People have lovely slides now thanks to AI but they all look similar. I remember when every speaker had their own style of handwritten slides. Like this 😀

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

This book hits me right in the childhood. I found this at a local bookstore. I was on my way out the door and just happened to catch a glimpse of it in the corner of my eye. Everyone should read this book immediately.

Yes, it's the longest day of the year but luckily it's also the narrowest day, so don’t worry about the risk of awkward gaps in the space time continuum. It’s taken care of.

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

Great recognition for the R development team at UoAuckland stats dept. Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentlemen changed the world.... phys.org/news/2026-06...

What a fantastic idea! #BookSky

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring. Gift link: nyti.ms/4oC3U25

For example see geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/06/25/v...

'The Traveller' is Book of the Week in 'Review of Reviews' in THE WEEK. Very exciting. And incidentally, there is also a mention of my review of Maggie O'Farrell's amazing "Land" (which I loved). Double whammy!

How can AI companies properly compensate content creators for training data? Raul Castro Fernandez and @glenweyl.bsky.social published an op-ed in @hbr.org exploring how to create a sustainable market that benefits creators, AI companies, and the public 🔗 hbr.org/2026/06/how-...

You're looking at the bird with the shortest beak in the world, but only on a technicality, as beak length is measured from nostrils ('nares') to tips. And the nostril of a kiwi bird is right on the very end of that long schnozzle. Let's talk about the kiwi's completely unique 'nose'.

Last spring I taught a graduate course built on the idea that 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭, not a novelty: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵—all the course materials are now public. Take it, use it, adapt it for your own students or your own research. barbagroup.github.io/mae6291-genai/

The SciFM conversation is shifting from models to systems. The interesting questions this year were increasingly about how to connect agents, instruments, data, simulations, and compute into effective discovery ecosystems. cs.uchicago.edu/news/scifm-2... @ramanathanlab.bsky.social

Life hack: Who can afford monogramed shirts these days? Simply get your initials tattooed on your chest and cut a little hole out of all your shirts in the appropriate spot.

It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

AI-Accelerated Materials Discovery Don’t miss this week’s entry in the AI & Scientific Discovery Online Seminar AI for Battery Series! Featuring Rajeev Assary, Group Leader of the Chemist Molecular Materials Group at Argonne National Laboratory ai-scientific-discovery.github.io

Here’s one little-h hypothesis: even for folks doing reasonably well in this strange economy, they can see the worst people in the world just raking in money in the ugliest of ways; they know they’ll never be able to compete with that & that whatever they have will be worth less & less over time.

Cartoon by Barry Blitt

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It took Globus 10+ years to surpass the 1 EB mark for data transfers. Well today we have now passed the 4 EB mark. Check it out on globus.org. #research data management

I don’t exactly have scientific data to support this, but I firmly believe that the sound of rain on the roof enhances the reading experience by at least 57%.

it’s really cool that Daniel Burnham put the bend in the Chicago river where he did so that St. Regis could be in such a prominent spot

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Not to brag but I attended phone-free parties throughout my youth!

BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️ NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️

An interdisciplinary team at UChicago has won a distinguished Laude Institute Moonshots Seed Grant @ianfoster42.bsky.social, @pedramh.bsky.social, Michael Kremer, and @beccawillett.bsky.social will work to advance actionable AI weather forecasting in developing economies in Africa and Asia 🔗 ⬇️

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

I sailed around Te Waipounamu South Island some 35 years ago … such beauty

Congratulations to NAS President-Elect @neilshubin.bsky.social on winning @sse-evolution.bsky.social's Stephen Jay Gould Prize! The award honors individuals who have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science in the spirit of #NASmember Stephen Gould. evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Everything is terrible, but the Garden of the Phoenix on Jackson Park's Wooded Isle exists, & they let you just walk in & experience one of the most gorgeous oases in Chicago

Sumer is icumen in

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

We often underestimate the extent to which well-designed technology can streamline scientific discovery by eliminating friction. See here, for example, in drug development, with @globusorg.bsky.social doing the streamlining www.globus.org/user-stories...

GlobusWorld 2026 is almost here! Whether you are new to Globus or a seasoned user this conference is for you. Learn best practices from leading research computing centers, labs, and universities. Dive deep into the latest Globus services. Register here: www.globusworld.org/conf/register

Glad to see my Alma mater pioneering this important work

Lake forever, cold AF for now

The third floor ballroom has this extravaganza--the 1918 Masque of Youth--portraits of real people in a costume pageant put on at the opening of Ida Noyes Hall painted by Jessie Arms Botke. It's amazingly silly and hopeful.

I know everyone was posting the same thing yesterday but wow what a beautiful city. Some scenes from my run in this thread

Snow on the cloaked guy at Graceland Cemetery this morning

Discovery acceleration in science requires the ability to link many knowledge resources. I had not previously identified Chipotle as one 😀 preview.redd.it/chipotles-su...

"Computer science will stop being taught as a useful craft; it has become an explanation of how the world works, like physics, biology and chemistry. This change is long overdue." -- @witbrock.bsky.social on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/witbro...

Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC. Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay

Knuth on Claude code! www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...