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1. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 02:20:31 UTC Stephen Sekula
   Our Mastodon instance was down for a couple of days. A network port on a switch failed while we were away. Everything is back up now, and lessons have been learned. 😃
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2. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 23:30:17 UTC Stephen Sekula
   From jsnell@zeppelin.flights on Mastodon: Seconding @ dmoren ’s request here - anyone have a good iPad app that reads ePub files, lets you annotate them, and lets you export the annotations? Books has apparently lost this feature. https:// zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/11015 8960962175569
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3. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 20:31:35 UTC Stephen Sekula
   It is so nice to be at my family home and to visit with my parents again. The long separation imposed by the pandemic was hard.
4. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 20:30:18 UTC Stephen Sekula
   From mpi_grav@social.mpdl.mpg.de on Mastodon: What are the plans for future gravitational-wave astronomy? One exciting project to look forward to is LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), the planned space observatory which will observe low-frequency gravitational waves. ➡️ https://www. lisamission.org/ # FutureFriday # Waiting4O4 # O4
5. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 23:40:21 UTC Stephen Sekula
   Good flight from Toronto to Boston. Got to watch another plane land at the same time on a parallel runway. Looking forward to sleep! https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/8faf979fa732de4a764149059245dd460110b823de70f06556134bee989a8064/view
6. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 19:50:21 UTC Stephen Sekula
   Well, we hoped to get out of Toronto on standby on one of the two Boston flights in between our original one and the rebooked 5:20pm flight … but that didn’t work out. At least we have a view while we wait for the rebooked flight! https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/9b84ebce84cb601ba41f3e712b0203787fda0ac5d6edaf236ffe2054f0b3e592/view
7. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 18:10:23 UTC Stephen Sekula
   On Crowds Three Years After a Pandemic Is Declared https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2023/04/06/on-crowds-three-years-after-a-pandemic-is-declared/
8. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 16:30:19 UTC Stephen Sekula
   Had a surreal moment in the Toronto-City airport where I heard snippets of a conversation somewhere behind me … words like “analysis” and then talking about a number of “jets” to be reconstructed … and suddenly realized this must be an LHC collider physicist. Didn’t get to introduce myself, as I did not want to interrupt, but you gotta love moments like that.
9. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 16:26:34 UTC Stephen Sekula
   From drskyskull@mastodon.social on Mastodon: In fact, I'm pretty sure there are still lots of people who don't know that I wrote a book on Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics that came out 4 years ago! https:// yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030 0231298/falling-felines-and-fundamental-physics/
10. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 16:25:18 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From drskyskull@mastodon.social on Mastodon: PS here's the book link for the upcoming Invisibility! https:// yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030 0250428/invisibility/
11. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 14:20:58 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From https://t.co/M76PprPp1I on Mastodon: Terran 1 Burns Methalox Image Credit: Relativity / John Kraus https:// https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230406.ht ml # APOD
12. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 14:10:22 UTC Stephen Sekula
    Landed in Toronto at the “Toronto-City” airport (on a little island just off the coast). Really nice airport! Jodi comes through here frequently but this is my first time. Looking forward to (hopefully) getting to fly standby on an earlier flight to Boston. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/e690f35fa3c17eeeba3db2afc4e4e6817761485518e558d69baa8f58e1ae4f33/view
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13. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 11:20:22 UTC Stephen Sekula
    Getting ready to fly from Sudbury -> Toronto -> Boston. Delays incurred from the ice storm yesterday will make today more complicated than we wanted, but we are excited to see my parents in Connecticut. I’ve only been able to visit them once since even before the pandemic, and for Jodi it’s been a lot longer. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1c184559971acbfaafaddfe19f06b7b5f3e30216ead285b2ffa6d2d2846aeed7/view
14. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 01:25:28 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From evan@cosocial.ca on Mastodon: Scenes from an ice storm # yul # IceStorm
15. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 00:31:49 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From freyablekman https://twitter.com/freyablekman on Twitter: #CMSPaper 1214: Ypsilon mesons have different masses depending on the spins of their b quark+antiquark. It's the first time Y's 3S state is seen in lead collisions. This results measures the quark-gluon plasma and how quarks stay together inside particles https://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIN-21-007/ https://twitter.com/freyablekman/status/1643608218302664706/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/8e8427eb5f2df1189949d5cb4432fde4aaba6bac7ec35486d301d78cffc0ae88/view
16. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 00:30:28 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From XENONexperiment https://twitter.com/XENONexperiment on Twitter: L'Aquila 6 Aprile 2009, non dimentichiamo (we do not forget). #6aprile2009 https://twitter.com/XENONexperiment/status/1643729604073357313/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/de3f59dc4dbab8e84c8fafa26283977457f46e7f12cf920b6df7cde55f4bad36/view
17. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 21:20:25 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From McDonaldInst https://twitter.com/McDonaldInst on Twitter: We're currently updating the McDonald Institute website. The site may be unavailable in some locations intermittently this week as changes to our system propagate through the network. Apologies for any inconvenience. You can always reach us at comms@mcdonaldinstitute.ca https://twitter.com/McDonaldInst/status/1643638431631937536/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/fa69d067d7d59327997fff3cb79b288d28e806701e526007d7b549509d12ee48/view
18. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:05:37 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From AJamesMcCarthy https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy on Twitter: This shot required using 3 different telescopes and resulted in me getting stranded in the desert with all my equipment (tire blowout) but I'd say it was worth it. Check out the International Space Station whizzing by a sunspot! https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1643399672864858112/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/4056c20f87658ce9ce87ac7de45ece6ff76130212549b1d5e0d2d745d5e47135/view
19. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:00:40 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From SuperCDMS https://twitter.com/SuperCDMS on Twitter: Our new paper details a measurement of the Si ionization yield at the lowest energies to date. The results show no sign of an ionization production threshold above 100 eV calling for further investigation of ionization yield theory. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02196 https://twitter.com/SuperCDMS/status/1643251130929905665/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/9b3e848ab173e00d485cf3757ea46913b15555a75cf60a4f9becd81a1b89f5ce/view
20. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2023 11:00:28 UTC Stephen Sekula
    From DarkCosmologist https://twitter.com/DarkCosmologist on Twitter: Humbled to receive this year's award for excellence in teaching from our Engineering Physics students. The award is a 3D printed spherical cow that I will cherish forever. Espresso for scale. https://twitter.com/DarkCosmologist/status/1643365578428542977/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/7305899e4bf8c09476319c18f66178dead5bf4c7adc7863e185e298d7c207f15/view