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
HT @simonegiertz.bsky.social for this framing, but if you can afford Netflix you can afford to support @npr.org. The US needs a free and independent public media. I've started an annual recurring donation to the network and I would encourage you to do so as well. www.npr.org/donations/su...
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January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
HT @simonegiertz.bsky.social for this framing, but if you can afford Netflix you can afford to support @npr.org. The US needs a free and independent public media. I've started an annual recurring donation to the network and I would encourage you to do so as well. www.npr.org/donations/su...
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The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
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👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26
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January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...
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Tried to do Higgs production via gluon-gluon fusion on my cappuccino. Messed it up pretty badly but I think to make it more viable I should try with a larger cup and so a latte. Would be fun to learn how to really nail some Feynman diagrams on demand. :)
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Tried to do Higgs production via gluon-gluon fusion on my cappuccino. Messed it up pretty badly but I think to make it more viable I should try with a larger cup and so a latte. Would be fun to learn how to really nail some Feynman diagrams on demand. :)
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Here is my first newsletter of the year, on the destruction of science past and future. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
January 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Here is my first newsletter of the year, on the destruction of science past and future. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
Question scoped to software in physics: Do you currently use PPC64LE architecture hardware for anything in your scientific workflow and is it important to you to have binary builds of software for that machine? Are there high impact examples that you can think of? Or is everything x64 or aarch64?
January 6, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Question scoped to software in physics: Do you currently use PPC64LE architecture hardware for anything in your scientific workflow and is it important to you to have binary builds of software for that machine? Are there high impact examples that you can think of? Or is everything x64 or aarch64?
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We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors.
You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience
You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience
Preparing JOSS for a generative AI future: From code to human creativity and design | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>
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January 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors.
You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience
You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience
Pour one out for Himal chuli, the legendary Nepalese restaurant in Madison, WI that had become a favorite on my visits to my academic home over the last 3 years.
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From the madisonwi community on Reddit: Himal chuli is no more
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January 5, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Pour one out for Himal chuli, the legendary Nepalese restaurant in Madison, WI that had become a favorite on my visits to my academic home over the last 3 years.
www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/...
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It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
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French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.
January 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.
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It really is that bad. Grant funded science, supposedly a key piece of American exceptionalism, was already a huge headache. Now it’s looking nearly impossible.
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 3, 2026 at 2:46 AM
It really is that bad. Grant funded science, supposedly a key piece of American exceptionalism, was already a huge headache. Now it’s looking nearly impossible.
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Sinatra has gone woke
![Civil rights activism
From the 1940s Sinatra refused to perform for segregated audiences. In Las Vegas he forced the Sands to serve Nat King Cole in the dining room and, with Sammy Davis Jr., ended Jim Crow policies in Nevada hotels and casinos by
1961. 9! He headlined Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961, led Rat Pack boycotts, donated heavily to SCLC and voter registration, and was praised by Vice President Humphrey after the Watts riots for teaching tolerance."] Orson Welles witnessed Sinatra physically
threaten a restaurant owner who refused service to a Black musician.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreihcwqha74luvn5td5tugqr4welplshkdqtabytg7ohgc23we7aedm@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sinatra has gone woke
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📣 Call for Proposals is OPEN for #SciPy2026!
Have a talk, tutorial, or poster idea you’re excited to share with the scientific Python community? Now’s the time! 🚀
🗓 Submit by: February 25, 2026
🔗 Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp
Have a talk, tutorial, or poster idea you’re excited to share with the scientific Python community? Now’s the time! 🚀
🗓 Submit by: February 25, 2026
🔗 Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp
SciPy 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for SciPy 2026
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December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
📣 Call for Proposals is OPEN for #SciPy2026!
Have a talk, tutorial, or poster idea you’re excited to share with the scientific Python community? Now’s the time! 🚀
🗓 Submit by: February 25, 2026
🔗 Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp
Have a talk, tutorial, or poster idea you’re excited to share with the scientific Python community? Now’s the time! 🚀
🗓 Submit by: February 25, 2026
🔗 Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp
The Call for Proposals for #SciPy2026 is now live! pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp If you have questions about @scipyconf.bsky.social just ask and be on the lookout for proposal writing office hours!
