Teaming up with @joshuaroebke.bsky.social to develop a grad class called "Scientists as Writers." We want to merge a craft workshop with a scicomm class while writing for different audiences. PLEASE reply w 1) science writing resources you like & 2) things you wish were taught but are not. THANKS!

Speak up, even if your voice shakes when you do it

Nope. Still the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps.

So much ash has been falling on us the past few hours it has felt like LA is now the Upside Down.

NBCC member @joshuaroebke.bsky.social wrote about realism and the nature of experiments in physics and fiction, especially in Spanish literature, for Aeon:

It's my birthday so let's review.

Raised a bit of a rumpus this year.

I wrote about relationships and math for @asheld.bsky.social at @therumpus.net

"We reason with infinity much as we do with any other boundless abstraction, such as freedom and justice and love."

therumpus.net/2024/06/20/p...

So excited to see this great piece of writing out from my buddy @joshuaroebke.bsky.social! Recommended reading!

On physics and literature: “Fiction is our laboratory for the impossibilities that exceed our Universe, the infinity that casts limited reality in greater relief.” By @joshuaroebke.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-t...

This gorgeous new piece by @joshuaroebke.bsky.social should be essential reading. Scientists MUST understand the power of fiction (and history, and art) and we must use whatever sway we have in the Academy to help others value the humanities as they should…

aeon.co/essays/how-t...

You almost certainly believe there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are almost certainly wrong.

Wrote about the nature of experiments in physics and fiction.

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I live in LA but does this doll look like Larry David to anyone else?