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Quickies: Can you process an insurrection and still make time for science?
Welcome to another rushed Friday Quickies! Two virtual conferences at the same time seemed like such a great idea to past-Nicole… present-Nicole is TIRED. I’m still processing last week’s insurrection at the Capitol even as I fear future attacks. One way to do so is to learn about insurrections that we’ve had before in the U.S. at Sam Sanders’s NPR…
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Quickies: Fighting Nazis with data, following the research on diversity trainings, and more…
It’s been a whole MONTH since I’ve posted here…. oops. If you know an educator, send them chocolate or beer or puppies or whatever makes them happy because this semester is ROUGH. Here are a few things that have grabbed my interest despite my life steeped in class prep, grading, and committee work. In my astronomy class, we’ve recently been…
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Quickies: A good week for Indigenous rights, a well-named law, and kung fun nuns…
Big news out of Oklahoma as the Supreme Court rules that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation was never dissolved, affirming tribal sovereignty. H/t Ryan from MAL for sharing this. In a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and water protectors, the Dakota Access Pipeline has been ordered shutdown pending environmental review. However, the pipeline continues to operate as the company…
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Quickies: Changing social norms, exam questions, and butter packages…
I can’t believe it’s already May. Where did April go? Oh yeah, in a haze of anxiety inside my house… Do you find yourself saying, “how are you?” and realizing that’s a ridiculous frakking question right now? Here are some alternatives as our social rituals are changing. I can’t imagine giving a traditional final exam this week. So, I was…
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Quickies: Lights in the sky (for better or for worse) and more…
Happy Friday of the first impeachment hearing week! To be honest, I have been way busy at work and have no idea what’s going on with the hearings, save from the few snippets I hear on NPR on my short work commute. Instead, I am at PhysCon, a conference primarily for and by undergraduates in physics. I’m here as my…
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Quickies: This week in loss, resistance, nostalgia, and more…
Is it Friday already? A veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and leader in Congress today, Representative Elijah Cummings has died at age 68. Did you celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the US last Monday? Read why this holiday is an act of resistance to colonization even today. My friend from college tagged me in post about a real-life…
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Quickies: Stunning Astronomy paired with Cute Animal Friday
No intro this time… just the stories! The MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa catches our galaxy’s supermassive black hole “blowing bubbles” in an image that I find stunning from a technical standpoint AND beautifully ethereal. (If you want to get really nerdy, a freely-available preprint of the scientific journal article can be found on arXiv.) Remember ‘Oumuamua, the asteroid…
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Quickies: Measles at the Movies, Indigenous Astrophysics, Hip-Hop Science…
Hey, hey, all! It’s your friendly neighborhood astronomer. I am thrilled to bring back a Skepchick tradition, Cute Animal Friday! Amanda has brought us hundreds and HUNDREDS of adorable fauna from around the world, and I hope to do this fine tradition justice. I’m also going to be a little selfish and share my favorite cute animal, the one that…
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