SciPy 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for SciPy 2026
pretalx.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The Call for Proposals for #SciPy2026 is now live! pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp If you have questions about @scipyconf.bsky.social just ask and be on the lookout for proposal writing office hours!
The LHC community has had more than an exabyte of data and simulation globally distributed, but now @cern.bsky.social has hit an exabyte of experimental observations at its data centers. At these scales, analysis of data from the HL-LHC upgrade will require new approaches.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The LHC community has had more than an exabyte of data and simulation globally distributed, but now @cern.bsky.social has hit an exabyte of experimental observations at its data centers. At these scales, analysis of data from the HL-LHC upgrade will require new approaches.
home.cern/news/news/co...
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If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
I feel very silly that it has taken me about a decade to realize this, but turning OFF fractional scaling in #Ubuntu and just reducing the resolution of my laptop's high DPI built-in display is improving the performance everywhere! askubuntu.com/a/1257985/78...
Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Very slow
I have just upgraded to 20.04 without any issues, however, Gnome is painfully slow 2second delay with every action, apps take an age to open, terminal takes 2 sec to scroll through the history one ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I feel very silly that it has taken me about a decade to realize this, but turning OFF fractional scaling in #Ubuntu and just reducing the resolution of my laptop's high DPI built-in display is improving the performance everywhere! askubuntu.com/a/1257985/78...
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AGU petition to save NCAR. Please share widely! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
AGU petition to save NCAR. Please share widely! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Last work flight of the year! Spending time with amazing colleagues at UW-Madison is always excellent and invigorating. Still excited to be heading towards home for a final time (…before it comes time to head back to the Midwest to see family for the holidays).
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Last work flight of the year! Spending time with amazing colleagues at UW-Madison is always excellent and invigorating. Still excited to be heading towards home for a final time (…before it comes time to head back to the Midwest to see family for the holidays).
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I need help!
🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete.
🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one.
🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript?
🟣 Regression estimators and R.
Thank you in advance!
github.com/openjournals...
🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete.
🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one.
🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript?
🟣 Regression estimators and R.
Thank you in advance!
github.com/openjournals...
[REVIEW]: gkwreg: An R Package for Generalized Kumaraswamy Regression Models for Bounded Data · Issue #8991 · openjournals/joss-reviews
Submitting author: @evandeilton (José Evandeilton Lopes) Repository: https://github.com/evandeilton/gkwreg Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.0.10 Editor: @jbytecode Review...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I need help!
🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete.
🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one.
🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript?
🟣 Regression estimators and R.
Thank you in advance!
github.com/openjournals...
🟢 One reviewer report for this JOSS article is complete.
🟠 Since we haven't got a response from the second reviewer, we need to assign a new one.
🔵 Any volunteers to review the manuscript?
🟣 Regression estimators and R.
Thank you in advance!
github.com/openjournals...
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Thanks to the whole LHC crew!
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Thanks to the whole LHC crew!
Big thanks to Lauren for guiding me through finding my first mechanical keyboard after my keyboard of 15+ years started to give up the ghost. So far this Keychron Q6 Max with Gateron Jupiter Brown switches is super nice! So far so good with Linux integration as well, so here’s hoping that holds.
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Big thanks to Lauren for guiding me through finding my first mechanical keyboard after my keyboard of 15+ years started to give up the ghost. So far this Keychron Q6 Max with Gateron Jupiter Brown switches is super nice! So far so good with Linux integration as well, so here’s hoping that holds.
Wishing everyone at #NeurIPS2025 a wonderful conference! Go check out the amazing work of my colleagues and friends at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2025/
Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, NeurIPS 2025
Website for the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (MLPS) workshop at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
ml4physicalsciences.github.io
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Wishing everyone at #NeurIPS2025 a wonderful conference! Go check out the amazing work of my colleagues and friends at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop. ml4physicalsciences.github.io/2025/