Seth Kimbrell

Playing the Visiting Faculty game of “I need to dedicate my time to the class I’m teaching. And I also need to dedicate my time to interview prepping for a permanent position somewhere else.” I’d be tearing my hair out if I wasn’t bald already. #iteachphysics

An experimental setup involving a swinging mass on a string, with a hook for rubber bands to attach to it.

This week in lab we are verifying Newtons Second Law using spinning masses and rubber bands! #iteachphysics

I was at the shareathon but had to leave early to get back to Minnesota - thanks for sharing the phyphox app! I’ll certainly be using that in the future.

Shoutout to @physgal.bsky.social for pointing me in the direction of the #iteachphysics feed at the aapt meeting!

Shai* Steve Jobs hates my spelling.

Shah-Hulud is the perfect name.

Super excited to be attending #aaptwm25 in St Louis, and to be giving a contributed talk for the first time!

Enjoying my last couple weeks of winter break by procrastinating syllabus creation and replaying Baldurs Gate instead

No better feeling!

Exam time for my environmental physics course. It’s been a fun term, but wow am I excited for a little winter break.

Finally off that other hellsite for good.

I don't think I realized quite how tired I would be at the end of the term until finals week hit, and now I'm just putting naps into my Google calendar

You'll have a blast! Fingers crossed for great weather.

There's nothing quite like seeing it yourself through a scope, rather than a picture on a screen.

After much prepping, finally got to start our observational lab course this week. Nothing beats the first time the students see Saturn through a scope. So happy to hear their excitement. 🔭

Got to help run the observatory open house last night. Always so much fun to open the scopes to the public and look at Saturn and show things like globular clusters, planetary nebulae.

Had a great time at the Minnesota State Fair. Got my head out of course prepping for a day and let some butterflies land on me

My goal now that I'm on bluesky is to actually be more active. I was very not good at being active on Twitter, and I really want to participate and join the astronomer community here

A view of an observatory from a second floor window across the street on a sunny day

Absolutely not tired yet of the view of Goodsell Observatory from my office window.

Congratulations! Now take a very well deserved rest

I'm sure the stress will kick in. But right now, planning an observational astronomy course for the first time just has me so excited to teach it. 🔭

Hi all! Happy to finally be here. I'm an astronomer focusing on massive black holes in dwarf galaxies - I'm currently a visiting Assistant Professor of physics and Astronomy at Carleton College in beautiful Northfield, Minnesota