Good vibes only www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

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Dear Physicists and Physics fans, I would like to encourage you to celebrate #WomenInPhysics Day this Friday, November 7th. Why November 7th? Because it is the birthday of two of the most impactful women physicists of the 1900's: Marie Curie and Lise Meitner. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 👩‍🔬

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

For Halloween, Zoom is even more cursed

As seen in San Rafael—

Stumbled on that ad in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow. It seems to be dark humor, but it’s nasty Replacement.ai

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

the moon

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

it seems that the pacific is 3 degC hotter than normal. sounds like a big deal, because the pacific is very big www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Bye bayrou

Fascinating article about Wikipedia in @theverge.com As an occasional contributor, I’ve been frustrated the moderation process, but it makes sense and it works given that @wikipedia.org could easily go berserk because of the anonymity of its contributors. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Drive Smack, crack, boom shack-a-lacka

Another proof elmo is not a real engineer: the opposite of microsoft is megahard. only economists think of macro oh hey unrelated here’s a flower for you

No cafeteria? No problem! Indian summer in Berkeley, and we make the most of it at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov, enjoying lunchtime atop @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social campanile with the rest of the @als.lbl.gov #dreamteam

Nothing like AI to bring out the BS artists

Jaron Lanier was right – ten years ago www.goodreads.com/book/show/37... arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I can remember when the internet was clean and the sql injections were dirty arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

Glad to be in @spie.org #opticsphotonics in San Diego to meet other optical scientist from SLAC National Lab, Argonne National Lab and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov. So good to dabble in nanometers and microradians with fantastic colleagues!

In ten days from now, the @als.lbl.gov Photon Science Development group takes over San Diego! We will be presenting a few papers about our latest developments in the field of synchrotron x-rays at @spie.org #SPIEOpticsPhotonics Let us know if you'll be around!

You've just inherited a theater, what's your first double feature?

yoooo i didn’t ask for any of this

We who live in San Francisco have been living under morning and evening fog for many weeks, and those otherwise most beautiful times of day are muffled in gray, the low cloud cover that means there are no direct light, no crisp shadows, no long vistas. It can get dismal.

Today we announce our 2025 #CyclotronRoad cohort, a wild mix of scientific innovation and entrepreneurial fire. 12 scientists. 2 years. DOE + Activate support. Big ideas getting real. Meet them today! newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/14/c... @energygov.bsky.social + @activatefellows.bsky.social

If you want an oddly specific fact about Iga Swiatek that makes me question my Polish heritage

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I am French, born of Polish and German ancestry, my partner is Turkish, born of Greek and Macedonian ancestry. My daughter is American, European and Asian. E pluribus unum

The new National Academies report on the Science and Practice of Team Science is out today: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2904... I was very excited to be a part of this group in order to discuss the role of open science in team science.

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

sneak peak from area 51

A great start up called EcoTrove focuses on lowering energy bills is hiring someone on a Platform & Data Engineering role — check it out: jobs.ashbyhq.com/pear/1c1e7fc... About the company: ecotrove.com/blog/can-ai-... #AI #DataEngineering #Energy #Hiring

The world is so dandy

I Trawl The Megahertz by Prefab Sprout

Understanding the 3D of the body “alterations to an enhancer associated with building structures in the face and limbs caused it to activate in the heart and nervous system tissue instead.”

Human eyes have never seen the Sun’s south pole—until now. Learn more: scim.ag/4lbj7UZ

Feta is just sheep gruyere

My friends from the Flaming Lotus Girls have a kickstarter for their latest flammable arts project – check it out! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/flg...

I'm in this video and Iike it! We're using machine learning to get the most of our @als.lbl.gov synchrotron, and the results are quite spectacular. There's a also a lot of interactions between teams at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov – ten years on, I still dig my workplace! vimeo.com/1078741732/0...

Tandem listen POLIÇA - Dark Star www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wg... David Bowie - Blackstar www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszL... #tandemlisten

if the news get you down, know that the Ojai Musis Festival is this weekend and streaming live This incredible festival is about new classical music and it’s out of this world. I remember seeing the artistic director Claire Chase at Ojai in 2016 and she’s a mad genius m.youtube.com/@OjaiFestivals

e pluribus parabellum

*over the gulf of murica

Congratulations Eva!

Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.

"To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent, training, time, and money away from existing research directions and towards a single paradigm?"

Tandem listen Maxime Le Forestier - Né quelque part www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagK... Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCp... #tandemlisten

Issue 48 is here and I love it. Take a trip through the therapeutic promise of psychedelics. Understand the beauty and necessity of the urban farm. Get the latest on advances in gene editing. Appreciate the invaluable work of air quality modelers. Read it all here: berkeleysciencereview.com

For my fellow friends from the US, quick reminder to watch the @eurovision.tv contestants videos before the final next week! youtu.be/ZFWzMZh47d0

.NAE is pleased to announce the appointment of Tsu-Jae King Liu as its next president. A trailblazing researcher, innovator, educator, and academic leader, Liu will begin her term on July 1, 2025. Learn more: ow.ly/NaeS50VPoeK