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

Anyone know a pizza place that still does 1980s-style beer bread pizza in Portland, OR?

Want to discover LimbNET? 🦵 A platform created by EMBL Barcelona scientists to visualize limb development. Explore the “Morphomovies” 👉 tuit.cat/M8Kjg

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be extra vigilant about what LLMs you use. Musk is stacking the deck towards fascism. www.salon.com/2025/12/08/f...

We are starting our @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026! events.ceu.edu/2026-01-12/c...

Published in #MNRAS: "Black hole envelopes in Little Red Dots", Kido et al. This is Fig. 2: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Interesting new paper by Ned Block, exploring the implications if subcomputational biological mechanisms turn out to be necessary for consciousness (the entertainingly named "meat hypothesis") www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Leftovers are for the weak. Be brave.

"Topology and Biology on Zeeman's Centenary" 16-17 December 2025 at the Warwick Mathematics Institute @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social A centenary conference celebrating the interdisciplinary research curiosity exemplified by Christopher Zeeman. #MathSky sites.google.com/view/zeemanc...

ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!! this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

These new papers on the 'dga of planar loops' look very fun: arxiv.org/abs/2511.15653 🧮

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

MIT researchers have developed Wave-Former, a method for 3D shape reconstruction that models hidden objects using millimeter-wave signals, exceeding current technologies. This advance opens new possibilities for robotics, augmented reality, and logistics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14152

It's trendy in some circles to replace drinking with consuming cannabis. But can it help people with a drinking problem cut back? Scientists set up a bar in the lab to find out. n.pr/43zxhZB

In October 2014, a few months out of college, I made my first web app so users could submit examples of constructions of upper bounds for a graph theory problem. This last week, I've updated it to make it more mobile-friendly and colorful! Try it out and see if you can improve any of the bounds!

An ICE agent carrying an AR-15 stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon.

When Einstein proposed general relativity he laid out three tests: the precession of Mercury's perihelion, deflection of light by the sun, and gravitational redshift. Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test #OTD in 1964: the gravitational time delay of light. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

I am currently in Newport, OR for a public hearing at city hall to listen to resident concerns on a potential ICE facility that officials are considering putting in town. The room is completely packed, the hallways are packed, there and tons of people protesting ICE outside and

In a recent episode of SETI Live, SETI Institute Deputy Director Dr. Simon Steel spoke with astronomer Dr. Melissa McClure of Leiden University about a groundbreaking discovery: the earliest stages of planet formation caught in action. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/birth-o...

Yay we passed the Parks Levy! Great job Portland!!! 🛝🌳

While the field teams are already in action, preparing to traverse to the drill site, things in the MYIC labs are moving forward. Daniel and Andy made the first serious gas sublimation measurement using our system with some known-composition Law Dome core. 📷 Joel Pedro

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:

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....