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Natural Philosopher (ex-condmat physicist), Sci-Vizard, Papasaurus, Cosmic Bus Driver for @ccnyplanetarium. No opinions. Just facts, and who owns those?

Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2012
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James Hedberg
4 years
Just compiling a list of lesser known learning outcomes for in-person intro physics labs, i.e. important things you won't learn using virtual labs. Feel free to add more. #iteachphysics #physics
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James Hedberg
1 year
I took a delightful detour through the CCNY Archives on my way to lunch today.
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CCNYPhysicsDept
1 year
It's #QuantumYear2025. Which had us wondering: Q: When did we first have a formal Quantum Mechanics class at CCNY? A: 1957! That's more than 50 years after Planck's Lectures and Einstein's photoelectric effect work! Thanks to Archives @CCNYLibraries for helping with the search.
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James Hedberg
1 year
Oh the horrors you must have witnessed you heroic battalion of mobile hand sanitizers. Your tour of duty is over but your valor lives on. God speed.
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James Hedberg
1 year
Eerrrrr your Moon squishy anti stress toy used the wrong @NASAMoon map. That’s the DEM. You need the WAC global morphology. Come on now. Get this train wreck of a toy together. I’m more stressed now. Need something to squeeze. #geospatial
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James Hedberg
2 years
Spend 15 minutes with Vivian Gornick listening to her speech from our 2024 CCNY Commencement. (thanks for not cancelling it!) It's the only commencement speech I've ever wished would have gone on longer! https://t.co/kXBHhAjhuD
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James Hedberg
2 years
So, 👋reporters, when you show a picture of Shepard Hall and say CUNY, it’s kinda wrong. Yes, it’s a CUNY, but it’s not the CUNY. There is no single CUNY (To take a picture of the CUNY, you would need to go some office building on East 42nd Street.)
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James Hedberg
2 years
City College is the oldest of the institutions under the CUNY umbrella. It started as the Free Academy in 1847 and was later renamed College of the City of New York. In 1961, CUNY was formed, joining CCNY with other municipal schools in the city, like Baruch, Hunter, and others.
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James Hedberg
2 years
CCNY stands for The City College of New York. It is one college (or campus) within the larger University structure of CUNY, the City University of New York. The are 24 other CUNY colleges in all 5 NYC boroughs, making 25 CUNY schools, but only 1 City College of New York.
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James Hedberg
2 years
We've been reeling since last week's events. It’s a tangled mess. But, one frustration I have, and one that we likely all share, is the confusion between the two acronyms: CCNY and CUNY. Even native New Yorkers often mix them up, as does the national press. Let’s resolve that! 🧵
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James Hedberg
2 years
Best facilities notice in my whole career. What a nice phrase, “odor infiltration.”
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James Hedberg
2 years
Yep, spring break in NYC is late this year - gird your loins, batten down the hatches, it's a long path ahead. Not since 2016 has the phase of the moon created such chaos in our lives. #SpringBreak #dataviz
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James Hedberg
2 years
@LearningAtoZ Also, don't cook pets.
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James Hedberg
2 years
Dear @LearningAtoZ, Use better fonts. You don't need to be artistic, just be readable for a 5 year old. Comic Sans would be absolutely fine here. Those a's are nearly indistinguishable from o's. And get your facts straight. That's not a man. That's a dog!
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James Hedberg
2 years
The fog over the Hudson river yesterday was thick! Amazing view with only a 25 cent piece from the Rockefeller Lookout.
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James Hedberg
2 years
More Free 🅿️. This time on St. Nicholas Terrace.
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James Hedberg
3 years
Free parking 🅿️
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James Hedberg
2 years
The authors would also like to acknowledge @tourtheuniverse for help with sample collection.
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James Hedberg
2 years
Just finished a 5-day long science visualization conference. Here’s my morning coffee run statistics in plot form. 1 data point was thrown out. #dataviz
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James Hedberg
2 years
Bag got pulled by TSA for a “large organic mass”. It was a rock. Fortunately, I had just sown on the patch so it was all good.
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James Hedberg
3 years
When the MTA commissions a panel of 1960’s grandmas for a study on How To Protect the Bench Seating on the new R211 stock. #nycsubway
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James Hedberg
3 years
Free parking 🅿️
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James Hedberg
3 years
Look👀. There are stars in the night sky in NYC after all. #astro #lookupnyc Gemini and Mars tonight, April 2, 2023.
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