JP Dervan
@punsnparticles.bsky.social
PhD candidate in particle smashing on CMS | physics + music | he/his | chronic gradschoolposter
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Thank you to my friend @punsnparticles.bsky.social for an unforgettable visit to @cern.bsky.social and tour of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social detector!
January 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you to my friend @punsnparticles.bsky.social for an unforgettable visit to @cern.bsky.social and tour of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social detector!
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Students, please, I am begging you: take advantage of office hours next semester. Go see your professors. They are just sitting there waiting for you and your classmates to stop by. They want to help you. You are not bothering them. Office hours is part of the class. Use this resource.
December 9, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Students, please, I am begging you: take advantage of office hours next semester. Go see your professors. They are just sitting there waiting for you and your classmates to stop by. They want to help you. You are not bothering them. Office hours is part of the class. Use this resource.
Need the menswear guy to tell me where the earring that fell into the lining of my suit jacket has gone
December 9, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Need the menswear guy to tell me where the earring that fell into the lining of my suit jacket has gone
Happy CMS week to all who celebrate 🎉
December 9, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Happy CMS week to all who celebrate 🎉
It’s so beautiful that the golden spiral appears everywhere in nature. For example, sitting at my laptop, I notice my posture—
December 5, 2024 at 8:16 PM
It’s so beautiful that the golden spiral appears everywhere in nature. For example, sitting at my laptop, I notice my posture—
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Throwback to the ECAL test beam which tested the new electronics that will equip the calorimeter at HL-LHC. This year, a single ECAL read-out unit (5x5 crystals), placed inside a dedicated box, was used as a detector for the test.
🏆📸Toyoko Orimoto | ECAL's Image of the Month
🏆📸Toyoko Orimoto | ECAL's Image of the Month
December 3, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Throwback to the ECAL test beam which tested the new electronics that will equip the calorimeter at HL-LHC. This year, a single ECAL read-out unit (5x5 crystals), placed inside a dedicated box, was used as a detector for the test.
🏆📸Toyoko Orimoto | ECAL's Image of the Month
🏆📸Toyoko Orimoto | ECAL's Image of the Month
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Your quarterly reminder that while overleaf may falter, vim will not
December 3, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Your quarterly reminder that while overleaf may falter, vim will not
Posting into the void to ask if @overleaf.com is broken for anyone else or just me
December 3, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Posting into the void to ask if @overleaf.com is broken for anyone else or just me
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wavefunctions when you observe them
November 26, 2024 at 3:23 PM
wavefunctions when you observe them
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Say "hi" to the new BTL-Tracker Support Tube! 👋
In a massive step toward CMS’ High-Luminosity era detector, a key component of the build has arrived at the #CERN laboratories.
🗞️ Find out more: cms.cern/news/btst-ke...
In a massive step toward CMS’ High-Luminosity era detector, a key component of the build has arrived at the #CERN laboratories.
🗞️ Find out more: cms.cern/news/btst-ke...
November 25, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Say "hi" to the new BTL-Tracker Support Tube! 👋
In a massive step toward CMS’ High-Luminosity era detector, a key component of the build has arrived at the #CERN laboratories.
🗞️ Find out more: cms.cern/news/btst-ke...
In a massive step toward CMS’ High-Luminosity era detector, a key component of the build has arrived at the #CERN laboratories.
🗞️ Find out more: cms.cern/news/btst-ke...
Do you pronounce numpy like “numpy” or “numpy”?
November 25, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Do you pronounce numpy like “numpy” or “numpy”?
Aaaaaaand that’s a wrap on the 2024 LHC run!
November 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Aaaaaaand that’s a wrap on the 2024 LHC run!
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I too hope to be immortalized for my mathematical errors
This is an incorrect calculation of the area of a triangle by a young Babylonian student at school around 1900-1600 BCE, excavated from the ancient city of Kish.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
It’s a moment in the history of math, of education, of children, of mistakes, of people being people. I love it.
