@cassandrapaul.bsky.social Issues we might want to think through and deal with sometime.

Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams. Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams. Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Higher ed should be essentially free. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Huh, @cassandrapaul.bsky.social‬ and my paper that showed that demographic biases in physics classes can be removed was referenced by a Sociology professor in an article that showed up in at least 39 different publications yesterday. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

Yay, science!

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Re-posting and including picture showing no gender gap on low stakes in-term exams and significant negative gender gap on medium stakes in-term exams. Gender gap on the high stakes final exam is 50% larger than on the medium stakes exams. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Everyone is weird. Being weird is what makes us human. We are the apes who stopped, thought and embraced weirdness. Find someone who accepts that you are weird, without judgement.

@cassandrapaul.bsky.social and my new preprint describes how high stakes exams in introductory physics can make it seem like there is a gender gap in learning/understanding physics when, in reality, there is none. arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09418 #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

Titled this "Super cute adorable Oak Titmouse" in my folder. I was not wrong. Also - TAKE THAT, All About Birds who describe them, "Nondescript save for its crest, the Oak Titmouse might not wow many bird watchers at first sight." Nondescript my tail feathers! #birds #becurious

As computing capabilities increase, the number of digits we'll be able to calculate will also increase. I think what's so poetic about this: It's a process that began with the first civilizations and is a thread that weaves through the whole of human history. It's our story as a species.

We wrote this open letter to our students reaffirming our educational commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA). Faculty friends, if this resonates with you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please consider signing this letter, and sharing it widely. medium.com/@dearstudent...

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Not just deserve. Weather monitoring, disease management, and food safety are services we pay for from the government that are being stolen from us.

Lately I've noticed that when I discuss with profs about how active learning (AL) dramatically improves student outcomes, folks will respond that their students don't seem to really like active learning. I'm perusing some literature on the subject and thought I'd share out. #iTeachPhysics 🧪⚛️ 1/5

Great call to action!

I emailed university faculty/staff/administrators a roadmap to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty. The question isn’t whether institutions will comply—it’s who will fight back, and how! greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

This is why they want to destroy us. Our superpower is explaining complicated things in a way that everyone can understand. They are going to try to destroy us whether we do it or not. I’m not going down without a fight.

"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation Today!" Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland

i know people are coming here for catharsis and that's fine but when you are done screaming please pick something you can do that will help people and do it. you don't accomplish anything by rolling around in the fear all day

#science #physics #iteachphysics

😆 Seen in Baltimore. Artist unknown.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

Today's San Jose Mercury News has my Letter to the Editor about the disastrous proposed cuts to NIH. The ramifications are hard to summarize in <150 words, but here's my attempt. www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/14/l... 🧪 #NeuroSky

NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans

One of my grants is also on the list of “woke” grants. The project studies the partnerships undergraduate Learning Assistants have with faculty and how they both support active learning in STEM classrooms.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Over and over again we find that changing the way college courses are organized (without changing the intellectual level of the material) can make them more equitable at the same time that we improve instruction generally. #academia #HigherEd #EduSky #iTeachPhysics

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

Amazing to see Reddit become a forum of solidarity and resistance among federal workers today. If you need a dose of hope, read all the comments of federal employees vowing to hold the line and their oath to serve the American people. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

Trying to post this with correct feeds #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #Physics ⚛️ #EduSky 🍎

Cassandra Paul and I continue to identify modified course structures that are more equitable without changing the intellectual level of the topics discussed in introductory physics courses. journals.aps.org/prper/abstra... #physics #edusky #science

Cassandra Paul and I continue to identify modified course structures that are more equitable without changing the intellectual level of the topics discussed in introductory physics courses. journals.aps.org/prper/abstra... #physics #edusky #science

The highest and largest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars. 27 km (17 mi) high from base to peak, it's nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest, and 550 km (340 mi) across at its base. At the top, atmospheric pressure is less than 0.05% of Earth normal.

Running through my head after morning jog. youtu.be/ezoOnI95BpE?...

Going through my head after this morning's jog. youtu.be/WQk0xTwZumo?...

🍎🧪 Common sense – The SAT is biased against poor and marginalized students and so should be abandoned. Colleges – But the SAT is a predictor of student success in our college courses! Research – College courses are biased against poor and marginalized students and so should be changed.

🍎🧪 Common sense – The SAT is biased against poor and marginalized students and so should be abandoned. Colleges – But the SAT is a predictor of student success in our college courses! Research – College courses are biased against poor and marginalized students and so should be changed.