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Tomorrow's lecture in Optics is about coherence. (The image is from our paper in Am. J. Phys. from 2016.)

More than saying, “Do what you can, and not what you can’t,” I urge celebrating the small wins. Celebrate when you can!

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@MQMLab We just released an object tracker that works in the browser. You might try to model the motion of a ping pong ball or beach ball with it. Just try to record against a solid colored background go.osu.edu/objecttracker

Yesterday, I was elected, once more, to serve as Vice President of the Jonathan Reichert Foundation, an ambitious non-profit working to establish programs and grants for hands-on instructional laboratories in physics, beyond the first year of university. Let me know if you would like to chat about that. jfreichertfoundation.org/

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KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!

Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?

Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.

Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).

So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!

But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!

OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!

#mastodon #MastodonTips

What have you made, that could be physically shared with my undergraduate physics majors, next term, in Intermediate Experimental Methods?

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OK, my current understanding of "good use" of Mastodon:

Reply: for conversation... yes, kind of obvious, but if I reply, I won't bother favouriting (see next).

Favourite: acknowledging that I've read, "like", the post, but I see no need to reply.

Boost: if I think others should see / would be interested, in this post.

Drop a link to a post (grabbed from the posts share button) to mimic a retweet.

Wouldn’t it be nice if professional societies spanning much of the physical sciences and education could work together on some things? Well, that’s what the newly (as of today) chartered AIP Forum Assembly (FA) aims for. Suggestions for natural topics for collective action?

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