Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease. "Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

If you are a PhD student in computer science who is directly impacted by the last two weeks of orders, please know that it's ok to not be in a headspace for research If anyone is pushing you to be productive despite it all, please reach out to me, or SIGPLAN CARES, or computingconnections.org

Hey all! Who's at POPL? If you're here and looking to do a PhD at Princeton, let's chat!

You should work with Fabian, he's one of the best PhD mentors I know!

Are you interested in getting a PhD in Programming Languages, particularly on practical and theoretical aspects of gradual typing? Consider working with me at the Australian National University. PhDs in Australia take 3-4 years, see tinyurl.com/ANUPLPhD . If you're there, find me at POPL this week!

Academia has such enormous fake email job vibes except at random checkpoints you get tested on the side project that's your actual job you only have time for between the emails

Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mpmilano.bsky.social, Alvin Cheung, and @joehellerstein.bsky.social) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!

Looks like PL found Bluesky!! Welcome all, let's all quit X together 🫠

Please convince your friends to join this platform (or whatever else other than X) so we can see interesting content that we **actually** want to see

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

link here wapo.st/3UqHWRM

Oh hey, I was (barely) in the first 1% of users on here! Fun!

Quote of the morning from FARM@ICFP: "we are in Italy, so if you forgot your wineglasses, you can just use algebraic geometry!" Stop by if you're around! Performance evening at 7pm, Auditorium San Fedele. Free!

Courtesy of user @ xdanielArt on the former birdsite: This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of Adobe alternatives I’ve seen, sharing here to save an artist’s life, wallet and livelihood 🙏

NYPD is encircling protesters. Kids are running, trying to escape per WKCR reports

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA—

So strangeloop posted a video of my talk a couple of days ago, and y'all, it already has about 10,000 views. Apparently people really love using programming languages research to build distributed systems! youtu.be/Mc3tTRkjCvE?...

The reception to this has been so kind!! I'm glad everyone liked it 💜

Hey so does anyone else see HotCRP down right now? I'm getting a 502 error from nginx

Do you study politics, law, society, and/or culture and use computational analyses of documents to do so? Then, please consider submitting an abstract to TADA 2023! Abstract submissions are due August 11 (deadline extended!) Please share! https://tada2023.org/