just start saying this plainly to more people i'm serious.

When the slide is continuous but not differentiable #MathSky

Newton's Laws of Motion ;) #ITeachPhysics

Parenthood and teaching are really both about insisting on social norms to prevent absolute chaos aren't they

I see a lot of discussion about the halt on federal spending. Don't forget to read the primary document for yourself. Don't be swept up in political outrage without first assessing if the outrage is warranted. Root your fury in the facts. Here's the link to the OMB memo.

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

It's only ever a series of ticks. Pitch is all in your head. (Audio on. Sorry for shaky cam.)

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Did you know that Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock move "Speed" had no director? If it had direction, it would've been called Velocity... #ScienceJoke #DadJoke

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I got warm fuzzies just imagining hearing these phrases.

How I arrived on Bluesky

Delightful.

My son(7yo) got Gravitrax for Christmas. We have been having a blast inventing our own tracks. He wanted a 3-way race which used the flip-flop and the X. It's nothing special but it's fun watching him build spatial reasoning and a joy to run the marbles down the tracks. 10/10 gift.

This isn't usually what people call me but in the most profound sense, they're not wrong.

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Doing laundry in the winter brings the fun game of "Still Damp? or Just Cold?" I know, if I just got my clothes when the dryer finished then I wouldn't have this problem but who among us is on top of it enough to do that?

Snow!!! It has begun.

This is an astounding statistic.

To mark MLK Day I like to read his most famous speech in its entirety. Watching it is great but reading the transcript lets me sit with the words and ideas. It's challenging and aspiring. Seriously, give it a read, the whole thing.

Has there ever been a generation that didn't believe they lived in a pivotal time in history? This too shall pass.

#math #maths #mathed #iteachmath

It's official: here's the first look at the Switch 2, along with what appears to be a new Mario Kart game. Nintendo says more will be revealed at a Nintendo Direct on April 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpc...

I remember expressing this worry to my husband when preparing for one of my first lectures and he said something like "you're a professor now, you should be able to talk about anything for any amount of time" and now I think of that as the true definition of "professing"

I can't agree with this more. The blog is a brief yet solid read.

It's a bitter pill to accept that even most of our physics majors passed their math courses without actually learning the math.

Chuck does a good job laying out what I see to be the effects of genAI on the learning process. Short circuiting the essential part, the hard part, *feels good* to the student in the moment but robs them of the chance to actually learn and grow.

Feel like this graph accurately describes my experience grading exams, and I need to make sure my students know. #MTBoS #iTeachMath #EduSky

This is the most beautiful place on earth. West coast, best coast.

You've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for #math #ITeachMath #EduSky

Relative velocity ftw! #ITeachPhysics

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Choo Choo!

My son successfully gave me his stomach bug. It was probably when he sneezed into my face while I was talking. Thanks, buddy!

Yup

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It would be like using golf carts in a class to help students be better runners. Sure, you can go faster with a golf cart - but getting from point A to B is not the point

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I tried to get GPT to generate a version of this diagram. What follows are my attempts.

A group of students were studying outside my office and one of them asked me about the hardest class I took as an undergrad. I told them Solid State and they started asking me what it was about. What followed was 10 minutes of asking and answering questions about...

Some days, they're not feeling it. #ITeachPhysics

Only you can stop misplaced moral panic about insignificant things.

There's an asymmetry to trolling. The troll needs normies to bother. Normies neither need nor want trolls. I don't want to drag them, I just want to starve them of the attention they crave. Rule number one of the internet is "don't feed the trolls".

I've never looked this contented while grading.

Dressing in layers is great for unpredictable weather but if you wear socks for cold weather and it is warmer than expected, you're in for a bad time. You can't layer your socks...can you?

Calling an audible for class today. Wish me luck!

Inspired by the blogs I've seen, I thought I'd give it a go. Here are some thoughts and strategies for writing exams for upper level courses. I'd love to hear your thoughts too!

This thread. *Chef's kiss*

Counterpoint: Physicists are Warlocks, that made a pact with the Universe in exchange for power. Therefore, contrary to Mathematicians, we are actually bound to what is real 😉