Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

notice to Americans: the French are rapidly innovating in the burger space

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

If you are (as I am) watching The Princess Bride for REASONS today, please take a look at the quoted thread for a master's look at the masters of swords

wonderful post by @kevinbaker.bsky.social “To ask about LLMs and science is to ask what program was already running when they arrived. The program, as it turns out, had been running for decades, and it was not optimized for epistemic depth.”

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

"Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam." This goes in a direction you did not expect.

For all the AI-bubble-is-about-to-burst talk out there, if you've attended the #HotChips conference this year (that's been around for much longer than said bubble), it's really hard to miss the fact that a whole industry is aligning, and putting all its (vast) resources towards a single goal: AI.

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

65th #Top500 is out! o The Top 3 #Exascale systems remain unchanged: #1 El Capitan #2 Frontier #3 Aurora o JUPITER Booster (EuroHPC planned #Exascale system currently being commissioned – hence partial system) at FZH in Germany at #4 is the only new system in the #Top10 #HPC #AI #ISC25

NSF grants down 51%. New grants are being awarded at the slowest pace in 35 years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In the past four months, the total, at universities across the U.S., is about $11 billion. The cuts affect things like cancer research, diabetes treatments, new wearable technology, farming solutions and studying domestic violence: research across nearly every discipline and subject.

Planting the #HPCwire flag firmly in the ground: Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC www.hpcwire.com/2025/05/13/p...

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

American science is facing an existential threat.

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

But the biggest tragedy will be the lost generations The current scientists who see their life’s work destroyed with the loss of funding, and the resulting loss of employment But perhaps even worse, the next generation of scientists who will not even get a chance to pursue their passion at all

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n... #HPC

President Trump's "skinny" budget request absolutely eviscerates scientific research funding. The @aaas.org estimates the request would constitute an 82.5% reduction in research spending (and that's just the agencies named in the request).

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

Note that this groundbreaking discovery made at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social was made possible by no fewer than six NIH grants. There is enormous public value that comes from government-supported research. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

39 universities (at least) can afford to defy the federal administration (and replace fundings lost for some). Says Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

Over 1500 faculty students and staff urge Stanford to take a bolder public stance stanforddaily.com/2025/04/16/o...

TACC's upcoming leadership supercomputer, Horizon, is at risk due to steep cuts to NSF. Sounds like its fate is locked up in argument between Congress and the White House. www.science.org/content/arti... #HPC

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

@stanford-rc.bsky.social was proud to host the Lustre User Group 2025 organized with OpenSFS! Thanks to everyone who participated and our sponsors! Slides are already available at srcc.stanford.edu/lug2025/agenda 🤘Lustre! #HPC #AI

All Stanford NEH grants have been terminated.

Doubling the FLOPs, another milestone for Sherlock's performance news.sherlock.stanford.edu/publications... #Sherlock #HPC #Stanford

I've published some notes I took while at #GTC25 last week. Have a look: https://blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/03/gtc-2025-recap.html Part of why I write is to foster discussion, and I'd love to hear or read others' takes on the conference! #AI

Only a few days left to participate in the annual #OpenSFS Community #Lustre Survey. This is your chance to provide feedback to developers on your site's usage, versions, feature requests to help steer future development. s.surveyplanet.com/1zkt4cuh

Jensen’s bragging about Blackwell NVL72’s miles of cables and 5,000 conductors per rack sounds like impressive engineering. And it is. But don’t forget: complex systems tend to fail in complex ways. #GTC25

600kW in a rack 🤯 #GTC25