'Eagle Owl' - Yoshida Toshi, 1968. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Unlike other projects the Trump administration has canceled during the shutdown to punish Democratic-leaning places, disruption to SNAP will touch every corner of the country, including many communities that support the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

morning math: trying to understand shallow neural networks

Relates to a @rhettallain.bsky.social quote I've always liked: confusion is the sweat of learning.

Math professor Terence Tao and neuroscientist Vidya Saravanapandian told PBS Newshour's Stephanie Sy that US's global leadership in science hangs in the balance. 🧪

uv makes installing and using Python *so* easy! It works on pretty much any computer and it's lightning fast. 🔭☄️ #astrocode If you're still using conda, pyenv, or... basically any other tool, then I can *highly* recommend switching:

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Can fast buses in New York actually be free? @stefanoschen.bsky.social + Larry Buchanan and I take a close look at an idea that has helped propel Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Really enjoyed going through this:

Happy 15th anniversary to The Open Notebook! If this ridiculously generous project has helped you over the years, this is a great time to donate. Thread from @siricarpenter.bsky.social at @theopennotebook.bsky.social

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

so good: m.youtube.com/watch?v=greL...

My best explanation of parallel lines

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request."

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

When you consider that 41% of PhD level STEM jobs in this country are occupied by folks born in foreign countries, this is huge. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19 percent this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Very interesting podcast episode on how social networks become polarized

I love this video so much. Classic Minute Physics.

I enjoyed this game a lot, and am in awe of the creative and technical skill behind it. (Played it fullscreen on desktop, not sure what it's like on mobile) messenger.abeto.co

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP www.science.org/content/arti...

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity! Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities.

Here's my first permanent public artwork, "Periscopes." When you look through its bulbous lenses, you see scenes that might seem faraway, such as heron stalking their prey; but all of the footage was filmed (by me) within 10mi of its site at Buzzard Point in southwest Washington, D.C., USA.

Mars First Logistics, our open world physics game about building rovers and delivering stuff is coming out of Steam Early Access in 2 days with a big update! Tag your favourite influencial person who you think might enjoy it!

🌍 2025 🗓 24th - 25th September 🕘 09:00Z 🛰 Meteosat-9

The rise and fall of the internal combustion engine, China edition. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades? Excellent minute physics explainer.

"Nearly one in four scientists and one in five computer programmers are college-educated people from other countries." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here is a look of #Helene and the Predecessor Rainfall Event, which began setting up around this time a year ago. I updated this to incorporate the @nws.noaa.gov flash flood warnings and flash flood emergencies. #FLwx #GAwx #ALwx #SCwx #NCwx #TNwx @spann.bsky.social @wxbrad.bsky.social

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

"We're here on Earth to fart around." ♥️

Today is the last day of Summer. Don't worry though, tomorrow is Autumn and that's really nice too. 🍁🌰🍂🐿️

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Very nice piece about a professor fighting to save one of the darkest night skies on the planet www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Reading Galileo, and learning that he had surprisingly high standards for the astronomical knowledge of his readers!

doom scroll interlude!! please enjoy this fantastic visual explainer about earth's wobbles and whether your star sign is even really star sign 💫

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

I wrote about how Earth's wobble causes our view of the skies to shift over time. Here's a paywall-free gift link. With @fparis.bsky.social and @iamrumz.bsky.social

Come for your (astronomically accurate) zodiac sign, stay for our visuals explaining Earth's wobble and our shifting view of the stars! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This was really well done and unexpectedly moving pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...

The square root of 2025 is the sum of 20 and 25 you're welcome

Wow, this video is a work of genius. This feels like what a god's eye view of a puzzle might look like, while we mortals struggle to get from one node to the next.