file under “things that make me feel like a badass”: giving my first plenary talk at String Pheno at 5.5 months pregnant

Isn’t a simpler explanation just that the linear parameterization is not justified? Any other model you take to give you a different parameterization of w seems to give you a way lower significance compared to ΛCDM

Our paper just got published in PRL!

journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

I hope the price of eggs reaches one billion dollars per dozen

The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

this is a fucking insane list.

www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

This seems incredibly important. A crossroads. If this doesn't end in compliance, I fear a very slippery slope to full authoritarian takeover.

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

And that’s a wrap on our workshop in Banff, “Prospects for the String Axiverse”!

Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed and gave talks. I had an awesome time learning more about and discussing axions and string theory.

Workshop videos posted here: www.birs.ca/events/2025/...

hahaha thank you leo, glad to be here 🫡