I was just on twitter for a minute. Saw some terrible hate speech against a foreign researcher, reported it, and "noped" right back to BlueSky.

I love that the anti-vaxxers are pissed about Tylenol being called out for autism. "No!! That crazy unproven theory shouldn't be getting attention! Only our crazy thoroughly debunked theory should be getting attention!"🤪

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

even if today is #talklikeapirate day - you should try to avoid type piracy in #julialang - otherwise you'll have to wear this (or walk the plank)...

More than a decade ago, I started making tutorial videos on how to use Adobe illustrator, targeted at scientists that needed to make figures and cartoons for talks or papers. Now I'm getting started again, but this time with the free and open source vector editor Inkscape 🧪 youtu.be/E7n6SDni28Q

That's great, but are we really going to learn anything new that MY biopic didn't cover?

🇳🇱 De euforie was groot over de deelname van de TU Delft deze zomer aan de Amsterdam Canal Parade. Een maand later dringt zich de vraag op: wat is het effect op de queergemeenschap van de TU?

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

New collective noun phrase: A Dysentery of Influencers.

Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans. We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot. jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it! #birds

Slides for the talk avaliable here! b-fg.github.io/EFDC2_2025/m... I'm loving this quarto + reveal.js for creating html presentations. Now that's portable!

I'm certainly a #julialang evangalist, but I've toned it down a bit - a lot of scientists don't have the time or inclination to go against the grain. Then again, when someone makes it this easy... #tidytuesday #rstats nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

The WaterLily.jl article is now available on Computer Physics Comms! @gabrielweymouth.bsky.social and I review our CFD solver's design, performance, accuracy, and also show some very cool examples (like the one below). Check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109748 #CFD #GPU #HPC #JuliaLang

Stole this proudly from ‪@yokohamarides.bsky.social

Several past and current PhD students of UNFoLD have shared their stories through www.storiesofwomeninfluids.org. Support this fantastic initiative and help these stories reach their readers! gofund.me/82470d2d

Excellent!

Tadd Truscott’s lecture: sliding droplet and guitare #PreConfSchool25

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Want to see what the flow past a semi-infinite array of randomly shifted and scaled circles looks like? I did too! Code is modified from the examples here: github.com/WaterLily-jl... #JuliaLang

Out today in Phys. Rev. Research, we ask "how does an active nematic fluid respond to a deformable body or boundary?" We were pretty amused by a few observations. 1/20 journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

🧪⚛️ Squids are awesome! Here's a very interesting example of how studying living systems reveals new phenomena and regimes of physics. In this case packing and order. Work from the group of @simonepigolotti.bsky.social at the @oistedu.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-06...

WaterLily 1.4 is out! github.com/WaterLily-jl... Biggest updates to our pure @julialang.org flow solver since 1.3: 1. Ability to add explicit turbulence modelling 2. Easier flow visualization with @makie.org 3. Even faster CPU performance

Vital information!!!

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

"Magical." "Marvelous." "Masterpiece." THE LIFE OF CHUCK. From the hearts and souls of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King. In Select Cities Friday, Everywhere 6.13. It's a great movie! (Posted at Steve King's request)

Finally, a new blog post! The Walk on Spheres algorithm is an elegant method for solving elliptic PDEs. Minimal implementation using #julialang michielstock.github.io/posts/2025/W...

Earn money working on open source software #oss! New project just posted: help make wrappers to connect Symbolics.jl to SymPy. $300 bounty. Information for signing up for the #SciML small grants program are contained in the link: sciml.ai/small_grants... #julialang #python #symbolics #sympy #ode

NEW VIDEO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLx...

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

Obit for Peter Lax, an applied mathematician who did pioneering work in PDEs, solitons, and computational science. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What

I missed Adrian Tchaikovsky having /two novels/ nominated a Hugo in the same year?! Has that ever happened before?? Absolutely nuts but also entirely deserved. “Service Model” and “Alien Clay” both rocked my world.

here here! ;-)

Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The pair of vortices can sometimes cross each other and reconnect, a phenomenon known as the Crow vortex instability. [2/2]

May the best vision you have for yourself come true 🐸👑 🧶 #embroidery #handembroidery #blueskyart #wildlifeart

Great weekend in Delft!

This is The Last Supper now.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

WaterLily and @makie.org make a great team! #CFD #JuliaLang #GPU #DataViz

Wonderful!

Oceananigans.jl is an awesome piece of open source software. Congrats to Greg and the rest of the development team!

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My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm just struck anytime someone talks about MATLAB because I remember you have to PAY for MATLAB. Bro I can be angry at a stats program and doubt all my coding skills for FREE with R