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I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.

The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

Old Twitter meme of four movie stars at Cannes labeled strange quark, charm quark, beauty quark and top quark

Remember this one?

It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke.
Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".

Bernie sitting on a snowy road in front of a large boulder the size of a small boulder.

Same. My weapon of choice is usually Preview:

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Learning physics is all about applying concepts to new contexts and problem scenarios. You can’t memorize your way through a physics course. Students’ ability to do this has definitely declined in recent years.

So worried #AcademicSky

Same. I just don’t get it.

A hummingbird sitting on the branch of a plum tree

This little guy was flying around our backyard.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”

This is why we should fund science. 🧪

I think quantum computing could be a huge game changer with applications in many different fields: biotech, climate modeling etc.

Your Chatbot Is Likely Not a Reliable Source on Nutrition - ConscienHealth New research in BMJ Open tells us that information about nutrition from a chatbot is not reliable most of the time.

Nice sum of our new study!

Your Chatbot Is Likely Not a Reliable Source on Nutrition conscienhealth.org/2026/04/16/y... by @conscienhealth.bsky.social 🙏

"Overall, the chatbots dispensed problematic information half the time."

This whole “war” appears to be one big money grab.

She will likely kill me in my sleep.

She runs for the hills any time I get within about 10 feet of her.

Why I'm very glad my son decided not to work there despite being recruited.

Sallie P. Mead was an American mathematician and engineer.

Mead was hired by AT&T as a “computer,” or a human calculator, and then transitioned to the engineering team in 1919.

She was the first woman at AT&T to hold a patent and also the first woman to publish a technical report in the Bell System Technical Journal.

Mead was instrumental to a breakthrough discovery in waveguide technology that is still used in radar systems today.

Sallie P. Mead was hired by AT&T as a “computer,” or a human calculator, and then transitioned to the engineering team in 1919.
She was the first woman at AT&T to hold a patent.


https://awis.org/historical-women/sallie-p-mead/ #WomenInSTEM

He bought what??

Oh, she's very cute, but that doesn't negate the fact that she would like to see me disappear off the face of the Earth now that my husband is home from his business trip.

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it.

Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

Close up of a small brown tabby cat staring daggers at me

Annie is plotting my demise. Day after #Caturday

Hi! I’ve just added you to the Physicists list. You should now be able to post to the Science feed using the test tube emoji and the Physics feed using ⚛️.

perplexity doing this also manages to erase human women computers yet again LMAO what fucking clowns

if you need to see what and why, see: olivia.science/ai/#pygmalion; full pdf here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

I love this so much.

Barack Obama sat down with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a Bronx child care center, reading “Alone and Together,” a book about connection, community, and belonging to preschoolers.

Sidebar: Not sure these little-ones knew who Obama was 😂

Speak

I didn't watch the video the OP referred to, but "quantum tunneling" has a very specific meaning in physics and whoever made the video could have asked a physicist about it instead of him.

🤣🤣🤣

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Not sure. I'm doing what I can while I'm still here. It's much easier to speak truth to power when you know you'll be gone soon.