I was thiiiiiis close to almost telling a 12yo student (though like a really young-ish student, more like) today about how dolphins get high via pufferfish but just stopped myself that was close, some facts they can stumble upon by themselves

I regret to inform you that the kids only know Danny DeVito from .... the Jersey Mike's commercials smh

It's nice to live/work near somewhere pretty

#ITeachPhysics 😂

Moulton ain't it, y'all

Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton Four Tet & William Tyler What a strange year for collaborations

Making plans to go to the Chestnut Festival in October. Heck yeah, chestnuts! 🌰🌰🌰

Who turned on Autumn!?!

Chad was generous enough to spend a day with my 6-12 school last year with less than 100 kids. Can't speak highly enough about his preparation and ability to share his expertise at multiple levels/entry points. The kids (& adults) loved it, got tremendous feedback.

Stopped at a coffee stop to do some work before heading to the Y. While walking to an open table, glanced over someone's shoulder and they were working in emacs. Me: "Oooh, this is awkward - I'm more of a vim guy 😬"

#ITeachPhysics for amplification

Was a surpise when my precalc students didn't know about piecewise functions at all (and then were focusing on the fact that some of the examples we were looking at included quadratic or square root functions, so I made something basic for next class. classroom.amplify.com/activity/68c...

This is where I feel like we're failing kids. Don't put your despondency on them.

One thing I think that my school does pretty well is simply hire male faculty that is generally thoughtful, respectful, etc and is always looking to grow themselves. Simply existing as an viable alternative to the trash version of masculinity they try to entrap us in is worth something.

Apropos of absolute nothing if you've not watched Hacks, you should

What a bonkers release day Algernon Caldwell Maruja Legss Jens Lekmab Takk reissue Liquid Mike Guerilla Toss other things I'm sure I'm missing

Hyped to see her tomorrow www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iF1...

Great, another way to have way to many bookmarks (No really, it's great)

It's a Yo La Tengo kinda day www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBZP...

Wait they expect me to do this all over again tomorrow!?

...aaaand already overplanned the first block. ha

Alright I guess school can actually start tomorrow

We still out here

Owl of the month

✅ Achievement unlocked: Just sent me nephew a @desmos.com calculator for the first time (someone had made a Geometry Dash level in Desmos)

'Twas the ̶n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ day before the first day of classes and the physics teacher was... making sure all the batteries were fully charged

Back to school prep, buy new pens:

It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3

For when the world feels more than a little Gucked Up... guckitup.bandcamp.com/album/gucked...

Me trying to join the land of the living at the start of the school year www.instagram.com/reel/DNq-uI6...

That's a banger quote

Day -3: First official day back for faculty & staff had lots of reflection on our school and how to best continue to nudge it towards what we want it to be. The afternoon had some PD picking up from June by a local trans-led non-profit who support trans, nonbinary, & gender-expansive folks

Gonna tell my students this year that I'm a strict kangatarian. "Kangatarianism" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaro...

Album for the first drive to school of the new year? Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition

Damn, my hair hasn't been this short since before the pandemic

* Learn a decent amount about a thing * Run out of time to implement as completely as desired / realize it's too time-intensive to do as well as you'd like * Return to old way of doing things with tail-between-legs * Rinse * Repeat

Trying my hand at homemade seeded crackers for start-of-school senior/faculty brunch

Sadly it looks like American Science & Surplus (Sciplus.com) is shutting down. sciplus.com/important-in...

Uhuh

I just saw someone say, in reference to Earl Sweatshirt, "Unc's still got it" and I just

I have a student who completed AP Mech and E&M and is looking for an online physics course to take his senior year. Any suggestions? #iteachphysics

Related: who's got some soft lightweight flannel these days? (I know, I know thrift shops but most of it's too big and let's be honest, it's mostly fast fashion junk these days)

I just swapped out shorts/flip flops for pants/LL Bean slippers Damn, it's really happening huh?

If @divbyzero.bsky.social is willing to add a Toggle Map button, this could be helpful for physics teachers teaching E&M

Gonna tell my students this is the name of my sourdough starter