Meet the new National Science Board

Second this! My claim to fame in European/Nordic sociology is that I subjected all participants at a seminar in Oslo to listen to Ode to Joy at the start of the seminar.

My 4-year-old is legitimately better at maths than this

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

Use an unacceptable color #obliquestrategies

They were taken into custardy.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Extremely clear Trump is on Putin's team. Not that I needed any more evidence.

Quite telling

viable competing Theories of Everything in 2026: - everything is gender - everything is race - everyone is a 12-year-old - everything is housing Theories of Everything now believed to be unviable: - string theory - loop quantum gravity - tankie Marxism - everything is gonna be alright

It's been a long time since I took art history in college, but I don't recall fighter jets, bald eagles, storm troopers, and the Witch-king of Angmar making frequent appearances in Christian iconography.

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

i saw The Sentinel on Amiga. Never got the hang of it, but always remembered it.

"Older men concerned about falling birthrates among teenage women"

🎶Reach out and touch faith Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who cares Your own personal Jesus Someone to hear your prayers Someone who's there Feeling unknown and you're all alone Flesh and bone by the telephone Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer🎶

It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯

Not too far off, I'd say!

Ok, #popsky or #demosky! What are the top 10 demographic megatrends today? Global aging, lower fertility, demographic weight of world regions? Any ideas?

Just to confirm there are no upcoming due dates for proposals for SBE programs.

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Old workflow: procrastinating at work. New, AI-based workflow: watching Claude procrastinating for me at work.

Found among the historic images release by NASA of the dark side of the moon.

I can guess.

ok is "getting oil from russia = energy independence for europe" a new thing or is this just the first time i've noticed it

Important reminder!

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The media HATES that explanation, but changes in counting rules and recording practices matter:

Uncanny parallel between Nixons' christmas bombings of north vietnam with Apollo 17 astronauts in space sharing messages of peace for all mankind in 1972 and Trump's potentental bombing of Iran juxaposed agianst Artemis II in 2026...

"From 1910 onwards, the gender gap in occupational status at marriage declined. Around 1940, the gap turned around in favor of women." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

It breaks international and US law to assassinate foreign leaders, but now US policy seems to be we will keep assassinating them until one will talk to us

economists trying to explain their low replication rates in the Nature study with n = ~100 by arguing that it is because economics has a higher analytic complexity and it makes sense that they can't replicate is, check notes, *peak economics*.

Frp: Statlig sektor må effektiviseres så viktig arbeidskraft ikke sløses bort på tidstyver! Også Frp: Politiet har ansatt spesialister på systemdesign slik at de som patruljerer og etterforsker skal ha mest mulig tilpassede og effektive datasystemer til sin hverdagsbruk, dette er UHØRT!! 😠😠

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison? SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin. SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

If you concluded that Russia was largely controlling Trump back in his first term, I don’t think there’s been anything in his second to contradict that conclusion.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

The Arabian plate is colliding with the Eurasian plate at a rate of about 15-20 millimeters per year, so if the Strait of Hormuz is doing anything naturally it’s closing up. Thank you for your attention to this matter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian...

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

The likelihood of me accepting a reviewer request varies over time. One important observed factor is the number of pending requests, another is stress level. In combination these two factors seems to create "review waves" -- a cyclical movement between no pending and many pending reviews.

What DGSE, AIVD etc. doing?

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Revenge of the nerds.

😐🇺🇸🇭🇺 Trump directly endorsed Orban ahead of Hungary's parliamentary elections on April 12. So Trump supports Putin's "lackey" Orban. And Trump does not support Zelensky, who is fighting against Putin.

housing is more expensive now, but also a lot safer. this kind of home was considered cream of the crop in the 1980s

The feeling right now of every scientist trying to communicate the seriousness of ongoing global warming and the urgency of reducing emissions. Excerpt from a cartoon by the late Jon Kudelka.

Deep Purple på ålderdomshemmet: Stroke On The Water.