At the airport and saw a mouse scurry from under a maintenance door onto a jet bridge. Hope he makes his flight

That is quite a sunset…

Still riding the joy from our first ever BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin photo exhibition at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee. Grateful for the community, the love, and everyone who made it possible. Just the beginning! 🐦🖼️🫶🪶

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

"The process by which specific features emerge during denoising remains an open question. To investigate this, we propose a new architecture we call the Feature-Hierarchy Quantized Wasserstein Hybrid Generative Adversarial/ Diffusion Sampler (FHQWHGADS), and probe its behavior in the limit of... "

Moon is out, sweater is on, and baby it is AMTRAK TIME

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment.” Love a droll researcher.

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

I'm at the KITP in Santa Barbara this month and ran into the great workers of @afscme3299.bsky.social fighting for a fair contract - solidarity!!! If you're a UCSB worker, join the picket line if you can!

New entries to my ZineBakery.com online catalog of free tech+culture+justice zines: DH (free maker software; bodies+datafied city; queering feminist geography; edtech surveillance; digipress); Fritton's Day-Glo Ink "Primer"; @prisonculture.bsky.social's Arrested at the Library; & Virginia Trans Joy+

people hate AI, but they don't actually understand what it is. for example, you know the most famous AI program? that's actually an example of AI! the more you know

WORT is one of the gems of radio, I haven't heard anywhere else like it. They do it all - feminist news, 30s big band, a midnight "anyone from the community can run a show" block... toss em a few, if you can!!!

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

An activity possesses trajectory, and, anticipating a form, trajectory anticipates an end. - Donald Revell in “Better Unsaid: On Poetic Fragments” per the formal energy that arises from a trajectory

I’ll be done aurora-posting soon. But I wanted to add: Columbus is a big city with vibrant immigrant communities. Word spread that you could see it from the dam, so by this substorm there were ~50 people up there with me. Shouts of joy and awe in so many languages, a memory I’ll forever treasure

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Sat in on a really interesting talk yesterday where the speaker basically said that we *could* be building data centers to have an extremely low environmental impact- waterless cooling, solar power- but we're not doing that because the Powers that Be are racing to Beat China

The WPA is my Roman empire. So many first-hand accounts of enslaved folks, early settlers, native Americans, etc that are so invaluable today wouldn't have been recorded with it. I'm amazed at how we figured this out 90 years ago and then just abandoned the idea...

Paper's out!

It's striking that relatively small orgs like @carpentries.carpentries.org and @python.org are standing up for what's right, while so many much larger orgs with deeper pockets are quick to acquiesce and throw their communities under the bus. They are pointing the way for the future of science.

Every time I post a picture of a seismic signal, I am using #python software. Please read this thread from @python.org (I here have screenshotted the three posts that I think contain what you need to know.) I applaud the Python Software Foundation for taking this stand.

Fisher meets Feynman! 🤝 We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference. To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025. #NeurIPS2025 (link below)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Ohio Tri-X 400 Nikon N90 #filmphotography

Superconducting Supercollider Funding Cancelled

Two new Atomic Sonnets in Cream City Review :: Whenever I think of the element Europium, I think of Ultravox’s “Vienna” and is dedicated to my dear friend Jared Harel. As the element Indium, ALLEGEDLY it gives a high-pitched “scream” when bent, o the soft girl era she is.

And now UVA!! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025... MIT, Brown, Penn, USC and now UVA have all rejected the loyalty oath “compact” for “excellence” in higher ed. Five of nine! (I wonder if this decision was final before today’s planned meeting www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...)

Question for the anglophiles- if Prince Andrew stops using the "Duke of York" title, does York still *have* a Duke?

a common buckeye butterfly on Symphyotrichum grandiflorum

great now I want an ancient baptismal jacuzzi for the yard

"why am i so goddamn tired all the time lately" wonders guy who has wildly overburdened themselves with activities and obligations

Cool fact I just learned: the CMS detector at CERN (@cmsexperiment.bsky.social) sits on the site of a 4th-century Roman farm that was rediscovered during the excavation of the cavern! www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-...

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

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