Jackie Bastardi

Mech-E turned STEAM Teacher. MNSE and current EET doctoral student at Colorado State. RIT & Alpha Xi Alumna. Bicycle and garden nerd. Hufflepuff.

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Happy Pi Day!!!

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@dog_rates Milo became a tripawd this past Dec. Luckily it hasn’t affected his modeling career. 🤣

[Institute of Physics @PhysicsNews]

As Katharine Birbalsingh steps down as the government social mobility tsar, a thread on girls, physics & the devastating effect of stereotypes.

Girls are not put off physics because of "hard maths" (girls got more top grades than boys in A level maths in 2021 & 2022). Instead,

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All the things I do outside of schoolwork (read, crochet, walk/bike) are for stress relief and my mental health. But now what are they for; pleasure? Fun? To kill time? WHAT IS THIS LIFE?!?!

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Grades are posted and the first semester of my Ph.D. is officially done! Feels strange not having homework to do. Like, what am I supposed to do with this free time?

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I'm learning some data science coding through an online program. Today I learned that these -->{ } are called braces and not "squiggly parentheses". #TheMoreYouKnow

[Makey Makey @makeymakey]

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Happy STEM (and STEAM!) Day to all the nerds, geeks, coders, scientists, engineers, makers, shakers, breakers, and curious folks out there! #happystemday

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Many people have a consistent fawn trauma response.

Fawning is: people pleasing, appeasing, or just going along with people to avoid conflict.

HERE’S WHY WE DO IT AND HOW TO HEAL FROM IT: 🧵

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Me: Feeling scholarly riding my bike across campus enjoying the fall leaves.
Me once a gust of wind comes through:

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Once in awhile this gem from RIT pops up, and I get a lot of entertainment out of people’s reactions. 🤣

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

My brain is FRIED from watching this 😳🤔 https://t.co/qSVjgGbPtz

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Either the clock is broken or we are having so much fun in quantitative data analysis that time is FLYING! 🤣#coloradostateuniversity #csu

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The CSU bear when they wake up wherever the Division of Wildlife moved them to:

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

@NASA @esa @csa_asc @SpaceTelescope @NASAHubble Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear bent? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, magnifying them. The light from the farthest galaxy here traveled 13.1 billion years to us.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B

[Lorraine Shelnutt @ShelnuttChem]

At first I thought STEM education was kits, technology, and simulations. But now I think STEM education is preparing our students to be the problem solvers of tomorrow. #dailySTEMGISD @dailystem

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@doALaP She knows and is smiling down on us, always. 💕

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@dailystem I love old printer/fax paper! We found this paper was great for “tumblewings” and paper surfing because it was light, but still sturdy enough for students to manipulate without ripping it. The edges made great paper for inside popsicle stick kazoos.

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Happy Pi Day!

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Would it be inappropriate to share this in my Earth Science grad school class? Asking for a friend.