Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...
What great way to make people not to travel to the Us.
Trumponomics in action: Second Weak Jobs Report Undercuts Trump’s Claims of a Booming Economy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
“Would have never happened if I were President.”
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels.
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
FYI: The reason you have to pay for school supplies is because GOP-dominated states have defunded public schools. Your taxes are going to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy, while your local school has to beg for supplies.
“Researchers …tried to calculate how many more people would die as a result of [Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill]…they came to 42,500 annually by 2034…And still, for all those that die, a much larger number will be sicker and live worse lives.”
by @economist.com
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.
oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
A wee thread on a paper I think has big holes and some suggestions for grad students out there looking for a fun calculation... (Technical) 🔭 🧪 #cosmology It's this one; it claims at least 1% of the photons in the CMB are actually generated in early-forming galaxies. 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2505.04687
Before the charm quark was discovered in bound states, it was predicted via indirect effects. An early success story of the electroweak model and QFT!
Mary Gaillard and John Rosner, who both passed last week, contributed to calculating the charm quark mass
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This.
This is why you don’t cut cancer research.
Idiots. All of them.
The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
All in one little table.
A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP.
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NRAO is listed as being hit with a 34.2% cut. Funding to the Green Bank Observatory would be cut by 68.6%, which would be absolutely cataclysmic.
💣 The Muon g-2 theory initiative dropped their update. Bottom line: the g-2 anomaly is gone. arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476
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Even if you don't care one bit about scientific research, it's important to recognise the value of publicly funding people working on very hard problems and training bright young minds on how to solve them.
“I will end that war in 24 hours. I’ll stop all those lives from being lost. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be tough because I know just what to say to each of them. It may not even take 24 hours.”
I LOVE THIS. I'm going to get educated.
GRFP means a three-year paid research position from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
The purpose of these fellowships is to “ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States”.
I can see why The Regime objects to them. /s
This guy is beyond dangerous at this point. He needs to be fired! Shame on the Republicans who capitulated to confirm him!
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Democrats who think Trump's immigration approval ratings will only go up if you talk about it, think again.
"Deported a 2-year-old" is the kind of phrase that can sour people on this issue. The huge swings on public opinion depend entirely on where the focus is.
The Regime says they want to get rid of “waste, fraud, and abuse” while they toss critical long-standing studies that you, the taxpayer, paid for into the trash. The PRAMS study is essential for understanding maternal and child health.
