I think this ends with Maduro getting a pardon after signing away the oil. The whole affair is a shakedown.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

It's incredible that the U.S. is being ruled by the characters of Less Than Zero

Go Hounds! On to the final!

Happy Mole Day to all who celebrate! 🧪

If Harvard is slashing PhD admissions by more than half, what does this foretell about less-resourced institutions? Will my graduating seniors be able to continue their education?

The solution here is obvious. We all need brain implants, so we don't have to talk out loud. /s

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

Want to read a Comment by the three Nobel Laureates on quantum circuits? Here it is: ($) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Question for the #ITeachPhysics crowd: Does anyone know of a paper where they measure the effectiveness of recitation sections for university intro physics (calc or non-calc)? Trying to build a case that we need recitation, but need data to back it up.

Where can kids get a COVID shot in Pittsburgh? CVS and Walgreens turned us away.

Happy 4^ / 3^2 / 5^2 day!!! (3^2/ 4^2 / 5^2 for us weird Americans) Not too many days satisfy the Pythagorean thm. @amermathsoc.bsky.social @austms.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com @monsoon0.bsky.social ht Peter Baxter for noticing. Looking forward to coming back to the US for joint maths in Jan.

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident” Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

"Once Guilder is blamed, the nation will truly be outraged—they'll demand we go to war"

I condemn political violence. I don't think polarization is the cause. We must realize that violence becomes more likely when people feel disenfranchised, feel that they have no other way of being heard, feel that the only power they have left is the power to destroy.

Unless something exciting happens that pre-empts it, I should be on Science Friday this afternoon talking about the first 100 years of quantum physics. They said around 3:20 ET, if you want a more specific time. www.sciencefriday.com

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Encouraging advice for early career scientists (and us old folks, too) for navigating the changes in science funding and culture. Read and share!

The only surprise here is that they're fighting publicly. Lobbyists' extortion isn't working, so they whine. Time to get the money out of politics.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Local/state police need to start arresting ICE who aren't showing identification.

Let me summarize the #NSF and #NASA budgets: Make America Stupid and Weak

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

Have we reached the phase transition where #science PhD students in the US will be expected to pay tuition out of their own pockets? It's starting to feel like this is coming.

1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Announcing a reboot of the Schrodinger Sessions, a 2.5-day workshop on communicating quantum physics at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland, July 31-August 2 this year: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🧪⚛️. This article is a classic example of tacitly assuming that “physics” = high energy physics. A whole article about how physics is stagnating and maybe we need to move on from empiricism, and not a single mention of, you know, *the whole rest of the discipline*. aeon.co/essays/why-t...

Hands Off Pittsburgh

At least the 21st Amendment is pretty far down the list.

Congress must take the tariff gun out of his hand. That and all the other "emergency" powers.

i have never been to pittsburgh and would really like to visit so if anyone wants to invite me up to give a talk i’ll be happy to do it

Replace "game designer" with "teacher" and this still holds true.

“Arrests rolled through the streets like an epidemic… People vanished in the middle of the night, seized in their homes, at their workplaces, on the street. It seemed as if they had never existed at all.” -The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I feel like we're a week away from Trump declaring Order 66 and Elon turning on SkyNet. Oh, and Don Jr. finding the One Ring. Yeah, that's how I feel right now.

Note: It is Presidents' Day, not President's Day.

Sometimes you roll the dice just to make the players nervous.

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order

Every time I switch textbooks it's a struggle to remember if electrons are red or blue. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

nothing I hate more (in this specific moment) than the slow death of the text walkthrough, I don't want to stutter through some dumbass video with 8,000 ads to figure out where the golden secrets are in Fuckshit 2024. I just need a picture and a small paragraph, please god.

Need to correct some bad science I'm seeing on here. Dropping your phone doesn't prove Einstein's General Relatively. 1/3

Dear PA’s mail-in voters, To make sure your vote gets counted & doesn’t end up in a legal fight: - seal ballot in the YELLOW ENVELOPE - sign & write the CURRENT DATE on the outer envelope - mail by TUESDAY, OCT. 29 Best, The reporter who updated this: www.npr.org/2024/09/26/n...

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