Speaking as an astrophysicist, I would not take scientific advice from a guy who stared directly at a Solar eclipse. YMMV.

To be clear, this is wildly illegal and will be paused within 24 hours. But it's an incredibly clear example that the administration just hates all immigration. H-1B visas and OPT (also on the chopping block) are central to how international students stay in the US after graduating. 🧪⚛️

Holy shit 🧪⚛️ wapo.st/4nJSE26

It is also the primary vehicle for hiring international faculty members at US schools. No company and few schools can justify a $100k annual tariff on each international employee. Nuclear bomb across the bow for STEM hiring in the US, pending how the legal system and Trump's SCOTUS decide. 🧪⚛️

This is so bad. www.iop.org/about/news/q...

The President, in a now deleted post, made clear his intent to have his DOJ prosecute his critics, just days after his FCC Chair illegally abused his authority to try to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. Trump and his cronies are trying to dismantle our democracy. We must stand up and fight back.

Given the Hegseth policies, Kimmel, and Colbert, listen how independent media can be dismantled even in a market economy, as it occurred in Russia in a piecemeal fashion. @lawfaremedia.org with @zygaro.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf... #firstamendment #pressfreedom #pinks

UC unleashes Big Brother on faculty computers: open.substack.com/pub/drkev/p/... ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 #highereducation

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

Many ask me about the so-called “peace process” between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Karnig Kerkonian explains it best: this is appeasement of a genocidal dictatorship, paving the way for more violence. youtu.be/7ZmExadp6BI #Accountability2025 #ANCAAdvocacy #Armenia #Artsakh

On the second anniversary of the forcible displacement of 120,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, I stand with the Armenian community here in California and across the United States and reaffirm our commitment to pursue justice for Armenians.

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Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pete Buttigieg: "We have to reject anyone who tries to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down on individuals or groups because they challenge the government politically."

Vaccines not only save lives, they save money. Paying a hospital bill for what should have been an avoidable illness could bankrupt families and cost the government billions. Vaccines work and are a cost-effective investment.

“professors across the country will grade their students… those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand grades [evalutations]… likely… higher than ever.” — #highereducation www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

None of the young male mass shooters and now political assassins I've written about in recent years had stayed in higher education and pursued a bachelor's degree. Crazy enough, it's almost like college is a positive socializing force, not a radicalizing one

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.

Are secret interactions among neutrinos responsible for creating the dark matter? It looks like, for at least one pathway, the answer is no. #darkmatter #cosmology #particlephysics ⚛️ 🔭

Our new paper with Cannon Vogel & Helena García Escudero shows vector-mediated NSI can’t produce sterile neutrino dark matter—ruled out by lab + structure data. But scalar NSI and low reheating models are still in the game! ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2509.05631 #darkmatter #cosmology #particlephysics ⚛️ 🔭

📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼

Another EO about grants, this one directing the attorney general to investigate "lobbying" in the form of "taxpayer funds ... being spent on grants with highly political overtones." Expect we'll see more targeting of universities by the DOJ.

Congratulations to Dr. Cannon Vogel, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation today at #UCIrvine. He has become one of the top handful of people expert in warm dark matter production in the early Universe, and the linear cosmological structure arising from it. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Sigh. Even though they're highly incompetent, these idiots can still cause lots of problems for folks when they have the full power of the government behind them

Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

BREAKING: @marcelias.bsky.social's law firm is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Texas' map (which violates the Voting Rights Act) from going into effect once signed into law by Abbott

"If you are not nice to President Trump, he will bring the full force of the state down upon your life. If you are nice to President Trump, he will use the full force of the state to help you." There are words for this.

I appreciate the attempt to make a coherent argument for staying on Twitter but the central issue is one that the ”Nazi bar” analogy also misses on: it’s not a bar where Nazis are taking over as patrons, it’s a bar OWNED by a Nazi who gives worse service to people he doesn’t support. Untenable.

Excellent summary of the harms befalling mathematical, physical & biological sciences due to the current administration 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🧮

The playbook of demagogues like Trump is to protect the Oligarchs by dividing us up based on race, religion, place of birth or sexual orientation. They want us to hate each other while they laugh all the way to the bank. Don’t fall for it.

How Newsom's California redistricting affects OC & Irvine: CD 40 (Kim): +10.8 R ➡️ +19.6 R CD 45 (Tran): +2 R ➡️ +2.4 D CD 46 (Correa): +19.2 D ➡️ +15 D CD 47 (Min): +0.6 R ➡️ +5.2 D CD 49 (Levin): +0.8 D ➡️ +4.2 D Robert Garcia's district (42) moves to OC: CD 42 (Garcia): +33.4 D ➡️ +6.8 D

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

Thanks to @newsnation.bsky.social for having me on this morning! What ICE is doing is outrageous, illegal, and unconstitutional.  Unlike ICE agents, local police officers follow the law and are held accountable if they don’t. We must bring oversight to bear over the rampant lawlessness of ICE.

It's not subtle I would say 'wake up' but if you don't notice this then its a coma

Peace does not come from appeasement of genocidal dictators. #Trump #Armenia #Azerbaijan #Artsakh #ArmenianGenocide2023 asbarez.com/photo-op-pea...

1/ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com hasn't posted this thread here yet, but I strongly recommend it. The conscientiousness trend is the most interesting one since, unlike the other 3, you can't blame the adverse trend on the pandemic period. That said...

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Sign to support UC: sites.google.com/view/ucstand... #universityofcalifornia #ucla #trump

Trump administration demands $1B from UCLA: “a payment of this scale would completely devastate [the UC]" — UC President Milliken 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Many important things left out of this article, including that genocide occurred and is occurring in both Artsakh (the article uses its imperialistic Russo-Turkic name Nagorno-Karabakh) & Gaza, but it is correct that we are seeing a repetition of the entire elimination of a people. wapo.st/458jt9x

LAist: UCLA tells researchers to 'immediately stop spending' after Trump administration freezes grant funds 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 laist.com/news/climate...

States must tackle fossil fuels, the international court of justice (ICJ) has ruled, and failing to prevent harm to the climate could result in them being ordered to pay reparations. #ICJAO #LetsGoAO www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In a paper posted today, led by #UCIrvine PhD student Cannon Vogel, we showed that the newly-allowed large cosmological lepton numbers at early times open up a new regime of sterile neutrino dark matter production. Full paper ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2507.18752 #particlephysics #cosmology #astrophysics 🔭 ⚛️

“After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” #Authoritarianism #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

“…the volume of challenges facing the global community is overwhelming. But there is only one challenge that could end civilization in an afternoon.” — The Nobel Laureate Assembly Declaration for the Prevention of Nuclear War thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

It's hilarious that they genuinely don't seem to understand the difference between "the entire body of scientific research into quantum physics" and "what I've kind of passively absorbed through pop culture over the past twenty years"