Yikes, some folks at PhET made a bad choice… I did submit a ‘design’ through their helpful form, though I’m going to doubt it gets picked…

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

Below are some really, really great fantasy novels for kids that are not HP books. They exist, I promise. (Not pictured due to their already big popularity levels, but are also great options: Percy Jackson books and the Wings of Fire Books.) Just in case you need holiday shopping ideas.

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist, would be nominated for the Nobel 8 times, but you probably know him for his most famous invention, which never made him a penny, developed to hold ultra-cold liquified gases. You probably own a "Dewar vessel," but you know it as a Thermos™. Let's talk about it.

It was time. Feel like sites need to be pretty explicit one way or the other right now... because playing detective is a waste of all of our times. (And if you use it, I guess you should be proud, right? I'm to understand you think it's okay? So like, what's the issue?)

A peek at Agent Higgs 2 -- my particle physics puzzle game coming out this summer... testtubegames.com/blog/

A peek at Agent Higgs 2 -- my particle physics puzzle game coming out this summer... testtubegames.com/blog/

Seriously, #EduSky, #Physics teachers, #scicomm folks, if you aren't familiar with thescienceplayground.com, you should be. Amazing collection of all kinds of science demos and games from across the web, all curated by a science game expert and, indeed, no AI!!!

Hi - if you want to make physics applets… just do it! JavaScript is pretty approachable. Sims are fun to make! Novice art styles are 100% part of the charm - I love every poorly drawn diagram. Don’t use the evil box of misinformation that is the complete antithesis of education in every way.

A little promo for the weekend. ❤️ Help support my endeavors to teach kids science by buying one of my books from your local bookstore or borrowing from your library! They're illustrated by the talented Hannah Salyer (This Wolf) and Steph Stilwell (I, Rock), published by Beach Lane Books. #Kidlit

Check this shit out:

New game posted at Universe & More! What?! Magnetism Mini Golf. Go give it a play - perfect for some magnetic puzzle fun, and GREAT fore students. universeandmore.com/magnetism-mi...

Which is harder to simulate - Dark Matter or Gas? Find out in my latest blog post, which includes pretty animations and also a sneak peek at a sim you can run yourself?! testtubegames.com/blog/dark-ma...

Realized I should give y'all something to check out if I say this. Check this shit out

New game posted at Universe & More! What?! Magnetism Mini Golf. Go give it a play - perfect for some magnetic puzzle fun, and GREAT fore students. universeandmore.com/magnetism-mi...

Which is harder to simulate - Dark Matter or Gas? Find out in my latest blog post, which includes pretty animations and also a sneak peek at a sim you can run yourself?! testtubegames.com/blog/dark-ma...

Finishing up the latest TestTubeGames newsletter, which should go out tomorrow. All about Dark Matter and Gas... and pretty simulations like this... Last chance to sign up: mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4...

Finishing up the latest TestTubeGames newsletter, which should go out tomorrow. All about Dark Matter and Gas... and pretty simulations like this... Last chance to sign up: mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz

Last chance* to join the TestTubeGames newsletter! Project updates, deep dives into the science behind my games, and links to other cool science to explore online. Delivered right to you, and not surrounded by a feed of current events. mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4... *what?

Last chance* to join the TestTubeGames newsletter! Project updates, deep dives into the science behind my games, and links to other cool science to explore online. Delivered right to you, and not surrounded by a feed of current events. mailchi.mp/d92658cb25c4... *what?

Someone fund me to make this into a travel show where we spin the wheel and then go see the bird wherever in the world it might be. It'll have Fishing With John vibes but will also be very educational. I can give you my Venmo.

It turns out that you can create an interference pattern using light from two independent lasers. The interference arises from the quantum view that you cannot tell which laser any individual photon came from.

The Mentos challenge just got serious 🧐 See what happens when chem prof Tom Kuntzleman dds Mentos to a bottle of champagne in comparison to a different carbonated beverage. Cheers! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #mentoschallenge #ChemEd

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Intrigued by this new collection of learning games. You all know I love a good list... "Vault Game Library" vaultlearninggames.org

When you look around a creatives discord server and realize folks have only been sharing AI-related creations for months... Hope somebody who needs this message finds it.

When you look around a creatives discord server and realize folks have only been sharing AI-related creations for months... Hope somebody who needs this message finds it.

Writers and illustrators tend to be against AI, but where I haaave seen it crop up or be admitted to in the Kidlit arena is in creating additional resources, like activities and discussion guides. Please be assured, *nothing* I create is done with AI. Including bonus resources like these. ❤️⬇️ #NoAI

Hey there, I, ROCK: A Geology Tale fans. 😁🪨 Guess who's teaming up again??? This time, we aren't Earthbound... Steph Stilwell and I are back at it, taking on ASTRONOMY!!! 😃⭐🌌🔭 I am so beyond excited to announce this new #BookDeal!!!! Ahhhh!!!! 😃😃🤩 #KidLit #STEMLit #PictureBooks

👀👀👀👀👀👀 I SPY A FAMILIAR ROCK!!!!!! 😃😃😃🥳 Holy moly, THANK YOU, @slj.com!!!

New trailer for Factory Town 2 just dropped!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcR...

4yo, getting a reasonable 2/4 right while singing How It's Done from Kpop Demon Hunters: ~~"Meals. Nails. Blade. Mosquitoes."~~

A box of gas (blue) + dark matter (green), now with a smoother distribution at the start. (gravity + pressure + viscosity, 16k particles, periodic 2d)

I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project. This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.

Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me. (16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)

I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project. This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.

Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me. (16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)

Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess? (8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)

Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess? (8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)

Related physics puzzle - can you figure out this SPOOKY force law? Bonus point: If this force law were to dress up for Halloween, what costume would it wear?

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Related physics puzzle - can you figure out this SPOOKY force law? Bonus point: If this force law were to dress up for Halloween, what costume would it wear?

Tis a season. Why does the ghost behave the way the ghost does? An eternal, and in this case, very specific, question. (Single central pumpkin-y mass, gravity with a 1/r^2 force law.)

Explore the mysteries of quantum mechanics with our Quantum Measurement sim! Prepare & measure superposition states, dive into photon polarization, and experiment with Stern-Gerlach setups. phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio... #physics #chatphysics #STEM

Ooh, this time a spherical cloud of gas, initially spinning slowly. No periodic boundary conditions now, just let it collapse. ...whoa. (Gravity + Pressure + Viscosity, 16k particles.)

To understand the CMB map... you need to know a bit about Blackbody Spectrum. So we've included a fully interactive spectrum. Slide the temperature to your heart's content! testtubegames.com/cmbjourney.h...