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Assoc Professor of Physics @ Truman State U, MO, USA Dark matter, particle physics, teaching. Personal account not affiliated with my employer.
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HOT TAKE: Magnetic fields aren’t vectors. 🧲🧪🧲

Some timing 👀

The Universe, just as inflation ended:

First trip to Costco in a few years. My spirit of holiday commercialism is totally restored 💸

ope I guess they did

When my students complain about a homework problem I wrote:

Four women, zero men targeted www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Recording and reporting on every single thing someone says in public would, at one time, have been considered stalking and required being a creep…now that it’s technically trivial to do, that must make it okay!

A reminder to 🔭 and ⚛️ sky, esp #cosmology and #particle #physics folks: I'm hiring a postdoc! In principle the application deadline is on Monday night, but if I know you're planning to apply, we can discuss a late application! Our dept is 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ populated & friendly! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63459

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Physicist in literally any subfield: I will model the cup as a collection of simple harmonic oscillators

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Theoretical physicist: The cup’s contents are an O(1) fraction of the cup