Dynamite with a laser beam.

Make and take diffraction gratings for a field trip today!

At Hollywood actor is giving a talk at our local historical society in an old mission. This is some Midsomer Murders in So Cal shit.

A 12 cabin resort in Belize in an uncommonly rainy week is how murder mysteries begin. I am both here for it and want to get out before I am a suspect.

Tell them to say hello!

This is why I don't to to APS much. I switched to AAPT because it felt more welcoming when I knew no one there.

So excited to be doing a ton of stuff and meeting amazing folks at CU*IP!

Snacks for physicists.

No proper celebration until all the paperwork is done, but I think I just pulled the "Campus grant office messed up. Error in your favor." Chance card in Academic Monopoly.

Yay! That's awesome! I will be the short person with a trivia battle jacket tomorrow so definitely say hello. :)

Thesis feedback for my first ever masters student, who is amazing and basically supervised himself because I am the world's okayest advisor.

Yep. But I am going to see if other faculty want to get in on using it for student incentives at the cost of contributing some prizes. Or I could be a jerk and set the win rate really low.

This is going to be either the best or dumbest thing I've put in my office.

Only for pics. I didn't have it in me to go out in the sexy version to trick or treat with my kid. :)

I wasn't but it's a great idea!

Beat lecture slide of my career so far.

Well you're not fully wrong as I will be ascending to the Advanced Labs society presidency. :)

I have never related to a conference talk title more. #AAPTWM26

In Vegas for the AAPT meeting. The hotel is clearly ready for us. #AAPTWM26

He's 7 now. We did some kids music classes before Covid but he's all sports all the time right now. Plus a healthy dash of STEM.

Well if he grows up to he at all like you I'd be very happy. :) But...despite being half Jason's he seems to have my almost total lack of musical talent.

My kid asked for an algebra book. He doesn't know what these mean but was very excited to show me his "first graphs" this morning.

My kid started writing his own math problems and he's really into E=mc^2 and Einstein for some reason. Wonder where he gets it.

I'll try this an an intimidation tactic first and see if it helps. :)

New approach for academically dishonest students.

A "Faculty Learning Community" is not actually a Learning Community if you don't spend a significant amount of time building the community in the first place. End rant.

Currently reviewing internal grants and, I'm not sure if this is in the instructions but if it is, faculty should be penalized in the rankings if they put their names in what is supposed to be an anonymous proposal.

My department is hiring and looking for a physicist to join us! We are a lot of fun and have lots of candy and snacks so if that doesn't convince you to apply I don't know what will. (Also feel free to share this!)

careers.csusb.edu/en-us/job/55...

I'll put it in a chain ala Flavor Flav.

Won a trophy this weekend. My kid told me I shoukd be proud and take it into work to show everyone.