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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2020 15:40:47 EST
Stephen Sekula
From symmetrymag https://twitter.com/symmetrymag on Twitter: Giordon Stark is working with a panel of language experts at a Deaf-centric project called @aslcore to develop physics signs for Deaf scientists to use to communicate with each other. https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-matter-of-interpretation-asl-physics https://twitter.com/symmetrymag/status/1216374531062935553/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62817 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2020 15:30:43 EST
Stephen Sekula
I am pleased to be teaching @SMUPhysics #HonorsPhysics again this semester. My learning assistant and I will be doing a new theme for the course. To learn about it, check out the "teaser trailer"! https://smu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=712b0b22-50f3-421e-b645-ab40001dd54e https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1216455354915217409/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62813 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 11:30:54 EST
Stephen Sekula
"Call and Response: Course Evaluation Dialog for PHYS 3305 (Fall 2019)" This image of the ATLAS detector is my â**cover imageâ** for PHYS 3305 in our Canvas learning management system. Course evaluations are imperfect (in a different way, of course, grades are an imperfect measure of student potential). Students evaluating professors is fraught with peril in both direct… -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 10:21:02 EST
Stephen Sekula
One of my favorite college memories: New Year's Eve concert at the Killingworth Congregational Church Grange Hall w/ my band, Grushenka; cover of Rush's "Red Barchetta." Our bassist kicked ass. I flubbed the drum part (duh) but had SERIOUS FUN TRYING. @erdanton @solidgoldrold -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 10:11:02 EST
Stephen Sekula
Awesome. Now it's snowing. First time I've seen snow in Dallas in a few years (but that might partly be because of past travel during this time of year...) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 10:00:56 EST
Stephen Sekula
More words for our time, c/o Neil Peart: Wilderness of mirrors So easy to deceive My precious sense of rightness Is sometimes so naive So that which I imagine Is that which I believe ("Double Agent", Counterparts, Rush) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 09:40:51 EST
Stephen Sekula
Words 4 r time. Thx, Neil Peart. Is the voice of reason against the howling mob Hero...is the pride of purpose In the unrewarding job Hero...not the champion player Who plays the perfect game Hero...not the glamour boy Who loves to sell his name Everybody's buying Nobody's hero -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 09:31:07 EST
Stephen Sekula
From SMU https://twitter.com/SMU on Twitter: Double-checking Newton's law with competitive skydiver and @SMUPhysics coordinator, Lacey Breaux https://twitter.com/SMU/status/1215396962561716224/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62806 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2020 08:30:49 EST
Stephen Sekula
On the passing of Neil Peart: https://t.co/qT8H9AEOKD I think I wore holes in the magnetic tape on one of his drumming studio video tapes. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2020 20:20:42 EST
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Hooray. Texas winter. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1215805171055386625/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62799 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 18:50:45 EST
Stephen Sekula
From ValerieH137 https://twitter.com/ValerieH137 on Twitter: #OnThisDay 28 years ago: @Fermilab's CDF detector with muon chambers in the foreground. https://twitter.com/ValerieH137/status/1214967112260837378/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62781 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 18:50:42 EST
Stephen Sekula
Well... this will be exciting: "Cold front could drop Dallas-Fort Worth from the 70s into the 30s, bring chance for strong storms" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2020/01/08/cold-front-could-drop-dallas-fort-worth-from-the-70s-into-the-30s-bring-a-chance-for-strong-storms/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 09:31:13 EST
Stephen Sekula
From VRubinObs https://twitter.com/VRubinObs on Twitter: It's official, we are now the NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the first national US observatory to be named after a woman. Read the press release at https://t.co/Gp49yUVumt We're getting ready to change our social media handles...stay tuned! #AAS235 https://twitter.com/VRubinObs/status/1214624020550881283 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/62776 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 09:30:59 EST
Stephen Sekula
From SLAClab https://twitter.com/SLAClab on Twitter: New decade, new name: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is now the @NSF Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO), honoring a key figure in the history of the search for #DarkMatter. https://twitter.com/VRubinObs/status/1214624020550881283 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2020 08:10:50 EST
Stephen Sekula
The Internet facilitates ignorance as readily as it does knowledge. It allows us to build reinforcements around our errors. It allows us to share a fake image and wave away concerns because the target of the image is a shared enemy for your in-group. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/07/how-spot-photoshopped-image-or-problem-with-internet/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2020 18:10:42 EST
Stephen Sekula
My first day back at work is tomorrow (Jan. 8). It will take time to work through email, and my focus will be on upcoming graduate issues in our department and b-jet trigger work. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2020 08:21:00 EST
Stephen Sekula
Can you pass our climate change quiz? See if you have a grasp of the basics. From @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2019/11/22/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-climate-change/?arc404=true -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2019 11:50:40 EST
Stephen Sekula
"A Decade On The Physics Grand Challenge Problem" Students present the results of the Honors Physics Grand Challenge Problem for Fall 2015. When I arrived at SMU in 2009, I was not a teacher. I was a researcher. Unfortunately, it has been common in our field to leave people unprepared for the teaching environment. When I was in graduate school, there either were no â*¦ … -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2019 16:40:47 EST
Stephen Sekula
"Jet sculpture" No idea. But itâ**s cool. https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2019/12/29/jet-sculpture/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/feed/ ) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2019 16:30:43 EST
Stephen Sekula
"Passing through" Just passing through St. Paul (or thereabouts). https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2019/12/29/passing-through/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/feed/ )