Spread the word #AcademicSky

Bye bye Nike

Interesting results in this new paper: Canadian physics counts: an exploration of the diverse identities of physics students and professionals in Canada. 🧪 🇨🇦 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬🎢

"all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment...were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside."

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Today, a #WomenInSTEM thread dedicated to engineers

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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight, losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no, I've said too much I haven't said enough...

It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.

This is mind-boggling: "“Of those who demonstrated math skills not meeting middle school levels,” the report found, 42% reported completing calculus or precalculus." How can they be expected to even begin understanding calculus, if they haven't mastered fractions? ♾️🎢

Her map isn't quite to scale, but you get the idea.

Well, well, well.... Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?

🎢 to add to the #ITeachPhysics feed

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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Getting ready to celebrate LGBTQ+ in STEM Day @sfuphysics.bsky.social ⚛️🎢🧪👩‍🔬🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Great profile of @astrokatie.com on the Perimeter Institute website: ⚛️ 🎢 🔭 🧪 👩‍🔬

Feeling very old...

Isn't Mamdani meeting with Trump today? 🙄

Is the house trying to radicalize Gen Z because lol

This is so messed up. The vast majority of these are graduate degrees and some of them are doctorates.

BREAKING: I've just learned that there are teeny-tiny chameleons called stumped-tailed chameleons and they look like this AND I CANNOT HANDLE IT

Send in the poets.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Meanwhile: "The UC San Diego report notes that more than a quarter of the students who placed into the elementary- and middle-school-level remedial course last year had earned straight A’s in their high-school math classes. Almost all of them had taken advanced math courses in high school." 🎢 ♾️ 🍎

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!

MORE good news: A Canadian bill is just about to receive Royal Assent (yes this is a thing) and soon, if your parent is a Canadian citizen who spent 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before you were born, you will be a citizen regardless of where you were born and where you live.

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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

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No. The chief problem is, AI is literally A TOOL FOR UNLEARNING. The more you use it, the worse you get at whatever it is you’re using it for. It’s the opposite of educating, it’s uneducating. 2/2

Quote from a student in my colleague's class about how they do their physics assignments: "I go to the coffee shop and "Chat" and I work on the homework together." Sigh. 🎢 ⚛️ 🍎

I just remembered that a few years ago, a lot of us shared photos of ourselves at age 14. This is me at that age. I'm the one in the cowboy hat. Definitely still a child. #ThisIsMe #Epstein

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Think of the privileged white men who might suffer. 🙄

This is mesmerizing. 🎢

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Not to yuck peoples yum but if they can let Patton Oswalt back in for doing the exact same damn thing then they can also reinstate Link.

What a cool idea. I may post some of my Mum's paintings.

Love this so much. 💜

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.