This is terrifically sad news. One of the true giants of the historical profession, endlessly curious and creative, and a genuine pioneer of new kinds of international history, especially using NGOs and culture as topics/methodology.

Turns out you can customize the spinner verbs in Claude Code. So here we are:

"Even after the battle was finished, neither side understood that it had just fought the defining engagement of the war." The war went on for close to two more years. United States victory was not inevitable after Gettysburg.

Started to curate a table of small quantum Tanner codes. If you want to play with codes with fairly good parameters, all the parity-check matrices are available. aleverrier.github.io/qtanner-sear...

@acm.org I just spent fifteen confusing minutes trying to figure out basic account info like when I renewed last and what my SIG memberships are. My available time has ended, so I give up for now.

HUGE EUROPA NEWS!! OLD DATA HAS BEEN ANALYZED AND SHOWS THE PRESENCE OF AMONIA-BEARING COMPOUNDS ON EUROPA’S SURFACE!!! THIS IS HUGE FOR THE SEARCH FOR LIFE!!

Okay, I now have Apple TV, which I signed up for explicitly to watch Murderbot. It was good (though nowhere near as good as the books). So...now what?

Dick Scobee Michael J. Smith Ronald McNair Ellison Onizuka Judith Resnik Gregory Jarvis Christa McAuliffe

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Science correspondent Miles O’Brien says the Challenger disaster 40 years ago was a "collective tragedy."

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

In a heartening turn of events, the ICEwatch patrol training in Pasadena was absolutely packed to the gills this week, surprising even the organizers of the event. LA continues to get organized against ICE terror

ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish

This morning, an ICE agent attempted to illegally enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis, which is against International law. There’s a new boss in town, and yet they still continue to break the law. 1/

I can't believe we are teaching students how to vibecode when emacsbe is so much better

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_S... Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnick, Gregory Jarvis. One of the worst days of my life. We were all devastated.

“Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, pushes that analogy himself. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering,” So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”

Another artist rejects the regime and its hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. Remember their names. Remember their sacrifice.

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November." It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

The Sesame Street account posted some tips for talking to your kids. If you’re a parent even to grown kids, Lordy please check in on them. www.instagram.com/p/DT_kWPtDHy...

Here is a thread about tiny discrepancies, the marvelous predictive power of Quantum Electrodynamics, and the sort of immigrant success story that the current administration is doing everything in their power to eliminate. 🧪 ⚛️

Caltech researchers have invented a new technology to write long sequences of DNA with groundbreaking accuracy. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

What should we do as editors when a reviewer has clearly used AI to write their peer review? In my opinion, this is academic misconduct. But it's almost impossible to prove. Should we just ignore the review? Should we report it to their employer? Should we have a blacklist of suspect reviewers?

They keep talking about "cooperating with immigration enforcement" as if convoys of troops randomly interrogating and detaining people across the city and attacking bystanders with chemical weapons is just a totally normal part of how law enforcement works that we're all used to.

And one of my favorite days of the year comes to a close! Listened to 20, count'em, *TWENTY* seniors present their theses today, 25 minutes each. And another 15 to do on Friday!

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Alex Pretti

"Man the long-range イワシ sensors"

How is it that one of the most divisive individuals ever to occupy the Oval Office has somehow managed to unite the entire world against us?

I dreamed we were listening to Captain Kirk address the crew from on a round dais in the middle of a large room. "Any questions?" A woman in a kimono put up her hand and said, "Captain we can't find the space sardines." A man next to her confirmed: "Yes, the radar can't track them for some reason."

It's funny how the first speaker today was implicitly saying that quantum advantage has been achieved while the second one is saying that it has not. #QIP2026

They killed him, and then they immediately set to concocting lies about him. I know the killing is worse, and yet I can't escape the thought that the lying is what reveals the deeper abyss.

Just remembered to post about last night's dream. Somehow, I ended up with a bunch of raw industrial diamonds ground into my skin. Like you'd get small gravel in your knees if you slipped and skidded like a kid. Somebody was trying to help me get them out. That's it, that's the whole thing.

man.

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

As I was saying.

The multi Academy Award nominated 🇺🇲 American 'Great Depression' drama film "THE GRAPES OF WRATH" which earned director John Ford his 2nd Oscar, starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Shirley Mills, premiered #OnThisDay in 1940 at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City 🎬 20th Century-Fox

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Lunch!

I am reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. If people tell you there are parallels with today? They are right.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Some Waffle Houses in South Carolina are closing because of the storm. You know what that means. www.postandcourier.com/greenville/n...