Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul (Economics, Reaganomics, birth control, the status quo) Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon The politicians say And the band played on youtu.be/NcfXWtI7ML0 #NowPlaying

Abstract Submissions for #AAPMCOMP2026 are due in TODAY! Submit your abstract here: https://ow.ly/2Fw650Y0LoC#AAPMCOMP2026 Deadline: Tuesday, January 27th at 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PT)

Not a bad snapshot for whats #playingnow

A bit late, but here are my favorite spins of 2025 -> blipsbonksandbongos.blogspot.com/2026/01/bobs... Barker's Stochastic Drift is, without doubt, my favorite release last year. sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/stocha... Buy it Direct. Support your local artists and local record stores. #NowPlaying

“Adversarial Poetry, an efficient single-turn general-purpose attack where the poetic structure functions as a high-leverage stylistic adversary.” This is almost too good. arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

With a little help from some friends… #medphys

Hearing Cocteau Twins more frequently in coffee shop 20 yrs post release is somewhat validating, and sad that a generation of music listeners just let this band slide past. Maybe GenX has more in common than GenZ than I thought.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Is it me or did a bunch of NIH grants just vanish over the last month? I thought i should take pulse after a deadline, make a plan for the next few months, and start hunkering down… but when i tried looking up the call… vanished. How is anyone supposed to prepare for these things? #academicsky

One thing you can say about this band is that they beat to their own drum… 👍🏽✊🏽 pitchfork.com/news/godspee...

Tubas never sounded so good. youtu.be/PMsQh1KkKsY?...

Just ordered some new coffee mugs for the lab. Science is an interconnected system- humans, animals, and environments working in tandem. "Science means everyone and everything” means science should be deliberately collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and benefit not only people, but everything else.

#NowPlaying The music of the lords.

Too much nerd on?

Prepping for Canadian night out #AAPM2025

It was the last in person summer lab meeting and the team served me up a royal roast. I start our meeting with a QOTD= question of the day. These are simple as “Whats your favourite movie” to weird inane ones like “What’s the worst thing to unexpectedly find growing in your belly button?” … 1/n

Carnage

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After +20 years of Institutional Clinical Medical Physics … at an age when i found grey hair on places that don’t grow hair, switching to the madness and uncertainty of a tenure track position …

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Fido is complete! We have a zoomorphic phantom from the tip of the nose to the end of the lungs for high precision, radiotherapy measurements and calculations! Stay tuned! #medphys

Oh! Here is a thought! How about shifting the conversation from latest hype cycle AI buzzwords (E.g. Agentic AI) and instead to demanding that health information systems live up to the promises made 20 years ago? I can’t prove this but I would guess better workflows >> 3rd party AI agents

Last slice of FIDO being printed! Watch for some mindlessness, and message me if it goes horribly wrong www.youtube.com/live/0EtGLla...

The 51st annual Vegan Summerfest begins tomorrow. In today's essay on the blog, I preview the first talk I'm giving ("Free Speech for Animals") and describe the others. I also announce and describe my fall seminar at Cornell ("Animals and the Constitution"). 👇

On a serious note, I will never understand the concept of "iced coffee". I had it once and thought, 'Why would you torture your coffee beans in this way?' About a billion people on the planet still drink 'garam chai' even when it's 35 degrees Celsius. If you want a 'cold drink', get a Limca.

Dear lord... I am trying to be a good scientific colleague, but ... ...YouR sTuPId sCHolaR OnE PlaTFurM iS fOrCInG meEE 2 RReGiTURE yEt AnuTHUR eMaiL and PussWeRD... Make it STOP!

Are you interested in learning about the locations of medical physics graduate training programs worldwide? Check -> www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #medphys

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Tenure clock started- time to hit “submit” on all those papers i’ve been banking… Is that cheating?

Indian Jones and the Random Forest #AcademicSky

Delta sucks. That is all.

I Deleted My Second Brain Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

My Kafka-esque slide on AI literacy

Jeopardy anyone? Radiation oncology linear accelerators you say? #medphys Radiation Oncology LINAC Basics jeopardylabs.com/play/radiati...

Time for some live music #SteelPulse 50 years!

Remains my favourite boundary value problem.

“Go fast and break things”

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Hugely interesting case from the 🇳🇱Netherlands - a claimant in the Netherlands was successful in his claim to let the judge order Meta to halt any processing of his personal data for training Meta’s AI

This is terrifying

Excited to share the recent additions here at Cornell: ✅Single Photon Counting CT ✅Varian Truebeam Edge ✅Modernized treatment planning And all the toys that come with it. Exciting times for research on comparative oncology! www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/new...

In hindsight, we should have known that the little air time we got was performative. But one always wants to believe that people can change. This was in the era of performative "DEI." We shouldn't be surprised that they were waiting for the current opportunity they have received not to even pretend.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

universal drinking game

#Nowplaying The latest Exaltics is a banger. Modern throwback shoe-gaze acid industrial sinister beats Gosh I miss cabaret voltaire…

Footage of Plasma ejected from the Sun (11/2024) captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory Source: sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

Someone please explain why i have now watched this four times

Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling