If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

The new call for Motwani postdocs application is now open! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30865 BTW- Not quite ready for a postdoc? We updated the TCS Masters programs spreadsheet: www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/mast... Any career stage and in the (SF) Bay Area? Save the date for TOCA-SV on 11/7!

Happy Columbo’s Day

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

🎂 It's my special cake and candles day you all have to be nice to me because it's been QUITE the year 🎂 So share some of my paintings??

My sign.

Tenure-track opening @ U. Colorado Boulder Dept. of Math! Esp. (but not only) looking for: algebraic geometry homotopy theory foundations functional analysis number theory interdisciplinary collab. b/w math & computer science or the math of quantum physics www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27... #🧮

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

Some environmental good news for once: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

You are an Early Career Researcher in #cybersec? Here is an opportunity: The AEC chairs of @USENIXSecurity '26 are looking for (self)nominations for the Artifact Evaluation Committee. Deadline: October 17th, 2025, so sign up soon! @chwress.bsky.social, @kumarde.bsky.social, @aurore-fass.bsky.social

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Inigo Montoya first draft

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with. The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen. Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

my fave Kant factoid is that Tove Jansson's Moomintroll from Moomins was originally a caricature of Kant

I like that one. But even better in my eyes is the story I heard that when his memory started to fail him, Kant would write notes on the tablecloth at dinner of the conversational topics so as not to repeat himself.

My fave Kant factoid? Legend has it that Disciplined Kant took the same walk at the same time each day and townsfolk set their clocks by him. In fact, Kant played afternoon billiards with his pal & then fell asleep in an easy chair. Pal's servant would wake him & send him home at same time each day.

Post docs who bring their own funding

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

Tag yourself, I’m a poor little beastie

I can’t write poetry to save my life, but I’d still not ask AI to do it. This thread has some lovely haikus in the replies though.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

1. Young adulthood 2. Grad school / job market 3. Academia

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

On the market this year? Make sure you get included in the list of SIGecom job market candidates! Submit the google form by Oct 7 and you profile by Oct 12.

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

We’re not suppose to live like this. It is exhausting.

Time to revive this banger, but instead of Vista it’s AI xkcd.com/528/

The good people of Bluesky... a request for help. I’m on the lookout for real-life examples of ridiculous tat, tacky gifts, or pointless gadgets: e.g. a replica Viking Drinking Horn (with brass wolf adornments) or an Amanda Holden wall clock. The more awful or futile, the better. Any suggestions?

Happy Friday, friends!

#AcademicSky I'm trying to compile a list of academic conferences (> 1.000 participants) that were supposed to be organised in USA in 2025/2026 but that were canceled or made hybrid. (I saw some such instances here I think, but hard to find them again) Let me know if you know of such conferences.

Carcinization be like

@chembarathi.bsky.social I learned a basic crochet chain today! Pestered Amma into sitting down and teaching it to me (which she did with much complaining 😁). Soon amigurumi, what!

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks! 2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

In a rare testament to the inherent Indianness of my English skills, I read this as “sosa jis” for the longest time and wondered what bizarre food this was. (Eventually the comments helped clear this up!)