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    Nov 1

    Many active-duty and veteran service members make up the NIST workforce. Meet some in this ongoing Twitter thread and hear how their military service prepared them for their current work with us.

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  2. 24 minutes ago

    Today marks Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s 154th birthday! Best known for her discoveries of polonium and radium, Marie also made major contributions to international radioactivity standards. Learn more:

    Marie Curie and her husband in a laboratory.
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  3. Nov 6

    Help us address barriers that voters with disabilities face during the election process. Check out our draft publication and share your thoughts by Nov. 22:

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  4. Nov 5

    Wishing a very happy birthday to Bill Phillips, NIST’s laureate and physics pioneer. Get the background on his Nobel moment:

    Bill Phillips on a stage, next to a table with containers on top of it.
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  5. Nov 5

    Brian Copello: Executive officer of NIST’s Communications Technology Lab For Brian, the and NIST core values align well. - Air Force: Integrity first, service before self, excellence in all we do - NIST: Perseverance, integrity, inclusivity, excellence

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  6. Nov 5

    FYI: It is now... Friday November 5, 2021 9:22am ET For even more precision, keep checking

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  7. Nov 5

    You can learn more about the work that led to Bill's Nobel Prize -- and the work of other NIST Nobel laureates -- on our website:

    At room temperature atoms and molecules in the air move about at breakneck speed. In order for them to be studied, they need to be slowed down or chilled. William Phillips developed a method to make this happen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997.
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  8. Nov 4

    New opportunity – Materials Research Engineer, located in Boulder, Colo. Apply by November 10:

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  9. Nov 4

    How do you measure time? With a clock, of course! But how do you keep time accurate enough for GPS to work? That takes a special clock. Learn how we measure time using atoms in this latest How Do You Measure It? article:

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  10. Nov 4

    Mike Watkins: Administrative specialist, space coordinator and property custodian Accountability was a major lesson during his service with . To Mike, you can never learn from your mistakes if you don’t hold yourself accountable first and foremost.

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  11. Nov 4

    Glenera Sisson: Government purchase card agency program coordinator She served for 24 years with , purchasing boat and aircraft parts, engineering and electronic components, aids to navigation supplies and more.

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  12. Nov 4

    New opportunity – Student Trainee (Engineering), located in Gaithersburg, Md. Apply by November 12:

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  13. Nov 3

    New opportunity – Administrative Officer, located in Boulder, Colo. Apply by November 16:

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  14. Nov 3

    Created in the 1980s at NIST, the now-commercialized RoboCrane is helping perform operations in some of the most hostile places on Earth. Learn about its trip from the lab to Chernobyl and Fukushima:

    multi panel collage of the robocrane, a large three sided pyramid structure of struts and wires holding a platform in the middle. To the right are images of the robocrane welding, joining pipes and cutting an I beam.
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  15. Retweeted
    Nov 3

    , are you interested in virtual internship opportunities at federal agencies? Watch our webinar to learn about opportunities for you at Additional materials can be found here:

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  16. Nov 3

    Amanda Hyman: Supervisory Administrative Officer in NIST’s Communications Technology Laboratory Amanda honed a range of administrative and technical skills while in the , which gave her a solid foundation for finding her niche as a career administrator.

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  17. Nov 3

    New opportunity – Accountant, located in Gaithersburg, Md. Apply by November 12:

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    Nov 2

    We’re going LIVE! Head over to the IBHS Facebook page () to watch IBHS Live: Inside Wildfire Science, as our researchers conduct a test as part of experiments with .

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  19. Nov 2

    New opportunity – Information Technology Specialist, located in Gaithersburg, Md. Apply by November 19:

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  20. Nov 2

    New opportunity – Contract Specialist, located in the U.S. (location negotiable after selection). Apply by November 8:

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  21. Nov 2

    We’ve concluded the Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge, which sought technologies that de-identify databases with personally identifiable information. Now, the top teams have open sourced their code. Read more:

    An illustrated clock. Text reads: "Differential privacy temporal map challenge. Help public safety agencies share data while protecting privacy. Open source code ready for use!"
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