November 24, 2024 at 4:41 AM
I too hope to be immortalized for my mathematical errors
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physics professor: Consider a particle trapped in an infinitely tall one-dimensional cup of radius r…
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physics professor: Consider a particle trapped in an infinitely tall one-dimensional cup of radius r…
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline
November 23, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physics professor: Consider a particle trapped in an infinitely tall one-dimensional cup of radius r…
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physics professor: Consider a particle trapped in an infinitely tall one-dimensional cup of radius r…
i love grad school haha
November 23, 2024 at 9:12 AM
i love grad school haha
do i want to be different than i was on twitter? absolutely not.
attempting to replicate twitter’s most important function: science shitposting. please submit one shitpost to my DMs to be added.
go.bsky.app/VLYqPoD
go.bsky.app/VLYqPoD
November 23, 2024 at 9:07 AM
do i want to be different than i was on twitter? absolutely not.
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For the record, the grad student who made the discovery is Madyson Barber, a NSF Grad Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, who led the Nature paper on the result. This is her 4th first author paper.
This is totally unfair, Grad students are also astronomers. They’re trying to downplay the efforts of grad students.
November 22, 2024 at 8:44 PM
For the record, the grad student who made the discovery is Madyson Barber, a NSF Grad Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, who led the Nature paper on the result. This is her 4th first author paper.
Went to the engagement farm and everyone knew you
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Went to the engagement farm and everyone knew you
Conspiracy theorists love to say “CERN is plotting the end of the world!” meanwhile we can barely plot nice-looking graphs
November 22, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Conspiracy theorists love to say “CERN is plotting the end of the world!” meanwhile we can barely plot nice-looking graphs
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He was a skeeter boi
She said “See you leeter boi”
She said “See you leeter boi”
November 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
He was a skeeter boi
She said “See you leeter boi”
She said “See you leeter boi”
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My 15 minutes of fame as a scientist were in 2015 when I slightly improved the calculation of how long it takes to fall through the Earth, and was in the news for about two weeks. Here's a recording of a lecture I gave this year talking about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ud3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ud3...
Falling Through the Earth (PhysCon 2024)
YouTube video by Alex Klotz
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:11 PM
My 15 minutes of fame as a scientist were in 2015 when I slightly improved the calculation of how long it takes to fall through the Earth, and was in the news for about two weeks. Here's a recording of a lecture I gave this year talking about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ud3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ud3...
Whichever research group finishes their unread stack of papers first gets a pizza party at the end of the semester
I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too
November 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Whichever research group finishes their unread stack of papers first gets a pizza party at the end of the semester
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CMS celebrates 10 years of Open Data! 🎉
Making real collision data public revolutionised particle physics research. A decade later, CMS remains committed to transparency.
🗞️Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-cel...
#CMSExperiment#CERN#ParticlePhysics#LHC#OpenData#Research#Science
Making real collision data public revolutionised particle physics research. A decade later, CMS remains committed to transparency.
🗞️Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-cel...
#CMSExperiment#CERN#ParticlePhysics#LHC#OpenData#Research#Science
November 20, 2024 at 1:42 PM
CMS celebrates 10 years of Open Data! 🎉
Making real collision data public revolutionised particle physics research. A decade later, CMS remains committed to transparency.
🗞️Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-cel...
#CMSExperiment#CERN#ParticlePhysics#LHC#OpenData#Research#Science
Making real collision data public revolutionised particle physics research. A decade later, CMS remains committed to transparency.
🗞️Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-cel...
#CMSExperiment#CERN#ParticlePhysics#LHC#OpenData#Research#Science
Behind every great modern physics advancement is some of the most cursed code you’ve ever seen
November 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Behind every great modern physics advancement is some of the most cursed code you’ve ever seen
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this is probably one of my favorite pictures in astronomy
November 20, 2024 at 12:54 AM
this is probably one of my favorite pictures in astronomy