Sara Callori

My student took a picture of @dvschroeder.bsky.social 's Thermal Physics book and the colors got inverted. This looks like the cover of a 90's rock album.

A new post of mine on Funsize physics about making your own thin films is out! A huge thanks to @scitalker.bsky.social and her team to helping make it look fantastic! funsizephysics.com/this-thin-fi...

New dream unlocked from today's Nobel Prize announcement: "He received the news in Italy on a sun-drenched terrace, overlooking olive trees. ".

Pimped out my badge and doing some prep for a panel at @laworldcon.bsky.social !

Packed up to run a hands-on nanoscience session for kids at @laworldcon.bsky.social ! Come check out Lighting Up the Nanoscale on Sunday in Anaheim.

Tiny, gold SEM crab!

Merchandising idea for my local Total Wine, build a STEM themed endcap display. You can start with these.

Had to cut out of AAPT early to head to the @calbridge.bsky.social Doctoral Summer Institute, but at least I was rewarded with our ice cream cart for afternoon breaks!

Hope the participants had as much fun as I did playing with my spin coaster at the Advanced Labs workshop thie morning! #AAPTSM26

In the spirit of #AAPTSM26 and me climbing to the back of my closet looking for high school punk rock Sara photos, here is my first AAPT membership card I found!

Excited to be heading to Pasadena tomorrow for #AAPTSM26. Any physics friends here going?

Proud to be part of the great work that @calbridge.bsky.social does! (Even if most of it has become people-wranging and light scolding about due dates.) calmatters.org/education/20...

Some great fluid physics at wine tasting!

Pre-gamed graduation enough to finally order PhD regalia from Stony Brook because I am jealous of my colleagues with cooler robes than my generic Amazon ones.

Hooray for my awesome department!

Dynamite with a laser beam.

Make and take diffraction gratings for a field trip today!

At Hollywood actor is giving a talk at our local historical society in an old mission. This is some Midsomer Murders in So Cal shit.

A 12 cabin resort in Belize in an uncommonly rainy week is how murder mysteries begin. I am both here for it and want to get out before I am a suspect.

So excited to be doing a ton of stuff and meeting amazing folks at CU*IP!

Snacks for physicists.

No proper celebration until all the paperwork is done, but I think I just pulled the "Campus grant office messed up. Error in your favor." Chance card in Academic Monopoly.

Thesis feedback for my first ever masters student, who is amazing and basically supervised himself because I am the world's okayest advisor.

This is going to be either the best or dumbest thing I've put in my office.

Beat lecture slide of my career so far.

I have never related to a conference talk title more. #AAPTWM26

In Vegas for the AAPT meeting. The hotel is clearly ready for us. #AAPTWM26

My kid asked for an algebra book. He doesn't know what these mean but was very excited to show me his "first graphs" this morning.

My kid started writing his own math problems and he's really into E=mc^2 and Einstein for some reason. Wonder where he gets it.

New approach for academically dishonest students.

A "Faculty Learning Community" is not actually a Learning Community if you don't spend a significant amount of time building the community in the first place. End rant.

Currently reviewing internal grants and, I'm not sure if this is in the instructions but if it is, faculty should be penalized in the rankings if they put their names in what is supposed to be an anonymous proposal.

My department is hiring and looking for a physicist to join us! We are a lot of fun and have lots of candy and snacks so if that doesn't convince you to apply I don't know what will. (Also feel free to share this!) careers.csusb.edu/en-us/job/55...

Won a trophy this weekend. My kid told me I shoukd be proud and take it into work to show everyone.

Doing all the things, with ribbons to prove it, at the @calbridge.bsky.social Fall Conference.

AI is terrible for trivia writing research.

My latest Funsize Physics post on making Silly Putty and playing with polymers is up! funsizephysics.com/polymers-at-...

New art up on the office. Two year difference between the top and bottom.

Idea for the next big ESPN The Ocho sport: Full Contact Charades.

Soccer camp is only a half day so someone is at work getting an optics lab tour complete with using a laser to burn Post-Its.

At the airport lounge and there's a guy at the bar working on slides about thin films and all I want to do it start talking to him about them.

Automatic email replies are runnning and Slack notifications are paused. Vacation time!

One of my awesome students and I just gave a joint talk at the Advanced Labs Physics Association meeting showing off his senior lab project building a low-cost spin coater. #AdvancedLab

Do bands on a multi-band "emo" night coordinate their cover songs for minimal overlap? I mean I am totally up for multiple versions of Scotty Doesn't Know but I don't need multiples of many other songs.

My mother sent me a New Jersey care package. Luckily the laundry and tan notes are much more pronounced than the gym ones.

I'm at a wedding for one of my students and I think this might be the first time the phrase "internal reference frame" has been used in a wedding vow.

Its finals weel and I went into an unused lab room to watch trash TV while I grade and students just started coming in and sitting down and studying and asking me things. Next time I silently grade in a dark room.

This government is going to ensure that the NSF follows its mission to "to foster scientific progress, improve national health and prosperity, and safeguard our nation’s security" by...checks notes...ending programs that help ALL AMERICANS participate in STEM. 😠🤮 www.nsf.gov/edu/updates/...