Starting spring break in the best way

CEOs and tech bros: AI is going to replace people! My phone: you look really good (while showing me a pic of my sharps container that I thought looked like a goofy face).

Take me down to Parallax City Where the front moves slow and the back moves quickly.

cleveland baseball resumes tonight, and in this house, we celebrate the runs, long relief, and going going gone. go Guards. #GuardsBall

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Spending my Saturday doing The Most Cleveland Thing, waiting in line for paczki at Rudy's Strudel

I spend a lot of time thinking about teachers and their students, so I feel like publicly saying that HS math teacher Bob Erdman and CWRU astro professor Dr. Heather Morrison (the GOAT) changed my life for the better. Who changed yours?

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

The first good news in forever

I never, ever want to hear about “flyover country” or “what’s in Minnesota?” ever again. That is NPC behavior to me. This is my fucking state. And this isn’t even the folks who are still watching out from their neighbors, from home.

I know this feels minor now but trinket.io is going away. Act accordingly if you have a bunch of stuff there (@rhettallain.bsky.social) trinket.io/announcement

Hot take: if Carlos Beltrán belongs in the HOF, so does Barry Bonds. Both were unrepentant cheaters who had already piled up HOF credentials before they became unrepentant cheaters, Bonds more so.

If you're into fantasy TTRPGs, this is my current favorite at a great price

I have 2 of these in my classroom and I highly encourage you to do the same so you too can demand that students make "volcano sounds" every time they take a tissue

But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that. >>

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Took a cue from Barry at Sandwiches of History and mixed an egg into leftover stuffing to make some waffles for breakfast. Highly recommend.

The mission to make all of us distrust any health science we come across is thriving

The Kickstarter to fund The Making of The Final Sacrifice is live now! Support now and find out if there's beer on the sun. www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...

Channeling my inner Adam Richman

My experience: being a parent makes me a better teacher and being a teacher makes me a better parent. Also my experience: being a teacher makes me a better RPG game master and being a game master makes me a better teacher.

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Overhead at the end of one of my classes today: "this class makes me think, but like not in a bad way." Counting that as a win.

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Hang it in the Louvre

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Do any physics teacher folks know of any PER papers or papers in TPT about the use of/effectiveness of TIPERs? I thought I had some PDFs somewhere but can't find 🎢 (apologies to everyone else for the jargon)

At our school Ss can choose chem or forensics as their 3rd year science. I’ve long advocated for a stronger push for chem as the ratio has become 1:3 with as many as six sections of forensics in a year. This has been my first year of teaching forensics and I’ll admit, I’m having a blast. BUT 1/8

Fun fact: bonafidemasks.com has a 25% off sale (code BFM25) with free shipping, where you can get not just masks but also Covid tests. I have a good supply of masks already but I just re-upped my family's stock of tests. $45 for 10 tests. Not a paid promo, I just think public health is a good thing

I have amazing #ITeachPhysics and #TTRPG news to share! Adventures with Emmy (AwE), a STEM education tabletop roleplaying game, has been AWARDED FUNDING by the National Science Foundation. In AwE, mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether invites you to learn science by exploring imaginative worlds.

Ohio, dare to dream that we could choose a governor who would support public education rather than undermine it 🍎

Hey physics teacher 🎢 friends, let's all remember that if you're not explicitly, regularly communicating that everyone has a place and a voice in your classroom, not all of your students will see themselves as having a place and a voice in your classroom #nerdytshirtFriday

There's a lot of money to be made selling "education" materials, therefore obviously the only solution is that the only materials we can consider high quality are the ones sold by a vendor because that's how capitalism works

Physics teacher friends: there was a website I've used in the past to create motion maps from my inputs. I swear I had it bookmarked but cannot find. Help? 🎢 #modphys

This is the same NSF that zeroed out their education budget. www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-ann...

2015, re: cell phones -- kids are already using them, it's inevitable anyway so let's figure out how to leverage this in the classroom 2019 teachers -- ok, phones are creating more problems than they're solving so maybe we should reconsider? 2025 governments -- we must ban this scourge

Hey there physics 🎢🍎 teacher friends! If you teach AP physics 2 or C E&M or have an Electricity & Magnetism component to your intro class, and want some well-tested strategies & moves for teaching E&M, Kris Newton and I are running a weekly online #modphys E&M class for teachers

This feels like a good song for today youtu.be/Vq75KA5IA0A?...

I was just listening to 1A, an interview with Dr. Vivek Murthy about the loneliness epidemic. For me, by far the best remedy for loneliness in the past few years has been a regularly-meeting, in-person D&D group. 10/10 recommend

Messing around with a new activity to help 🎢 students connect net force to change in velocity. Half-baked so far, open to suggestions for change docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Trans folks ain't done shit to you

Hey for real, South Park contributed more to transphobia being normalized in the pre-Rowling era more than any other media I can think. Garrison alone. Them doing a Trump video where he has a tiny dick and is sleeping with Satan is not something you gotta applaud them over. They're assholes.

Friday: CLE Guardians game with daughter, ran into former student. Saturday: CLE Guardians game with partner, ran into former student

It's well past time for everyone outside of Cleveland to celebrate Larry Doby. If you don't know, he was the first Black player in the American League, same season as Jackie Robinson but a few months later (today is anniversary of his debut in 1947) @mgvanwormer.bsky.social

‘I became a teacher so I can read scripted lessons written by folks who haven’t taught in a decade in order to prepare students to take a standardized test written above their grade level!’ Said no teacher ever

Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join. Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard” It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life. Engage in disability justice.