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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Our department is preparing to celebrate the International Day of 2SLGBTQIA+ People in STEM on November 18, and one of our students made a great set of posters. I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the posters highlights @timnitGebru and her work at DAIR! 👏

Poster entitled "LGBTQ+ STEM Spotlight" with an image of Timnit Gebru, describing her as "A pioneering computer scientist whose work exposed bias in large-scale AI systems. As a queer Black researcher and founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), she champions transparency, accountability, and justice in technology, reshaping how the world thinks about ethical AI."

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

A few years ago I organized an assessment of the social climate in my academic department. One of the most significant findings was that queer students did not feel like they belonged. After discussing this with a queer student who I knew fairly well, I […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

An indoor workspace featuring gray cubicles. In the foreground, a wooden counter has a sign labeled "PHYSICS." In the background, a large progressive pride flag several smaller pride flags are displayed.

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

Blunt and effective Thursday message

A chalkboard sign for Main St. Brewing advertises a happy hour from 2 to 6 PM, encouraging people to skip work and drink beer. A heart is drawn at the bottom.

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025

@historianess Here he is, looking for the guy behind Harvard Derangement Syndrome

Still frame of The Hot Dog Guy from I Think You Should Leave

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

@johncarlosbaez Cool find! I looked it up and it’s a dynamic effect, so you need to be in a regime where the charge relaxation in the sphere is slower than in the liquid. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.043014

$Illustration depicting the polarization of a spherical particle in an electric field $ E_0 $. On the left, the induced dipole $ P $ is in the same direction as the field when the charge relaxation time in the particle $ \tau_2 $ is less than that in the liquid $ \tau_1 $. The polarization points in the opposite direction when the timescales are reversed.$

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

Saw this mural in Paris (13e) and have since discovered that it’s by an Angeleno artist, Tristan Eaton www.tristaneaton.com/the-revolution… www.tristaneaton.com/work-avenue#/t…

Mural on a building with the words “The Revolution Will Be Trivialized” and various pop-culture images, including Tom and Jerry, superimposed on a replica of Jacques-Louis David’s “Napoleon Crossing the Alps.”

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025

The Munich airport has an exercise machine that confused the hell out of me. It measures “energy performance” and displays the energy, not the power, in Watts! (Also, it should not be capitalized.) Then I saw the fine print at the bottom: “The physically […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A digital display shows energy performance of 3.42 Watts, indicating that it can charge one smartphone at 3.00 Watts. A progress bar is partially filled to represent energy usage. There is fine print at the bottom that explains that they use watts as an energy unit “for better understanding.”

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

I bought this dish cloth today because I love rainbows and because I am fascinated by the different ways artists (mis)represent them. Initially I thought they didn’t pay attention to the colors but after looking at it a bit longer I suspect something got […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A rainbow-like image with the word "LOVE" in varying shades, printed on a dish cloth. The rainbow is divided into stripes of different colors that are uncannily not like a rainbow: red-orange, salmon, ochre, sea-green, cyan, and maroon, in order from the outside to the inside.

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Steve Dodge @jsdodge.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2025

@aram @admin1 @nik @ubiquity75 @rwg @tstruett @paufder @atomicpoet Interesting — I just tried the same prompt for myself and it directed me back to the platform. Any idea what causes the difference? I used the GPT-4o through DuckDuckGo.