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Dr. Giordon Stark
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I smash tiny things fast to make a mess I can take a pic of. #Deaf, #ParticlePhysics #ProjectScientist @UCSC_SCIPP working on the @ATLASexperiment @CERN. he/him/point.

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So I'm at a physics conference this week in Lecce, Italy. Some of you wonder how that works given that I'm Deaf and probably don't know Italian Sign Language. Well... 1/N #deaf #interpreters #asl #access #physics
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Seems that #pyhf has finally creeped over the 200 citations on INSPIRE recently. :) 🎉

inspirehep.net/literature?q...

inspirehep.net/literature/1...

Nice little milestone for us all to celebrate, @lukasheinrich.com, @giordonstark.com, @kylecranmer.bsky.social. Cheers!
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”

•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people
September 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hey, guess what? This 🤡 is still doing the same thing at another colloquium. #APS did nothing. #Snowmass did nothing. Yet the #Physics community continues to give him a platform to spout his anti-accessibility rhetoric.
#snowmass

organizer: (re-enables the captions on-screen)
Vladimir Shiltsev (presenter): "I didn't want them. I still don't want them. Okay. You see? The slides are so dense [...]"

These are people we don't need in our field. #access is important.
February 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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January 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
finished another #pyhf tutorial - this time at UH Manoa (University of Hawai'i).
January 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hey @matplotlib what do we call this and how can we make this plot? https://images.app.goo.gl/Y9gWutyXJkcnZJSM7
November 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM
November 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM
November 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Truly the best captioning that money can buy.
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
it's hard to say if this is a session break or not (I assume so) but the autocraptions don't indicate anything... If there were actual Deaf attendees there in person, they would not be able to rely on this for any sort of announcements that are important for logistics or safety.
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
In case anyone is wondering, @ENERGY sponsored @CERN FCC week in the US is providing this as "captions"
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Pro tip: got a PDF file that's just too big to upload for an application? Here's a ghostscript command that does the heavy-lifting for you:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I'm shocked by the disparity between the quality of @StanfordMed and the (lack of) quality of the #ASL staff interpreters they have for their #Deaf patients. https://t.co/pKGJMEmaEw
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
This was a nice surprise from @united and the pilot :)
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
One of the best experiences/moments for me in the past few days was to meet @MarieCoppola68 in persona, and to find out that we have some overlapping interests in improving policy for the intersection of science funding and disability.
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
🧵 A 6-year journey to getting a paper out with the @ATLASexperiment involving the #statisticalcombination with 12(!!) analyses. Alt text will contain the caption for all figures in this thread, the pdf version of these figures can be found at https://t.co/3274gIXcnQ 1/16
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
🧵 A 6-year journey to getting a paper out with the @ATLASexperiment involving the #statisticalcombination with 12(!!) analyses. Alt text will contain the caption for all figures in this thread, the pdf version of these figures can be found at https://t.co/3274gIXcnQ 1/16
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
is Bach the original proton-proton collider? https://twitter.com/ThreatNotation/status/1745476283944124780
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Particle Physicists looking for more funding. #P5 #Townhall #Fermilab
November 15, 2024 at 4:36 PM