Wrote about the feeling of living at a literal fever pitch for the last decade, and how every day things somehow get worse but stay the same. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/we-live-in...

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

I literally just found out (five minutes ago!) that they have finished shooting Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social and I can’t wait. This is the book that made me come out of the closet and tell people that I loved science fiction, which was unusual for a 20 yr old girl. It’s still unusual!

everything's a UFO if you're bad enough at identifying it, everything is fast food if you bring enough fire, everything is filler if you aren't paying attention, everything's a horror story

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Happy Saturday!

Newcastle decided to be spectacular this morning. Thanks for that.

Libra: Although today is not your day, fear not, tomorrow will be worse. Much, much worse. Hoo boy, so, so bad.

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

The opinions sections in WaPo, NYT, etc. have always had their share of garbage. Now WaPo won't tolerate any opinions speaking against the excess of free markets? Or against the "personal liberties" of billionaires? Fuck that noise.

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Apropos of nothing in particular, I've been thinking a lot recently about a friend's old band "The Kakistocrats"

The Guardian isn't problem-free, but it's probably doing best in the moment out of all the newspapers serving the US. We need government that works for the people, and we need an end to bigotry. Autocracy and oligarchy must be ended. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

Brian Molko is a gem (and Placebo are all-time greats) and is completely right. Calling out fascists is never wrong.

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

AGU journals don't do this. Nor do they have ai or automation in the editorial and review process (looking at you frontiers).

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Here, I said some goofy bullshit about what maybe you can do today. Is it helpful? Probably not! But it's here! For you to ignore or embrace at your leisure. terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

I've put together a starter pack of accounts related to solar physics, space weather, and space climate.🔭🧪 If you know anyone else who should be included, please let me know, and I'll add them. go.bsky.app/KKV5kUu

i wrote about melt sandwiches and grieving and giving to one another buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

Nuclear weapons (a good Nobel Prize!) are one of the biggest reasons to vote for Harris over Trump. Here's a thread of articles about the stakes in this election for science, health, environment & more -- in one convenient location for any undecided or unmotivated voters. This is important. (1/7) 🧪

That soulless thing would break in less than a day with my boy and my dog. Also, they would have a terrible time.

Aurora from Boulder! 🔭🧪⚛️

In September 2017 a major space weather event interfered with hurricane response. We now have another major storm happening while a huge hurricane pummels Florida. Hopefully the phasing of space weather impacts won't hamper emergency response efforts this time.

I'm late to the party, but that's how I roll. Show up late, hide in the kitchen, leave early... Anyway, Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #930,401! So I'm officially a "Certified Bluesky Elder". My Internet beard is as grey as my IRL beard.

The screenshot I show everyone who tells me they're using AI for anything

Huh. That *is* a very cool fact/thread...

In Twister (1996), Helen Hunt's character wanted to increase the warning times for tornadoes from 3 to 15 minutes by getting data from inside a funnel cloud. Today the average warning time is 15 minutes. Fun look at 30 years of tornado science 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/betw...

I am the same age as the Voyager probes and I am jealous of their functioning systems. Related note: A friend came to my 25th birthday party dressed as Voyager.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

OUR 3-DAY-AHEAD FORECAST IS LIVE FOR THE ECLIPSE! These images show 4 forecasts of what the corona will look like if you're in Dallas, Texas! More details here: clasp.engin.umich.edu/solar-eclips... #EclipseSolar #Eclipse #Eclipse2024

Just dug an 11.5 year old stick of rock out of the back room. It's still good! Very good. That's probably the best thing about high desert lack of humidity.

Today's newsletter: I believe AI is racing Silicon Valley toward another dot com bust. Generative AI is too unreliable, has no path to profit, uses far too much energy, and cannot fix its core problem - that you just can't trust the things it creates. www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-f...

Even if you're not in the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse, you can still see a partial eclipse in most of North American — here's a map showing what to expect. 🧪 🔭 Don't worry about FOMO and enjoy the show! www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

2024 will be glorious/catastrophic.

The Python programming language is a Christmas movie

reskeet if u are a fan of cetaceans

how we envisioned the dark future: you wear leather and buy brain stims from a small store in an alley. your wrist computer helps you hack actual dark future: your $89 pants rip after 8 wears. adderall shortage. your wrist computer makes you stand up hourly and buzzes with email from your boss

A colleague I haven't seen in a while asked me what I'm working on these days. I told him, then he asked what science I was doing... Me: "I'm temporarily in between science"

Oh no! Not again!

If there isn't already a Wikipedia page for "science that was fucked up by Excel," there should be. 🧪

Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701

Got a great compliment from a friend today about this post and realized I never put it on here. So here's the problem with Gig Science open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

Dog: Enjoyer of eclipse shadows

Annular eclipse from the mountains of New Mexico: First picture is of the eclipse with a slightly cracked pixel camera; second picture is the cool, weird shadows.