Happy Election Day!

Election Day is here, Massachusetts! Communities across the state have the chance to cast a vote in their local elections today. Make your voice heard and find your polling location: wheredoivotema.com

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Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

New post. The whole acetaminophen/autism story is a disgusting little scale model of how the entire Trump administration works:

NVIDIA just placed a bet on this Boston startup building quantum computers. www.masslive.com/news/2025/09... — via @masslive.bsky.social

I believe in America because hungry, amazingly talented people like Glauber still come here to build a better future. That's who we are. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🗽 x.com/glcst/status...

Moonlight #Projection Squad is lighting up the Flynn Marine Park tonight! Here, for the benefit of MassDOT’s late shift workers the Highway Operations Center, just across the Haul Road. 🔥 Go Mayor Wu!

Good point by ‪@rainerkattel.bsky.social‬. He would agree that not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.

In Boston, we start the summer each year with coffee hours in every neighborhood. It’s a wonderful tradition and a great opportunity to connect residents with their local government! ☕🌸

Hydrangeas doing well this year.

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Juneteenth is the most American holiday. reason.com/2025/06/19/j...

Chatted w/ @skirsner.bsky.social for "Six things to know about the Circle crypto IPO". Nice to see a Boston-born startup IPO, even if they've moved their HQ to NYC. via @masslive.bsky.social www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

1st ever Boston Public Art Triennial is open now through Oct. 31st—a testament to the power of public art & the exchanges that make Boston home.

New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.

Did the prisoners dilemma with my kids tonight. Each wrote Y or X to decide if the other gets dessert. If they defect and choose X and the other person Y, they get 2 desserts. If they both choose Y, both get 1. Both X, they each get 1/2 dessert. No honor among thieves. Or siblings.

Chatted about Boston deep tech startups and VC w/ Matt Crane for MGMT Boston www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7I...

Muon catalyzed fusion is an old idea that's having a resurgence with new technology. Fusion plants would be much simpler not the $10B, 25 acre+ facilities that other approaches require. (disc: I'm a tiny investor in Acceleron Energy) youtu.be/Z3x6m8r2vEg?...

Boston friends: I'm thrilled to back Mayor Wu again. I'm on the host committee for a fundraiser in Fort Point on Thursday, 300 Summer St.

I've seen your comments online, and I've talked to you out on the road, on our main streets, and at the grocery store. I know people are worried and scared right now. But you are not powerless. Each of us has a responsibility to do our part. Your voice matters — and we need you to speak up.

Truth. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Here in Boston, we don't back down.

Have been enjoying Common Side Effects. If you need a laugh, highly recommended.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Happy Pi Day!

only 2 days left until pi day. If you need a recipe, here’s my tried and true sweet potato pie:

One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.” Words by me. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

the feminine urge to

deleting my reddit account and just learned Reddit keeps all of your posts, and just "disassociates" your account from them. there's no option to delete everything. i had to write a script to do it one-by-one.

This is our fucking city and no one is going to dictate our freedom.

Ready for the day

Boston spring has sprung! 🌭🍦

"...people who were born in the nineties are less likely to remember a time when children were largely left alone. Working mothers today devote more time to active child care than stay-at-home mothers did in previous generations." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

my chair, Dr Christine Keiner, just wrote an essay about that theconversation.com/coastal-econ...

Housing is the most important issue in Boston. We should just be building more, not killing the very small progress that's been made with political infighting. commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/a-ne...

that's my mayor.

Zanskar is using AI to make geothermal power work way better. Data from their initial drill at the Lightning Dock field are in and they're fantastic.

A Framework for Autonomous AI-Driven Drug Discovery [new]

First sled of the year ❄️

5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join

“Math is a tool for distilling intuition”

Heirloom apples from Vermont: Cox’s Orange Pippin, Black Oxford, and Ananas Reinette. Still haven’t found Roxbury Russets this year.

Congrats to David and the Glow team! ☀️☀️☀️ fortune.com/crypto/2024/...

Proud to sign this letter along with 3k+ others from the Harvard community condemning the terror attacks in Israel. There are no justifications for these horrible acts. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Disappointed fan this morning.

Happy 4th!

It is Big Stupid Dance Party Friday with @senatorjohn.bsky.social on uncertain.fm 📻 a fine soundtrack for coping with bad Supreme Court decisions, poisonous air, and the last day of work before a summer long weekend.

The hot sauce Sticker Mule throws in w/ orders is actually quite hot and quite good.

“Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. Instead, it's a celebration of progress. It's an affirmation that despite the most painful parts of our history, things do get better. America can change.” 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy Juneteenth!