Fran “Double” Poodry

@fpoodry.bsky.social

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She/her. Curler, Knitter, Thorns and Timbers fan, former physics teacher. I work for Vernier Science Education, and opinions are my own.

A black kitten sits upright on a soft fuzzy cream-colored cat bed. The kitten is facing the camera and has a white chin and white bib.
A hand holding a sticker that says Live Laugh Graph with a background of an upwardly swooping graph. In the near background to the right is a big sign that proclaims Enter to Win! with additional images and text that are unreadable at this range. In the farther background to the right, there is a table with a teal tablecloth and a Vernier Science Education logo, with items on the table.
Image of a gray plushie shaped like a Vernier Go Direct Motion Detector, with a cute, smiling cartoon face. The Mo plushie is wearing a headset with a microphone, ready to take orders on the phone, and is working at a tiny blue laptop (actually a pad of post-it notes) that has a very tiny computer mouse attached to it)
This is Audi Field in Washington, DC. It is pretty full of soccer fans, none of whom are rioting or being violent in any way.
Image of a computer screen showing multiple horizontal traces from a seismograph. There are 24 black traces on a white background. About a third of the way from the top, a big black blob of violent shaking is depicted just to the right of center. The remainder of that trace and most of the following two traces show nearly continuous (comparatively) low-frequency vibrations. Below that, most of the lines are pretty smooth, except for another, lower amplitude black blob midway down on the right. The traces at the very bottom show a few vibrations that are characteristic of daily human motion and nearby heavy vehicular motion, similar to a few traces at the top of the image.
A woman wearing a yellow t-shirt squints in the sun while sitting on a deck. Behind her on the deck are some gray boxes with coiled-up cables and a flat white object with six small black things arranged neatly on it. The small black things are pyranometer sensors.
Comic panel of a pigeon face down on an orange sofa. There is a pale blue “FWOMP” right below the pigeon. The pigeon isn’t collapsed. Instead they are in a posture like standing up, but positioned tipped over face down on the sofa. There is a pillow on the sofa near the pigeon’s head but the pigeon’s head is not resting on the pillow. There is a “low battery” icon above the pigeon’s head that is mostly white with a tiny sliver of red at the left end. The speech bubble of the pigeon reads “ugh, I’m so burnt out”
Photo of a white person’s left hand with a bunch of hailstones on it, from pea-size to dried chickpea-size. The background is a hail-covered area of concrete pavement.
Photo is about 3/4 sky, and the bottom 1/4 is trees and the cars in a parking lot. Reaching about a third of the way up the frame is a rainbow that spans the majority of the width of the frame. The sky is mostly clouds, with a little bit of blue at the top left.
Valentine which is a rectangle divided into a left and right half. The left half has the Vernier Science Education logo in white against a pink background with red hearts, tiny yellow 4-pointed starbursts, and some illustrated Vernier sensors. The right half has the face of Mo the motion detector with hearts instead of eyes. Mo’s little stick figure arms are holding what looks like a pale blue candy heart at the lower right of the image, and the candy heart has the words I <3 science on it.
Meme of the blonde white woman who looks skeptical in the first photo with her eyebrows drawn down and her lips clamped together hard, and the same woman looking interested in the second photo with her eyes wide, eyebrows up, and face relaxed. The first image (the skeptical one) has text in classic meme font “impact” that says “mass hanging from spring hanging from force sensor” and the second image (interested expression) has text in the same font saying “the force sensor hangs from the spring.”
A last wooden bridge made of two yellow steel beams with wooden slats laid across them. The railings at about 1m tall on each side look insubstantial. The bridge crosses a gully of grey stone. There is bright green moss and small plants on the far rock wall and you can see the trail going off to the left on the far side. The rock wall continues upward in the background. There are three women on the bridge wearing backpacks and carrying hiking poles, facing to the left and also toward the camera. I am the one in the middle, wearing a bright pink shirt, a blue vest, and blue pants, and a hat.
Screen shot of part of the weather app from iPhone. It has the time, 7:29, the location, St.Louis, the temperature, 4 degrees, which is in Fahrenheit, and also indicates Sunny weather and a high of 19 degrees Fahrenheit. 4 F is -15.5 C, and 19 F is -7 C.
Video of a middle aged white looking woman wearing exercise clothes, glasses, and a wide black lifting belt. She flexes her hands, crouches and grabs the loaded barbell, then straightens her legs, standing up straight and holding the bar. Then she gently sets the bar back down and breathes out with emphasis.
A woman (me!) wearing leggings and a purple t-shirt bends her knees and flexes her hands before grasping a barbell and standing up straight. She repeats the motion.
On the right side, a Vernier Go Direct Photogate with an attached 10-spoke pulley is at the top of the frame. A thin, light-colored string goes over the pulley and the left side of the string has a brass hook with some masses on it. In the left side is a plushie of Mo, the Vernier Go Direct Motion Detector with a face and tiny arms. One of Mo’s arms appears to be placing a small mass on the brass hook.
A horizon glowing with the last vestiges of sunset lies below green streamers of aurora borealis mainly diagonal across the night sky.
A white woman with dark hair, glasses, and wearing a blue and white N95 mask is holding up a copy of Katie Mack’s book The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Photo of a lot of stone stairs, mostly even, with a stone wall on the left side and a railing on the right. The surroundings are a woods, and you can see the sun glimmering from behind the trees at the top of the image. In the center of the image, a woman wearing blue is sitting on the stairs, giving a thumbs-up. She is wearing a cap with a brim, holding hiking poles, and you can see backpack straps.