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   Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:45:42 JST Stephen Sekula

   With a bunch of new folks likely coming into the fediverse in the coming days, it is time for a re- #introduction

   I am a #Professor of #Physics at #QueensUniversity in Ontario, on secondment to #SNOLAB to serve as the Research Group Manager. SNOLAB is #Canada's deep underground science lab.

   I am a #writer, mostly of non-fiction science books for general and specialized audiences.

   I love federated social media. I love #teaching, #astronomy, #astrophysics, #DarkMatter, and #neutrinos.

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 02:56:18 JST Stephen Sekula

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     If you want to see some of my #teaching and #ScienceCommunication effort, check out this video I made for high school students for their science and technology fair in 2021. I host it on my #PeerTube instance.

     https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/pYkacN5M7qVdmZ7NKjSw6m

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     Stefan Monnier (monnier@oldbytes.space)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 18:23:23 JST Stefan Monnier

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     @steve "deep underground science lab" sounds subversive!

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:41:27 JST Stephen Sekula

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     • Stefan Monnier

     @monnier Only in the most literal sense of "subvert", "to turn from below" ... our goal is to turn human innovation and ideas into discoveries from far below the surface of the Earth. 😃

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:43:32 JST Stephen Sekula

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     @mayintoronto That is very cool! We do love working with co-op students, and we're excited to welcome a new class this summer. We just welcomed the winter term students to site to begin their projects.

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:43:34 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @steve The SNOLAB is so cool!!! My friend did a co-op there and we heard so much about it.

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:46:26 JST Stephen Sekula

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     • lps

     @lps Thanks!

     It's partly out of necessity. YouTube doesn't allow me to post my "teaser trailer" videos for my classes, which often have copyrighted music (which I acknowledge) but used for parody purposes.

     YouTube has also flagged some teaching videos because they are about using scientific thinking to test claims, but their algorithms think I am advocating for those (sometimes dangerous) claims. It takes work to undo their block, and I grew tired of it.

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     lps (lps@mograph.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:46:27 JST lps

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     @steve so cool that you host your own instance for that purpose:)

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:49:58 JST Stephen Sekula

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     @lps I get that they have interests to protect. I'm just not willing to get caught up in that. Sometimes, you just want to share lecture and teaching material.

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     lps (lps@mograph.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 07:49:59 JST lps

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     @steve thank you big tech for being horrible;)