I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

Just 340 days until the women’s world cup begins

👇 A short thread on history of dinosaur discoveries and palaeontological museums in China

AI disclosure. Appears in ~50% of AI papers. Many disclose extensive AI use but claim human "responsibility" for the content 🙄 Others will be a bit bellicose, claiming human-AI writing is the academic norm now, and it's "gatekeeping" to say otherwise. How does this resonate with other editors? /end

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Was meeting with a student in a Starbucks, and plugged my battery in to charge about ten steps from where I was sitting. Within five minutes, somebody swiped it! First time I've ever had something outright stolen here that I can recall.

i worked in several casinos and later for an online sportsbook. the best advice i can give you is to stay the hell away from all of it.

Checking in at @nerdnitetokyo.bsky.social

Today marks 81 years since the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945: the Trinity test. Here's a selection of Bulletin articles examining the event and its wide-ranging impact.

Laugh of the day. Science wins every time.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

On top of other drawbacks, just discovered that Gemini Pro deadnames a trans friend of mine when asked about their research, but gets it right when asked for a corresponding BibTeX entry.

Finally out in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.: "Quantum Circuits for the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm" With these quantum walks, the end-to-end quadratic speedup holds for MH Markov Chain Monte-Carlo simulations. Stellar work by B. Claudon. #quantumcomputing #compchem iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

AI discourse is taking up too much oxygen (in addition to water) in writer spaces and it's bumming me right the fuck out. What is a delightful/weird/delightfully weird story you've read this year? Include read/purchase links. Get some humans paid.

The little-known story of how two of history’s greatest physicists waged a war over the existence of the atom and the nature of reality itself THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE Preorder now at www.amazon.com/dp/1541607228/ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-... bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #BookSky #Books

More than 70 people were injured, with 24 of them still in critical condition, according to a statement by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. n.pr/4fvhEsp

Fixing Bugs, Live! Meeting the Project 2025 attack on science - Sam Wang and Elizabeth Ginexi talk about the OBM proposed rule Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

One important caveat: the models have never been verified in this territory. They have real, demonstrated skill at this lead time for ordinary events, but no ensemble has ever forecast a 3.5C El Niño because one has never happened. We are both figuratively and literally in uncharted waters.

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

I can't recall when the last day was that I took off from work. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday were all full days; last night I worked until almost midnight, and Mondays are my long day of the week -- and for the first time we needed the aircon in the bedroom and it wasn't set right.

@dabacon.tachyon.institute @jenseisert.bsky.social @astrokatie.com comments welcome. rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/2026/07/mana...

it’s very funny to believe that you’re headed to eternal paradise, most people are headed to eternal suffering, but while we’re very briefly on this mortal plane we need to be more racist

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

youtu.be/XiqfFVqdg78?... Amazingly fluid.

#BayStars up 3-2 after one inning.

Despite my general long-term optimism about AI, I'm deeply concerned about the way the technology and market for AI today are developing and how it is affecting society (and education). But I am cautiously dipping my toe into trying it out, to learn a little about the current state. 1/

So-called "zero knowledge proofs" of age verification are just as flawed: the statistics on biometric age estimation's success rate are *abysmal*, and racially/ethnically biased to boot. NIST does ongoing validation: pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/fr...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to expropriate money from its core science programmes to fund an initiative from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The move would strain budgets that are already tight and force the agency... TAT: [Attacking science]

If you are drafting your public comment to submit on the OMB rule change - this thread is for you. And if you haven’t started yet, that’s ok! This thread is also for you. Do you appreciate innovation in health, transportation, energy, and a wide range of other disciplines? It’s time to speak up.

More than 98,900 comments have been submitted on the OMB’s proposed rule to the federal grantmaking process. Here’s a look at some of the comments. eos.org/research-and...

Holy cow, it's muggy and still hot in Tokyo tonight.

BepiColombo mission is about to arrive at Mercury! It's a pretty nifty design: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio) are travelling to #Mercury as a compostive spacecraft, stacked on top of a transfer module […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

NK Jemisin Ann Leckie Martha Wells David Brin Larry Niven Youngest to oldest. Leckie and I were born a month apart.

who else had the spiral bound thomas guides under their car seat because they did not fit in the glove compartment

What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?

For reasons, I've spent a bunch of time in the last few weeks diving into ✨ quantum error correction ✨ which is a shockingly fascinating bit of theoretical physics that will be absolutely essential for getting quantum computers to actually achieve all the amazing breakthroughs they're expected to

Always interesting to see how Japanese media handles Trump's remarks. On Iran, he said "I don't want to deal with them anymore, they're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're sick people." Yomiuri translation: 「これ以上彼らとはディール（取引）したくない。彼らはくずだ。病んでいる」

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

So, technically, we have a colorblind creature pulling off some of the best color camouflage in nature, that is likely combining a lens "flaw" most systems try to eliminate, with skin that quite literally sees without eyes 🪄 ✨ 🌈

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

Great week-end for small bodies ! Hayabusa 2# flyby of asteroid Torifune (www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...) and Tianwen-2 images of asteroid Kamo'oalewa (www.xinhuanet.com/20260706/eb8...) ! #PlanetaryScience

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

In Starbucks listening to Ella exclaim "If I were a salad, I'd be splashing my dressing"

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

"writing" here is an adjective, not a verb. This is a good thread on how bad word processors are, though it's framed a little more optimistically than that. For technical writing, Overleaf is about as good as it gets today, IMO. For non-technical writing but with advanced features, no opinion.

Captain America #130 Written by Stan Lee Pencils by Gene Colan Inks by Dick Ayers Letters by Artie Simek #Happy4th