Mathematicians Make Surprising Breakthrough in 3D Geometry with ‘Noperthedron’ www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

Play all the old No Man's Sky Expeditions offline. cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expediti...

Some more good news for Portland. The question now remains how many more taxpayer dollars will Donald Trump waste on his failing lawsuits to try and fulfill his authoritarian fantasies. I'll keep working to defend the rights and values of every single Oregonian.

The Civil Servants Coalition, which authored the letter asking Congress to support a shutdown if the legislation to end it did not include reigning in the illegal actions of the administration, has put together this Google doc of resources. Please share it widely so Feds can hold the line longer!!✊✊

It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law. This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️ #PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky 1/

Reporters (one of whom is my daughter) were ousted from covering immigration court hearings. Trump regime using shutdown to impinge on free press and coverage of their actions. @hcrichardson.bsky.social cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/28/l...

#Sudan: Horror is unfolding in #ElFasher. People appear to be trapped, with reports of mass killing and other atrocities. We are concerned about the risk of a potential bloodbath after over 500 days of siege and violence. Javid Abdelmoneim, MSF International President, updates:

Not only is the rate of ICE unlawfully attacking & detaining U.S. citizens for no reason escalating every day, so are the injuries & the number of senior citizens on the receiving end. This senior citizen was returning from a marathon team training run. These power hungry thugs are out of control.

This is basically Michael D free associating for an hour but what emerges is a fairly comprehensive worldview concerning the nature of embodiment, modernity and colonialism, and language: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmq...

Quantum memory is crucial for quantum communication and computing. Until now, unruly noise forced quantum memories into a trade-off between efficiency and fidelity. The trade-off is resolved, potentially enabling advances in high-speed quantum technologies.

What a strange, beautiful shot of Comet Lemmon, now passing through the northwest sky after sunset. Here you see 2 comet tails (gas and dust), plus the unrelated zigzag trail of a passing meteor. And, inevitably, a couple satellite trails, too. 🧪🔭 star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

And he's... GONE!

What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

LLMs are injective and invertible. They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space. Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

I don't even know what to say. It's been one of the scariest days of my life, but I'm beyond grateful for the love and kindness this community has shown me. Thank you. 🙏🏾

New York, USA — September 9, 2025. A man reacts following a confrontation with federal agents on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, outside immigration courtrooms.

NYPD Cop is sick and tired of TEMU cops AKA ICE GOONS racial profiling and harassing him.

The ongoing threat of federal troops in Portland and the increased targeting of immigrant Oregonians is making our communities less safe. What will it take to protect our neighbors and our communities from a hostile administration for the long haul?

What's new in data science, AI, #Rstats, biosecurity, etc. this week: Polyglot data science pipeline with rixpress, EuroBioC2025/BCN, Python packaging for R devs, Python in 2025, R/Pharma, DARPA, ASHG, the R Data Scientist, Quarto, universities and AI blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...

In THE TABLES TURNED (1911), a band of prankster cowpokes kidnap actress Edith Storey as a practical joke but quickly find themselves in a pickle when she steals a pistol and forces them to bunny hop for her amusement, as one does.

This is really what it comes down to. I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government. 🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

A consensus is emerging that these mysterious little red dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe. go.nature.com/4hjIGm4

Are you an undergrad or grad student nearing graduation? Find your next gig! Announcing: the AAS/SPD grad student & postdoc opportunity fair, Wed. 5-Nov. Hear about opportunities across the nation, meet potential advisors, & learn about your next career step. 🧪🔭☀️🎢⚛️ spd.aas.org/graduate-stu...

Octopus track chemosensory plumes to find food journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

With a hearty promise to return, he walked off like the end of a Chaplin movie.

About 800 people came out to our rally last night, and the energy was 🔥🔥🔥! This is incredible, and we’re still 8 months from the primary. Unfortunately we hit capacity at the venue. So sorry if you weren’t able to make it in, but I’d still love to meet you! Schedule a video call with me at saikat.us

Portland knows how to peacefully protest and have fun while doing it.

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi has been elected leader of the LDP, and is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister.

It’s great to have a Portland-based reporter like @caseyparks.bsky.social to ground the news in reality www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

When stressed, amorphous materials undergo plastic transformations aided by low-frequency vibrational modes. Now researchers have found the same association in an entirely separate class of materials: active matter.

📣 𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘: 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 @ericswalwell.bsky.social 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝟓𝟎 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭! #CA48 is a district @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is asking voters to redistrict in response to Trump. This is our best chance to win back Congress, stop Trump, and retire Issa! RSVP here: bit.ly/3KiTJzg

I’ve heard the same chilling message from broadcasters across the country. This is what government censorship looks like.

Donald Trump and his administration used Charlie Kirk’s murder as an excuse to ramp up their ongoing campaign for total power, in their most authoritarian week yet. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes. Free speech is the foundation of our democracy, and we must push back against any attempt to erode it.

here's a direct link to canceling your Disney+ account. post your cancellations in the comments. www.disneyplus.com/commerce/acc...

Fourth talk in three nights given, and that’s a wrap on the Southwest Astronomy Festival! Marvelous hosts, marvelous audiences, and marvelous skies! (Also it’s really starting to feel like it’s time to get out of Utah. 👀)

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908

Can we just bump up the encephalization of some other creature on earth like corvids or cetaceans and let them see if they do better ruling the Earth?

We spoke with Hasan Piker about the fallout from Charlie Kirk’s killing. He got candid about sparring with the late conservative activist and his own fears about political violence. Read Piker's full Q&A with our @adamwren.bsky.social 👇

🧵 So much of today’s art world lives online—artist sites, digital exhibits, small galleries. CARTA is a collaboration of 40+ museums & libraries with #InternetArchive to save the web we built before it disappears. Learn more on our blog ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/09/10/c... #communitywebs

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French feminist, slavery abolistionist, writer of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) due to the French revolutionary goverments failure to include women in its calls for liberty & freedom. She was guillotined in 1793 for political criticisim #WomensArt

The list of Democrats who voted for an amendment to ban trans healthcare from TRICARE. No strings attached--just an optional amendment designed to kill trans people. And we are just getting started, many more spending bills are to come this year.

Are ultrapowers necessary for the hyperreal field? I answered on MathOverflow. mathoverflow.net/a/500155/1946

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Enough with the backroom scheming. If Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly.