I can’t help thinking all these players would be better at soccer if they played more often than once every four years

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

data visualization is my passion.

The true reward of Norway advancing is that we get at least one more match to hear the Telemundo announcer say "Oscar Bobb" every few seconds.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

561°R

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Gutted to hear of the passing of V. “Ram” Ramaswamy, who had led NOAA's influential climate lab, GFDL, since 2008. He had a truly American success story and lasting legacy. May his memory be a blessing to his friends and family.

...but whatever you do, don't use superscript-o (or superscript-0), because that could lead to something like this

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

If other news was reported like climate change:

Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. https://scim.ag/4xY2KCm

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

[turning on a world cup match] oh wow, cape verde, i wonder where that is [55 minutes later] if cape verde wins it will be the greatest day of my life

I love this so much

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

Finally got around to Wikipedia’ing how Ozone Park (neighborhood in Queens NY) got its name

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

“If Harvard wants grades to mean more, the answer is pedagogical: clearer standards, not rarer A’s. Rarity is not rigor.”

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Good plan! Uh, quick question - why is CDC short on staff, anyway?

Sure but they‘re really stupid questions

-Students are afraid of writing like AI. -Graders have to check for AI writing. -Researchers have to make sure the people they're citing aren't citing AI hallucinations. -Journal reviewers have to check for AI writing and make sure AI isn't being cited. This is extra work for everyone.

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.

Some of us just don't like getting colds

The push to cut funding from the National Academies of Science will involve illegally impounding funds on the claim that fringe Republican lawmakers understand what constitutes the “gold standard” for science better than the best scientists in America. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

Since I was feeling a bit salty about math world over the last few days I decided to punish us all with this literal hell. You're welcome.

Just submitted grades for my class, one of the most impressive groups of students I've worked with. Grateful that my school doesn't grade on a curve; it'd be criminal if no more than 20% of these students were allowed to get A's.

Thinking again about the possible perverse incentives injected into a class with the number of A grades capped.

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

Stardust has finally revealed its proprietary geoengineering particles are made from amorphous silica. Pre-prints here: stardustsrt.com/science It's also filed for a patent, the application for which should pop up in public records in coming days, I'm told. NYT got the scoop:

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

“We solemnly vow to dismantle systemic barriers to inclusion—such as shared governance, apolitical job searches, and the discriminatory practice of vetting ideas—and to ensure that all viewpoints, however dubious, enjoy equal footing in the academy.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Part 2 of the New Yorker series on higher ed is up; it’s an interview with someone who has even weirder and less good ideas than Jay Caspian King (the author / interviewer). For example: rhere’s no meaningful experience at the edge of chemistry without knowing some (and probably a lot of) chemistry.

[former Elsevier employee here]

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Amazing how many #AndesVirus experts appeared overnight — many likely had never heard of it a week ago. Outbreaks are humbling. It’s important to be honest about what we know, what we don’t know, and to remain humble. Working in outbreaks has taught me that repeatedly.

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Yes, but hear me out: My favorite faculty profile pic is the one where I brought a probe with me and refused to put it down for one single shot, so they had to use it on the website.