I'm re-reading @scalzi.com's "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" for book club (yes, I'd read it before). Yet I'm getting LOLs from it this time too! The high school discussion was great, and the "Andy Weir" comment (p.164 in the ebook [NOT on a Kindle,EVER]) stopped my breathing for a second. Just great!

BOOKS --Main book club: The Feather Detective (nonfic; extraordinary!!) --Jewish club: The Prague Cemetery (Umberto Eco; historical fiction) --Scifi club: When the Moon Hits Your Eye (Scalzi) --ALSO: Trust (Diaz; Pulitzer 2023) #BookSky

Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost. Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746

Because Wikipedia content is openly licensed for anyone to reuse for free, its servers are currently being hammered by AI scrapers. This enterprise deal gives the companies access to a high speed feed, a privilege they pay for. That’s all. No AI content in Wikipedia. techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/w...

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

"'Overnight cuts to thousands of programs nationwide are nothing short of catastrophic, placing millions of Americans with unmet mental health and substance use disorder needs at even greater risk,' APA President Dr. Theresa M. Miskimen Rivera said...'

The FBI’s raid today on the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s war on the press. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain how the DOJ is not only attacking the First Amendment but also ignoring federal law.

Arlit Maria Martinez’s only request was to visit her son, Kevin, who was dying of cancer. ICE refused and he died later that day. This Administration has no decency nor sense of humanity. We are in contact with Arlit's family and ICE must allow her to attend her son’s service.

Oh lord, that VOICE we know... "Chilling" is right!

ALL GREAT NEWS! Station 151 is an *amazing* story!! #scifi #podcast

Passing on this news from Professor Ken Ono about the loss of his famous father. May his memory be eternal. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social #mathematics

ICE is WHIPPING through my suburban neighborhoods — not uncommon to see them going 50 mph — race through red lights, veer across multiple lanes to get to off ramps, no blinkers. They’re going to hurt or kill someone (else)

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

#BookSky www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Dear @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, I just bought Stories of Your Life (Chiang; Vintage) + Three Moments of an Explosion (Mieville; Del Rey). Two more sales due to having read my public library copies 1st! (I don't buy books until after I've read them.) Thanks. #BookSky

👏 🎉Episode 7 of Bioethics Chats is out! Travis N. Rieder, PhD from @bermaninstitute.bsky.social chatted with HC President @varditravitsky.bsky.social about his research on catastrophes globally to his personal struggle with opioid dependence following medical treatment. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pwy8m0

I loved everything by Mike Resnick. His Kirinyaga stories were superb and unforgettable. Santiago, The Dark Lady: a Romance of the Far Future, Ivory: a Legend of Past and Future, and the The Oracle trilogy are some of my faves.

ksltv.com/local-news/c... #history #technology #unix @jhucompsci.bsky.social

My newest purchases, thanks to a gift cert to @bookshop.org. Ted Chiang and China Mieville are both geniuses in their own ways. (Also liked CM's City + the City, and the story abt icebergs over London in this book.) #BookSky #scifi

@inglorioustrek.bsky.social Great talk w. John Rhys Davies + the marvelous Lawrence Makoare! JRD's stories abt great directors + LM's stories (hard lenses ☹️) were all wonderful. ("John's [makeup] was a walk in the park." LM) And wkg with remarkable Christopher Lee!! And ah, Shogun! Thx to all!

I'm SO hooked on this intriguing story! The monthly missives led me to graaadually begin to see that one of the gents was developing feelings for the other, but that doesn't need to be the main gig thx to their unique situation + the historical backgrounds. All SUPERB. chambersandfogg.blog

"Kevin said the lengthy confinement took a toll on his mental health – something that other young people at his detention facility experienced too."

I know people who work at NASA Goddard whose offices have already been destroyed over the past two months, in some cases without even being able to remove their work or belongings. Why such careless destruction?

😓"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts---Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

I still miss them. I have some of my faves taped to my office door.

Happy new year, lovely creatures. To better days ahead.

#HappyNewYear from #BillNye and #StarTrek #TheDoctor EMH guy. Stardate 01152026 : #StarfleetAcademy on #paramountplus

"My goal is to make people know that innocent people are being targeted,” he said. “These are not ‘illegal’ people being affected. These are people who are citizens, people who have green cards.”

Many profs don't know the difference between kinds of reviews, so they just always say "systematic." The 1st thing I do when asked by a student to help with one of those is explain the differences. I like scoping reviews myself; more interesting, IMHO, because of the gray lit. Thanks!

.a [Neanderthal] with a dental abscess had been eating a type of fungus--a penicillin-producing mold...+ a Neolithic person was carrying...wads of tinder fungus that he almost certainly used to make fire..." ---Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures #BookSky

@nytimes.com I love Book Review podcast w. Gilbert Cruz. Please pass on my appreciation, especially for the recent "What We Can Know" ep. (I agree that "academic obsession" would be a great subgenre; e.g., Byatt's "Possession" + "S." ["Ship of Theseus"]). Also, Edmund Fitz ep was stunning. #BookSky

@stefansecho.bsky.social, beautiful work on this story. @giftogab.bsky.social was certainly right when she said she'd listen to you read a grocery list [updated from "phone book" for obvious reasons]. Oh myyyyy. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

BOOKS --Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: Returned it; 1,200 pages + others waiting so back on hold --Coded Justice (Stacey Abrams): #AI figures prominently! --Entangled Life: Tough to get into nonfiction these days, but good so I'll keep going --Last Samurai: PRINT, so I can keep it longer, yay #BookSky

Extending application deadline to early January so still time to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM

Stefan Rudnicki (partner in crime) is a Guest of Honor @boskone.bsky.social at Boskone63 in February. We have a table in the Dealers' Room #audiobooks galore. Fans of sci-fi/fantasy in Boston (or willing to travel there) Audiobookarama! @stefansecho.bsky.social @blackstonepub.bsky.social boskone.org

What a great story, sir! Two characters very different from one another + fun to read, and the 3rd, um, main character, who was SO great. (Happy to hear the info from the helpful customer service guy as well.) @stefansecho.bsky.social's reading was perfect but #3's rendition was just a riot!

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Every year for the past decade, our philosophy editor, Nigel Warburton, has picked his best five philosophy books of the year. Here are all his choices -- from Buddhism to utilitarianism and Hannah Arendt to Zhuangzi: fivebooks.com/category/phi...

Pls read the whole fascinating article. --"By the time they've completed their trek, they have been offered a place to live by a stranger and Moth's symptoms have amazingly started to reverse." @BookSky www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Episode 210 just dropped! What says "holiday dinner table conversation" more than the topic of "oppression"!? hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/mari...

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

We love the #library. That is why our magazine is available on #Libby, #Hoopla and #Overdrive. Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" to read our magazine for free! (Don't worry, we still get paid by the library)

Wordly.org has been timing out since yesterday. Is anyone else having trouble getting into it? Thanks.

"[T]here is no 'perfect' AI degree. Prof/AI researcher at NYU: '[I]n future, a powerful combination will be understanding AI deeply enough to avoid basic mistakes while having expertise in another domain... [I]nterdisciplinary degrees including... #philosophy are emerging...'" tinyurl.com/yfy2v3ta

Hi we don’t want this thx