Heather Logan
@helogan.bsky.social
Theoretical particle physicist, university professor, nature enthusiast, Wiccan HPS (dual Lexi/Gard), autistic person. She/her.
https://people.physics.carleton.ca/~logan/
https://people.physics.carleton.ca/~logan/
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Heather Logan
@helogan.bsky.social
· Nov 29
My concise and heavily-referenced guide for #HigherEd #faculty on creating more #autistic -friendly #research groups is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.17929
Includes a downloadable printable poster.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #ScienceIsForEveryone #EDI
Includes a downloadable printable poster.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #ScienceIsForEveryone #EDI
Tomorrow, November 18, is the International Day of 2SLGBTQIA+ People in STEM! ⚛️ 🧪
If you teach or mentor people in STEM, simply acknowledging this day can go a long way to creating a more supportive environment for your 2SLGBTQIA+ students.
Read more: diversity-and-inclusion.web.cern.ch/node/133
If you teach or mentor people in STEM, simply acknowledging this day can go a long way to creating a more supportive environment for your 2SLGBTQIA+ students.
Read more: diversity-and-inclusion.web.cern.ch/node/133
International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM | Diversity & Inclusion Programme
diversity-and-inclusion.web.cern.ch
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Tomorrow, November 18, is the International Day of 2SLGBTQIA+ People in STEM! ⚛️ 🧪
If you teach or mentor people in STEM, simply acknowledging this day can go a long way to creating a more supportive environment for your 2SLGBTQIA+ students.
Read more: diversity-and-inclusion.web.cern.ch/node/133
If you teach or mentor people in STEM, simply acknowledging this day can go a long way to creating a more supportive environment for your 2SLGBTQIA+ students.
Read more: diversity-and-inclusion.web.cern.ch/node/133
Reposted by Heather Logan
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Employers are always handwringing about autism accommodations in the workplace and I gotta tell you: ear defenders and quiet workstations are the least of your problems. What autistic people really need is *whispers* for other people to do their actual jobs.
In a little over a week I'll be giving a talk on my experiences as a (formerly) undiagnosed autistic person in academia. I'm a little nervous about the "exposure", but hey, what could go wrong??
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
ACE EDI Presents: Autistic in Academia - Faculty of Science
Join Carleton Science and Dr. Heather Logan, Professor in the Department of Physics for the next ACE EDI event: Autistic in Academia. Neurodivergent people are already here: in your courses, labs, res...
science.carleton.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Reposted by Heather Logan
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. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬
In a little over a week I'll be giving a talk on my experiences as a (formerly) undiagnosed autistic person in academia. I'm a little nervous about the "exposure", but hey, what could go wrong??
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
ACE EDI Presents: Autistic in Academia - Faculty of Science
Join Carleton Science and Dr. Heather Logan, Professor in the Department of Physics for the next ACE EDI event: Autistic in Academia. Neurodivergent people are already here: in your courses, labs, res...
science.carleton.ca
November 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
In a little over a week I'll be giving a talk on my experiences as a (formerly) undiagnosed autistic person in academia. I'm a little nervous about the "exposure", but hey, what could go wrong??
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
science.carleton.ca/event/ace-ed...
The plan is for there to be an online option as well as in-person.
Reposted by Heather Logan
For *reasons* I feel I have to say that I have never and will never use genAI in anything to do with my job other than generating examples of how useless it is so I can put students off using it. I have my own brain and quite enjoy using it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
For *reasons* I feel I have to say that I have never and will never use genAI in anything to do with my job other than generating examples of how useless it is so I can put students off using it. I have my own brain and quite enjoy using it.
This midterm exam season I'm experimenting with "blinded" marking [grading], where I take extra care to mark (e.g.) problem 1 independently from 2 and 3 and also to ensure I don't know whose work I'm marking while I'm marking it.
I think this maximizes fairness both by preventing performance ...
I think this maximizes fairness both by preventing performance ...
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This midterm exam season I'm experimenting with "blinded" marking [grading], where I take extra care to mark (e.g.) problem 1 independently from 2 and 3 and also to ensure I don't know whose work I'm marking while I'm marking it.
I think this maximizes fairness both by preventing performance ...
I think this maximizes fairness both by preventing performance ...
My talk was recorded, and is now up on the SAC's YouTube channel! youtu.be/6CSRsDNUnSQ
A bunch of other past talks also have recordings, all linked from here: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
A bunch of other past talks also have recordings, all linked from here: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My talk was recorded, and is now up on the SAC's YouTube channel! youtu.be/6CSRsDNUnSQ
A bunch of other past talks also have recordings, all linked from here: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
A bunch of other past talks also have recordings, all linked from here: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
Tomorrow at 6pm Eastern!
I'm writing a colloquium for next week on CP violation and symmetries in particle physics (senior physics-undergrad level), to be delivered online through the Canadian Association of Physicists' Student Advisory Council's Physics Hour [scroll down]: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
CAP Student Advisory Council The Physics Hour 2025
sac.cap.ca
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Tomorrow at 6pm Eastern!
