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Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

every bluesky bookmark is a little prayer to father time

morning rides can be neat!

this honestly has meme potential

UPDATE: Weather Stays Trump's Name

Yesterday was BART's busiest single day since the pandemic with 235,943 trips! While we can thank Ariana Grande, the Valkyries and the Giants for packing in big crowds, ridership was up across the whole system yesterday as more and more people continue to choose transit.

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Initial conditions: m1=19.9 m2=90.7 m3=15.4 (solar masses) v1x=-2.332 v1y=0.346 v2x=2.546 v2y=3.973 v3x=-3.021 v3y=1.061 (km/s) x1=-23.0 y1=-19.0 x2=-22.0 y2=31.0 x3=5.0 y3=-25.0 (AU from center) Music: I Need a Ride (The Expanse) – Shorter

There are so many shitty, clearly AI generated websites now that it is certainly harder than it needs to be to find basic information. I was just trying to look up some basic bike stuff and essentially every result on the first page were websites registered in the last few years with bad formatting!

Let's gooooo. This has me fucking fired up.

The community development commission approved up to $201 million of TIF reimbursement for this transportation infrastructure today! LFG!!

Did the Tunnel Road route for the first time (finally felt confident enough to) and hollyyy shit I get why this is an area favorite! #Bikesky

Something like that happened to me too. I lived and work in Mumbai, India for about a month on a temporary assignments. Taxis were so slow and expensive. Tried the Mumbai Metro, loved it, and it totally changed the way I think about cities.

I didn’t really care about transit until I took the Tube for the first time and it completely changed what I thought I knew about navigating cities. I’m curious what other transit systems have had similarly formative impacts on people

Today, I lived Rachael Carson’s “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” On Ring Mountain in Marin County, CA, you might find a wildflower growing nowhere else on Earth, except on this thin rocky outcrop. Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis) 🌿

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Between raising gas prices with his Iran war, and decimating the US cattle population by reintroducing screwworm, is Donald Trump the greenest president ever?

$250 giant sequoia would be a bill to spend with pride

If anyone is filling out their ballot late, like me, this has been useful!

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcK...

WOIMSDAY THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS

all human things are subject to decay

A poem I've been working on recently.

I wonder what the status of this Addison / San Pablo bike connector project is — last update with some proposals seems like it was in 2023. This intersection is such a headache on bike despite being a main connector to the marina. berkeleyca.gov/your-governm...

“we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause” -Frederick Douglass wishes you a happy Memorial Day

If you want to find yourself on the same list as six Nobelists, a lord, and Brian Cox -- here's your chance. May start a separate petition to rename the "Vice Chancellor of the University of Nottingham" to "Sheriff of Nottingham"; shorter and more accurate nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

best ride in the bay?

27, 39, 93, 145, 225, 280 GHz

thanks ai that’s what i meant

huh! good to see internet rewilding being taken up as a frame and a rallying cry by @mozilla.org Be great if you guys linked to where the idea was born and the people already working with others and bending the whole shape of our lives around how to do it: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

obsessed with the quirky in-person events tech companies used to have (netscape navigator jazz festival, yahoo nationwide yodel challenge, etc)

Hungary and Hungarians have me feeling very inspired right now, much as Korea and Koreans did last year. Maybe one day soon it will be America and Americans.

This is why you can't kill a civilisation by bombing it.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

He needs to be gone. Impeached. Convicted and jailed. Removed before he drops a nuke. This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen a president say

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

April Fool's papers posted on arXiv are passé and, while fun, are better off posted in less professional channels

we really need a subjunctive tense for equations

aye, that red-hornyd devil did look upon me, and in my mind i did hear his laughter, and i heard him say, wouldst thou wish to live deliciously

my opponents? cowards, gormless. me? gormful, full of gorm.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them