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Looking forward to further collaboration with Wolfram on resources (see QR code below) for teaching within Illinois Wesleyan University's 11-course Concentration in Quantum Science & Technology. #ITeachPhysics

Bubbles are the "dolphins" of Physics! (Everyone loves bubbles)

If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming (or continuing as) a dues-paying member of AAPT and/or coming to our next national meeting, to enhance (and learn from) this community, as we piece together our next steps. #ITeachPhysics

You can't have science without support of the educational pathways that yield scientists (and science teachers). If you have the capacity to do so, support us by becoming a dues-paying member of AAPT. #ITeachPhysics

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." — H.G. Wells

AAPT is now accepting presentations for #AAPTWM26! Learn more and submit a presentation today! Submission deadline is September 12, 2025. ow.ly/6Mf250WHfOe #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #CallforPresentations #ITeachPhysics #research #teaching

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood A beautiful day for a neighbor Would you be mine? Could you be mine?

We’re all going to DC! Join us! #ITeachPhysics

Researchers who have had their NSF grants cancelled and are finishing up publications started before the termination…. How are we thanking (or not thanking) NSF in the acknowledgments? I can’t be the only one thinking about this! Feel free to drop your preprint or pub below.👇 #academicsky #science 🧪

#ITeachPhysics Today, you should beat a drum or bang a gong: it's Friedrich Bessel's birthday. (Bessel functions generically emerge as solutions to wave equations when you do separation of variables in cylindrical coordinates) www.falstad.com/circosc/

Visiting U.S. Senate and House offices, in support of science and science education, for AAPT. My sub-group: Professor Eric Brewe (representing CU*iP conferences), Professor Thomas Searles (representing NSBP), Dr. Mark Elsesser (Government Affairs, APS), and Ellie Clancy (Lot Sixteen)

Join AAPT's FREE Virtual Event, "Issue Briefing: The Future of Physics Education", on July 17, 12–1 pm ET. This event is designed for educators, advocates, funders, and anyone passionate about the future of undergraduate #STEMeducation. Register here: ow.ly/325Q50Wni5u @mqmlab.bsky.social

We published this in the wrong place: should've been AJP! #ITeachPhysics "Observation of image pair creation and annihilation from superluminal scattering sources" Science advances 2 (4), e1501691 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Everyone should pay more attention to this story.

#ITeachPhysics TeachSpin, which designs, develops, manufactures Advanced Lab instructional apparatus, seeks a physicist w/ experience in building apparatus. Preference is for one with a PhD and experience in teaching the Advanced Lab. Send resume/cover letter to [email protected].

1/5: NSF cuts are deepest on the mathematical side of STEM. Yet these posts argue we are facing a significant nationwide shortage of advanced-degree-holding talent in such areas, and median starting salaries for Physics bachelors who directly enter the workforce continue to soar.

1/4: #ITeachPhysics Median starting salaries for Physics bachelors who directly enter the workforce are only a small part of the case that these are the kinds of alumni a university should strive to create: it shows that they do well for themselves.

1/4: In 1776, as General Cornwallis’s troops advanced upon the College of William & Mary, representatives of the secret society Phi Beta Kappa were sent out to Harvard and to Yale, to ensure that the society would not cease to exist: their revolutionary tenet sprang from the following question…

#ITeachPhysics 1/4: Three-quarters — i.e., the LARGE majority — of Physics departments offer grad students a teaching assistantship stipend below the living wage needed to live in a shared apartment. In other words, financial support has not kept pace with financial need.

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.

1/4 #ITeachPhysics I recommend a book one of my former students has written (published by Cornell University Press), "The Instrumental University: education in service of the national agenda after World War II:" www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

#ITeachPhysics The administration's 2026 NSF budget request cuts investment in STEM education >75% and the Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences by ~70%. Obligations to previous multi-year awards means NO NEW AWARDS: this investment in our nation's future has been zero’d out.

