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The Contingency of Gender Norms
It is ubiquitous: whenever someone on social media points their finger at a girly dressed boy and claims that boys should be dressed like boys, someone comments with a manly man from Scotland wearing a kilt. It is also a recurring theme with queer...
Post · August 08, 2026
Fast and faithful: how THOR is bringing high-fidelity battery physics up to real-world speed
Every engineer who models batteries faces a dilemma: you can build a model that captures, in fine detail, the chemistry unfolding inside a cell, but it runs so slowly that simulating a battery's whole life becomes impractical. Or you can build one...
Post · August 07, 2026
Presenting AT-LAST, My Asteroid Rotation Pipeline, at the Rubin Community Workshop 2026
At the Rubin Community Workshop 2026, I gave a talk in the Solar System Science session on AT-LAST (Asteroid Time-domain Lightcurve Analysis for Spin Tracking), my automated pipeline for turning the Rubin Observatory's sparse survey photometry int...
Post · August 04, 2026
UBNow: Paris Wicker Named 2026 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow
"Paris Wicker, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy in the Graduate School of Education, has been selected as a 2026 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow — one of just 25 scholars c...
Post · August 04, 2026
Tracking Artemis II Through Open Science: Presenting Project MOON and Winning Third Place at NASA’s Exploration Science Forum 2026
My talk on tracking Artemis II with a planet-wide network of open sensors won third place in the student oral competition at NASA's Exploration Science Forum, where I was the only high-school student in a field of graduate and early-career researc...
Post · August 03, 2026
Meinungsfreiheit und Selbstbestimmung
Ich habe in früheren Texten immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, dass es eigentlich nicht Sache des Staates sein kann, vorzugeben, wie Gendernonkonformität individuell interpretiert werden kann oder soll. In einer Diskussion mit dem deutschen Influenc...
Post · August 03, 2026
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