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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📣 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
pretalx.com
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.
home.cern/news/news/co...
home.cern/news/news/co...
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...
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 ...
askubuntu.com
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...
github.com
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/
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
Advent calendar time with Onyx again! Starting off strong with a tasty red honey processed Colombian for day 1. ☕️
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Advent calendar time with Onyx again! Starting off strong with a tasty red honey processed Colombian for day 1. ☕️
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There's a nasty #OpenSource #SupplyChain worm going around named Shai-Hulud. It's also capable of exposing some projects' long-lived PyPI API Tokens. Read more on what's happening, and what you can do to protect your projects.
TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦
blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...
TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦
blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...
PyPI and Shai-Hulud: Staying Secure Amid Emerging Threats - The Python Package Index Blog
Shai-Hulud is a great worm, not yet a snake. Attack on npm ecosystem may have implications for PyPI.
blog.pypi.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
There's a nasty #OpenSource #SupplyChain worm going around named Shai-Hulud. It's also capable of exposing some projects' long-lived PyPI API Tokens. Read more on what's happening, and what you can do to protect your projects.
TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦
blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...
TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦
blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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.
www.wired.com
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…
careers.cern
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!