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Christopher D. Brown

@prof-brown.bsky.social
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics (views are solely my own & do not reflect my employer in any way) PhD in Physics. Background in Biophysics - currently interested in PER & pedagogy, esp. surrounding A.I. as a learning tool.

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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Woof. It’s been a hot second since I’ve posted on here. Between baby coming 6 weeks early last year (happy 1 year bday!), parental leave for the Fall term, and then trying to get back into the swing of a normal academic schedule, things have just been a bit wild.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The fact that a private institution of higher education capitulated to the state by allowing it to oversee its curriculum and appointments is abhorrent. Academic freedom means the right to select students, appoint faculty, conduct independent research inquiries, and determine what should be taught.
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
How is the top University in the Bluest state in the US reacting to Trump’s attacks on Academic Freedom in the form of the “Anti-DEI order? The answer is: NOT good. A thread 🧵 about how the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa is responding to these attacks.

Do not obey in advance:
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Perhaps there is another way we should think about the economy.
"I would propose that we just rip up the discipline of economics 
as it exists and start over. This is my proposal in this regard: 
I think that we should take the ideas of production and 
consumption, throw them away, and substitute for them 
the idea of care and freedom.
 
As feminists point out, even if you’re making a 
bridge, you’re making a bridge because you care 
that people can get across the river. You make a 
car because you care that people can get around. 
So even production is one subordinate type of 
care. What we do, as human beings, is take 
care of each other."
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 - David Graeber
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Monday McGee @mondaymcgee.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And here's the link to Don't Just Do Nothing. Not my work, I just thought it was really helpful and wanted to share with people. itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
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Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism
Jewish anarchists weigh-in on how people can organize and act in the changing terrain. For a zine PDF, go here. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. ...
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Thinking about a lot about generative A.I. lately from the perspective of student/educator interactions. Regardless of how you feel about it, the cat's outta the bag & we live in a brave new world that's shoving A.I. down our throats everywhere we turn. So what about our students? [1/x] 🧪🎢
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻
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Prof. Ghosty Neilsen @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Student: Wow you seem to know all my mistakes before I make them. Me: Yes I've made them all hundreds of times.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/02/2025
Media not standing outside with this person during an attack on press freedom is baffling. If this happened to a colleague of mine I’d stand outside in the rain with them and catch pneumonia before I played into the hands of a small man having a tantrum you didn't use his preferred name. Come on.
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Chilling on multiple levels. Reprehensible.
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Anti-science policy, plain and simple. Put another way: This is doubleplus ungood.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025
"If you thought you had an opioid crisis before, baaayyybeeeeee, you ain't seen nothin yet!!!"
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.
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Ariana Elena Castillo @arianaelena97.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Years of advocacy work undone in a matter of days. I have absolutely no words
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/01/2025
“Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This weird JWST trick lets us “see” dark matter By using color inversion plus galaxy/cluster light models, scientists can find "excesses" of light. Remarkably, they help trace out where the dark matter is. bigthink.com/starts-with-...
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This weird JWST trick lets us "see" dark matter
It's not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveal dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Punctuation matters. Way more than you think. Bad punctuation can be devastating. Don't believe me? Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Overworked faculty: there's just too much on my plate, and no time left for the really important stuff AI techbros: so hear me out--what if we automated your entire teaching process and then you can go to more meetings
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/12/2024
you KNOW when the astrophysicist in any piece of media reaches out and grabs a piece a paper he's about to fold that mf and stick a pencil through it
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
INTERSTELLAR IS A MOVIE THAT DESERVES TO BE SEEN ON THE BIGGEST SCREEN!!!
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
And now onto grading purgatory… 🎢 Kinda amazing that even though my students have had aaaaaalllll semester to revise any and all reports (I’m radical: infinite revision!) some of these reports are only getting revised now, days before the end of the term. To be fair, there’s a slew of factors..
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Posting a bit late but Friday’s Student Symposium was a success. 🙌🏼 Students from 4-5 courses across 3 cohorts contributed their final projects to the event. Posters, talks, demonstrations. Students, faculty, & staff sharing their experiences and ideas in a celebration of learning and growth.
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Sickle cell disease causes red blood cells to stiffen when they deliver their oxygen to the rest of the body. This rigidity causes the blood’s effective viscosity to rise. We can measure that difference in viscosity by observing the capillary flow of blood through *really* thin glass tubes (1/3) 🧪⚛️
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The flow of sickle blood in glass capillaries: Fundamentals and potential applications
We have characterized the imbibed horizontal flow of sickle blood into 100-μm-diameter glass capillaries. We find that blood containing sickled cells typically traverses the capillaries between three and four times as slowly as oxygenated cells from the same patient for all genotypes tested, including SS, AS, SC and Sβ+ thalassemia blood. Blood from SS patients treated with hydroxyurea has a viscosity intermediate between the SS and AA values. Blood containing cells that are not rigidified, such as normal red cells or oxygenated sickle cells, follows a simple Lucas-Washburn flow throughout the length of the 3-cm capillary.
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is a really interesting piece that I think I’ll share with my junior lab students. We’ve spent a lot of time this term talking about and practicing our scientific communication but I want to examine our *process* and how it relates to the end product. Thanks @jperkel.bsky.social for sharing!
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hi @physgal.bsky.social, can I get added to the Physicists List? Here's my ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-52... Thanks!!
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ORCID
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Found a few lists of physics/STEM-y accounts… Anyone wanna drop their fav follow or list? Trying to get this professional account situated on here😅
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Christopher D. Brown @prof-brown.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hello world!
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