gas costs $4/gallon, cars cost $50k, they're deporting millions of working people, their AI boosters are openly cheering for a future with 50% unemployment, sounds like congestion has been solved on the demand side
Want to do a PhD combining AI with sustainability challenges? I have funding. Please forward to anyone frozen out of the job market. Thanks! ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...
This administrative change is so stupid, so negative, and so destructive of the proposers' time and effort (on top of the already-sketchy Genesis NOFO) it smells to me like a DOGE-level appointee is trying to destroy science infrastructure without technically impounding any appropriated money.
I worked on this experiment for more than a decade and never noticed that the bird’s beak is a greek letter nu 🧪⚛️
German university door placard for the "House of Competence (HOC)", Fritz-Erler-Strasse 23
Other universities have hyperbolically-titled excellence initiatives but KIT has the
What's "boogie woogie" in the original Polish?
TIL that MLB's Statcast analytics package has data on batters' stances, making possible this ridiculous deep dive into Chase DeLauter's left foot. (Actually I am curious about his follow-through; doesn't it seem shorter than everyone else's?) #guardsball www.mlb.com/guardians/ne...
I presume half of the staff of Idaho National Lab has pivoted from "actual nuclear engineering research" to "half-baked AI proposals fundable under Project Genesis"
At this point Iran's probably got better-educated nuclear experts in government than we do. I don't know who Trump has in the technical conversations but it ain't Ernie Moniz; meanwhile Ali Akbar Salehi has a PhD from MIT!
Imagining a botanic garden visitor on a beeline mission to a site whose name they know ("get me to the PONDEROSA BORDER, stat! <alphabetical list lookup, only in English> it's #16!") but then you have to scan the whole map for the #16 icon anyway. Why not have the numbers ordered spatially?
I'm waiting for the post-Vietnam-style right wing opinions of the form "we lost the Iran war because our namby-pamby Marquess of Queensbury elites didn't have the guts to commit a few war crimes"
TIL: American Science and Surplus shut down their mailorder business. (Brick-and-mortar still alive!)
Heartfelt thanks to all their catalog illustrators and copyeditors over the decades; as a wannabe-tinkerer kid stuck at home in the 90s your work was a joy to read and a spark to the imagination.
Solar is INSTALLED and WIRED and PERMITTED and INTERCONNECT APPLICATION APPROVED and INSPECTED and BIDIRECTIONAL METERED and as of today is ACTUALLY SWITCHED ON
LETS GO
I have made this! (Polish + Rusyn ancestry at work.) Hats off to your dad for the multi-hour stirring commitment.
(The leftovers make a nice sandwich filling. On ham, or by itself with a bit of worcestershire sauce.)
Trump just wants to destroy agencies. First he tried CLAWING BACK their appropriations and the courts said no; he tried IMPOUNDING and the courts said no; he bullied Congress to CUT appropriations and they said no; now he's ordering agencies to MISSPEND appropriated money solely to wreck themselves
I'd love to hear other peoples' examples of papers with fun and undergrad-label-relevant systematic error reporting! Links to the above: 6/6
journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Pedagogical point: maybe the physical-phenomenon-under-study is best seen in one configuration of your equipment, but don't throw out (or fail to save or document) the weird configurations you go through on the way, maybe they can teach you about the apparatus. 5/
3) ACME's 2014 ThO electron dipole moment search (and the 2017 hardware paper). They run the experiment once with the apparatus tuned to its optimum state---then they detune every piece of it, sometimes pairwise, to see if which detunings cause which errors. 4/
2) GERDA's 2023 two-neutrino double beta lifetime of 76Ge. Pedagogical details: errors obtained by re-running analysis code with plausible parameter and model changes. Big table of possible systematics but only one is large enough merit full discussion! Reported to two sigfigs. 3/
1) Kamiokande-II's 1987A neutrinos and their +/- 1m clock error. Pedagogical details: reported to one sigfig! Obviously correlated across all events so that time differences remain precise! Not obtained by fancy math procedure, obtained by informal inquiry into who set this clock and how! 2/
I give little mini-lectures during my advanced lab course. Today I wanted to pull up some published examples of different approaches to systematic error analysis and reporting. Here's what I came up with but would love to hear other fun examples from the 🧪⚛️🎢 sky: 1/
sitting around the TV watching a space launch with the family and definitely tensed up at the 73 second mark
Jon Klassen and @candlewickpress.bsky.social should release this book as a two-pack. In one copy there's a ghost and in the other copy, otherwise identical, there is not. Parents can pick one randomly and create surprise/bafflement at storytime
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"armadillidiidae" is fun to say for all ages
Nobody is ever going to look at this and say "at least the symbolic Nazi ballroom is well-proportioned". Go ahead and let it be ugly. Instead, focus on prepping for teardown. The ballroom should be made of box trusses on short-term rent from a stage rigger
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Every time a speaker mentioned Moreno or Husted the crowd erupted in boos. I can only hope that sets the tone for the rest of their public and private lives
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Senator, please don't do this. If you care about energy prices and/or energy security and/or climate, please call on the administration to restore all the pre-2024 solar and wind energy projects it's destroyed. If you care about transportation please bring back federal public transit support thx
