Direct Projection: The Moon in My Hands
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Graphy
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Lunar Eclipse over a Skyscraper
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)
Ed Hawkins (on the bird site), famous for inventing the climate stripes:
"Today we relaunch #WeatherRescue!
Millions of pages of ship logbooks are full of detailed weather observations which have never been digitised.
Transcribing this data will improve our knowledge of how the climate has changed. Do you have some time to help?"
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/p-teleti/weather-rescue-at-sea
#ClimateChange #climate #ClimateScience #CitizenScience #EdHawkins #DataRescue #DARE #HistoricalClimateData
Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
Image Credit & Copyright: Max Alexander, STFC, SPL
mastodon, academic conferences
trying to promote Mastodon at the Association of Internet Researchers #aoir2019 conference... any other Mastodon users here?
The halls of the physics building are covered in posters of nobel prize winners. This is a good idea in theory, but in practice it’s really demoralizing as a woman to walk down the halls and see hundreds of old white men with maybe 3 women... but today i walked in to the building see people replacing the pictures with beautiful, colorful posters of influential women in physics. I almost started crying; I felt so happy. Representation matters, folks.
Cold weather, so I've been blogging about physics and tea. Who is surprised? http://lecdem.physics.umd.edu/tools-and-resources/lecdem-blog.html
#STEMEd folks: any favorites or ideas for quantum-themed games and activities for kids? (10-12 years)
Tech gatekeeping and documentation
Lack of documentation is one way that gate-keeping happens
Because I guarantee you there are people who are explaining it to other people; it's not just that the most cleverest 1337 haxors are figuring it out on their own
But when this kind of explaining is done informally, and not through good documentation, it just means that the developers get to choose who uses/builds on their software
Image from page 133 of "Bulletin" (1961-1962)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/19800240974/
hahaha i did not know that Messier came up with his famous list of objects because he "was a comet hunter, and was frustrated by objects which resembled but were not comets, so he compiled a list of them... to avoid wasting time on them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object
a reminder that the things you'll be remembered for might be the things you throw away while trying to do something else
Hello to those interested in open education and open educational resources: consider adding yourself to the open edu list on Trunk for mastodon, lists of people interested specific kinds of topics! https://communitywiki.org/trunk #OER
Physics education nerd turned information science grad, intermittent writer, perhaps overfond of tea.