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Matthew Feickert
@matthewfeickert.com
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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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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 14h
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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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 1d
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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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · 1d
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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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · 3d
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!
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Jacob Tomlinson @jacobtomlinson.dev · 3d
Python 3.14 is out! Prepare your CIs!
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Savannah Ostrowski @savannah.dev · 3d
The stable release of Python 3.14 is out now! Go, go, go update! 🙌

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Cute illustrated logo featuring a pink/peach colored pie displaying ‘3.14’ (pi), surrounded by two snakes in blue and yellow. The design is encircled by text reading ‘r-strings • zsid • free-threading • support • sub-interpreters • REPL highlighting • note colour • colour’ in a circular arrangement. The illustration uses a soft pastel color palette with blue, yellow, and pink tones, and includes decorative sparkle elements.
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NPR @npr.org · 9d
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Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social · 8d
The High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), which I served on a few years ago has been dissolved.
The six DOE Office of Science FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act) committees are now replaced with the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).

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DOE Establishes the Office of Science Advisory Committee
The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).
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Forbes @forbes.com · 8d
Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.
Government Shutdown Leaves US Cyber Defenses Weaker, Insiders Say
Already understaffed and now further diminished, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is scrambling to investigate a spate of cyber attacks. The lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act has made it even harder.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7d
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · 14d
I noticed today that PyPI now (not sure for how long) has a filtering option when you look at the distributions of packages. That's a nice quality of life improvement.
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UW–Madison Data Science Institute @uwdsi.bsky.social · 24d
The Data Science Institute is assuming responsibility for a new, campus-wide effort—the RISE-AI Collaboration HQ—which will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among @uwmadison.bsky.social's AI community. news.wisc.edu/rise-ai-coll...
RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement
The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current fac...
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Sep 10
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Sep 10
Recording of the tutorial now up on the @scipyconf.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYp...
Arts, Feickert, & Kirkham - Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with pixi
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Sep 10
Recording of the tutorial now up on the @scipyconf.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYp...
Arts, Feickert, & Kirkham - Reproducible Machine Learning Workflows for Scientists with pixi
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Sep 5
Many well earned congratulations to Lukas! Quite a big deal and fully deserving as it matches his vision for the future of particle physics. Very much looking forward to seeing where he leads his group in discovery!
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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 4
Big grant news today! I feel very lucky and honored for this opportunity from @erc.europa.eu . We will attempt to go for a big qualitative step up in how we use AI/ML to predict how particles interact with matter. Stoked to get started on this in 2026. we will release job advertisements soon!
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Technische Universität München @tum.de · Sep 4
Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 4
Big grant news today! I feel very lucky and honored for this opportunity from @erc.europa.eu . We will attempt to go for a big qualitative step up in how we use AI/ML to predict how particles interact with matter. Stoked to get started on this in 2026. we will release job advertisements soon!
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Technische Universität München @tum.de · Sep 4
Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

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Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM
Six further researchers at TUM are to receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grants for their projects.
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Lukas Heinrich @lukasheinrich.com · Sep 3
1/New paper led by Matthias Vigl arxiv.org/abs/2509.01397 - we wanted to see whether you can see double descent and a benefit of overparametrization in particle physics data and tasks. We see both model- and epoch-wise double descent but the story is more complicated than we thought:
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 18
Personal opinion: GitLab as a company is bad at interacting with community and it shows.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
Huzzah and many congratulations! 🎉
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
(Telling you things that you already know given your background). Most clusters are not HPC systems where you have modules or are busting out Spack to do machine specific HPC builds of software. I will read your linked blog post (thanks) but having bespoke control over your software feels normal.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
Wait how is this a question at all? Why are people not just using conda-forge for everything unless they need bioconda? What is there to actually discuss? Unless you had a service level agreement with Anaconda, Inc. to begin with (in which case this is a non-issue) why would you _want_ to use it?
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
So again, my question is “I’m not an R user and I care about this stuff for all other forms of scientific computing. The R community does science and doesn’t have good binary support for Linux. That seems strange from the outside. Why is that?”.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
Unless you’re using Spack & doing _real_ HPC workloads, ad hoc source installs are not going to cut it for my requirements. You need multi-platform securely built binaries with inspection of the build chain and provenance. You don’t get this out of the box (without help from Posit) for Linux R pkgs.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
You’re probably scientists or researchers (in transit and didn’t check your profiles) so I’m not saying that you’re “bad” for disagreeing. I’m saying that as scientists we should care _a lot_ about our computational environments and be able to trivially know they are reproducible to the byte level.
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Matthew Feickert @matthewfeickert.com · Aug 16
“being a Linux user is a life of needing to know how stuff work”

Being a _scientist_ is a life of needing to know how stuff works.

Linux is the only choice (for now) for problems that need computing that is any of following: hardware accelerated, large scale, distributed, large data, cloud, etc.
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