Dr. SkySkull

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Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything*

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Hard to choose a best, but this one is never far from my mind

What's the best episode of TV you've ever watched

Random Cookie photo

The Inside Out characters in my head

the Inside Out characters in my head

Random photo from my phone:

Here's my final figure showing the scattering efficiency of a sphere in Mie scattering, with the different multipole contributions illustrated. I ended up citing Wikipedia because I could not find a better choice of parameters than theirs!

A photo of Rascal just because

What’s your sign?

what's your sign?

Korean version of Invisibility book!

Also, look at my wee vintage Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Either this predatory journal found one of my papers interesting or it found it sexually stimulating

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it

Another honkin’ big book of physics constants arrived

Another fun Einstein letter: Whittaker was writing a book on the history of the aether and refused to give Einstein credit for relativity. Born was upset but Einstein, in short: 1. People can think what they want 2. I’m content with my efforts 3. I don’t have to read it

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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Kayla Arenas 🇵🇸💙

Tis a common problem

This one is even better. I note that Cookie's back is *not* white.

Post an image that people will hear when they see it

Post an image that people will hear when they see it if you'd like

I wouldn't tell anyone I'd won the lottery, but there would be signs.

How do they look so awful so quickly

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liz

My roommate’s cat Hobbes ready to pounce

“Okay you spineless bureaucratic motherfuckers this in no way can be described as a ‘mask.’”

Hey now I know what I want for my birthday

DON'T PANIC But on June 29 a decently large (200-meter) asteroid will pass Earth by less than 300,000 km, which is pretty close on a cosmic scale, but a long car trip for the rest of us. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-as... 🔭 🧪

Another asteroid shaves Earth, storing power in waterbadastronomy.beehiiv.com Plus: Venus meteors and a pair of supermassive black holes at the edge of the Universe

This still holds up I think

Never forget

marvelous way to describe Greenwald

Speaking of Stephen Miller, I once made this after being inspired by a joke by @itskai.bsky.social

Some reduce the 2024 campaign to a contest between two old men, but it's a choice of two slates of federal appointees who'll impact your life in a million ways. Biden has staffed executive agencies with excellent choices who are doing good work. Trump will empower an army of Stephen Millers.

You're going to be a vampire; who's turning you? (Mainly because I’ve played D&D with her)

You're going to be a vampire; who's turning you?

Au revoir, Joensuu

The sun is moving sideways.

Last night in Joensuu.

Drinking wine at a Finnish monastery with my former postdoc advisor as one does

10 pm, Joensuu