Antimatter on the move 🚛 Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment #AtCERN succeeded in transporting antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site. Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzBP...

During the Civil War, Richmond native and abolitionist Elizabeth Van Lew established a spy network that relayed information to the Union army through a cipher she designed. When U.S. Forces reclaimed Richmond, Elizabeth was the first to raise the American flag over the city. #womenshistorymonth

The proton, 1836 times heavier than the electron, is made of two up quarks and a down, with two of their spins aligned and one pointing the other way. The same quarks with all spins aligned give a new particle, the Δ⁺, that's 2411 times heavier than the electron! (1/n)

Meta is cutting end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs, potentially setting a very problematic precedent in the industry. And they announced it in a way that was also extremely insulting to their users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.wired.com/story/the-da...

Hypothetical supersymmetry particles linked to Higgs bosons (called Higgsinos) are linked to #darkmatter. This #CMSPaper looks for the low-momentum + missing-energy signature. There is some deviation (2.2 sigma) in this analysis, so we will look at it again with more data! arxiv.org/abs/2511.16394

The LHCb Collaboration discovers new proton-like particle Composed of two charm quarks and one down quark, the doubly charmed particle is four times heavier than a proton. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ex...

Yesterday was my sobriety anniversary, won’t say for how long because when I was first in the program people who had two whole weeks gave me hope, but I figured people with a year or more couldn’t be as alcoholic as I was. If you’re new, though, trust me: have hope.

‘GOAT’ becomes the first major studio film to feature an all-disability loop group. Nearly two dozen actors with disabilities provided the film’s crowd chants, arena noise, and background voices.

🗞️I spent the best 11 yrs. of my journalism career at Stars and Stripes. As an editorially independent newspaper that covers the troops for the troops, it is the most important paper in the U.S. and wholly American at our best. Those troops are losing their most honest advocate, and are worse for it.

A UN watchdog today criticized "intensified immigration crackdowns" in the U.S. and accused President Trump and other American leaders of using "racist hate speech" — both of which it said had "sparked grave human rights violations."

#JimCummings reveals what to expect from #DarkwingDuck's grand return 💥

FYI: Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

The strikes from two of Portland Community College’s largest unions are the first community college strikes in Oregon history.

Sol 1797: Left Navigation Camera (Navcam), acquired at 11:07:25.662 (local mean solar time)

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

During WW2 both the UK and France asked a leading thinker to prepare a plan for post-war reconstruction. The British got The Beveridge Report, the French Simone Weil’s The Need For Roots.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Ulysses Jenkins, Los Angeles artist and pioneer of Black experimental video, dies at 79

Live Video Grid of BBC News, NBC, AJE and Sky News for those following news on Iran : vidgrid.tk.gg?layout=N4IgN...

From the account of the Columbia student who was detained after federal agents snuck onto campus

Authoritarianism is more about the followers than the leader. Trump voters voted Trump into office exactly because they liked someone on TV everyday griping about the same insane nonsense they gripe about. For them, this is like another season of The Apprentice.

New blog post! After years of annoying shenanigans, I discovered that nowadays it's *really* straightforward to get tikz diagrams in #QuartoPub to automatically turn into SVGs in HTML, docx, and Typst! Install Inkscape, install a Quarto extension, and you're done. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/02...

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

WATCH: Full Democratic Response from Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "This is not what our founders envisioned, not by a longshot." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzX4...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

A direct cash program for people who are pregnant and earning less than $39,000 a year launched this month in Multnomah County and is still accepting applications. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

We need a truth commission to look into SCOTUS. Clarence Thomas is in the Epstein files. For any other justice around the world it would be game over.

ICYMI: Kentucky leaders reacted to a unanimous Supreme Court ruling striking down a 2022 law that created a public funding mechanism for charter schools. The justices say funding for Kentucky charter schools would only be possible with a constitutional amendment. #kyga26

Read ‘The oncogenome of the domestic cat’ from the Sanger Institute, the Ontario Veterinary College at @uofguelph.bsky.social , @unibe.ch , @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and others, in @science.org here ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

"Rather than making a move in the familiar game of philosophical argumentation, Rawls was overturning the board, recommending that we play a very different game..."

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

A paper in Nature Astronomy presents an ultra-high-resolution map of mass in the Universe, revealing how dark matter has shaped the growth of galaxies over the past 10 billion years. go.nature.com/4k0HPHX 🔭 🧪

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now. Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

Come and Frog with us at the Fair! 🐸 The Portland Frog Brigade uses inflatable costumes and humour to bring people together, spread joy, and stand up for the U.S. Constitution. There are many ways to get involved in standing up for what’s right. Come learn how: neighborsforshange.eventbrite.com

Here at a rally in Salem in support of taxing the wealthy! If you live in Oregon be sure to let your legislators know you support SB 1507 disconnecting OR's tax code from the feds.

A key thing to remember when seeing that measles is in the concentration camps, is that covid killed more cops than any other cause. Cops are superspreaders, a gestapo jumping around the country to terrorize one city after another, kidnapping people into concentration camps, is a perfect storm.

Today in history February 1, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery.

This digital machine learning reconstruction could be a real breakthrough in the specimen paleontology. A good use of AI. "The oldest sepioid cephalopod from the Cretaceous discovered by Digital fossil-mining with zero-shot learning AI" www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

Brazil has now signed agreements with Springer-Nature and Elsevier for Brazilian researchers to read AND PUBLISH for free for 3y. Rest of the world, take note: THIS is how you support and promote open science. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Wow, someone discovered a more efficient way of multiplying two 3×3 matrices! It uses 23 multiplications and 58 addition/subtractions. The previous best used 23 and 60. (Better methods exist if your matrix entries live in a *commutative* ring. This handles quaternions!) arxiv.org/abs/2512.21980

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers reported earlier this year in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. https://scim.ag/459fZTO

Interested in the intersection of #philsci and machine learning? This open access book is where the most recent contributions by the leading voices in such debates are taking place. Glad to be a part of it challenging the idea that computational reliabilism can pragmatically lead to trust in AI.

CERN hits one exabyte of stored experimental data from the LHC #LHC 📈 One million terabytes of experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider have now been sent to the CERN storage system. Find our more: home.cern/news/news/co...

'Sticky Kicks' will drop at noon on Dec. 17, which is National Maple Syrup Day.

I'm really enjoying learning about space-time algebra and the insights it brings for electromagnetism. It's also nice to see how different spinors emerge and how they aren't necessarily quantum mechanical. I still want to get to how this integrates with QM, measurement, etc. arxiv.org/abs/1411.5002