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JP Dervan
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PhD candidate in particle smashing on CMS | physics + music | he/his | chronic gradschoolposter
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It’s so beautiful that the golden spiral appears everywhere in nature. For example, sitting at my laptop, I notice my posture—
A picture of the golden spiral curving inward counterclockwise from the right
December 5, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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i love grad school haha
Skeleton doing squats with the edited caption “My body is a machine that turns sleep deprivation into science”
November 23, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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Looks like I was off by a few days!
A panoramic view from a high floor at CERN of the Jura mountains. Beneath the cloud cover you can just make out a bit of snow near the peaks. In the foreground are industrial buildings and parking lots.
November 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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As an experimental particle physicist this one is easy and it’s not even close
The cover of Mark Thomson’s “Modern Particle Physics”, featuring circular white and silver particle tracks swirling around a yellow light source in the background.
November 20, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Deeply confused by how hard the swiss go with advent calendars
A stack of two “Bath & Body Toolkit” advent calendars. Decorated to look like yellow metal toolboxes, adorned with decals that say things like “Supa-Dip solution, ultimate tool revival” and “I love the smell of sawdust in the morning”
November 19, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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I’m giving the Jura mountains until Friday to get their first snow of the year, any counterpredictions?
A picture taken from a sidewalk showing an industrial building at CERN. In the background, partly covered by clouds, are the Jura mountains, free of snow.
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Happy LGBTQIA+ in STEM day from here at #CERN!
The intersex-inclusive progress pride flag waving under a partly cloudy deep blue sky, taken from far below the flagpole.
November 18, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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There are kaleidoscopes everywhere for those with the phone cameras to peek inside the support structure of their detector’s cooling system
A slightly off-center look at the kaleidoscopic interior of a rectangular metal pipe with many protruding screws and bolts.
November 16, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Hello cern I am back
Photo from a window seat of a plane on a KLM flight. In the background is Lake Geneva, the countryside, and the Jura Mountains.
August 19, 2023 at 8:24 AM
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pls help I typed in this command and got kicked off twitter :(
A cropped screenshot from the Python website describing the CIS package, including the command “pip install cis”
June 21, 2023 at 11:48 PM