For anyone attending the WeTeach_CS 2023 summit, come hear me talk about how computer science can be integrated into physics and astronomy courses in high school. https://sched.co/1KcZ0 #cs4yall #computationalthinking #computerscience #physicseducation #astronomyeducation #weteachcs23

Physics is not boring. Physics is bohring.

I am sponsoring a club at BHS all about computer science. They are looking for someone to give a lunchtime talk to the club about CS as a major and a career. If you are interested, message me, especially if I taught you computer science!

Welcome to 2023, everyone! 🥳🎉

To put to you how weird our perspective and perception of time is, we’re now at the half way point between Halley’s Comet visits!

1986 …………. ☄️………. 2061

If you’re born ~1980, you might be lucky enough to see it twice!

📸 NASA/W. Liller

I just finished (mostly) reading (with a fair bit of some skimming) Mario Small and @jessicacalarco's book "Qualitative Literacy".

As a parallel to the large body of literature on quantitive literacy, it asks what it means to do good qualitative research, and provides 5 concrete answers.

The writing is engaging enough for even this non-social-scientist to follow, and there's a lot that is useful to me as I've been making my transition from my quantitative background.

#BookReview

We saw 45 alligator along the banks and in the water when we hiked the Elm Lake trail today at Brazos Bend State Park.

I had never read The Cuckoo’s Egg published in 1987 but now that I have, I say everyone who loves the Internet of the 1990s should read this book. EMACS and vi and shell scripting and Telnet all tied up in a story about heckling into systems when that idea was new. A must read.

Avoiding academic work for at least one more day.

Pinhole camera effect of my curtains showing the motion of clouds.

I am saving this image for whenever someone from the East Coast insists that they have mountains too.

In 1925, Dr. Cecilia Payne completed her PhD thesis, described as “the most brilliant ever written in astronomy.” At a time when few #women entered academia, Payne discovered what the universe is made of. Her work began a revolution in astrophysics.

Dr. Payne-Gaposchkin became the 1st female professor & 1st female department chair at Harvard. Given most of us remember names like Darwin & Newton, we should also celebrate Payne. #science #space

Read more at https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201501/physicshistory.cfm #HistoryRemix

logic gate

Didn't we train for this our entire childhood?

The Sun this afternoon in hydrogen alpha. Processed with inverted chromosphere luminance.

#Sun #Astrodon #Space #Science

The adorable Venezuelan poodle moth was discovered and photographed in 2009 by Dr. Arthur Anker. It’s supposedly the only sighting of this critter, but insects are small and Earth is big. #nature #photography #SharedPlanet

Just imagine the diversity of species we haven’t found yet…

I've put my #LEGO #Oppy model up on Bricklink (my #Perseverance & #InSight models are also there).
I have instructions for building it, and I can provide those to my space friends (and especially those who worked on the mission). If you don't already have the parts, looks like they'd cost about $45US from Bricklink.
#OpportunityRover

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=386462

@NASA @elakdawalla @PlanetaryKeri @doug_ellison @mapperwocky

Soaring over Pluto

The dramatic Pluto flyover begins over the highlands to the southwest of the great expanse of nitrogen ice plain informally named Sputnik Planitia, as seen by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft.

Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Lunar and Planetary Institute

Instrument: Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC)
Mission: New Horizons
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21863
#astrodon

Turns out I wasn’t ready…

A Lunar Halo and light pillars on a frosty night in southern Manitoba for day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar