A new research paper by Ed Glaeser, Sam Silverberg, et al. identifies several fundamental problems with the US bus market: - It’s a duopoly, dominated by Gillig and New Flyer - Foreign (and cheaper) competitors are blocked by federal Buy America rules - Transit agencies customize *everything*

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

I am begging everyone: if you are going to make a product involving cardinals, please talk to literally anyone who looks at birds to know, 1. Those are two *male* cardinals 2. Most seasons of the year is the males are *very* territorial This depiction is highly ornithologically suspect!!!

The panel I was on about "Where Physics Gets Weird" was featured in the Daily Dragon! I love doing science speaking at Dragon Con each year, and this one was a doozy. I definitely felt like the odd person out as the quantum chemist among a bunch of (astro)physicists, but it was great!

GUYS. The comment period for the upcoming ACIP meeting ends on the 13TH. If you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. You CAN submit anonymously!

And, of course, we can’t forget about coca!ne

3rd dragon con in the books, now I’ve finally been convinced to download this app so I can keep in touch with awesome Science track folks. As my first act on this app, please see attached some motivational posters made from some quotes I gathered over the Con.

Do this!!! And if you want more ballroom content with more seats, mention in the app that Sci Track NEEDS BIGGER ROOMS! It really does help!

More Dragon Con notes: everyone needs to appreciate this slide from @tkingfisher.com from her talk on the four sexes of white-throated sparrows at the Solve for X variety show in the Science track ( @dconscitrack.bsky.social )

It is the time where I travel home from Dragon Con, and emotionally, as well as physically, I am here:

Oh, and did you get turned away from a panel you wanted to go to because the room filled up too quickly? Please add a comment in the ratings in the app to let DragonCon know. This could help us get a bigger room in the future so that we don’t have to turn anyone away.

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Definitely doing less for #dragoncon this year on costumes. Its been A Year and I never get to spend enough time with my friends as I want to while at con. But! I'm still doing plenty with the Science track! Moderating four panels and speaking on a fifth. Who will I see this year? Sound off!

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ANOTHER earthquake!

Got my tentative schedule for DragonCon, and FOLKS...

My god. 1.6%. I knew at some level a lot of it was as scammy as it felt but hearing that number is numbing. Completely emblematic of the ineffectiveness of the Democratic party.

Earthquake! (in Westchester NY! My second since moving here!)

In non-work, non-politics news: Almost ready to debut a new secrets-and-powers LARP my co-authors and I have been working on. I'm pretty sure I've cranked out >30k words over the weekend, and there's still a ton to go, but it's getting there!

A 4th of July like no other in our lifetimes, unfortunately. But despair is not an option:

We're excited to reveal this major advance in computational chemistry, an AI model called Skala @MSFTResearch for the exchange-correlation functional, accurate enough, and super fast, for precise in silico predictions of chemical experiments. An early access program is now open.

So proud of this work with our amazing team 🤩

NO KINGS 🇺🇸

I'll be at Be-Con this year bringing one of my trademark "shitpost turned into a LARP" games! More on which one soon(ish).

I've been having a great time using Modal at @achira-ai.bsky.social to splat my off-the-shelf QM processing jobs across the cloud without even having to think about it! The one hitch was that I could saturate our receiving client... but not anymore, with how easy modal makes it to batch tasks :D

Still missed the train

My husband lied to me about the time the train was coming by 7 minutes because he didn’t trust me to be on time! We did need those 7 minutes but not the point, @rmcgibbo.bsky.social

What bitteren? Just a nice collection of reeds there

As someone still masking in a lot of indoor contexts: exactly this

WATCH: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest U.S. Senate speech. Booker's marathon speech breaks the previous record — Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said.

Did you know we have a real physical store now? You can visit us in Scranton, Pennsylvania Fridays and Saturdays!

til @ckennelly.bsky.social can't smell ants (i can smell the ants)

At the session on protecting science, APS chief external affairs officer, Francis Slakey, notes that APS submitted an amicus brief in this case about federal workers being terminated. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69655...

Me: why does my body hurt at APS? Also me:

✨conference dinner✨ (don't @ me on the pink Red Bull, it is objectively the best flavor)

Sorry babe, the APS business socks stay ON during business time

You've heard of girl dinner, and boy dinner, but are you ready for: ✨conference dinner✨ (technically lunch, but time doesn't exist at conferences)

An amazing first day of talks at the APS Global Physics Summit!!! I just wish I had content to present (but changing jobs tends to put a dent in that process). By this time next year tho... 👀 #compchem

The Dragon Con'er in me is always pleased to see how the ribbon selection at APS gets bigger every year (this booth had a back side with more ribbons!). ...next time I need to bring and drop off a few of my own...

On the road to the APS Global Physics Summit (formerly known as APS March) -- who will I see there? Anyone want to chat about the future of MD and ML in drug discovery? #compchem

For various reasons, I need to name a (somewhat arbitrary) mass unit that is a consequence of the other units chosen for something. I'm currently thinking "banana" (y'know, for scale), but I'm open to other suggestions.

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Oh! She has! In at least one interview she talked about the briefings she's received on counter-intelligence. She has made music videos to click tracks instead of audio so it wouldn't leak. Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.

Going to 3 different groceries (ShopRite, TJs, Whole Foods) and striking out 3 times on buying eggs is feeling real fucking weird

it is unfair I am expected to remember how to use the tools I wrote 7 whole days ago

At ${PREVIOUS_EMPLOYER} I went months between major headaches given to infra, because i'd annealed out the weaknesses over 7 years Now I have a whole new env and tech stack to play with, and new infra folks to make speedrun the 5 stages of grief as they deal with me >:D

numpy was a mistake ABIs were a mistake teaching sand to think was a mistake