Gabe Spalding

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2026-27 Assistant Professor of Mathematics

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Looking forward to further collaboration with Wolfram on resources (see QR code below) for teaching within Illinois Wesleyan University's 11-course Concentration in Quantum Science & Technology. #ITeachPhysics

Bubbles are the "dolphins" of Physics! (Everyone loves bubbles)

If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming (or continuing as) a dues-paying member of AAPT and/or coming to our next national meeting, to enhance (and learn from) this community, as we piece together our next steps. #ITeachPhysics

You can't have science without support of the educational pathways that yield scientists (and science teachers). If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming a dues-paying member of AAPT. #ITeachPhysics

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." — H.G. Wells

AAPT is now accepting presentations for #AAPTWM26! Learn more and submit a presentation today! Submission deadline is September 12, 2025. ow.ly/6Mf250WHfOe #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #CallforPresentations #ITeachPhysics #research #teaching

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood
A beautiful day for a neighbor
Would you be mine? Could you be mine?

Thank you for planning such a wonderful meeting!

#ITeachPhysics

YouTube video by physicsteachers The Future of Physics Education: What Federal Funding Cuts Mean for Equity and Innovation

The video has been uploaded and is now available on YouTube:
youtu.be/lf9zz1R76rI

We’re all going to DC! Join us! #ITeachPhysics

Researchers who have had their NSF grants cancelled and are finishing up publications started before the termination…. How are we thanking (or not thanking) NSF in the acknowledgments? I can’t be the only one thinking about this! Feel free to drop your preprint or pub below.👇 #academicsky #science 🧪

#ITeachPhysics Today, you should beat a drum or bang a gong: it's Friedrich Bessel's birthday. (Bessel functions generically emerge as solutions to wave equations when you do separation of variables in cylindrical coordinates) www.falstad.com/circosc/

Visiting U.S. Senate and House offices, in support of science and science education, for AAPT. My sub-group: Professor Eric Brewe (representing CU*iP conferences), Professor Thomas Searles (representing NSBP), Dr. Mark Elsesser (Government Affairs, APS), and Ellie Clancy (Lot Sixteen)

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Join AAPT's FREE Virtual Event, "Issue Briefing: The Future of Physics Education", on July 17, 12–1 pm ET. This event is designed for educators, advocates, funders, and anyone passionate about the future of undergraduate #STEMeducation. Register here: ow.ly/325Q50Wni5u @mqmlab.bsky.social

Collaborators need to see that: (1) the journal chosen should be a match to the audience (not just a matter of overall "impact factor") and that (2) while the "half life" for citations on an article published on most journals is quite short, for the American Journal of Physics it is incredibly long!

Observation of image pair creation and annihilation from superluminal scattering sources Researchers experimentally investigate the superluminal kinematics of scattering light sources through ultrafast time-resolved imaging.

We published this in the wrong place: should've been AJP! #ITeachPhysics
"Observation of image pair creation and annihilation from superluminal scattering sources"
Science advances 2 (4), e1501691 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Everyone should pay more attention to this story.

#ITeachPhysics TeachSpin, which designs, develops, manufactures Advanced Lab instructional apparatus, seeks a physicist w/ experience in building apparatus. Preference is for one with a PhD and experience in teaching the Advanced Lab. Send resume/cover letter to jfreichert@teachspin.com.

Yes, my students have made these (and enjoyed them!)

5/5: These NSF grants were terminated. Are you connected with a foundation that might want to step in? I also, more broadly, encourage corporate partnership with AAPT aapt.org/Membership/p...

4/5: Leila Janah argued, "Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not." Young women tend to be more self-critical AND less encouraged to follow such interests. AAPT has partnered to encourage EVERYONE to give themselves permission to “like what they like” and to see themselves going on.

3/5: The “more mathematical” subfields of STEM have been much slower in showing improved reach towards EXPANDING our talent pool (Physics & Engineering degrees are ~ 20% women). Yet by 2030 the U.S. is on track to have more than half of advanced semiconductor jobs go unfilled.

2/5: Bachelor’s recipients are of importance to our high-tech economy and societal needs, but STEM is not a monolith, either in terms of projected workforce needs or in terms of the degree to which there remains vast, untapped potential. #ITeachPhysics

1/5: NSF cuts are deepest on the mathematical side of STEM. Yet these posts argue we are facing a significant nationwide shortage of advanced-degree-holding talent in such areas, and median starting salaries for Physics bachelors who directly enter the workforce continue to soar.

4/4: I've spoken with the CEO of SPIE: we’re very concerned about how to expand our pipeline to meet high-end workforce needs in Optics & Photonics! On the mathematical side of STEM, we are facing a significant nationwide shortage of advanced-degree-holding STEM talent.