Not sure how I got this lucky, but. join me and #STEM superwomen @drerinmac, @IBJIYONGI, & @AmyImhoff1701 on Saturday the 13th for #TrekTalks benefitting @HollywoodFoodCo. 🖖🏼 @TrekGeeks @roddenberry @TrekMovie

Are you at @CreationEnt's #STLV? Help us get this Trek started! Join us for "Women of STEM & Sci-Fi: Meet the Astrophysicists" with me, @jesstella, and Olivia Greene of @neuroverse_tni!.

🖖🏼🖖🏼🖖🏼 WE'RE ON THE MAIN STAGE WEDNESDAY AT 11:45! 😱😱😱.(Yes, in the Leonard Nimoy Theatre!).((Right after the #StarTrekTOS guest stars and just before the #StarTrekDiscovery recurring stars!!)).

USA's 1st woman in space #SallyRide was inspirational enduring blatant misogyny, breaking glass ceiling & hiding a secret: her #LGBTQ+ status. Join @AstroSocietyPac's livestream Mon, 30 JUN, 17:15 PDT @NatGeo docufilm SALLY + Q&A w/@Astro_Cady. #PrideMonth.

Stormy & Greyson 🥰🐶😂. #Repost @encinitas_petshotel with @let.repost.• • • • • •.Love Unleashed 🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth #daycampparties #lifeatpetsmart #anythingforpets @PetSmart #0144

🧵4/4 "Does @taylorswift13 Hold the Key to the Destiny of the #Universe?". by @DiscoverMag.

🧵3/4 "The #ErasTour: Mapping the Eras of Taylor Swift to the Cosmological Eras of the Universe". by @GR__Jane.

🧵2/4 "A Swift analysis of the #ErasTour set list & implications for #astrophysics research (Taylor's version)". by @sophiephys & #AnaSainzdeMurieta.

🧵1/4 Am late to the party but apparently @taylorswift13 is having a direct impact on #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology. Hilarious & surprisingly interesting. There's a #PopCulture #SciComm talk here. Hmm, how to work it in to #STLV. 🤔😂. Thoughts #Swifties??? @AmyImhoff1701.

****This also likely explains that night's presentation by @AGNgalaxygirl and I entitled, "Doppler Shift, Buzzed" after which Kevin begrudgingly made us take out the most interesting parts because he said his dean wouldn't appreciate it the way he did.

*Ed Prather undoubtedly has the monopoly on this one. **I write that fully acknowledging that Kevin -- and likely some of you reading this -- have long desired a "dealing with Rica" playbook. ***Ed's words, not mine, though I admit to co-opting them occasionally.

retirement he was looking forward to. If anyone deserved that, it was he. I am privileged to have known him, worked with him, learned from him. My heart breaks for his family. Kevin Michael Lee, 09 April 1963 - 14 April 2025

review proposals and brought me aboard to do so. I will miss my friend. I will miss working with him, arguing with him, killing hours in airports with him talking through our latest respective crises, whether real or perceived. I am profoundly sad that he won't get to enjoy the.

<gt;. He earned awards, including AAPT's Halliday and Resnick award <gt; and their Dodge Citation <gt;, and served as a program officer at NSF for a while during which he convinced me that I was in fact qualified to.

the classroom, the innovative materials he, his longtime developer Chris Siedell, and their team at Nebraska produced are among the best in the world for animations, simulations, and other learner-centered interactives in astronomy, physics, and physical science.

teaching and learning in astronomy. For the better part of three decades (at least), Kevin and his work influenced literally thousands of educators; easily hundreds of thousands of people if you count the students of those educators. An expert many times over on technology in.

good time. We did have a good time. Admittedly, it's kind of hard not to in a bar where tag-team indoor adult tricycle racing is a regular occurrence, particularly since it was filled to the gills with astronomy educators who had just spent most of a week sharing how to improve.

it. @AGNgalaxygirl and I shamelessly encouraged him to try. So he did. And it worked. These photos of Kevin on an adult-sized tricycle in a bar in Boulder, Colorado, are possibly my favorite photographs of him ever. He's smiling, laughing, and genuinely looks like he's having a.

rotating midair such that one's butt swiped across the electromagnetic lock at precisely the right time and angle. We were puzzled (and a little scared) until he explained that the key card was in his wallet, which was in his back pocket, and he'd always wondered if he could do.

returned to work in a computer lab one evening after a dinner that involved copious adult beverages****. I recall some vague talk about superheroes and then we were standing in front of the lab door with Kevin musing aloud whether it was possible to unlock the lab by jumping and.

his hands. When asked "For how long?!" he held out hands that were alarming patchworks of angry red and greyish white and casually replied, "Pretty much the whole time but I especially noticed it when we were at the Monument." . Another time, at a retreat he hosted at UNL, we.