I'm writing a colloquium for next week on CP violation and symmetries in particle physics (senior physics-undergrad level), to be delivered online through the Canadian Association of Physicists' Student Advisory Council's Physics Hour [scroll down]: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
CAP Student Advisory Council The Physics Hour 2025
sac.cap.ca
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'm writing a colloquium for next week on CP violation and symmetries in particle physics (senior physics-undergrad level), to be delivered online through the Canadian Association of Physicists' Student Advisory Council's Physics Hour [scroll down]: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
⚛️🧪 All welcome!
It's midterm season, and the most valuable thing #HigherEd staff can do right now is to reduce the stress load on students. They have enough stress studying their course material; they don't need more from being put the wrong exam room or having proctors whispering loudly while they're writing.
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's midterm season, and the most valuable thing #HigherEd staff can do right now is to reduce the stress load on students. They have enough stress studying their course material; they don't need more from being put the wrong exam room or having proctors whispering loudly while they're writing.
MathVeg!
I still think these are super cool.
I still think these are super cool.
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
MathVeg!
I still think these are super cool.
I still think these are super cool.
Reposted by Heather Logan
As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."
1/🧵
I gave my talk today, on the "(In)consistency of the Real two-Higgs-doublet model", for the Scalars 2025 conference! 🎉 I had to give it remotely, because I still can't travel due to chronic fatigue. 😢
3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬
3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬
I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.
Scalars 2025
The conference "Scalars 2025" will be held in Warsaw in September 2025. The meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Division for Physics of Fundament...
indico2.fuw.edu.pl
September 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I gave my talk today, on the "(In)consistency of the Real two-Higgs-doublet model", for the Scalars 2025 conference! 🎉 I had to give it remotely, because I still can't travel due to chronic fatigue. 😢
3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬
3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬
Amazing colloquium today by @burcinmp.bsky.social on "The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation"!
#CarletonU ⚛️🧪
#CarletonU ⚛️🧪
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Amazing colloquium today by @burcinmp.bsky.social on "The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation"!
#CarletonU ⚛️🧪
#CarletonU ⚛️🧪
Age verification? I write code in FORTRAN.
Age verification? A lot of what I know about how computers work comes from a book about DOS 3.2.
age verification
I still remember putting the Encarta disc into the CD-ROM drive to learn about things
I still remember putting the Encarta disc into the CD-ROM drive to learn about things
September 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Age verification? I write code in FORTRAN.
Ahaha holy shit
It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.
Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon
Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."
nbcnews.to
September 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ahaha holy shit
Survived the first (half-)week of fall semester! 💪
- Met my two new graduate students;
- Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course;
- Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job;
- Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student.
#CarletonU
- Met my two new graduate students;
- Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course;
- Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job;
- Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student.
#CarletonU
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Survived the first (half-)week of fall semester! 💪
- Met my two new graduate students;
- Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course;
- Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job;
- Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student.
#CarletonU
- Met my two new graduate students;
- Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course;
- Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job;
- Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student.
#CarletonU
Reposted by Heather Logan
Heard from someone that a student from my stat mech class last year were gushing “I never thought the rice cooker is so amazing until I took Eugene’s class!”
I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.
I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.
September 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Heard from someone that a student from my stat mech class last year were gushing “I never thought the rice cooker is so amazing until I took Eugene’s class!”
I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.
I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.
I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.
Scalars 2025
The conference "Scalars 2025" will be held in Warsaw in September 2025. The meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Division for Physics of Fundament...
indico2.fuw.edu.pl
August 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.
As a FORTRAN user and a woman in STEM, I love this! 🥰
🗓️ 25 Aug 1900: Dorothy Vaughan is born. Taught herself FORTRAN (a new programming language in the 1950s) without formal training so she could retrain her entire team of Black women mathematicians ensuring they remained essential as NASA transitioned from manual calculations to computers #WomenInSTEM
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
As a FORTRAN user and a woman in STEM, I love this! 🥰
Reposted by Heather Logan
A blog article I wrote up for my publisher on figuring out why my language development was different to other people.
#Autistic
blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...
#Autistic
blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...
Autistic Communication; Not As Simple As A, B, C. - JKP Blog
Autistic Communication; Not As Simple As A, B, C. By Niamh Garvey, an autistic author from Cork. Find her latest book, The Autistic Guide to…
blog.jkp.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A blog article I wrote up for my publisher on figuring out why my language development was different to other people.
#Autistic
blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...
#Autistic
blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...
Transformative work on improving inclusion for #autistic students -- focus is on kid-school, but relevant to #HigherEd as well!
📣Publication Announcement!
Our article 'Autistic SPACE for Inclusive Education' has been published open access with Neurodiversity Journal 📑
doi.org/10.1177/2754...
Our article 'Autistic SPACE for Inclusive Education' has been published open access with Neurodiversity Journal 📑
doi.org/10.1177/2754...
Autistic SPACE for Inclusive Education - Elaine McGoldrick, Aoife Munroe, Rachel Ferguson, Carina Byrne, Mary Doherty, 2025
The continuing policy commitment to Inclusive Education internationally requires the prioritisation of the creation of inclusive schools in practice. Research w...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My alma mater! 🥰
Big news from UC Santa Cruz! Together with The Conservation Fund, UCSC is protecting 200+ acres of sensitive habitat next to our residential campus. This land will serve as a living laboratory for research and conservation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=txwq...
A collaboration to conserve habitat and pursue organic farm expansion
YouTube video by UC Santa Cruz
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My alma mater! 🥰