Andor has some memorable lines

Add your voice. Join us in Washington, DC. Today is the day to register. #ITeachPhysics

Allen Goldman was my post-doctoral advisor. As a physicist, he was truly an inspiration. He had enormous talent for finding beauty and wonder in every direction where we turned our attentions. I also admired him as a human. cse.umn.edu/physics/news...

TOMORROW is last day to register for the 2025 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest! This is a great opportunity for students at all levels to combine what they have learned in #physics with their artistic side. Register now! ow.ly/iATv50V9nH5 #PhysicsEducation #AAPTPhotoContest2025

Register today for #AAPTSM25 and get ready to hear from outstanding plenary speakers, participate in workshops, informative sessions, events and more. Early Bird rates are available until May 23rd. ow.ly/2J2l50VH6Ql #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #ITeachPhysics

#ITeachPhysics Join us in Washington, D.C. and use the opportunity to make your voice heard. (Happy to help.)

The kids are alright. #TGOE www.iwu.edu/magazine/202...

This is a major milestone celebrating the Illinois Wesleyan University emphasis on continuing to probe students’ multiple interests, and doing the work to connect the dots. It’s a great day to be a Titan! #TGOE www.wglt.org/local-news/2...

AAPT is pleased to announce that physicist Dr. Nadya Mason has been selected to receive the 2025 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award for outstanding contributions to physics and for effectively communicating those contributions to physics educators. Read more: ow.ly/NHW650VARAS #AAPTSM25 #AAPTAwards

Join us for the next AAPT Virtual Coffee Hour on "Science Policy and Education in Turbulent Times" with host Mitch Ambrose, AIP Policy on May 6th at 7:30 pm ET. This event is open to the public. ow.ly/E41X50Vyosh #AAPTCoffeeHour #PhysicsEducation #ITeachPhysics

move slowly and build things

This is a GREAT weekend to visit Illinois Wesleyan University!! #TGOE www.iwu.edu/news/2025/st...

* I was born in LA when they were just *starting* to clean up air pollution * leaded gas was still in use * I would have died from pneumonia in childhood without antibiotics * acid rain and the ozone holes were major concerns we need to remember all these things

Please join us in congratulating Wanda on her award for the top research presentation at the Combined Meeting of the Illinois and the Iowa Sections of the American Association of Physics Teachers. #ITeachPhysics

I'll be there to join the celebration!

Working to amplify student interest, student identity within their majors, and student opportunity, all of us, together, make a difference. #ITeachPhysics

There's a sense of significant opportunity here. Please point (quantum-) interested students towards Illinois Wesleyan University! #ITeachPhysics

If you are interested in participating in advocacy during our time in Washington, D.C., please message me privately. All of us, together, make a difference.

#ITeachPhysics All of us, together, make a difference

AAPT is pleased to announce that Sean Carroll, physicist, teacher, and writer, is the 2025 recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award. The lecture and award will be presented during the AAPT Summer Meeting. Read more at: ow.ly/iQTa50VoRfR #AAPTAwards #ITeachPhysics

TODAY is the last day to submit a presentation. Don't delay; get your presentation submitted by 11:59 pm PT! ow.ly/nxso50Vj23g #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #CallforPresentations #research #teaching #ITeachPhysics #AAPTSM25

Registration for the 2025 AAPT High School Physics Photo Contest is now open! This is a great opportunity for students at all levels to combine what they have learned in #physics with their artistic side. ow.ly/nBUE50V9nH6 #PhysicsEducation #AAPTPhotoContest2025

All of us, together, make a difference. #ITeachPhysics

Community exists, to the degree we value it. Especially now, community matters within education, and within the group engaged with the teaching and learning of Physics. I'm just hoping to support the fact that all of us, together, make a difference. #ITeachPhysics

At #AAPTWM25, it was a joy to meet with one of my first students, Jed Brody, who is a novelist and, in Physics, Advanced Lab instructor at Emory. Via our ALPhA Immersions, he has been a popular mentor to instructors from other institutions, on the topic of his forthcoming book #ITeachPhysics