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Heather Logan

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Theoretical particle physicist, university professor, nature enthusiast, Wiccan HPS (dual Lexi/Gard), autistic person. She/her. https://people.physics.carleton.ca/~logan/

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Nov 29

My concise and heavily-referenced guide for #HigherEd #faculty on creating more #autistic -friendly #research groups is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.17929

Includes a downloadable printable poster.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #ScienceIsForEveryone #EDI

Photo of a dark-blue-and-white poster with lots of text tacked to a white wall. The poster title reads "HOW TO MAKE YOUR RESEARCH GROUP MORE INCLUSIVE FOR AUTISTIC TRAINEES", and its five sections are titled "Dispel your misconceptions", "Communicate clearly", "Check the sensory environment", "Be aware of different cognitive profiles", and "Model inclusivity to your group". At the bottom is a QR code leading to the link in the main post, where the full text of the poster can also be found.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 8h

I'm writing a colloquium for next week on CP violation and symmetries in particle physics (senior physics-undergrad level), to be delivered online through the Canadian Association of Physicists' Student Advisory Council's Physics Hour [scroll down]: sac.cap.ca/events/the-p...
⚛️🧪 All welcome!

CAP Student Advisory Council The Physics Hour 2025

sac.cap.ca

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 4d

There's a similar scenario in the opening scene of a Charles Stross novel, in which a (short-lived) character sees the Cherenkov light from neutrino scatters *in their own eyeballs*.

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 6d

It's midterm season, and the most valuable thing #HigherEd staff can do right now is to reduce the stress load on students. They have enough stress studying their course material; they don't need more from being put the wrong exam room or having proctors whispering loudly while they're writing.

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 8d

Does this mean that Shakespeare was One Of Us? 😃

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 9d

MathVeg!

I still think these are super cool.

Photograph of a pale green Romanesco broccoli (culinarily more like a cauliflower).

Reposted by Heather Logan

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13d

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 23d

I gave my talk today, on the "(In)consistency of the Real two-Higgs-doublet model", for the Scalars 2025 conference! 🎉 I had to give it remotely, because I still can't travel due to chronic fatigue. 😢

3 other speakers were in similar situations; kind of glad I wasn't the only 'weird' one. 😬

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Aug 31

I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.

Scalars 2025

The conference "Scalars 2025" will be held in Warsaw in September 2025. The meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Division for Physics of Fundament...

indico2.fuw.edu.pl

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 23d

These days, I'm almost inclined to assume that if there's no named author, it means the article was barfed out by a chatbot.

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 25d

I've gotten emails with exactly that wording. (Just fill in the journal name with whatever random thing totally unrelated to what I do.)

I've even been personally invited to a dentistry conference based on a paper about composite Higgs.

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · 27d

Fantastic news! Congratulations!

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 16

And yes, these ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are some of the most dark matter-dominated systems we know of.

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 16

It's only a galaxy if it's dark matter-dominated; everything else is just a sparkling star cluster. 😉

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 16

I also learned that some of these ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have so few stars that astronomers had to come up with a new definition for a galaxy -- it only counts if the stars' velocity distribution is non-Newtonian (based on visible matter only).

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 16

Amazing colloquium today by @burcinmp.bsky.social on "The Smallest and Faintest Galaxies: Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation"!

#CarletonU ⚛️🧪

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Update: I think it's a dance studio. 🤷‍♀️

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Age verification? I write code in FORTRAN.

Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · Sep 10

Age verification? A lot of what I know about how computers work comes from a book about DOS 3.2.

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · Sep 10

age verification
I still remember putting the Encarta disc into the CD-ROM drive to learn about things

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 7

I thought that this post was about French politics and started wondering who Dekhele was. 😂

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ahaha holy shit

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 6

It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was also surprised to see students moving in to that new dorm building that I thought was still under construction!

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Survived the first (half-)week of fall semester! 💪
- Met my two new graduate students;
- Taught the first class in my 3rd-year course;
- Wrote a recommendation letter for my former grad student who's applying to a faculty job;
- Did a PhD committee meeting for my other student.
#CarletonU

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Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social · Sep 6

Heard from someone that a student from my stat mech class last year were gushing “I never thought the rice cooker is so amazing until I took Eugene’s class!”

I feel that a brag is warranted. The rice cooker is amazing: 2 phase transitions working together to make a simple tool that every Asian own.

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Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Aug 31

The most important principle governing talk-writing is Know Your Audience. I don't need to tell the SCALARS crowd why we all love the two-Higgs-doublet model. 😅

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Aug 31

I wrote the first draft of my talk for SCALARS 2025 indico2.fuw.edu.pl/event/16/ove... and gah, I need to completely rewrite the intro. And make it like 35% shorter.

Scalars 2025

indico2.fuw.edu.pl

Heather Logan @helogan.bsky.social · Aug 26

As a FORTRAN user and a woman in STEM, I love this! 🥰

Hiddenherstory @hiddenherstory.bsky.social · Aug 25

🗓️ 25 Aug 1900: Dorothy Vaughan is born. Taught herself FORTRAN (a new programming language in the 1950s) without formal training so she could retrain her entire team of Black women mathematicians ensuring they remained essential as NASA transitioned from manual calculations to computers #WomenInSTEM

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Niamh Garvey @niamhgarvey.bsky.social · Aug 26

A blog article I wrote up for my publisher on figuring out why my language development was different to other people.

#Autistic

blog.jkp.com/2025/08/auti...

Autistic Communication; Not As Simple As A, B, C. - JKP Blog

Autistic Communication; Not As Simple As A, B, C. By Niamh Garvey, an autistic author from Cork. Find her latest book, The Autistic Guide to…

blog.jkp.com

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