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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also: The sketch of the Shrew Mole is taken from the What If? YouTube channel adaptation of A Mole of Moles: youtu.be/lLlwvmu1ZeA

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What if you had a mole of moles?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

h/t to this site, which I used to generate the xkcd-style graphs for this card sort activity. bomadeno.github.io/xkcdgraphs/

bomadeno.github.io

Create your own XKCD-style Graphs

Instant XKCD-style Graphs created in Javascript D3 for your enjoyment

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I might be having too much fun with #WhatifPBL. Constant-acceleration card sort based on A Mole of Moles chapter from "What If?" Math background of students ranges from high school algebra to college math majors. It's a challenge. Levity is strategy. #iTeachPhysics. Word doc w/ cards: gvsu.edu/s/3NA

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Representations of quantitative information. Students in #WhatifPBL read "How to Get Somewhere Fast" from How To by Randall Munroe. The representations they identified from the chapter fell into target categories (for the most part). Also reflected on pros and cons of each. #iTeachPhysics

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Students used the Innovator's Compass in #WhatifPBL to draft the course's Ethical AI Use Policy for the syllabus. Note their desire to hold the instructor to the same ethical standards for AI use. #iTeachPhysics

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today in #WhatifPBL, students also collectively brainstormed Community Standards to guide their team-based projects moving forward. They did it by recalling unproductive collaborative experiences they've had in the past. #iTeachPhysics

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Day 2 of #WhatifPBL. Fermi Estimates: "What If--A Mole of Moles" and "How many calculator keys are on campus right this moment?" #ITeachPhysics Homework: "What If--Yoda." youtu.be/lLlwvmu1ZeA

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What if you had a mole of moles?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students also collectively brainstormed Community Standards to guide their team-based projects moving forward. They did it by recalling unproductive collaborative experiences they've had in the past. #WhatifPBL

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Day 1 of my project-based learning course that uses Randall Munroe's "What If" books as gateway to creative problem solving. "What if spaghetti were the strongest known building material?" (This might look familiar...) #ITeachPhysics #MarshmallowChallenge

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Makes me think of enshittification. MSU is pioneering the enshittification of public spaces.

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Tom was my first physics professor in college. Later I had him for nuclear and particle physics. He always modeled kindness, compassion, and humility that stuck with me as I began teaching. To this day I still hear the influence of his dry wit come out of my mouth in my own classroom.

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Since I can't see well enough to drive yet after having my eyes dilated, I will just critique ophthalmology logos. #iteachphysics

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Compassion for your students is not weakness, it's strength. They see you. And they will respond by letting you expect more from them. #ITeachPhysics

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

If you use materials created by college faculty, they may be able to include that in their tenure/promotion portfolio. But they need to know you're using it.

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Maybe he thinks he's on a holodeck. That would explain a lot...

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Glories are amazing. I've seen a few while flying. The super cool part is how it's centered on *you*, so in vids like this you can even tell where the person is on the plane!

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Thank you for the thoughtful post. I have to say I am bothered by how grade inflation is so often used as a metric for academic rigor. I am not sure it directly reflects the degree to which students are actually challenged in the classroom.

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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Hi 👋 I was the host of Serving Up Science, a PBS show created by WKAR with some of the kindest people in public media. We focused on the science of food. Not politics, not controversy. Now, half the team has been laid off. It’s a quiet unraveling of something deeply valuable. #uspol

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I would think someone skilled (and patient) with ImageJ could do it.

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Okay, who would like to volunteer to plot intensity as a function of time for a pixel from each resistor? :)

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

#iTeachPhysics Just received delivery of classroom set of tunneling microscopes thx GVSU engineering senior projects. Drawings and electronics files will be OPEN SOURCE. Order from favorite vendor and assemble. On-board DAQ. To be notified when plans are published, DM me. doi.org/10.1119/5.00...

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Cylindrical lens (aquarium) spotted at Kansas City Zoo. What do you notice? #ITeachPhysics

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Simulating data for this new pre-lab is simple with the @desmos.bsky.social graph template created by @joemilliano.bsky.social. desmos.com/calculator/w... This is a pre-lab question for an E&M lab where students will be asked to extract magnetic field from a linear fit. @afreeparticle.com

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Josh Veazey @thenanoprobe.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Definitely advocate a systems-based approach. If your dept. is still requiring a textbook steeped in "work-energy" content, I see an opportunity to design lab activities where experiments reveal limits of validity. First thought: rolling a cart with wheels of non-negligible mass.

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