University physics lecturer and Associate Dean, Learning. Physics demystifier. Supporter of girls and women in physics. CAP Teaching Medal 2018, 3MNTF 2023. She/her Ph.D. ๐จ๐ฆ
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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epsteinโs sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape.
Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.
I defended my dissertation and started my teaching career using overhead projectors. Now I use a document camera when I want to solve a problem in front of a large class. ๐ข๐
On "Version History," a podcast series from the Verge about tech products of the past, Professor Antero Garcia looks back at how overhead projectors were developed, how they made their way into classrooms, and how they changed so much about the way kids learn.
#EduSky#AcademicSky
I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.
๐งตYesterday, British Columbia elected a Conservative majority government that ran on a platform of tax cuts and accelerating the pillaging of nature, or what the party calls โnatural resources exploitation.โ They also ran on attacking Indigenous sovereignty and trans rights.
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As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.
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Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"
OBAMA: That just feels a little bit differentโฆ where people are so sick and tired of being sick and tired. After 2 years of chaos. and cruelty. and corruption. and incompetenceโyou get a chance to say enough's enough.
Healthcare is on the table tomorrow. Ontario and Alberta have shown us what Conservative leadership looks like.
Private clinics suck workers and money out of the public system. Healthcare should not be a pay-to-play system.
#bcpoli#bcelection
Every year, Research!America does a poll that asks,
"Can you name a living scientist?"
In January 2026, 76% of respondents said "no."
Of those who said "yes," 5% named a scientist who was, in fact, dead.
www.researchamerica.org/blog/can-you...
My department is searching for two full-time continuing physics teaching faculty. Come work in beautiful BC. ๐งช๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌโ๏ธ๐ข๐ @sfuscience.bsky.social
Want to know what 30 experts in the learning sciences wished educators and policy-makers knew about how GenAI can affect learning? Find out right here:
www.cehd.umn.edu/AI-expert-co...
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LOVE IS EVERYWHERE ~ featuring the fabulous Good Lovelies trio.
๐ very grateful to still be in good voice, making new music. youโll love this album!
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New โ I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamyโs weaponization of Amy Actonโs childhood sexual abuse and how itโs only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:
If youโre in STEM and youโre eligible to vote in the midtermsโฆYOU BETTER BE VOTING. I want โI VOTEDโ sticker selfies in the comments.
This is an unconstitutional robbery of our scientific ecosystem
cen.acs.org/policy/resea...
Hours after the Wall Street Journal published a story questioning Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanaganโs claim she โgraduated Phi Beta Kappaโ from the University of Minnesota, the national honor society said that she is a member.
Thanks for all of the lovely birthday wishes. I would also love to see pics of your dogs or other pets. And in the spirit of sharing, here are some recent pics of our kitties.
Probably the only upside of my Mum losing her vision is that she no longer surfs the internet and so it not vulnerable to online scammers. Ditto her hearing and phone scams.
CSUN Biology seeks a "Bird or Mammal Biologist" studying extant, non-model birds or mammals, and having experience in collections management, to teach Avian Ecology and/or Mammalogy and help steward our natural history collections (showy examples pictured)
careers.pageuppeople.com/873/nr/en-us...
"A 1998 survey of physicists found that 89% of the women respondents were married to other
scientists, and of those, 45% were married to other physicists (McNeil and Sher, 1999)."
I remember when this paper came out. I think this is likely still the case, but it would be nice to update the data. โ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ
Yeah, we made some choices too. And Beth Schussler has a really nice paper on some of these โtwo-body problemโ experiences in science:
www.lifescied.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
When I was hired at my current job, two of my female colleagues were married to physicists (as am I), two were married to scientists, and one was not married. With my current female colleagues, there are fewer physicist spouses, but they are still primarily in STEM.
Polymarket is taking bets on whether the seven Cornell students accused of raping a student will receive a felony sex crime charge.
Among the athletes endorsing Polymarket:
LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman. frontofficesports.com/article/poly...
Thatโs Micah Bock, communications director for disgraced former congressman Madison Cawthorn, and who himself was accused in college of rubbing his genitals on a sleeping woman and then defending himself later with the argument that โshe was asking for it.โ
This all sounds very familiar. When my physicist husband and I went on the job market together, he made the decision to switch to industry because we knew finding two academic physics jobs in the same city would be challenging. ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌโ๏ธ๐ข๐งช
I think universities still need to do more to accommodate dual-career couples. There should be money set aside to support the salaries of the spouses of new hires and a system in place to create new positions where needed. So many women scientists are in dual-academic-career couples.