By day I'm a physicist at a national lab in the US.
I'm generally interested in systems of all types, from interacting particles through economies through systems of law.
At the moment I'm especially interested in studying and engaging with the evolving norms of this distributed system, Mastodon build around ActivityPub.
Spending Sunday liquifying hydrogen in a test of our equipment before the next #experiment.
I sure wish #Mastodon didn't have the character limit so I could explain more about this for anyone who'd be interested :)
Green lines are temperatures of cold surfaces. Blue line is pressure of hydrogen being fed to it. Notably, the blue line dives as the plate temperature hits the vapor-pressure curve and H2 begins liquifying.
Experimental techniques in low-temperature #physics!
#Thermodynamics!
next to their names. I always mix up the platforms I’m currently browsing and keep clicking on it here thinking it’s #Twitter to see whether someone has paid for it or has been legacy verified.. #facepalmWell, I suppose I could post some #science content to this science instance :)
#StrongForce doesn't seem to be a trending hashtag... yet!
"Although the strong force holds together more than 99% of the visible matter around you, it’s the least understood of the four fundamental forces
"Now, a large collaboration of nuclear physicists tested a less understood facet of the theory of the strong force to get a better understanding of this natural phenomenon."
https://www.jlab.org/news/stories/two-unprecedented-measurements-offer-insight-strong-force
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As far as I can tell, and based on the #USHouse report, #IRS mandatory presidential audit is not a legal requirement but rather an executive branch policy.
My hobby horse is that you should never rely on the executive branch to audit itself, as that's a huge and legally unavoidable conflict of interests.
We have independent branches of government so that they will oversee each other without those, and elected legislators drop the ball when they rely on the IRS to audit their boss.
US politicians are making noise about passing an Electoral Count Act as if such a thing hadn't already been passed... in 1887.
https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/24/STATUTE-24-Pg373.pdf
It's worth highlighting that #Mastodon has its filter feature to let people mark hashtags they're not interested in, to keep them out of the Home feed.
It seems especially useful for things like international audiences who'd rather filter out #USPolitics that they're not interested in following.
Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!
Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.
You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg
Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!
Dan
Reason Magazine
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Assn for Computing Machinery