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Physics professor at California State University, Long Beach. Interested in knots, DNA, and knotted DNA.
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Backgrounds of the judges at the statewide science fair I was helping out at: -US Space Force -Naval Surface Warfare Center (x3) -US Army-funded Psychologist -Naval Air Weapons Station -DNA Knot Guy

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Optical tweezerist: "We can explain optical trapping one way if the beads are much bigger than the wavelength, and another way if they're much smaller." Simplicio: "Well how big are your beads and what's your laser wavelength?" Optical tweezerist: "1 micron beads, 1064 nm wavelength."

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One dumb thing about my school is that we have a pyramid and there's a ballroom in the pyramid called The Pointe and it's located AT THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID.

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Can't imagine the gall of giving a guest lecture in a room full of FRESHMAN PHYSICS STUDENTS and saying "I'm sure you've all heard of the Drell-Yan effect..."

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Using an unreliable graphing software and saving the file every 10 seconds like I'm traversing a dungeon in Skyrim.

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Biophysics Internet Friends, I will not be attending Biophysical Society but I am nearby and might make it up to LA for a bit; let me know if you're there.

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One of my master's students* got into a Ph.D. program at UC Berkeley! *specifically, the one that didn't ask me for a reference letter

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If N=1 observations are good enough for Nature, they're good enough for me! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This data might disappear or get a lot less reliable, but for now it looks like we're past the COVID zenith

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Showing my class peer reviewed papers on the topic at hand, and then pointing out that I know the authors, for clout.

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Just spent 5 minutes or so reading "Ungrading in STEM courses" by Robert Talbert. I have had it open in a browser tab since April 27.

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Drake trying to find the constellation Cepheus but only hit U. Minooooooor

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Campus IT be like

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Ooh big stretch pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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CONCATENATE THE RINGS YOU COWARDS!

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The competing claims of Scotland, Canada, and the US over where the telephone was invented is known as the Alexander Graham Bell Inequality.

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