I think The Onion must have a Cory Doctorow fan on staff @pluralistic https://theonion.com/poll-finds-most-desirable-quality-in-romantic-partner-is-being-jacked-centaur/

Welcome back, @tzimmer_history ! From: @tzimmer_history https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115191229604585509

Some personal news: @jesse and I just won the Nancy Baym Book Award, granted annually by The Association of Internet Researchers (@AoIR ), for our @mitpress book The Secret Life of Data. I am honored, chuffed, and oh so grateful. https://aoir.org/2025nb_bookaward/

I'm having a virtual book event with the @fediforum folks next week! https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-gridges-special-event/ I will talk about my new book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social […]

I was really grumpy today but then a bus driver was nice to me and I was in a much better mood for the rest of the day and also nice to other people. Niceness matters, folks. You never know how much a small word or gesture may change the trajectory of someone's day.

The pyOpenSci community is great—I recommend them to anyone with an interest in developing their scientific Python skills From: @pyOpenSci https://fosstodon.org/@pyOpenSci/115102214951141149

Related to @pluralistic thread: the largest (by far) not-Bluesky ATproto stack is #bridgyfed. But, because of toxic attitudes on Fedi, Bridgy users are cut off from seeing most Bluesky users, even if those users follow their accounts. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115034644536017304

This compilation of “ambitious AI projects to accelerate progress in science and security” is completely unhinged. https://ifp.org/the-launch-sequence/

I’m shocked, but not surprised, that this paper needed to be written From: @bpaassen https://bildung.social/@bpaassen/115016419670940235

For anyone who is interested in the historical forces that are driving authoritarianism in the US, read Thomas Zimmer From: @tzimmer_history https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115004613922564206

Data has become a central component of many systems of our modern democracy. Gov stats influence media coverage and thus electoral accountability. Hyper-optimized neighborhood-level redistricting algorithms can maximize partisan bias and change outcomes in Congress. Everything is downstream of data.

Posted ten years ago today. Now it's 80, but otherwise, all unchanged.

In a bit of shameless self-promotion, I'm proud to announce that I've a new book out! "Synchrotron Light: a Physics Journey from Laboratory to Cosmos", was written together with my co-author Prof. David Paganin and published by Oxford University Press. Target […] [Original post on aus.social]

Glad to see my California representative, Jared Huffman, among the signatories to this effort From: @SeanCasten https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/114944186860872021

All the songs here here - free downloads because he was OK. https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Bill & Ted’s Existential Adventure From: @selzero https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/114920777021400269

Welcome back, @tzimmer_history ! From: @tzimmer_history https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/114919435802085178

The video recording of my public lecture in Aspen is now up: "Can Physics Stop Climate Change?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkDelyDcUo

Fun, interesting, and informative piece on the parallel histories of comics and data visualization, by Andrew Gelman and Susan Kruglinski https://nightingaledvs.com/statistical-graphics-and-comics/ @pbump @j_bertolotti

Had a great time hearing about new results and catching up with colleagues at SCES 2025 in Montréal, which was co-organized by @majeriisli . Congratulations on a conference well done! Several people volunteered to me how much they enjoyed it.

Happy Independence Day for all who celebrate. Let’s all take a moment to get ready. https://youtu.be/D8iekojKXNU

I used TurnitIn in one class, reluctantly, early in my career. I stopped mainly because I didn’t think it was ethical, but it also just wasn’t very good. This article describes other reasons to avoid such student surveillance technology. Ironically, it erodes the very trust that it claims to […]

A few years ago I organized an assessment of the social climate in my academic department. One of the most significant findings was that queer students did not feel like they belonged. After discussing this with a queer student who I knew fairly well, I […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Nice surprise to see my friend and college roommate David Obura featured in The Guardian, talking about the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/25/tipping-points-coral-oceans-climate-crisis-marine-ecologist

Calling all English Native Speakers!!! Please help with a quick study. 15 min. All you need to do is evaluate some sentences in exchange for our eternal gratitude 😃 https://run.pavlovia.org/anouschkafoltz/study_evaluating_sentences/ Pls Repost ❤️

TIL about the phinary number system, which is based on the golden ratio phi From: @johndcook https://mathstodon.xyz/@johndcook/114648711964348889

Canadian universities can capitalize on foreign students reconsidering studies in the U.S. (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Jun 02, 2025 https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281530821959057

The US presidential budget request for 2026 would be a catastrophe for US science—no exaggeration for emphasis here, just straight talk. This is a big deal that deserves more attention than it is getting outside of academic circles. American citizens, please call your representatives in Congress […]

Blunt and effective Thursday message

#mastobada Sweet Home Chicago, Robert Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmiYxuHvT4

#mastobada Passe em casa, Tribalistas https://youtu.be/BW2bCENlO5M

#mastobada Home, David Murray Octet https://youtu.be/6R2Ts1JBMZw

#silentsunday #sanfrancisco

A new #Trump executive order defines a "gold standard" for federally-funded science. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/ Three points for now, and more later. 1. Most of the standards (3.a.i-ix) are borrowed from #OpenScience movement or […]

Please boost widely: For the conference "100 Years Quantum Mechanics" on Helgoland in June (9-14) we still have some spots available again due to last-minute cancellations. Registration is therefore open again for a short time: https://indico.mpl.mpg.de/event/17/ More info about the event and […]

Allez, Paris! From: @davidho.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/post/3lp7i636sn227

The bank of the Seine in Paris used to be space for cars. Now for several years it’s been a special place for people in a city making more & more of them. All it took was leadership. Oh, and fighting and winning a court battle when that leadership was challenged. HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social for pic.

Stand Up For Science has a thread on Bluesky to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NSF. It’s important to spread the word about the benefits that publicly funded science has brought us.

Saw this mural in Paris (13e) and have since discovered that it’s by an Angeleno artist, Tristan Eaton https://www.tristaneaton.com/the-revolution-will-be-trivialized/ https://www.tristaneaton.com/work-avenue#/the-revolution-will-be-trivialized-paris-france/

Ok, I might stop after this one: The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

I’m returning from a conference in Europe where everyone was anxious about the situation in the US, especially the young researchers whose current lives and future career prospects are being completely upended by it. This is a well-written piece about what’s happening in US academic science […]

Well, fuck! Just got a message from my university that we can no longer spend money on our NSF-funded grants. This is as good as having the grants taken away from us.

The Munich airport has an exercise machine that confused the hell out of me. It measures “energy performance” and displays the energy, not the power, in Watts! (Also, it should not be capitalized.) Then I saw the fine print at the bottom: “The physically […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

We just came back from the "Light-Matter Interactions and Collective Effects" workshop in Paris. We heard some interesting talks on how quantum emitters (not only atoms, but also e.g. molecules and quantum dots) interact with each other and how people try to […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Federal party plans for postsecondary education (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Apr 26, 2025 https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281586656458976 This article explores how the major federal parties might affect fundamental #research in #canada should they form a government after the […]