Gordon Watts

Physics Prof, @UW, experimental particle physics @CERN #LHC #ATLAS

[ATLAS Experiment @ATLASexperiment]

Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM Day! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The ATLAS Collaboration @CERN is committed to improving the visibility and representation of the LGBTQ+ community in STEM. We're proud to support our LGBTQ+ colleagues – on #LGBTSTEMday and every day!

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@heather_russe In Seattle they are canceling kid's soccer games! I am looking forward to this fire season being over soon!

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

Congrats to my @iris_hep colleague!!

[Dillon Niederhut PhD @dillonniederhut]

Our most accessed poster was @HEPfeickert's #SciPy2020 poster on pyhf, a python library for differentiable likelihoods with histograms: https://t.co/ylDjaGoWwX

[Heather Gray @profheathergray]

Fascinating thread.

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

I work with these two and better things can't be said!

[datascience@uw @datascience_uw]

Shoutout to our @datascience_uw postdocs Alex Held @alheld_ & Matthew Feickert @HEPfeickert who work at the intersection of data science and high energy particle physics. Both are @iris_hep leaders engaged with #scikithep, @PyHEPConf & @SciPyConf. #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@jahred_adelman Yeah - this cpp2 thing that Herb Sutter has been working on.

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

No wonder my life is littered with so many unfinished projects!

[Joseph Scrimshaw @JosephScrimshaw]

WRITING ADVICE:
If you’re having a hard time getting started on a project, simply start a second project, get it to a critical point, then use the original project to procrastinate work on the second now more stressful project. Repeat as needed until the universe disintegrates

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

Pretty much the definition of working in this field. What is extra fun is when you realize sometimes this is a reflexive property!

[Dr. Mia de los Reyes @MiaDoesAstro]

you ever meet someone at a similar career stage and immediately realize they're better than you in every conceivable way?

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

I swear I was never like this!

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@GraceKimArch @CRHousing @schemata_ws @BergerPartnrs I saw the setup for this this afternoon. Looked fantastic. Sorry I didn't try to get tickets!!

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@SJDJ @HHMusicOfficial My drink snorted out my nose...

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

This... Says something...

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@heather_russe @ZJAyres If it is really important then I set alarms on different devices... my phone, and then Alexa or similar, if, say it is a plane flight I need to get up at 4 am. My wife hates me for it - but gets me back when she has a similarly early flight!

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

You know it is late when you read "Issue generating PAW files with MC21a" - why is anyone using PAW with MC21a!?!? And then... oh. "PRW, not PAW".

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

@jahred_adelman I have no clue what this is! And I suspect I am happy about that!

[Melissa Hagemann @melhagemann]

Today the @WhiteHouse announced that all federally funded research will be made openly available. Importantly, it eliminates the 12-month embargo. This is the result of decades of work by @SPARC_NA, @petersuber, @mbeisen, and so many more. #OpenAccess https://t.co/baSNzXPh4Y

[Gordon Watts @SeattleGordon]

I've discovered that perhaps physics conference badges are lacking... Ok, perhaps next #snowmass? #badgelife

[Kimigirlll @kimigirlll]

Not so underrated workspace decor! #badgelife

[Peter Onyisi / @[email protected] @peteronyisi1]

I don't know who needs to hear it but "universities should only teach subjects whose graduates get high-paying jobs" is a sign of a society that knows the price of things and the value of nothing