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Matthew Feickert
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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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January 27, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?

My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.

www.science.org/content/arti...
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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There have been 3 homicides in Minneapolis this year. Trump’s agents committed two of them: a mom and a nurse who cared for our Veterans.

Stay the hell out of our cities.
January 26, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
January 24, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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A state government is having to file an emergency lawsuit to be able to ensure that the federal government is not actively obstructing justice.
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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You all know I’m their biggest critic. Credit to @nytimes.com for reporting the truth and not the criminal regime’s lies this time. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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“One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling (protesters): ‘Boo hoo.’” apnews.com/article/immi...
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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ICE agents will continue to execute our citizens in the streets for as long as they believe they can get away it. There will be more executions like this. What are our leaders doing to prevent it?
January 24, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Walz: "We sill investigate this. We will not be stonewalled ... this will end when enough American say this will end. Do I have any confidence that Donald Trump will do the right thing? No ... quit referring to these people as law enforcement. They are not law enforcement."
January 24, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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I talked with the Director of Quantitative Analysis for the @ladodgers.bsky.social yesterday. They are looking for physicists that have experience analyzing data, uncertainty quantification, and deep learning. Two jobs:
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January 23, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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🗓️ SciPy reminder: Just over a month left to submit!

The CFP submission deadline is February 25. If you’re working on a talk, tutorial, or poster, now’s a great time to start polishing and get ready to submit to your favorite conference! 🚀

➡️ Submit here: pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and *scientific philanthropist* Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.

Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world. 🦋 📖 🎶

dollyparton.com/imagination-...
January 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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They’re investigating everyone except the murderer.
The DOJ is not investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a top official said Sunday.

The top DOJ official confirmed that an investigation is underway into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
Justice Department says it has no plans to investigate ICE agent who killed Renee Good and confirms Walz, Frey probe
Frey and the governor’s office both said Sunday that the DOJ has not contacted them about the investigation.
bit.ly
January 18, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Let’s call this what it is: a disgusting abuse of power and a farce.

As his agents terrorize Minnesotans, as prices rise, as he fails to deliver for Americans, he is also weaponizing the DOJ against his perceived enemies.

This is not a banana republic and justice will prevail.
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The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/4bCjypy
January 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.”

Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
January 15, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Reminder if you find yourself somehow running out of space on your multi-TB laptop to check your ~/.cache size. I got 150 GB of disk back today by doing some trivial cleanup.

```
du -ch ~/.cache | tail -1 | cut -f1
```

Caches are wonderful things and having large caches on large disks is great!
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Laser Loon forever!
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Excited to receive my copy of the second edition of Maxwell Dashwood and Christopher Hendon’s Water for Coffee! This book has been long awaited and I’m looking forward to learning much more about water chemistry beyond the little bits I have so far from making my own coffee water at home.
January 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
HT @simonegiertz.bsky.social for this framing, but if you can afford Netflix you can afford to support @npr.org. The US needs a free and independent public media. I've started an annual recurring donation to the network and I would encourage you to do so as well. www.npr.org/donations/su...
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January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM