Funding opportunity for US-based early career researchers! tl;dr: $25k for 6-mo projects in AI/ML Integration in Scientific Software Development, Scientific Software Sustainability, or Software education research. Applications due 1 June 2026. 🔗 urssi.us/blog/2026/05...

Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

After 10 years, I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social. A few thoughts on the decade: www.arfon.org/stepping-dow... The EiC call: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call... #opensource #openscience

Some news to mark the occasion: after a decade leading JOSS, founding EiC @arfon.bsky.social is stepping down. We're now searching for the next EiC to lead JOSS into its next chapter. The call: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call... #openscience #opensource

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

your moment calm

I'm excited to announce that applications are open for the next URSSI summer school on software engineering for research, 8-10 June in Boston @ Northeastern Univ.: urssi.us/blog/2026/04... Open to US-based students, postdocs, & early career researchers (or beyond!). Travel fully funded.

This is such great messaging. Cc: @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I remember the dialup modem handshake, and playing games on an MS-DOS machine. The glitter of unwanted AOL CD-ROMs, shining in the dark. The glory of a *perfect* AIM away message. First accessing Facebook when I got my .edu email, then friending/poking other freshman I hadn’t yet met.

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Marys Peak, Alsea Falls Targeted by Trump Administration Clearcutting Plan - The Corvallis Advocate share.google/ZPeanLpdehuL.... There is a link to the BLM comment form at the end of the article.

"I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me," she said.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

The Government Workers Donald Trump Discarded www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Apply for the next #URSSI winter school on research software engineering, 15-17 Dec in Portland, OR: urssi.us/blog/2025/11... For: grad students, postdocs, & other early career researchers (or beyond!) looking to increase your software dev. skills. Applications close 21 Nov, so apply soon!

There are more of us than there are of them.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Corvallis Oregon says NO KINGS. @wyden.senate.gov

lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.

Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”

I'm Associate Editor-in-Chief at @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for Physics & Engineering, I'm looking for folks who can contribute in my track. We particularly need people with expertise in energy systems, sustainability, nuclear science, and manufacturing. blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call...

Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.

We’ve extended the deadline for the 2nd round of #URSSI early-career fellowship applications to 10 August. Please share with anyone who might a good fit!

Hi everyone, just a reminder that this Friday (25 July 2025) at 11:59 pm PST is the deadline for round 2 of #URSSI early-career fellowship applications. If you work around scientific software development and have project ideas that align—even loosely—to the focus areas, please apply!

One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Obligatory retweet.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

To my fellow Americans on this Fourth of July, I hope you share my patriotic fury at what a right-wing minority is currently doing to destroy our country. It’s going to take a generation to fix.

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

America is a system and that system has crashed. @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social don’t mince words here www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

The winery chose *just now* to send this email, with this subject line? Read the fucking room

#WeKnowThemByTheirVotes www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

This is a tragic day in American history. We deserve better. Our children and families and citizens deserve better. I’m ashamed of what’s just happened. This is not a vote that cares about voters, this is greed, recklessness, violence and immorality. We will all suffer from this.

Hi friends, happy to announce that we’ve opened applications for the second round of URSSI early-career fellows! tl;dr: $10k-25k for US-based early career researchers to do projects related to topics in scientific software (see post for specifics). Applications due 25 July urssi.us/blog/2025/07...

In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.

It's a very, very good point. The earlier crises were vast and required huge amounts of spending. We have no economic crisis now. We have a vast political and constitutional one. It's when you'd want to keep deficit/debt stable with respect to size of the economy.

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

<endless screaming>

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Oh shit, that’s a good ad

Software & open science folks: @madickenmunk.bsky.social is organizing an #URSSI Summer School this August on open science and research software engineering in Fairbanks, Alaska: urssi.us/blog/2025/06... Please share with early career researchers who might be interested—or apply, if that is you!

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Andrew has posted the full opening credits/theme song to The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon!

This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research. In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*. This is an extinction-level event.