I want to post something happier today as well, so here are some scientists whom I recommend platforming and financially supporting! I'm a bit out of the loop, so I'm bound to miss people. Please reply with your own recommendations!

Saw a kid running around the neighborhood with a fishing pole (maybe he was wearing camo too?). My mind immediately went to "He's training for Southern Biathlon". Just created a new sport

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Well count another faculty contribution to the, ‘Student caught using AI in violation of course policy, then uses AI to write their apology note’ genre. I am so fucking sick of this bullshit.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

🚨Using any kind of chemical weapons at this range is aggravated assault against peaceful protesters. They have no weapons, they pose no threat. ICE is the enemy. 1/2

These records indicate that someone successfully impersonated the FBI in order to get me swatted. I was already aware this had happened but had to wait nearly a year to get the document that proves it. My reports to the Dallas Police Department about this have gone unanswered.

Bobby Xorr, Bobby Nott, Bobby Xnorr too... but turns out all of them are some number of Bobby Nandd's in a trenchcoat

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

10/ A woman and her three young daughters are in a shelter in Chicago while her husband is detained in Kentucky. She has been given a few months to get U.S. passports for two of her kids, who are citizens, before they leave the country.

And people think mathematics isn't a romantic subject??? h/t @doctorbones.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"Prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship & advising a foreign graduate student or postdoc. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding." Dictators despise science.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Another TikZ masterpiece I cooked up today 🧪⚛️🧮

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

Another TikZ masterpiece I cooked up today 🧪⚛️🧮

Why do I have a strange craving for a footlong sub?

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Congratulations to Patrick R. Brady, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on being awarded the 2026 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science! His citation reads: ⚛️🧪 1/2

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence. I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE." No. ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Johnson could swear Grijalva in today, but he won't, leaving this AZ district of 813K people with no member of Congress. Why? Because Grijalva will provide the final, 218th signature on a House petition to force a vote on the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

It's also pretty trivial to make the #emacs bibtex-mode linkify eprints (it already linkifies DOIs) so all you have to do is click or hit enter to open the arXiv or journal paper

Just made it so I can M-x browse-url on an arXiv identifier in #emacs, and it will open that arXiv paper in the browser!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Ok friends, who has opinions about wristwatches? I might like a new one. I'm into fairly minimal styling.

is being into birds just having a dinosaur phase but for grown-ups

TFW when using just two terms from an analytical approximation makes your numerical iteration scheme go from blowing up to convergent 😌 🧪⚛️🧮

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

Just made a marimo lab notebook so you can play with black hole quasinormal mode frequencies in the cloud (somebody else's computer)! Check it out: marimo.io/notebooks/nb... Thanks, @marimo.io! 🧪⚛️

I forgot to share that this paper is now 🎉 published 🎉 in Phys Rev Letters! Open access here: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... And still available on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2412.06887. Or just check out the thread below! 🧪⚛️

“telephoto compression”

They are resegregating America.

NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce. After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Every number's a Love number if you love numbers

(screaming at my computer) IT'S POOP! SAY POOP! www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.