Executives from three commercial space station developers on Wednesday pushed back on NASA’s assertion that a commercial LEO market has not yet emerged. 🧪

“Learn AI” is such bullshit. THERE’S NOTHING TO LEARN. It’s like saying “Learn how to call Domino’s and ask for a shitty pizza." #NotASkill #MotherfuckAI

I’m so sorry to everyone at the LA Times Festival of Books today who couldn’t get a copy of The Edge of Space-Time because the bookstore didn’t stock enough! There are signed copies available at Rep Club just a few miles down from USC: rep.club/products/edg... 📚💙

Bout to hit the Festival like a Randy Newman song

Red Emma’s is fucking awesome and you should shop them whether you grab my book there or not (but yeah you should grab my book)

Janet Mills says she wouldn't have voted for the resolutions in the Senate to restrict arms sales to Israel— and her reason is that the resolutions would've blocked Iron Dome interceptors. The two resolutions had nothing to do with Iron Dome interceptors and were about bulldozers and 1000lbs bombs.

Every college and university is trending in the same direction in ways students largely hate and pretending it is necessary to be ‘competitive.’

Went home to El Sereno in East LA last night and talked with folks at the Eastside Café about capitalism, science, and the importance of the night sky for our communities ♥️

Excited for my 5th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 😍

*stares directly at the camera*

I'm struck by the bravery of this student and the fantastic way the union handled this allegation. What a model for all of us to follow in terms of how to show up for our members.

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Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993. I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago.

Probably never in the history of publishing has a #scicomm book tour involved as many Black women conversation partners talking about science and I’m proud we made it happen and thankful to all my non-scientist friends who said yes to talking about The Edge of Space-Time with me ♥️

I had an absolutely AMAZING conversation with @aireadee.bsky.social about poetry, physics, Star Trek, and the social power of the night sky, and it was recorded and you can watch it here! 🖖🏽 youtu.be/UtS7qjphCpk?...

Honored to have been able to engage with this new book (THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME) by theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@chanda.blacksky.app), recently published in Science Magazine (@science.org).

The earliest afrofuturist film that I know of is The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall, 1959) starring Harry Belafonte. It's an extremely unusual film about a nuclear apocalypse that also simultaneously attempts to address questions of racial politics post-integration.

I am doing two talks on Zoom on Renaissance art, as fundraisers for the bookshop - we're a bit behind with finances! They will be recorded, so you don't have to be able to watch live. Accessible, fun, gorgeous art, supporting the bookshop, can't go wrong! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-art...

Quantum physics, Star Trek, and craft books! My event in Manhattan on Monday was recorded, and you can now listen 🖖🏽 www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/poured-...

This is what happens at concentration camps

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Love this (and non-trinary neutrinos!)

Big sigh. Like, men, you could just NOT 🧪 www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

♥️♥️♥️♥️ love the earrings ♥️♥️♥️♥️

The Democrats are the biggest spam problem in my life

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Letting AI Do Your Work Erodes Your Confidence

Help Matthew if you can!

I have really loved this TA job, it’s been a highlight of my PhD. That said, the steady AI creep has made it significantly less rewarding and more alienating over time. It’s probably for the best that my contract is done.

Art majors using AI for ideas or research is just incomprehensible to me and I think the charade of ‘ethical AI usage’ is robbing these young people of key aspects of their intellectual and creative development.

You’re all part of a public experiment to find the best way to talk about the Stern-Gerlach experiment with no diagrams but a lot of Jewsticulating

There are book reviewers who have the range and then there are book reviewers who only believe they have the range

This. Read book and review. Now.

The more I learn about neutrinos, the more I realize they are my gender identity and expression.

Buy her book! I just started it and it is 💯

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

A sequel to what is arguably her best album. I hope it's that good because the first ... whewwwww.

Had an AMAZING night at Reparations Club in Los Angeles last night, and they've got signed copies of The Edge of Space-Time in stock, so consider supporting a Black queer woman-owned bookstore in my hometown and get a SIGNED book!! rep.club/products/edg... 💙📚

Thanks @cbo.bsky.social for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! To be read by a peer like this is an honor! "Instead, the reader is given a project that sings both the radio hits and the deep cuts of physics, set to an instrumental of different scholarly contexts, disciplines, and inspirations."

what is neutrino business? oscillating between three identities just to fuck with people who are wondering where all the solar electron neutrinos went

Good luck trying to catch them, transphobes!!!!!!!

<neutrinos passing through light-years of lead>

“That’s not any of my business” — neutrinos

A remarkable clear explanation of the difference between non-interacting and quantum tunnelling. Sci-fi authors - do hit up a physicist (I guess it doesn't *have* to be @chanda.blacksky.app ) to ask about these things. Often real science is way cooler and weirder than you might think.

neutrinos refuse the trinary box theorists once put them in non-trinary excellence prefers a little flavor (change) ✨ oscillating, boogieing

Settling beef and telling us about quantum tunnelling.

in sum

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️ Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

I have occasionally thought about writing a story where Alexander Dumas and Alexander Pushkin dialogue about being Black