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University physics lecturer and associate dean, learning. Physics demystifier. Supporter of girls and women in physics. 3MNTF 2023 She/her Ph.D.

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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

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Here's a nice diagram of total internal reflection in a diamond 🎢

Cool. Total internal reflection is also one of the reasons that diamonds are so sparkly. 💍

Why do things look darker when they're wet? I talked to a (very patient) optics expert, so that now I can explain it to you! From sweat stains to wet footprints by the swimming pool, this is relevant summer science! Please check it out and pass it on. 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2024/07/why-...

Why Do Things Look Darker When They’re Wet?news.ncsu.edu From rain-soaked sidewalks to sweat-stained dress shirts, you’ve probably noticed that most things look darker when they’re wet. Why?

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excellent choice.

All change at Downing Street, except Larry the Catwww.reuters.com On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat.

There must be a way to fit this into a physics problem. 🎢

Our new paper in PeerJ: we show with basic video footage that hippos essentially only trot even at near-maximal speeds, and at those speeds they do get airborne with all four feet. Which, to our knowledge, is new to science -- and cool! peerj.com/articles/176... 🧵: twitter.com/JohnRHutchin...

Footfall patterns and stride parameters of Common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) on landpeerj.com Common hippopotamuses (hippos) are among the largest extant land mammals. They thus offer potential further insight into how giant body size on land influences locomotor patterns and abilities. Furthe...

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HS Physics Teacher Camp is back! Sunday July 7th in Boston! Registration is open now. Spread the word! #iteachphysics #modphys #AAPTSM24 sites.google.com/site/physics...

So #ITeachPhysics, who’s going to #aaptsm24?

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Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🐡🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬#histsci In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores. She was hired to count images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 🧵1/

I wore my 4th of July shirt ironically today in Canada and no-one commented on it. Sigh.

Ooh, we should do this for Physics. Gauss' Law anyone? 🎢

Here's a story we're reading right now. 🧪

These Are the Most Beautiful Equations in Mathematicswww.scientificamerican.com Mathematicians picked the most dazzling, thought-provoking and compelling equations they know

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AAAS has just released an amazing set of comic book stories about women scientists, including physicist Dr. Jessica Esquivel & astronomer Dr. Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil. And the art by @juaneletamal.bsky.social is amazing. Please check them out! #EduSky #AstroSky #comics🎢 sciall.org/projects/?fb...

#SciArt 🐡

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Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements.👩🏼‍🔬🎢🐡🧪⁠#histsci ⁠ She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results 🧵1/n

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June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities & risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources & importance of protecting Earth from impact. 🧪🐡🎢🔭 June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the 🧵1/n

This is a really great nonprofit organization. I did a story for them a few years ago. 🎢 🧪 👩🏻‍🔬

Mothers in Science 2024 Impact Report 👩‍🔬 🧪https://youtu.be/QobQne93aWw?si=WiYrko_wrpUGRRTI

Impact report 2024 Mothers in Scienceyoutu.be Join us in celebrating five years of advocating for mothers in STEMM with the launch of our first Impact Report! We have come a long way and we are so happy to share our journey with you. Please share the report far and wide to increase visibility of our resources for mothers in STEMM and of our global initiatives to create systemic change. At Mothers in Science, we are dedicated to creating a world where everyone can thrive professionally while juggling caregiving duties.We are the leading global nonprofit advocating for mothers in STEMM and creating evidence-based solutions to promote workplace equity and inclusion of parents and caregivers. Our rapidly growing organisation represents thousands of students and professional women in STEMM around the world from many fields and employment sectors, including the social sciences and humanities.

Sarah Jonhson — Mothers in Sciencewww.mothersinscience.com STEM journey of Sarah Johnson, an University Lecturer in Physics.

Mothers in Science 2024 Impact Report 👩‍🔬 🧪https://youtu.be/QobQne93aWw?si=WiYrko_wrpUGRRTI

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(I’m traveling, so I’m off by a day. Pretend this is yesterday.) Physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: APS

Just putting this out there. If anyone has an extra ticket to see Taylor Swift on Aug 20th at Wembley they'd be willing to sell, let me know.

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Can we just admire the title (and sentiment) of this new journal article for a minute link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

Reskeet with hold old you are, using a vague proxy: We put a locking gas cap on my Mom's station wagon so that nobody would try to syphon the gas out of it.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I remember when scientists were worried about global cooling.

🎇Today's SPARK Highlight 🎇 ✨"How to Say No" - a hand-drawn flowchart I created to help manage my workload. It can be hard to maintain your passion for teaching when you have too much to do. ✨ SPARK magazine: stlhe.ca/spark/ #3MNTF #SPARK #STLHESAPES2024 #AcademicSky #HigherEd 👩🏻‍🔬 🐡

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This is a #linocut of French #mathematician & #physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) 🐡🧪🎢🧮 #histsci remembered for his work on Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Fourier’s law of conduction, Fourier analysis & harmonic analysis & their use to solve heat transfer problems & credited with proposing 🧵1/

Explore “SPARK” with the 2023 3M National Teaching Fellowship cohort. Amid the demands of life and work, "SPARK" offers stories and resources to keep your teaching passion, creativity and joy alive. #3MNTF #AcademicSky #HigherEd 🍎 #STLHESAPES2024 www.stlhe.ca/spark/

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I’m doing my part 🏳️‍⚧️🫡

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From this day forward, a proper response to the question “What can you do with a bachelor’s degree in physics?” will be “You can become the president of your nation!” 🎢🇲🇽 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia...

Claudia Sheinbaum - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Ran into a former student in the hall who was actually looking for me to help her with a question on light polarization. Turns out she's taking a 4th year engineering course in optics and ChatGPT was giving her the wrong answer. Sigh. 🎢

Asking one more time. Any more popular general-ed/breadth science courses for non-majors you can think of? Which courses do students all want to take? What did you take in college/university? Thanks! 🧪🎢 🥽 🔭 🍎 👩🏻‍🔬#AcademicSky #HigherEd

Question for academics and others: What's the most popular science course for non-science majors that your university/college offers/offered? I'm looking for courses that satisfy a general ed requirement for science. #AcademicSky #HigherEd 🧪 🎢 🔭 🥽 🍎

I just learned that the newly elected president of Mexico has a PhD in Energy Engineering. 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪🎢

@Reuters: Mexico's ruling party declared Claudia Sheinbaum the winner of the presidential election by a ‘large margin’ after polls closed, putting her on course to be the country's first woman president https://t.co/lTuKgPVxCE

Claudia Sheinbaum - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Chien-Shiung Wu, who obtained experimental proof of parity violation in weak nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1912. Her 1956 experiment probing the decay of Cobalt-60 confirmed that the weak interaction does not respect what many had assumed was a fundamental symmetry of nature. 🧪 👩‍🔬