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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 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

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May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m proud to share last year’s Canadian Political Science Association Presidential address by my wife, Genevieve Fuji Johnson. Using previous Presidential addresses as evidence, she describes how her discipline has improved by including diverse voices.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Voice Through Text, Tradition and Community | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core
Voice Through Text, Tradition and Community - Volume 57 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
April 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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I wish more prominent scientists would speak out about what is happening under Trump.

Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.
March 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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My student was doing a literature search and found a 2023 paper in the Nature/Springer Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials with figures just screen shot from a 2015 paper in Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. JUST SCREENSHOT AND PASTED!!
@retractionwatch.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Congratulations to #SFU Mathematics prof Nadish de Silva and SFU Physics profs @jsdodge.bsky.social and Hoi Kwan Lau, on receiving NSERC Alliance International Quantum grants! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/...
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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It's time for... the Semi-Finals of the 2024 Headline of the Year contest!
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Welcome!

Here are the results so far:
December 30, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Welcome to the exciting Quarterfinals of the 2024 Headline of the Year contest! (🎆🎆)

Interesting contests so far, but the stakes are being raised with some tough battles ahead -- Self-Driving Cars vs. Orca Salmon Hats & Welsh Tidy Mouse vs. Alarming Poetry Sales.

Let's review the results so far:
December 29, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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I was surprised and delighted to see the work of my friend and colleague John Bechhoefer featured in this article on entropy and information engines. I’ve had the pleasure of serving on a few of the thesis committees for his students and it’s been fun to see this work develop.

From: @7homaslin […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
December 14, 2024 at 6:55 AM
🚨 It’s official! The Journal of Open Source Software has published our data analysis software for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy!💡🧪
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Congrats to my student-researcher coauthors! Thanks also to the people at @pyopensci.bsky.social, who organized the peer review and helped during development.
Just published in JOSS: 'THzTools: data analysis software for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07542
December 3, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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Nine months after the provost moved to fire him, Ranga Dias is no longer employed by the University of Rochester. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Superconductivity researcher who committed misconduct exits university
The University of Rochester has confirmed that it no longer employs Ranga Dias, who was found by investigators to have committed data fabrication.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Happy #LGBTQSTEMday! More than a decade (!) ago, I asked a social scientist friend to help build a study of queer identities in science careers after my literature searches came up empty — this year I helped with an evidence review that found SO MUCH on the topic, and still room for more work.
November 19, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.

Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.
Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild
www.science.org
August 17, 2024 at 4:26 AM
@econover.bsky.social has written a nice summary of the latest claim of photoinduced superconductivity from the Hamburg MPI, which includes some words of cautious skepticism from me.

www.sciencenews.org/article/ligh...

#superconductivity #physics #optics #MPI
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Can light spark superconductivity? A new study reignites debate
Brief blasts of light might make some materials into fleeting superconductors. Magnetic measurements strengthen the case for this controversial claim.
www.sciencenews.org
July 20, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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Women for Quantum -- Manifesto of Values
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02612
Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. Beyond data, from our shared personal experiences as female...📈🤖
July 4, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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People sometimes ask me "It's pride month, what should I do?"

Centre the conversation on margenlised voices
Actively avoid/ignore/push back on the media fear mongering "sex based rights"
Recognise that queer iconography and community is important - and that's why flags/months/🏳️‍🌈crosswalks matter
June 3, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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It has been a few months since I advertised the Photonics feed, for content related to the study and applications of optics & photonics

If you work or study in the field, or are a hobbyist, reply or DM and I can give you posting access. Tag a post with 💡 to be included

bsky.app/profile/did:... cc🧪
May 31, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Ranga Dias found to have committed #ScientificMisconduct in his work on #superconductivity after multiple internal investigations

arstechnica.com/science/2024...
Report: Superconductivity researcher found to have committed misconduct
Details of what the University of Rochester investigation found are not available.
arstechnica.com
March 21, 2024 at 7:36 PM
For those who are interested , my recorded talk at the APS March Meeting, “How nonlinearity distorts the evidence for photoinduced superconductivity,” is now available on-demand for those who registered. First talk in Session N41.

march.aps.org

#superconductivity #physics
March Meeting 2024
Welcome to APS March Meeting 2024
march.aps.org
March 21, 2024 at 4:54 AM
N+1 in the never-ending series of @nytimes.com articles that answer threats to academic freedom with Harvard gossip.

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/a...
February 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Einstein, Podosky and Rizzo the Rat
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Let’s remake famous scientific papers, with all but one of the coauthors replaced by Muppets.
December 27, 2023 at 1:26 AM
Animal, Anderson, Licciaradello and Ramakrishnan
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Let’s remake famous scientific papers, with all but one of the coauthors replaced by Muppets.
December 27, 2023 at 1:25 AM
Pound, Purcell and Miss Piggy
Let’s remake famous scientific papers, with all but one of the coauthors replaced by Muppets.
December 27, 2023 at 1:20 AM