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Steve-o Stonebraker
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Your basic child of the 80s nerd. I love #Transformers and #ITeachPhysics in Massachusetts.

Posts prior to July 2023 were imported from Twitter using BlueArk's service.

Mastodon: https://retro.pizza/@sstoneb
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A collection of my "ready for primetime" #desmos #physics graphs can be found here:
www.camphortree.net/blog/desmos/

Every graph has a brief explanation, a preview image, and a permalink that will redirect to future updates. #ITeachPhysics
Steve-o’s Desmos creations – stuff from steve stonebraker
www.camphortree.net
I love how records-obsessed #astronomy is! One of my students selected a double star to measure which has no published observations in the last 150 years, and her images showed nothing there. Investigating a bit, I found scans of the original discovery article AND...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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The most wonderful time of the year is here: Art Contest season! ✨
Head to desmos.com/art to learn more, and be sure to submit your graphs by January 15th, 2026!
#mathsky #iteachmath
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Thanks to a generous donation, we've completed our digitized collection of E3 directories from 1995–2006. Every booth, every company, every map. 2400 pages.

archive.gamehistory.org/folder/53778...
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Good morning from the picket line in Lancaster, PA!

Workers are STILL on ULP strike and are continuing to say DON'T BUY STARBUCKS anywhere! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Frog's Window. 2025/11/12.
(East Japanese Tree Frog)
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Still processing my images of last night's aurora. This 98x time- lapse captures the major outburst in NorCal between 8:30 and 9:00. Sony Alpha 7 III, FE 14 mm f/1.8 lens, ISO 1250, 4s exposures. I have used these settings for bright aurora but never had the sensor saturate before! #astrophotography
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
After a good #ITeachPhysics conversation a few weeks ago about "radial" and "centripetal" I have a new question... I'm doing orbits for the next few days.

When you are dealing with elliptical orbits (NOT circular) what names do you use for the following directions...
#AstroEdu
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.

"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"

sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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a lil group shot of my cat loaf worry stones!! at this size are they even loafs? maybe they're cat cookies 🥹🤲
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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The Wiki Science photo competition is running until mid-December! Be in to win cash prizes by donating your science photos for use in Wikipedia. Categories include people in science, microscopy, wildlife and nature, and astronomy. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...
Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2025 in Australia and New Zealand - Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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4. Other good charts, like this look at where and when certain behaviors are acceptable.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Dungeness & Dragons
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Rainbow through the archway. This morning on Glastonbury Tor.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.

Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.

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6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them
The Circuit also seemed to suggest that trans students could not misgender their bullies in return.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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NEW COLLECTOR INTERVIEW! Many of you will know David Willis (@damnyouwillis.bsky.social) by reputation, but now the legendary comic creator & Transformers fan is taking us behind the scenes of his collection! With Dinobots, Hot Shots, Ratchets & Sunstorms aplenty --> tfsource.com/blog/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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spending Friday night waiting for a thunderstorm to pass so that I can start my telescope observations
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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A new logo provided by @aapthq.bsky.social
We just had out Fall 2025 Meeting at Wittenberg University. Find out more sosaapt.weebly.com/fall-2025---...
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Finding out that stars in the night sky go through different stages changes your understanding of the universe. Look at the life cycle of a star with our paper model! Find out more here: buff.ly/bnDW4qk

#EduSky #iteachphysics #space #stars #supernova #scienceteacher
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Cool fact. Pasco wireless force probes and carts only work with the hooks they came with. A longer threaded hook interferes w/the flex of the strain gauge and prevents them from being calibrated. The one on the right is correct #ITeachPhysics
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#ITeachPhysics I'm trying a variation on a circular motion lab @joemilliano.bsky.social has written about before, using a force sensor while spinning things around on strings. The "good" part of this test from 10-20 s still shows a big variation in force. Do other people get similar results?
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM