Collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias: in which I review "The Battle of the Big Bang" for CERN Courier. cerncourier.com/a/the-battle...

I just think this draft book page is aesthetically pleasing.

New profile pic.

Happy Mothers' Day to my mom in particular. Miss you.

A mathematician Pope going up against a machine god AI is the most cyberpunk thing ever.

Tonight! www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...

I'll be in New York on Friday, 2 May at CARA NYC for the premier of Berlin artist Asad Raza's "Array". Looks like it will be a blast! www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...

Georgie gets some treatos 🤎

Ada 🤎

I'll be in New York on Friday, 2 May at CARA NYC for the premier of Berlin artist Asad Raza's "Array". Looks like it will be a blast! www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...

Bo 🤎

Current status

Me on my best girl Charlotte 🤎

This August, primordial black holes will come to Reykjavik. indico.mpp.mpg.de/event/10969/

An Infinity of Worlds is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle! www.amazon.com/Infinity-Wor...

Need to inject some good vibes into this place.

Are there seriously people in science who do not get that "We already know the answer, so any new research on the subject is problematic and needs to be stopped" is a deeply unscientific attitude?

A cautionary tale.

A very nice piece by Sarah Haider. In retrospect, organized atheism was a fundamentally silly idea, like organized round-Eartherism. newsletter.sarahhaider.com/p/atheism-wi...

FeeIing optimistic for 2025.

Homemade tortillas

The sole criterion for truth in science is whether or not a hypothesis is supported by evidence l, not whether or not it will lead to a politically undesirable outcome.

Pheasant update

RIP to a truly decent man.

Quote with a titoe screen iconic to you.

Never gets old.

Ada got a pheasant for Christmas 🤎

If only we knew how to generate large amounts of carbon-neutral electricity.

She lost a boot and carried it home herself.

Looking forward to some peace and quiet over winter break so I can work on my book.

Not this again. iai.tv/articles/cos...

I wondef what the people who are constantly going on about stopping space development are going to do when China completely ignores them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/w...

This was the same guy who wrote an article falsely claiming that James Webb was a deep-seated homophobe who was an architect of the "lavender scare" in the 1950s. It was a complete lie, but it wasted a lot of people's time in the astronomy community. www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/u...

The richest dude in the world has no idea how any company makes money. Check.

I am very dubious about the usefulness of this guy's product, but if your model of more functional social media is "be as toxic as possible to The Bad People" ... I hate to break it to you, but you ARE The Bad People.

Why gravity is a cultural construct. 🧵

New nightmare just dropped. purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

This is certainly not true of public universities. For example, the SUNY Board of Trustees is (mostly) appointed by the governor, and the University of Michigan Board of Regents is elected.

Me on Georgie 🤎

No it doesn't. finance.yahoo.com/news/google-...

I can't even. Every human being is equally indigenous to Earth. arxiv.org/abs/2412.06675

I dunno, ChatGPT really does pretty well.

Alternate headline: Nobel Laureates do the dumbest possible thing.

Meanwhile, Thirty Meter Telescope goes nowhere. www.space.com/the-universe...

Almist everyone in the replies to this thread needs to get some therapy right away.

That's ... not what wage theft is.

Shiva has friends for the holiday.

I'm very against death, generally, as a principle.