Legitimately starting to think @francescahongwi.bsky.social is Wisconsin's Zohran. Met her earlier this week and have not felt this fired up to go knock doors for someone since the Bernie campaign.

OTD in 1847, 178 years ago, America's first woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell, discovered a comet. She was presented with a gold medal for her accomplishment by the king of Denmark. #WomanAstro #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1847_...

"the one year clock" my invention from a few years ago

PHILIP PULLMAN, THE AMBER SPYGLASS:

A Massive, Knitted Tapestry of the Galaxy: Software Engineer Hacks a Knitting Machine & Creates a Star Map Featuring 88 Constellations

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

Noted in @aaronm.bsky.social's weekly roundup of digitized Vatican MSS: this fish, adorning Cicero's De inventione, Bk. 2. Not sure why a fish, but it's a fine one! Here's the MS at Biblissima portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/43093/m... and at the BAV site: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott... #medievalsky

*tired as hell* pink pony club im gonna keep on dancin at the pink pony club

A story on landslides where you might not expect them, featuring geomorphologists Phil Larson and Andy Wickert.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1 fan overhead and late summer crickets 2 giving away baby houseplants to neighbors 3 homemade mocktails 4 yelling “KITTY!” when the cat trots into the room 5 women metal singers

Who are the writers most commonly referenced by the Substack crowd? As in: "This summer, I am making ice cream. Film critic (XXX) refers to this practice as (XXX)". who are the people often quoted? Off the top of my head, Sontag and Arendt and Barthes seem to get a lot of airtime

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

As the wheel turns, we arrive at Sandhill Crane migration season. Few nature experiences match the thrill of seeing the mass migration of these characters #birds

"ok but chris how much physical space does that data storage take" excellent question here on the left is 4 KB of storage and here in the right is 1 TB or 250 million times as much storage

people have a hard time conceptualizing storage sizes, guide for less technical people: 1 kb = plain text files about your thoughts and feelings about how awesome ducks are 1 mb = store one smartphone photo of a duck 1 gb = around a thousandish photos of ducks 1 tb = about one week of my duck photos

Everything is a joke but also oh boy is it not

Today’s #FragmentFriday is part of a leaf used in a binding. It is from a canon law manuscript, and contains papal decretals of three popes. The fragment shows both main text and commentary. Written in France in the 14th century. (UPenn LJS 119) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4m8XtRn

I feel like my response to being super active over the last few years in both queer/lefty/organizing spaces and ML research has been to put on very different faces in different spaces, and I think the dissonance between them has made it kind of hard to hear myself think sometimes.

Nightmare fuel

against interpolation

kobayashi maru walkthrough

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

becoming the most hated physicist in the laboratory by saying "looks like somebody needs a HUGS Boson!" several times a day

Truly, our cities are riddled with criminals

Great Blue Heron from yesterday, one of the most unfriendliest birds that make a most horrid sound when they see humans: #birds #blue_heron #heron #nature

NEW WRITING: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?" 🧪

This tweet lives in my head rent-free these days. Selena Gomez is Oreos, Sydney Sweeney is Pants, et cetera

I just found out there's a mushroom called Chicken of the Woods, and we all know about Chicken of the Sea, so I ask you: HOW MANY LOCATION-BASED CHICKENS ARE THERE?!

There are lots of things that we can say is perfect being the enemy of good! There are things we can wiggle on! Allowing trans people to be cast out of society IS NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS!!!

OSHKOSH, WI: During a high-resolution sonar survey of the Fox River, the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association and Wisconsin Historical Society unexpectedly located the L.W. Crane—a 90-ft wooden steamboat built in 1865 that burned and sank in 1880. The wreck matches historic records.

Personally I think so much of the "AI Discourse" is driven by terminology that is "technically correct" but not functionally useful. For example- the GenAI/Analytical AI distinction doesn't really make sense when often the only structural difference is just hotswapping the last few layers of a model

My Subway Hot Take is that city alderpeople should go back to spelling the job title as "ealdorman" because it makes everything seem chock full of Medieval High Drama

Imagine reporting a story about layoffs at your own news org and getting the circular PR runaround AND having to rely on an anonymous source for just the NUMBER of layoffs. That’s WPR/PBS WI: a place full of great people who deserve so much more from their leaders and institutional culture

Monumentally shitty journalism: Dane County Jail officials *have not even claimed* that drugs in the mail have killed anyone. Yet here is @wkow27news.bsky.social offering a baseless exaggeration to jail officials’ scant claims. Copaganda upgrade plus

One man cannot, overnight, change a fact as written in thousands of copies of hundreds of different books across the world's libraries. But under pressure from the politicians or guided by his own depravity, he can rewrite history overnight by altering the output of the LLM he owns.

absolutely buck wild that as a child he had this kind of grasp on blocking and composition

computer, end program

#FossilFriday A little tyrannosaurid skull which has never caused any controversy or conflict, CMNH 7541. A young Tyrannosaurus? (And the holotype of Nanotyrannus lancensis, regardless of the status of that genus and species). At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Following qualitative inspection of 100 CV papers & 100 patents, we highlight two salient themes that emerged: 1. humans are subsumed under the term ‘objects’ 2. the field goes out of its way to obfuscate surveillance 8/

To get insight into linguistic evolution of the field,we compared the log odds ratios of word frequencies in paper titles from 1990s vs 2010s.We see a clear qualitative shift from generic application-ambiguous language in 1990s (‘shape’, ‘edge’) to a focus in 2010s on humans (‘action’, ‘person’) 4/

sorry but this sucks. consolidation is ruining space. we used to have lots of places to get sucked into an event horizon beyond comprehension and soon it’s just gonna be one infinitely dense point of matter. count me out

Strunk & White stole all their ideas from that spider

Sitting on my stoop this morning with my book and my yard chipmunk neighbor was so mad at this that he SPRINTED ACROSS MY FOOT

if your milk hotel is neutral in times of injustice, your milk hotel has chosen the side of the oppressor.

🧵We're excited to announce a new section of the Cambridge Digital Library for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection of Mediterranean embroideries. View the full collection: https://loom.ly/BPvABM4

Wondered what it would take for AI agents to design and test new theories for fundamental physics, just like a physicist? We show how, an example in neutrino model building! Paper with Jake, Max, Victoria, Jason leading crucial aspects, also @danielwhiteson.bsky.social . arxiv.org/abs/2506.08080

Scientists for Palestine is holding a school on quantum physics Palestinian students in Jordan in July, but they need donations to make it happen! 🇵🇸 www.scientists4palestine.org/palestinian-... www.gofundme.com/f/support-pa...

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory! Can you guess these regions of sky? This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪 #RubinFirstLook ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P

In honor of today's big science, I am currently eating a Very Reuben (Large Sauerkraut Sandwich Tonight)