Ryan Bodenstein (he/him)

@evenkolder.bsky.social

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Husband, father, accelerator physicist. Have lived and worked in 5 countries on 3 continents. 🇺🇲🇰🇷🇬🇧(🇫🇷🇨🇭)🇧🇪

To celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, let us use a few quotes that still seem relevant. "Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust." — Letter from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 ​"The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism." — Speech to the SCLC Board, Chicago, IL March 30, 1967 ​"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." — "Beyond Vietnam" Address, Riverside Church, NY April 4, 1967 ​"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." — Letter from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 ​"We are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor." — "Beyond Vietnam" Address, Riverside Church, NY April 4, 1967 ​"For many citizens of the world, their first association with America is a U.S. soldier or a U.S.-supplied weapon in the hands of their government or one of their adversaries." ​— The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967
Student and mentor in front of poster
Green praying mantis looking at the camera while standing on a brown leaf.
Color portrait of the author
Log post describing incident, and photos of damaged electronics and the dead snake.
A series of plots showing complex optics parameters. The bottom plot shows a floor plan of the magnets.
Left image, a gloved hand holds a vial containing two cylinders. These cylinders are low dose and high dose optichromic rods. On the top right one can see through the clear liquid. On the bottom right, that liquid turns purple after exposure to radiation.
Portrait of the author, with text indicating his name and work title.
Text above a photo of an egret perched on a sign in the water. It is sunset, and a sliver of the moon can also be seen.
Elderly woman in red selling fish at an outdoor market in South Korea.
Bald eagle stands between two vultures, devouring a smaller animal.
Map of Hampton Roads, Virginia, with markers indicating the locations of community health clinics that rely on Federal funds.
Three graduate students discussing research over coffee.
Red quadruple between cryomodules. NDX detector near samples.
Many red circles, which are actually the ends of vials which hold optichromic rods.
Black boxes which state they are filled with optichromic detectors.
Red boxes mounted and labeled on plates.
Part of a blue and white soccer ball on a yellow shirt with a picture of a coach's whistle and the word coach written in all black.
Boxes filled with very strong magnets. Warning, stay clear!
Photo of my wife and me moments after exchanging vows.