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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · 5d

Doing all the things, with ribbons to prove it, at the @calbridge.bsky.social Fall Conference.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Sep 4

AI is terrible for trivia writing research.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Aug 28

My latest Funsize Physics post on making Silly Putty and playing with polymers is up!

funsizephysics.com/polymers-at-...

Polymers at Play: Make your own Silly Putty! - FunsizePhysics

There is some serious science behind Silly Putty! This classic toy gets its unique properties from materials you can find them around your house or at the grocery store. Click to learn how you can mak...

funsizephysics.com

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Aug 28

New art up on the office. Two year difference between the top and bottom.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Aug 16

Idea for the next big ESPN The Ocho sport: Full Contact Charades.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jul 19

@dvschroeder.bsky.social Sadly they don't have good enough taste to have your thermal book!

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jul 19

Found some light reading at an Air BNB.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jul 14

Soccer camp is only a half day so someone is at work getting an optics lab tour complete with using a laser to burn Post-Its.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jul 7

At the airport lounge and there's a guy at the bar working on slides about thin films and all I want to do it start talking to him about them.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jun 18

Automatic email replies are runnning and Slack notifications are paused. Vacation time!

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jun 16

One of my awesome students and I just gave a joint talk at the Advanced Labs Physics Association meeting showing off his senior lab project building a low-cost spin coater. #AdvancedLab

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do bands on a multi-band "emo" night coordinate their cover songs for minimal overlap? I mean I am totally up for multiple versions of Scotty Doesn't Know but I don't need multiples of many other songs.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 28

My mother sent me a New Jersey care package. Luckily the laundry and tan notes are much more pronounced than the gym ones.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 27

Less of a tag team more of an Eiffel Tower.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 27

I'm at a wedding for one of my students and I think this might be the first time the phrase "internal reference frame" has been used in a wedding vow.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 15

Its finals weel and I went into an unused lab room to watch trash TV while I grade and students just started coming in and sitting down and studying and asking me things. Next time I silently grade in a dark room.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 9

This government is going to ensure that the NSF follows its mission to "to foster scientific progress, improve national health and prosperity, and safeguard our nation’s security" by...checks notes...ending programs that help ALL AMERICANS participate in STEM. 😠🤮

www.nsf.gov/edu/updates/...

Sunsetting of the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 8

We want to know!

srah @quesrah.bsky.social · May 8

. @nytimes.com, your coverage is like "There are bands" but we want to know MORE about the bands. Who are they? Are they all Swiss Guards? Were they waiting in the wings already or did they have to assemble in the streets before marching in? Investigate some journalism here. The people want to know.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 8

These are the questions I have been furiously googling.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · May 8

They’re making sure to get the Vatican national anthem some spins here because they know there’s no way any of the Cardinals are winning the 110m hurdles at the Olympics

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 8

Correction. There are lots of marching bands and I am confused at how parade like this is.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 8

I see your adorable Baby Pope and raise you Jude Law in the Papal Speedo.

Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 8

TIL the Vatican had a marching band and I didn't expect the popening to sound line a small town USA July 4th parade.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 6

Proof that it's not all in my head and, yes, I probably take on too much.

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Sara Callori @saradoesscience.bsky.social · May 6

For those in the physics (and STEM) education sphere, one of my favorite FREE resources had it's funding cancelled by the NSF because this government hates 1) education and 2) equity and access to educational resources. Consider donating to sustain PhET! I just did! phet.colorado.edu

PhET Interactive Simulations

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based...

phet.colorado.edu

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