Blake L
@BlakeDL
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🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪, Dr (PhD), physicist. I like to bake and build particle detectors.
Heidelberg,Germany
Joined March 2008
1 week of vacation= 150 unread emails for Monday morning, though half are just automated or mailing lists.
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RT @MarcoJKraan: Next Monday milling of a first new @LHCbExperiment VELO RF box will start again @_nikhef
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Neat.
Hubble observed a curious linear feature that was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from the telescope’s cameras. But follow-up observations reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars created in the wake of a runaway black hole:
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RT @MerriamWebster: People who subscribe to Merriam-Webster Redâ„¢ will get exclusive access to the real definitions.
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Despite the best efforts of Flixbus and Deutsche Bahn, I still made my flight from FRA to BCN at 7:30am. .
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An experimental psychologist who makes illusions seems like the origin for a comic book villian. But I enjoy the illusions.
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Cleaning up and closing the SciFi this week. And the UT closing the A-side! Go UT!. #lhcb #Science #physics #particlephysics
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RT @susie_dent: Word of the Day (again) is ‘quiddling’ (18th century): busying oneself with trivial tasks as a way of avoiding the importan….
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becoming a middle class academic.
macleans.ca
Socio-economic lines are often erased or ignored in Canada. Here's how I came to see my working class roots clearly.
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