where is he getting this 1000 years thing from???

Emailing with Garwin a few years ago was one of my first "wow" moments at @physicstoday.bsky.social. This is a great tribute to him—check it out!

In NJ, in VA, in NYC, it's time to get to work. There are no permanent majorities. There are only moments of time when parties can assemble a majority of voters around a set of ideas. You have to take that moment and run as fast as you can, before the next election breaks your stride.

More important coverage of our current slow-motion disaster from @physicstoday.bsky.social...

really says so much about the sad state of the mainstream national media that one of the best outlets covering the current shitshow is one of the OG tech blogs, @techdirt.com...

Philadelphians, here are the Philadelphia Bar Association recommendations for judge election/retention. electqualifiedjudges.com

serious question: was The Great Gatsby the first piece of art that was intended to be deeply critical of a time and place but has consistently been misread as a celebration of said time and place? many such examples: Wolf of Wall Street, Goodfellas, etc. etc.

giving any credence to this whole "Trump will defund NYC if it elects Zohran" thing is ridiculous and plays into his preferred image: that of a strongman dictator who personally decides who gets money and how much.

This is one of the coolest things the history and library team at @aip.bsky.social is doing. If you have photos, please consider contributing! Future historians will thank you :)

this is awesome! we need this in Philly so badly...

the most upsetting part about this is how it’s all obviously just for show because we are governed by the dumbest shitheads on earth who like seeing things blow up for fun

@coreyatad.com have you watched M: Son of the Century on MUBI? would love to see your thoughts about it somewhere. finished it last night and thought it was superb.

Really proud of this piece, and the full report that will come out in the near future. What we learned from early career leaders in the physical sciences is likely broadly relevant to other scholarly/scientific domains.

so we're just funding the government on bribes now?

Before last year’s election, my wife and I took our grandsons on a tour of the nation’s capital, realizing it might become quite different if Trump won. I kept thinking the symbols of democracy might turn into symbols of tyranny. We toured the White House’s East Wing. It’s being demolished now.

gonna be honest, i still don't understand how the president literally bulldozing a good third of the White House—a literal national symbol—on a whim, with no approvals, no permits, and sketchy funding, isn't a bigger story. what is going on here???

“The good news is that the next Democratic inhabitant of the White House can demolish the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino and restore the East Wing and the rest of the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

Any Democratic nominee who promises to tear down Trump’s gaudy monstrosities will run into a blizzard of pearl clutching “how can you insult millions of Americans like that,” as if the monstrosities were not an insult, or the millions of Americans insulted by it don’t count. They should ignore it.

at minimum, any legitimate Dem nominee in 2028 should explicitly promise to tear down all of Trump’s gaudy monstrosities and rebuild what was there before.

one of the cool things about living in the year of our lord 2025 is that we get to have a Teapot Dome scandal and a Watergate every day. fun!!

maybe the best part about watching The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is when you're done, you inevitably listen to the soundtrack over and over again and just remember how amazing it is.

just incredibly sad to see this institution I love being gutted...

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

If Kavanaugh does decide to kill the VRA, I don’t think we can whitewash the extent to which this is RBG’s legacy. This SC is a lot of what she left behind We have to act in accordance with the world we live in, not the one we wish we did, esp with such severe consequences

speaking of Red Dead 2, it would really be nice if Rockstar finally released the long-rumored next-gen upgrade for the game...

remember when D'Angelo randomly dropped a killer track on the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack, and it turned out that he was such a big fan of the series that he actually playtested the game? RIP to an absolute legend.

hey @inquirer.com, why are you running crappy, misleading op-eds from astroturf organizations funded by the Koch brothers?

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

Really interesting story from our archives—

a year ago, AI companies were promising "superintelligence" that would make 40% of workers redundant and fundamentally reshape human productivity and the economy. now, they making slop versions of tiktok. altman is cooked

one thing I'd love to learn about this ridiculous $100k fee for H-1B visas (and which somehow hasn't come up in any of the media coverage I've seen): Is it even legal for the president to just arbitrarily change visa fees like this? aren't those fees set by Congress?

why is the Nobel committee using an AI-generated image (of a house under construction that is being framed) in the presentation for the chemistry prize??? they couldn't find an actual photo of a house being built? #NobelPrize #chemistry

Check out our longer story on this year’s Nobel laureates!

One of the coolest things about working at @physicstoday.bsky.social is delving into our archive and seeing how many famous physicists have written for us over the years. We just added another Nobel laureate to our collection today!

am I crazy, or did one of the Nobel Committee members say that quantum mechanics was discovered by Werner Heisenberg in 1925? they are going to make me insane—that isn't even close to the full story. please stop with the hagiography! #NobelPrize #physics

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Physics students are told their degree is a ticket to anything but during their time at university, it's rarely elaborated on. So Toni Feder has gone out and interviewed physicists with varied careers away from the field (Posts the physicist whose job title is digital experience director...)

it's so blindingly obvious that we should do this. it would instantly transform the Philly area into one of the most accessible metropolitan areas in the country. and yet our politicians don't even seem to realize it's a possibility...

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

@physicstoday.bsky.social is starting a new interview series highlighting physics degree holders who took nontraditional career paths after graduation. Check it out! #whatcanphysicistsdo #physics

"...at the low, low cost of nearly all of the intellectual property ever created by our species, the general concept of the nature of truth...and the environmental, energy, and negative labor costs of this entire endeavor." preach brother! 👏👏👏

an entire administration and "movement" based on screwing over blue states and owning the libs. after Biden specifically structured the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and CHIPS Act to benefit red states. what an embarrassing chapter of our history.

world's worst impersonation of George C. Scott in Patton.

Great opportunity—one I wish had been available when I was on the job market!

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I'm sorry, I've lost any & all patience for this level of fundamental unseriousness. Vast swathes of our universities are going to be dismantled. Real people are going to lose their jobs. Students won't have the same opportunities anymore. And these people are writing drivel like this. It's gross.

I had a blast editing this piece on the physics of the theremin, which obviously naturally led me down quite a few rabbit holes listening to scores that use the instrument. This track from First Man (which I still need to see) is a real highlight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNc9...

Great stuff!

yeah, it was pretty freaking pathetic, especially for someone who's allegedly good friends with Jimmy Kimmel. don't know why I expected better...seems like Simmons's whole lesson from 2016 and 2020 was that he should be less political. gross.