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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 9h

Our first plenary is Elissa Levy, teacher from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. I wish she was on BlueSky so I could tag her!

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 9h

Today is the Fall 2025 meeting of Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, hosted by my alma mater, Virginia Commonwealth University!

@aapthq.bsky.social

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

Look, history started when I was born.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

So far, the only good point I've seen any schools make about starting to bring it into the classroom is that schools should be teaching about AI use and misuse as a skill for career/life. But I haven't seen much of even that being done well.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

It's bad, actually.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are saying that Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem have cost Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

I voted for Megafauna, but Mammoth won.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

Philadelphia Phillies providing himbo-baseball, will it be enough?

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing a citizen bank jersey is making a funny face

Alt: Nick Castellanos

media.tenor.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2d

Boy howdy, does this resonate.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 3d

"Young fry of treachery!"

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 4d

The Liberal Media strikes again!

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · Aug 5

Gonna read up on AEI Artificial Emotional Intelligence

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 5d

Found the villain!

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe the Square is on fire, let's see:

www.thesquarepdx.org/see-the-squa...

Come find a brick on Pioneer Courthouse Square!

The Square is a symbol of Portland, and the bricks symbolize the people that make Portland such an extraordinary city. Search bricks, explore Portland's Living Room and buy your own piece of The Squa...

www.thesquarepdx.org

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 6d

Want to see Portland burning to the ground? Hop on those live webcams and check it out for yourself.

www.iplivecams.com/live-cams/do...

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 6d

“You Can Call Me AL” was Chevy Chase’s best work.

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 7d

“SeMi aUtoMaTic”

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Harry The Woodpecker.

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 7d

Gratitude to whom? What is he talking about?

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 8d

"After 30 years as a researcher, science communicator and university science teacher, I’ve been unsettled by what appears to be a growing skepticism of science among some of my Generation Z students..."

Some people mistakenly believe that skepticism *is* science.

Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 8d

“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... 🎁

Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 7d

It’s telling that they’re assuming this is anti-cop.

Nobody thinks they’re saying “federal agents are here in my neighborhood and now I feel more safe!”

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 8d

"After 30 years as a researcher, science communicator and university science teacher, I’ve been unsettled by what appears to be a growing skepticism of science among some of my Generation Z students..."

Some people mistakenly believe that skepticism *is* science.

Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 8d

“framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents who must be overcome”

An interesting thesis and suggestion of a solution

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... 🎁

Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 9d

Do I want mobile ID on my phone? What's the downside?

Jason Sterlace @sterlace.bsky.social · 9d

The specific note about checking the immigration status of people who do not speak much if any English! Goddamn.

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