For viewers in DC, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Columbus, Rochester, Birmingham, Little Rock, Tulsa, and the many other cities with ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair and Nexstar. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

Kimmel went from “The Man Show” to saying, after Trump won a second term: “It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.”

What a novel concept: "In drawing up the guidelines, the health officers of the four states — all of whom are medical doctors — said they consulted top medical organizations and subject matter experts."

Pure genius. "Hey guys, as you may have heard already, the single-handed backhand is dead." youtu.be/tCUPz-JX8eo?...

Hats off to Robert Redford (and Hoffman, Woodward and Bernstein) for inspiring a generation of serious-minded journalists to “follow the money,” knowing that “nothing's riding on this, except maybe the first amendment of the constitution, freedom of the press and, maybe, the future of the country.”

This podcast conversation with @hanner.bsky.social is an excellent entry point to @quantamagazine.bsky.social’s new multi-part climate science special: play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Parental support for school vaccine mandates remains high in US Earlier this month, Kennedy told the media that he does not believe the federal government should mandate any vaccine. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

On the nuances of climate modeling, and how it's being dismantled in the U.S., by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social. "It’s quicker to tear the building down than it is to build it up,” said David Randall of Colorado State University. www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-...

The Trump administration has appointed Heather Honey to a top election security position. She is a protege of Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.

Alcaraz is looking extremely sharp and motivated today. The new Big Two are clearly pushing each other the way Nadal and Federer used to.

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Two prominent scientists said in whistle-blower complaints that they had been removed from leadership positions at NIH after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money and politicize the grant-making process. nyti.ms/4mayL32

Florida surgeon general on plans to end the state's vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren: "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body? Your body is a gift from God.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Who else is going to miss the Kids Section? In case anyone at @nytimes is listening: This was one of the best things about getting the weekend paper.

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former CDC vaccine chief who resigned on Wednesday: “No one from my center has ever briefed the secretary.” Rachel Abrams: “On anything?” Daskalakis: “Correct. On anything.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Critically important op-ed that should be shared far and wide: “…in our current environment, when even the most benign activities are subject to capricious disruption and political interference, the luxury of disengagement is no longer a viable option.”

One year out, the team that bagged the fifth busy beaver is back with an update on the sixth: It’s even bigger than we thought! My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social:

Pretty cool that they’re still carrying ALICE AND BOB MEET THE WALL OF FIRE at @powells.bsky.social in Portland. I meant to sign it “Photons = quanta of light” but signed it “Quanta = photons of light” instead. Doh! I blame vacation brain.

“Kennedy is using evidence that refutes his own position to justify dismantling tools we’ll desperately need when the next pandemic arrives.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

The lawyer behind the Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard and other universities went to Harvard Law School, where she “mostly” enjoyed her time there. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Such a joy to watch Brian Greene discuss the history and more recent advances in quantum mechanics with the great master of quantum physics @preskill.bsky.social of @caltech.edu.

What if we could expand our idea of what #math is, and who it’s for? Announcing Infinite Sums, a national math initiative of our Science, Society & Culture division. Join us as we move from the practical to the sublime: infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org #InfiniteSums

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Remember CDs? If you have one that’s been scratched — but not too scratched — it will still play normally. We have a technology called an error-correcting code to thank for that. Tune in to "The Joy of Why": www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...

“To a certain extent, all dictatorships are alike… But Kim Il-sung took the cult of personality to a new level. What distinguished him in the rogues’ gallery of twentieth-century dictators was his ability to harness the power of faith. Kim Il-sung understood the power of religion.” — Barbara Demick

Mary K Gaillard, a theorist who had a knack for telling experimental physicists where to look, died in her home on May 23 at 86. Dr. Gaillard was an unpaid scientist at CERN for more than a decade, & the first woman physicist hired & tenured at Berkeley: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

Yet more bad news for the health and safety of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

If there's one thing America needs right now, it's more education, and more federal support for education, not less. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

News: Researchers have discovered a fundamental vulnerability in the random oracle model that underlies almost all cryptographic applications, including the blockchains that record cryptocurrency transactions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/computer-sci...

Effing brilliant.

This is an exceptionally good, painful case study of the damage the Trump administration has done to the National Weather Service and how that puts us all at risk. (gift article )

A nerd’s delight: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” rewritten in pilish (where length of each word represents a digit of pi) by Michael Keith, as seen in Sarah Hart’s delightful book ONCE UPON A PRIME.

Just got my copy of @nybooks.com and flipped straight to @around.com's review at the end of the magazine. Perhaps an unintended consequence of generative AI is greater appreciation for the kind of wonderfully evocative, nuanced essay writing that only a (human) master of the craft can pull off.

“Everything most thrilling about the race is happening in the welter of carbon fiber and limbs where the domestiques live. There, the race is a process, and you can see the mundane poetry of extreme effort.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/m...

I’m here for the physics jokes.

When you follow the money: “an analysis by The New York Times of thousands of pages of internal Trump Organization documents… suggests a more urgent motivation for Mr. Trump’s behavior: a need, rather than simply a desire, for easy money to keep his empire intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Given the decline in tennis coverage (and viewership) in recent years, Matthew Futterman's nuanced analysis of Alcaraz's strengths and Gauff's weaknesses on grass has been worthy of Wimbledon's Centre Court: www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dear #mathsky, if you repost this, it will let people see the article for free. Thanks! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's been years since I last looked at GoodReads reviews of ALICE AND BOB MEET THE WALL OF FIRE. This has to be one of my favorites of all time (heartfelt thanks to Clare of Waitsfield, VT, for reminding a crusty old editor why we do what we do): www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Took this photo in 2016. Wikipedia: “the statue was conceived in 1865… to commemorate… the perseverance of American democracy and the liberation of the nation's slaves…. “…the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.”

Your feed would be better if you followed some climate, energy, and environmental journalists.

Amid U.S. involvement in Iran, measles outbreaks in Texas, and a white nationalist law student winning an academic award in Florida (and that’s just the front page of the NYT this morning), a reminder that “The universe is universal.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/s...

Since it's almost Midsummer...

Might this help improve the quality of the peer review process itself? "From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm loving this new math series by @stevenstrogatz.com and Jens Mortensen in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The intricate folds of your lungs, gut, and brain are each the result of pattern formation. Tune in to my conversation with L. Mahadevan on "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...

Today my girlfriend and I sold books we no longer want and used the money we got back to buy children's books for the little free libraries in our neighborhood. It was so fun to pick out books for the kids. We will absolutely be doing this again #booksky #community

Hats off to Carlos Alcarez and Coco Gauff for their come-from-behind French Open victories this weekend. For my money, they’re the two most exciting players on tour right now. I love their creative shot-making and their never-say-die attitude (reminiscent of a recently-retired French Open champion).

Ken Jennings: “But societies are built on facts, as we can see more clearly when institutions built on knowledge teeter. Inaccurate facts make for less informed decisions. Less informed decisions make for bad policy. Garbage in, garbage out.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...