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Steve Dodge
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Physics professor @ Simon Fraser University. Experimental research in quantum materials and optical spectroscopy.

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Happy Pride in STEM Day!
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https://prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our department is preparing to celebrate the International Day of 2SLGBTQIA+ People in STEM on November 18, and one of our students made a great set of posters. I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the posters highlights @timnitGebru and her work at DAIR! 👏
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
A few years ago I organized an assessment of the social climate in my academic department. One of the most significant findings was that queer students did not feel like they belonged. After discussing this with a queer student who I knew fairly well, I […]

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June 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Blunt and effective Thursday message
May 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
@historianess
Here he is, looking for the guy behind Harvard Derangement Syndrome
May 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
@johncarlosbaez
Cool find! I looked it up and it’s a dynamic effect, so you need to be in a regime where the charge relaxation in the sphere is slower than in the liquid.

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.043014
May 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Saw this mural in Paris (13e) and have since discovered that it’s by an Angeleno artist, Tristan Eaton

https://www.tristaneaton.com/the-revolution-will-be-trivialized/

https://www.tristaneaton.com/work-avenue#/the-revolution-will-be-trivialized-paris-france/
May 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Munich airport has an exercise machine that confused the hell out of me. It measures “energy performance” and displays the energy, not the power, in Watts! (Also, it should not be capitalized.) Then I saw the fine print at the bottom: “The physically […]

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May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My street today
April 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I bought this dish cloth today because I love rainbows and because I am fascinated by the different ways artists (mis)represent them.

Initially I thought they didn’t pay attention to the colors but after looking at it a bit longer I suspect something got […]

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March 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
@aram @admin1 @nik @ubiquity75 @rwg @tstruett @paufder @atomicpoet
Interesting — I just tried the same prompt for myself and it directed me back to the platform. Any idea what causes the difference? I used the GPT-4o through DuckDuckGo.
January 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
First week of class is over! I added a new slide on automated text generation software to the course introduction
January 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco has a stained glass window that features Albert Einstein

#physics #science #scicomm
December 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
This headline is a work of art
December 14, 2024 at 9:36 PM
November 4, 2024 at 7:08 AM
The NOAA weather app is trolling Canada
September 2, 2024 at 3:13 PM
I guess I’m too nerdy for the NYT Spelling Bee (also tried and failed with NAND)
September 1, 2024 at 9:07 AM