Sara Callori

@dvschroeder.bsky.social Sadly they don't have good enough taste to have your thermal book!

Found some light reading at an Air BNB.

Soccer camp is only a half day so someone is at work getting an optics lab tour complete with using a laser to burn Post-Its.

At the airport lounge and there's a guy at the bar working on slides about thin films and all I want to do it start talking to him about them.

Automatic email replies are runnning and Slack notifications are paused. Vacation time!

One of my awesome students and I just gave a joint talk at the Advanced Labs Physics Association meeting showing off his senior lab project building a low-cost spin coater. #AdvancedLab

Do bands on a multi-band "emo" night coordinate their cover songs for minimal overlap? I mean I am totally up for multiple versions of Scotty Doesn't Know but I don't need multiples of many other songs.

My mother sent me a New Jersey care package. Luckily the laundry and tan notes are much more pronounced than the gym ones.

Less of a tag team more of an Eiffel Tower.

I'm at a wedding for one of my students and I think this might be the first time the phrase "internal reference frame" has been used in a wedding vow.

Its finals weel and I went into an unused lab room to watch trash TV while I grade and students just started coming in and sitting down and studying and asking me things. Next time I silently grade in a dark room.

Sunsetting of the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM

This government is going to ensure that the NSF follows its mission to "to foster scientific progress, improve national health and prosperity, and safeguard our nation’s security" by...checks notes...ending programs that help ALL AMERICANS participate in STEM. 😠🤮

www.nsf.gov/edu/updates/...

We want to know!

These are the questions I have been furiously googling.

They’re making sure to get the Vatican national anthem some spins here because they know there’s no way any of the Cardinals are winning the 110m hurdles at the Olympics

Correction. There are lots of marching bands and I am confused at how parade like this is.

I see your adorable Baby Pope and raise you Jude Law in the Papal Speedo.

TIL the Vatican had a marching band and I didn't expect the popening to sound line a small town USA July 4th parade.

Proof that it's not all in my head and, yes, I probably take on too much.

PhET Interactive Simulations Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based...

For those in the physics (and STEM) education sphere, one of my favorite FREE resources had it's funding cancelled by the NSF because this government hates 1) education and 2) equity and access to educational resources. Consider donating to sustain PhET! I just did! phet.colorado.edu

Now this is the type of cultural indoctrination in our schools that I can get behind.

Using a super fun Funsize Physics breakdown of the physics of twisting Oreos to talk about effective STEM communication. @scitalker.bsky.social funsizephysics.com/plot-twist-t...

It's grading time, necessitating the use of the Units stamp.

Going to have to see what Health and Safety thinks about the new addition to the Physics Study Lounge.

Me as soon as my talk is done at a conference. Credit to @elysegraham.bsky.social for using this as a quote in her book and to Goethe, I guess.

Update. I have decided to add that to my bio here. May consider putting it on my CV.

Reflecting on this trip, I really am inspired by a lot of the conversation about the convergence of science and the humanities. But my proudest moment was being told I was recommended for the event because I am a known "talkative scientist."

The Roundtable "The Two Cultures Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?" begins!

Casual encounters of science plus the Brno Dragon!

During two days of dialog with some amazing archeologist, art historians, and even an archeogeneticist (!), I've realized how much of my approach to teaching and thinking about physics is informed by my own education in the humanities and I feel like a humanities person that does physics!