Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D
@staticpopcorn.bsky.social
Latino PhD physicist on experimental dark matter! 🌌🔭🇲🇽 in 🇨🇦🍁
Now doing R&D in radiation inspection.
Views my own.
Now doing R&D in radiation inspection.
Views my own.
Episode 9 Season 2 of Fionna and Cake was imo the best episode of Adventure Time so far. It made me tear up so much and I heard the words I needed. I love the show and the creators so much.
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Episode 9 Season 2 of Fionna and Cake was imo the best episode of Adventure Time so far. It made me tear up so much and I heard the words I needed. I love the show and the creators so much.
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
Ah! Got so distracted by the idea of free coffee and donuts that I forgot my badge.
Worth it
Worth it
December 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ah! Got so distracted by the idea of free coffee and donuts that I forgot my badge.
Worth it
Worth it
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Ever wonder what the baby universe looked like—just 800 million years after the Big Bang?
JWST has given us an amazing glimpse via a galaxy called Virgil, hidden in the iconic Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.
➡️ news.arizona.edu/news/monster...
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #cosmology #JWST
1/11
Ever wonder what the baby universe looked like—just 800 million years after the Big Bang?
JWST has given us an amazing glimpse via a galaxy called Virgil, hidden in the iconic Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.
➡️ news.arizona.edu/news/monster...
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #cosmology #JWST
1/11
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🧵
Ever wonder what the baby universe looked like—just 800 million years after the Big Bang?
JWST has given us an amazing glimpse via a galaxy called Virgil, hidden in the iconic Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.
➡️ news.arizona.edu/news/monster...
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #cosmology #JWST
1/11
Ever wonder what the baby universe looked like—just 800 million years after the Big Bang?
JWST has given us an amazing glimpse via a galaxy called Virgil, hidden in the iconic Hubble eXtreme Deep Field.
➡️ news.arizona.edu/news/monster...
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #cosmology #JWST
1/11
The hardest thing about moving to industry is all the acronyms. Nobody cares to explain them, and you feel dumb for asking. I will need another PhD to learn all of them. 😵💫
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The hardest thing about moving to industry is all the acronyms. Nobody cares to explain them, and you feel dumb for asking. I will need another PhD to learn all of them. 😵💫
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Reposted by Héctor Hawley Herrera Ph.D
Esta collagera tan simpática vende calendarios 🗓️.
Un calendario para viajar entre las palabras (planetas léxicos) y descubrir que aventuras tiene cada mes a través de su protagonista Incógnito.
Esta semana es la última venta antes de Reyes y agradecería muchita difusión.
¡Mil mil gracias 🚀❤️✨!
Un calendario para viajar entre las palabras (planetas léxicos) y descubrir que aventuras tiene cada mes a través de su protagonista Incógnito.
Esta semana es la última venta antes de Reyes y agradecería muchita difusión.
¡Mil mil gracias 🚀❤️✨!
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Esta collagera tan simpática vende calendarios 🗓️.
Un calendario para viajar entre las palabras (planetas léxicos) y descubrir que aventuras tiene cada mes a través de su protagonista Incógnito.
Esta semana es la última venta antes de Reyes y agradecería muchita difusión.
¡Mil mil gracias 🚀❤️✨!
Un calendario para viajar entre las palabras (planetas léxicos) y descubrir que aventuras tiene cada mes a través de su protagonista Incógnito.
Esta semana es la última venta antes de Reyes y agradecería muchita difusión.
¡Mil mil gracias 🚀❤️✨!
Let’s get lost in the forest
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Let’s get lost in the forest
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[taps the sign again]
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
PLEASE Don't Open That - A Rant on Generally Licensed Materials - Funranium Labs
Let’s start this out right by terrifying people. If your home hasn’t had any major renovation since 2001, I can almost guarantee you have radioactive materials in it. I’m not talking natural occurring...
www.funraniumlabs.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
[taps the sign again]
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Well I just played a game that had a fantastic introduction full of world building and then… NEVER DO ANYTHING WITH IT WHY. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL WHY.
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Well I just played a game that had a fantastic introduction full of world building and then… NEVER DO ANYTHING WITH IT WHY. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL WHY.
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With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets
GitHub - Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter: A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts
A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts. Contribute to Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
With the news that the US wants to have five years of your social media history allow me to remind you of the tool I built to scrub your skeets
Today I “rediscovered” why certain materials are used more in particle physics than others. Its one of those times I went “THIS IS SO SMART” to “this has been known for 80 years” in one google search.
December 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Today I “rediscovered” why certain materials are used more in particle physics than others. Its one of those times I went “THIS IS SO SMART” to “this has been known for 80 years” in one google search.
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Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve?
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.)
A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me.
And now we
keep
finding
tiny
glass
ducks
On the floor.
Dam I was so close to afford the nintendo switch. Next year, I will play animal crossing on my new shiny switch! You will see!
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Dam I was so close to afford the nintendo switch. Next year, I will play animal crossing on my new shiny switch! You will see!
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If you’re seeing this, this is your reminder to make a healthy choice for yourself today. Take a shower, do some skincare, stand in the sun, have a snack, stretch - it doesn’t have to be drastic but take care of yourself bc you’re so lovely and so worth it 💜
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you’re seeing this, this is your reminder to make a healthy choice for yourself today. Take a shower, do some skincare, stand in the sun, have a snack, stretch - it doesn’t have to be drastic but take care of yourself bc you’re so lovely and so worth it 💜
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En México la mayoría de los delitos no se denuncian👀 .
🟣 Las razones son múltiples: miedo, desconfianza en las autoridades, desconocimiento del proceso... Por eso aquí te explicamos el paso a paso para denunciar un delito 🐶.
🟣 Las razones son múltiples: miedo, desconfianza en las autoridades, desconocimiento del proceso... Por eso aquí te explicamos el paso a paso para denunciar un delito 🐶.
Ser víctima de un delito en México: el paso a paso del proceso para denunciar
animalpolitico.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
En México la mayoría de los delitos no se denuncian👀 .
🟣 Las razones son múltiples: miedo, desconfianza en las autoridades, desconocimiento del proceso... Por eso aquí te explicamos el paso a paso para denunciar un delito 🐶.
🟣 Las razones son múltiples: miedo, desconfianza en las autoridades, desconocimiento del proceso... Por eso aquí te explicamos el paso a paso para denunciar un delito 🐶.
A weekend that closed a chapter in my life. Once I got back home, chores and other aspects of my life reminded me of that as well.
All I can say is… fuck.
All I can say is… fuck.
December 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A weekend that closed a chapter in my life. Once I got back home, chores and other aspects of my life reminded me of that as well.
All I can say is… fuck.
All I can say is… fuck.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
Get vaccinated! Wear masks! Wash your hands!
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Get vaccinated! Wear masks! Wash your hands!
I remember really liking The Dark Tower when I was a teenager. So far, I am loving the first book again 🥰
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I remember really liking The Dark Tower when I was a teenager. So far, I am loving the first book again 🥰
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I got vaccinated against COVID! COVID is still a risk and we all need to get vaccinated against it. The vaccine still kicks my butt for two days straight however. 😵💫
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I got vaccinated against COVID! COVID is still a risk and we all need to get vaccinated against it. The vaccine still kicks my butt for two days straight however. 😵💫
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX