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Livestreaming and marathon gaming all day to raise funds for Boston Children's Hospital! Feel free to tune in and donate if you're feeling it- I have some fun incentives you can redeem including me getting slapped with a (shaving cream) pie 😄🥧

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Ugh this feels like my kitchen every summer no matter how many ant traps I put down 😖 but great work!

If anyone can explain to me how this DOESN'T give parents an extreme veto power over what others' children in their community learn about (including themselves, because LGBTQ+ families and children exist) so long as they can prove that it conflicts with their religious worldview, please be my guest.

SCOTUS rules parents have a right to prevent their kids from reading books with LGBTQ+ characters - LGBTQ Nation "Exposing students to the 'message' that LGBTQ people exist" over parental objections is now not allowed.

The school district tried an opt-out policy, but it became significantly disruptive and burdensome.

Regardless, schools are not your local babysitter- they prepare kids for public life; if you want totally control what YOUR children see, homeschool THEM.

As extremist as anti-evolutionists in Bio.

This wasn't just Brooks making an opinion, he straight up misrepresented IAEA. Almost all statements IAEA have made about the strike hover around "significant damage", but they clearly reject "destroyed"/"obliterated". Is @pbsnews.org NewsHour following the IAEA? Were they not prepared to push back?

Brooks and Capehart on the Supreme Court’s decisions and Trump’s claims about Iran New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including analysis of the Supreme Court’s latest decisions...

@pbsnews.org live fact checking is important:

Brooks: We have the IAEA... and they say it's completely destroyed

IAEA chief just 1 before: I don’t know. I think “destroyed” is going too far... it will clearly be harder for Iran to continue at the same pace
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Egregious.

Has anyone had/taught a physics lab like this? Groups of 2 each use a big whiteboard as a "lab notebook" to report results/notes real-time, then after everyone can more easily see similarities/differences, discuss, and must(?) cite each other to qualify their own lab reports ⚛ #iteachphysics #edusky

A WELL-DESERVED CONGRATULATIONS to the graduating class- they have all overcome many challenges in their pursuit of knowledge, some in a hostile environment, and will go on to do great things!

Fuck the haters, even the ones in leadership positions; it is toxic and anti-social to behave this way.

I see posts like "I won't file taxes, why should I pay with X going on?" but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of taxpayers are waged employees who have taxes auto-deducted from their paychecks; you ALREADY paid. Aside from being a crime, not filing taxes may just as easily LOSE your tax refund, no?

Abstract accepted- I'll be giving a talk at the Health Physics Society in Wisconsin this July on using interesting geometry techniques to rapidly accelerate simulations with radioactive particles for internal dosimetry! ⚛🧪 #academicsky #nukesky

Every single educator and academic institution that claims to care about their students' safety needs to be on high alert for these apparently blatantly illegal and fascistic tactics. This is an emergency and should be treated as such- communicate with students and develop an action plan, yesterday.

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A standing ovation for federal workers by the thousands of physicists who are meeting in Anaheim this week, supporting their colleagues in science agencies who couldn’t afford—or weren’t allowed—to come. Sorry, no pictures, in part out of green-card holders’ fears. #APSGlobalSummit2025 #APSMarch

Water Balloons xkcd.com/3061

On this #InternationalWomensDay, we honour the brilliant women researchers at @lshtm.bsky.social and @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social

We celebrate their contributions to global health, paving the way for a healthier future.

Here’s to empowering women in science, today and every day! 👩‍🔬💪 #IWD2025

This is what a scientist looks like!
#internationalwomensday #standupforscience

For everyone joking about The Office episode, I feel like this is why he needed to reiterate that "THIS IS STEVE CARELL" twice just now and that he is not speaking as Michael Scott 😂

Just submitted my abstract yesterday for the Health Physics Society Annual Meeting this summer, hoping to give a talk on some fun new computational research I have been getting into on improving internal dosimetry models!
🧪⚛ #academicsky #nukesky

A diagram of a light blue sphere of radius `R` with a dark blue region indicating a spherical cone with radius `R`; the spherical cone is partly 1) an isosceles circular cone of radius `R` and height `R-h`, and 2) a spherical cap of radius `a` and height `h`.

#Math / #Physics folks, especially those good with geometry: I take a solid sphere and carve out a spherical cone. The cone radius may be as deep as the sphere's radius, but not necessarily (in case that changes anything).

What is the name of the REMAINING shape? Is this a "Spherical Frustum"? 🤔

I just had to turn off the AI feature of Notepad.

Notepad.

Even text file editors are not safe from AI creep. Maybe I'll just go back to the console for the warm embrace of Vim.

Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources Ukraine's access to SpaceX-owned Starlink was brought up in talks between U.S. and Ukrainian officials after Ukrainian President Zelenskiy turned down an initial proposal from U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent.

Why do you keep calling extortion "negotiations"? I really think that is the crux of the pushback you are facing about this. No one doubts Zelensky's abilities and we get that you don't have the solutions to end the war. But calling this a "negotiation" is tone-deaf.

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Didn't teach today, but I put on my Science Not Silence shirt and went to campus to make some liquid nitrogen ice cream for prospective physics and astronomy majors- not a bad day!

⚛ #edusky #sciencenotsilence

America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone.

“It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

Quick summary: no city resources/property can be used for detaining persons for solely seeking/providing gender-affirming care, or for cooperating with individual/out-of-state agencies about the care.

We are so flooded with shocks that the resistance can fall under the radar. Which city is next?

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

I gotta limit my usage of FB to bookmarks instead of getting caught up in its front page nonsense. A top post just now tried to convince me that vegan milk had a ream of additives but "milk is milk 🙂".

Nah, I make oat milk from oats. No hormones, no viruses, no dairy subsidies. MUCH cheaper too. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine thinking being called "libtard" by one is comparable to being called "untrustworthy" by another 😬

You can be pragmatic without pretending pragmatism is precisely centered in the Overton Window. The U.S. has no far left in power, just far right (you do see the rise of Nazi salutes, right?).

This physics problem stinks.

Chalkboard sketch of various poorly-drawn breakfast foods on a table, such as oatmeal, pancakes, pho, and chai tea.

Did my usual names/years/majors/favorite-breakfast icebreaker for first day of spring classes, decided to quickly doodle each response to make one big breakfast table- they got a kick out of some of the representations 😄 #EduSky