling in the Conda ecosystem
Cross compiling is a fundamental capability in modern software development, allowing developers to build packages for different architectures without needing access to the target hardware.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
In our little deep dive series we're now exploring how cross-compilation in the Conda ecosystem works: prefix.dev/blog/cross-c.... Back in the days, @conda-forge.org rolled this out widely to support osx-arm64 early on, and now for linux-aarch64/ppc64le.
It is the year 2025 and some companies still have "show up to a physical store" as the only, apparently working, way to verify your identity to make a purchase. :/
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It is the year 2025 and some companies still have "show up to a physical store" as the only, apparently working, way to verify your identity to make a purchase. :/
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A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
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A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...
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Python 3.14 has been released two days ago. At the same time, we also uploaded a build of it to @conda-forge.org and about 40% of Python version dependent (mostly those with compiled code) were immediately available. See conda-forge.org/blog/2025/10...
Python 3.14 is already usable on conda-forge (not just available) | conda-forge | community-driven packaging for conda
With yesterday's release of Python 3.14 (insert release link), we not only have Python 3.14 itself available on conda-forge,
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October 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Python 3.14 has been released two days ago. At the same time, we also uploaded a build of it to @conda-forge.org and about 40% of Python version dependent (mostly those with compiled code) were immediately available. See conda-forge.org/blog/2025/10...
Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉
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Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
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Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉
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Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
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inspirehep.net/literature/1...
Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
A new CPython release also means a new rundown of what's new from @henryiii.bsky.social! iscinumpy.gitlab.io/post/python-... Happy Python π release day everyone!
October 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A new CPython release also means a new rundown of what's new from @henryiii.bsky.social! iscinumpy.gitlab.io/post/python-... Happy Python π release day everyone!