bro why is it freezing i live in CALIFORNIA

I learned how to bike this year on a borrowed bike, bought myself a bike, then did a 7 mile loop by the bay with my friends this past weekend. Learning to ride a bike is by far my biggest accomplishment of 2025. Looking forward to commuting by bike in 2026!

Successfully making it home from picking up my new bike in San Mateo, despite unfamiliar route, forgetting to eat breakfast or bring a backup battery for my phone. 32 miles, 2500 ft elevation gain. I had water and dressed correctly. And the bike shop folks were very helpful with directions & tips.

It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment -- But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution? Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....

Women made up 21% of faculty members in US physics departments in 2024, up from 16% a decade earlier. The percentage of women faculty members in the nation’s astronomy departments rose from 19% in 2014 to 25% in 2024. #academia #womeninscience #faculty

do you think people who dwell in the mountains are like, i can't wait to retire and rejoin society as a software developer

A lot of people are posting things about how bad it is to rely on AI for lit reviews but also as a society we have made it extremely difficult for non-scholars to access bodies of literature!! Of course people want this!

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Be careful while out on the peninsula roads this holiday season…In the past month I’ve read about 3 incidents where a car crashed right into a local building and a separate incident where a car struck a pedestrian who then died from their injuries.

There are layers upon layers in this one, to which I can only say: friends don’t let friends execute analysis pipelines that are too complex for their level of expertise.

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the nation. Here, DUI-related deaths have been rising more than twice as fast as the rest of the country. But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute. calmatters.org/investigatio... 8/9

The DMV has wide latitude to take dangerous drivers off the road. But it routinely allows drivers with extreme histories of dangerous driving to continue to operate on our roadways, where many go on to kill. calmatters.org/investigatio... 6/9

As our ongoing investigation, License to Kill, has shown, time and again the deadly car crashes were caused by repeat drunk drivers, chronic speeders and motorists with well-documented histories of recklessness behind the wheel. calmatters.org/series/licen... 3/9

Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads. No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it. 1/9

I would like to bring over my theory for solving America’s deadly roads. I call it the “Gay Truck Rule” and it would save thousands of lives every year.

This week I heard about a lady who took a picture of another woman’s boots on the train so she could look them up later to buy and I was astonished. We’re losing the ability to build community when we’re unable to simply say “I love your boots! Where did you get them?”

The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.

Starting Dec 10, most Bay Area transit transfers will be free for two hours. If you take AC Transit to BART then transfer to Muni, your fare today is $9.10. With Clipper 2, the free AC and Muni transfers mean your fare will be just $3.90 1/

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

5/ Over and over, all over the country, that's all it took: a traffic stop. We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.

A favorite little bit of trivia! www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/s...

Every year I teach first and second year students about Island Trees School District vs Pico, and every year they are shocked to find out that they aren’t actually entitled to First Amendment protections when it comes to the right to access information in libraries.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

We are definitely going to sell out of laser cut brain earrings early in the conference!!! Warning! #SfN25

And how much Transportation is hidden in the other categories? What portion of Housing costs is the garage under your apartment building? What portion of Food is the sea of parking surrounding the supermarket? What portion of Healthcare is car-related injury and respiratory disease?

~40% of psyarxiv preprints contain links to open data in 2025 vs (e.g.) ~10% in 2019 (although in the latter case people mostly did not report this metadata): vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das...

A few hundred feet apart, yet worlds away politically, furious students at UC Berkeley protested the final stop of the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour,” hosted Monday night on what is known as the nation’s most liberal campus. bit.ly/3WQMnWU 📸 Chrissa Olson

it cures the blues, it saves the shoes

I try to stick to one cup of tea a day but sometimes I want another, not for the caffeine but for the taste. Herbal teas just don’t come close to a strong black tea. Might need to try out some decaf black teas (wish they could be truly decaffeinated!)

“We are not going to fix this by forcing kids to sit through assemblies and calling it good, while the streets around schools are still over-wide and lack the separated bike lanes that make kids feel safe to ride,” Yiming Luo said during the meeting. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/c...

Yo CA Dems can we get ranked choice voting now?

Happy Monday, folks! I’m currently at San Mateo City Hall, where the council is hearing an item about the Hillsdale Mall redevelopment into a mixed use space with 1.4K new homes, office, and retail. The house is packed, and there’s an overflow room. As usual: people are mad. 🧵

Went here to Jalebi Street for my mom's birthday tonight and it might be the best chaat I've had in the states? The new restaurant slinging the best Indian street food around share.google/qj0S4wly0Day...

They literally ruin everything they touch

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Speaking of, I saw an incredible pumpkin today

in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.

went from not knowing how to ride a bike in august to biking ~6 miles this past weekend on a flat, paved bike trail my bike handling skills are still that of a complete beginner but I’m just proud of myself for being able to keep my balance and ride for a long time!

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Finished up #TransitMonth2025 this evening riding home on the @rideact.bsky.social 51B 🚌. #1 on rides among Bay Area elected officials, #2 on distance after BART District 4 Director Robert Raburn! We both go a lot of places but I don't live in walking distance of BART, so I take more bus rides 😅

Motion passes! The Parkline Project will move forward. 800+ new multifamily homes coming soon (well, in like ~5 years when all is said and done) to a Menlo Park near you!

I’ve even encountered the explicit notion that everybody has to collect data *because* it’s such a pain in the ass — super expensive and involved, and then you can’t find anything bc of course nobody has the resources to appropriately power studies. Most pointless rite of passage.>

Who could possibly care that much? Well, here’s your answer… “About 1,000 posts in that first 24-hour period called on people to stop eating at Cracker Barrel, and 49% of those posts got flagged as likely coming from bots.”

“A woman handed him stickers she had made with a picture of bagels and lox and a message urging Jewish voters to support Mr. Mamdani: “Reject the smear campaign — join the schmear campaign.” A rabbi associated with the congregation gave Mr. Mamdani a challah.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.