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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD

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Adventures With Emmy - Lead Developer #ITeachPhysics - Physics Education Researcher, Asst Professor of Physics and Education #Pathfinder2e - Infinite Master, We're Strong Together No Kings or concentration camps in America. #SaveNSF I say banned words.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello, newcomers! I'm a physics education researcher and I write products for Pathfinder Infinite. I also post pics of my cooking and share anecdotes about my kids.

#ITeachPhysics

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 24m

Conservatives: "The problem with academics is that they have no sense of absolute truth."

Also conservatives: Break percentages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 4h

Amphibians unite 🐸🐸 #WarRavagedPortland

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 6h

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 57m

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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MissKris @misskris6.bsky.social · 8h

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alicemalice.bsky.social @alicemalice.bsky.social · 3h

Just wanna say the Pathfinder remastered dragons are goated and this one is my favorite.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 45m

And a week of downtime is a couple dice rolls.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 4h

I spoke with physicians who have treated presidents and VPs about Trump's return visit to Walter Reed — and they had questions.

“The answer that this was just part of his usual annual, or semi-annual visit, is disingenuous,” @jreinermd.bsky.social told me.

Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam

Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 2h

The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House. And they love to remind us when it’s convenient for them. So it's on them to fund the government. If they want our votes, they have to come talk to us.

They know what we want: extend the ACA tax credits so the healthcare system doesn't collapse.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 2h

youtu.be/pk-Oq8iYtVA?...

Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film

YouTube video by Tyrone Deise

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 9h

Congratulations to the happy couple

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 12h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 11h

The people who work this work schedule want for you to never be able to retire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 11h

The patent office.
THE HIGHLY POLITICIZED PATENT OFFICE.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair, their teachers told them to never use Wikipedia.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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NikaaaAAAAHH 🎃 👻 @mxnectarine.bsky.social · 1d

Soup season 🍲 🍜 🥣 🥘 🍛🍵

foxaes
My body is Not a temple. it is a thermos. for soup

cory (harvard graduate)
@coolmathgame_
[movie theatre]
me: [discreetly taking a drink out of my flask] u want some of this
guy sitting next to me: uh sure i guess [takes a drink and starts choking is this fucking soup

Bewg
@bewgtweets
Soup of the day implies another, possibly even seductive, soup of the night.

chris person @Papapishu
Asian soup spoons are so much better for the task of soup it's nuts. Western soup spoons are awful. The west is clearly unserious about the way it consumes soup.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a striped shirt is standing in front of a yellow wall and saying touche .

ALT: a woman in a striped shirt is standing in front of a yellow wall and saying touche .

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

Let's see how this goes when it's a republican governor.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "the Compact"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Michael Burns-Kaurin @mburnskaurin.bsky.social · 1d

#iTeachPhysics
Using this in class next week for uniform circular motion.

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

Me: These NGSS standards are really basic.
NGSS: You're reading the K-2 column.

homer simpson is surrounded by flames and says s-m-r-t in white letters

Alt: homer simpson is surrounded by flames and says s-m-r-t in white letters

media.tenor.com

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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

I mistyped "omen physicists" and actually can we get on that too?

W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 1d

Great now how about some Nobel Prizes for women physicists?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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