Physgal ⚛️
@physgal.bsky.social
University physics lecturer and Associate Dean, Learning. Physics demystifier. Supporter of girls and women in physics. CAP Teaching Medal 2018, 3MNTF 2023. She/her Ph.D.
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@physgal.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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My paternal grandfather was nearly killed in WWI when he was a sailor on the HMS Marlborough. Luckily for me, he survived his ship being torpedoed during the Battle of Jutland. #RemembranceDay #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
My paternal grandfather was nearly killed in WWI when he was a sailor on the HMS Marlborough. Luckily for me, he survived his ship being torpedoed during the Battle of Jutland. #RemembranceDay #VeteransDay
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
This is disappointing. The APS merged all of the regional Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) into one conference in Colorado for 2026. This will make attendance for undergraduates a lot more expensive in terms of both money and time. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 #WomenInPhysics
Attendees
Find mentors, explore education and career opportunities and network with and learn from fellow students with varied backgrounds and perspectives in physics.
www.aps.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is disappointing. The APS merged all of the regional Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) into one conference in Colorado for 2026. This will make attendance for undergraduates a lot more expensive in terms of both money and time. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 #WomenInPhysics
Love to see alumni from state universities winning Nobel Prizes. You don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be successful. 🧪 👩🔬 🥽
UAlbany Alum Omar Yaghi ’85 Shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
University at Albany alum Omar M. Yaghi (Chemistry, 1985) has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing the honor with Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University and Richard Robson of the Unive...
www.albany.edu
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Love to see alumni from state universities winning Nobel Prizes. You don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be successful. 🧪 👩🔬 🥽
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We are offering 4 PhD scholarships in #physics and #astronomy topics @sydney.edu.au
Including:
* FRBs with @manishacaleb.bsky.social
* Quantum critical points with @domwilliamson.bsky.social
* Nanostructured materials with @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
Including:
* FRBs with @manishacaleb.bsky.social
* Quantum critical points with @domwilliamson.bsky.social
* Nanostructured materials with @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
Physics Foundation Scholarship
A stipend scholarship to support PhD students who are undertaking research within School of Physics, Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.
www.sydney.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country
Canada is grappling with a “large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles” that began in October last year.
globalnews.ca/news/1151951...
globalnews.ca/news/1151951...
Canada loses measles elimination status after outbreaks - National | Globalnews.ca
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country
Fifty years ago today
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Fifty years ago today
Sunday night TL cleanse
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Sunday night TL cleanse
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
CALL NOW
(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)
LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
Well, of course they are.
JUST IN: As promised, the Trump administration is appealing U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’ preliminary injunction last week restricting the use of tear gas and other force against protesters and media during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Well, of course they are.
This seems like par for the course with customs officers nowadays. 😡
A 20-year-old Canadian booked to fly south to visit her grandparents was recently refused entry into the United States by American customs officers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
‘Felt like a bit of abuse of power’: Canadian denied entry to U.S.
A 20-year-old Canadian booked to fly south to visit her grandparents was recently refused entry into the United States by American customs officers, at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This seems like par for the course with customs officers nowadays. 😡
Sunday morning physics ⚛️
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sunday morning physics ⚛️
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Dear Physicists and Physics fans,
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
November 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Dear Physicists and Physics fans,
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
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Lucy Mensing, forgotten pioneer of quantum mechanics ⚛️
Lucy Mensing was born #OTD in Hamburg in 1901. In the 1920s she made fundamental contributions to the new quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, she is almost completely forgotten today. What did she contribute and what led
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Lucy Mensing was born #OTD in Hamburg in 1901. In the 1920s she made fundamental contributions to the new quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, she is almost completely forgotten today. What did she contribute and what led
1/8
March 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lucy Mensing, forgotten pioneer of quantum mechanics ⚛️
Lucy Mensing was born #OTD in Hamburg in 1901. In the 1920s she made fundamental contributions to the new quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, she is almost completely forgotten today. What did she contribute and what led
1/8
Lucy Mensing was born #OTD in Hamburg in 1901. In the 1920s she made fundamental contributions to the new quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, she is almost completely forgotten today. What did she contribute and what led
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It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.
Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.
Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
Happy Women in Physics Day to all of the amazing women and gender minorities in physics!! We are still greatly under-represented at all levels, so we need to continue encouraging girls and young women to consider studying physics and make systemic changes to the climate in the field. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy Women in Physics Day to all of the amazing women and gender minorities in physics!! We are still greatly under-represented at all levels, so we need to continue encouraging girls and young women to consider studying physics and make systemic changes to the climate in the field. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 🧪
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Only 3 women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, & Canadian Dr Donna Strickland is one of them.
On November 10, come & hear Dr Strickland at Royal City Science's 5th Anniversary celebration at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
#STEM #NobelPrize #Guelph
www.eventbrite.ca/e/light-soun...
On November 10, come & hear Dr Strickland at Royal City Science's 5th Anniversary celebration at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
#STEM #NobelPrize #Guelph
www.eventbrite.ca/e/light-soun...
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Only 3 women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, & Canadian Dr Donna Strickland is one of them.
On November 10, come & hear Dr Strickland at Royal City Science's 5th Anniversary celebration at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
#STEM #NobelPrize #Guelph
www.eventbrite.ca/e/light-soun...
On November 10, come & hear Dr Strickland at Royal City Science's 5th Anniversary celebration at the Guelph Youth Music Centre.
#STEM #NobelPrize #Guelph
www.eventbrite.ca/e/light-soun...
Cornell caved
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Cornell caved
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Happy #WomenInPhysics Day! Marie Curie won TWO Nobel prizes, one in physics (1903) and the other in chemistry (1911). She was the first person to ever achieve this feat in addition to being the first woman to win a Nobel prize. 🐐
Dear Physicists and Physics fans,
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th.
Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Happy #WomenInPhysics Day! Marie Curie won TWO Nobel prizes, one in physics (1903) and the other in chemistry (1911). She was the first person to ever achieve this feat in addition to being the first woman to win a Nobel prize. 🐐
Yep. And parents can share the leave if they want. 🇨🇦
A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Yep. And parents can share the leave if they want. 🇨🇦