Area dog still confused about the time change. Insists it’s dinner time an hour early

Excited to announce that I’m part of the fourth class of @simonsfoundation.org Pivot Fellows! www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/11/13/s...

Anyways back in olden times a red aurora meant the death of kings JUST A FUN FACT NOT RELATED TO ANYTHING

It got brighter!!

OMG!!

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

This is super consistent with what I try to do and teach students BUT I have a brain that will forget key words in the middle of a talk (like, a central method or a key collaborator's name, or some other deeply important word), so I now design slides with some key written messages... 1/2

By the way - everything I ever post here is off record. You're not a journalist (well some of you are) so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Cal's HR was BIG... Geno's Grand Slam was even BIGGER! 30min seismogram from the end of Game 5. 🔱 Mariners Win!!! "The City is Shaking!" #SeizeTheMoment @Mariners @MLB @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Geno Suarez hits a Grand Slam to put the Mariners up 6-2 and seal Game 5 of the ALCS! "The City is Shaking!" #SeizeTheMoment

Yooo how about those Mariners??!!!

I'm trying to figure out my #GSAconnects2025 schedule and finding that the program still isn't searchable online or in the app. WTF???

Sequim, WA

Chat GPT

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians." "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians."

We've got hundreds of signatures in five hours... but if we can cross 1000 by morning when I send this to NSF that'd be great. The stories from past, current, and future applicants in the comments section are hearbreaking. Keep up the pressure, and please please sign!!!

This change without warning is devastating to a bunch of students who had the rug pulled out from under them! A 1-cycle warning, or even a warning a few months ago would have been game changing for a lot of junior scientists.

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel like a pretty good rule of thumb is don't take drug advice from someone who can't pronounce the name of it.

Posts claim Charlie Kirk once introduced Kyle Rittenhouse as "a hero to millions." That's true. ✅ www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Post a team you would send instead of Bongino and Patel.

⚒️ 🧪 A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean. This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

Silicon Valley VCs sit atop a system where federal and state governments spent more on basic research of all kinds than most other countries in the world combined, and then take the ideas that come out of that and take it the last mile. An important function, but they disproportionately benefit.

Is Marc Andreessen a thin-skinned lower-tier villain who lost it when people pushed back against his views or suggesting regulating his businesses. Or is he a real man of the people, deeply concerned about the regular Trump voters in places like Iowa and Wisconsin?

During the subcommittee markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) announced that the bill contains 33.9 billion for science agencies (NASA & NSF) which would keep funding steady. ~8 min mark. Full meeting tomorrow.

Are folks on here putting explicit statements about AI use in science (I'm specifically thinking about writing and coding) in research group expectations documents? I'm thinking about doing this and would love some examples of others' policies!

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

The planned lands for sale include significant chunks of the Colorado Trail and the CDT, and almost all the major ski areas in Colorado.

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

ELON MUSK IS STILL A NAZI

When I was stuck in LA traffic as an undergrad, I'd call people until I found someone near a computer who could look at the sigalert website and tell me if there was a different combination of highways I could take that was less jammed.

I had a proposal declined by NSF today that was ranked Highly Competitive (the highest category) and had only minor weaknesses listed in the panel summary. Pretty demoralizing yo.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Gold standard science

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

New axis labels have dropped

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The Early Career Workshop for Geoscience faculty needs our help! It helped me (& many others) learn to balance teaching, research, & planning for the future when I was just starting out. Now the NSF grant funding the workshop has been terminated. Donate here! nagt.org/nagt/get_inv...

NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

Things are bad