Genesis Amendment 3 now (three day delay)

48 star flag in front of UT's DKR stadium

I don't recall seeing a 48-star flag at DKR before

I see something similar in physics - students do fine if the task is pattern matching to things they've explicitly seen, but have difficulty integrating multiple concepts. (My personal suspicion is they're trained for the former because it's the easiest way to get K-12 test scores up.)

The students are not pleased

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Presumably but those submissions go in later anyway

What if the true Genesis was the collaborators we met along the way

Going to assume that whatever AI thing they had going that they thought was going to merge the proposals from different institutions just didn't work

This is the most disorganized grant process I have ever seen anywhere and heads really need to roll over it

Genesis Amendment: with 11 days to go, please massively restructure all of your proposals

When the Department of Energy clearly knows what it's doing

Finally, evidence for supersymmetry

As long as they're always referred to as "the Non-Merit-Based Professor of [subject]", sure

The GSA's per diem rates for the UK are wild. For Edinburgh, in the summer you're allowed £460 a night for hotel and £130 for food and incidentals

Alcohol, you say

Exit immigration line at Geneva airport

Swiss Immigration's growing incompetence strikes again

(if you know the Geneva C gates you will know how long a line this is - it wraps around to the next building)

Enthusiastically starting overnight shift at ATLAS

Time for shift

Everyone claims to love SI units, nobody wants speed limit signs in meters per second

Chihuahuas are at least cute

faculty meeting 没完没了

When you have a class on Democracy that fails to mention the single largest democracy

Perfect illustration of the problem of being asked to have full-spectrum viewpoint diversity that incorporates every & any claim as a valid part of serious academic debate. We can either do that, or we can be actual scholars/universities. Some things are just lies & detached from empirical reality.

Metro 50th - Celebrating America’s Metro System In 1969, Metro broke ground on the first part of a new, modern transit system for the nation’s capital. In 1976, we welcomed our first riders on the Red Line. 50 years, six lines, and billions of cust...

Finally, an anniversary we can all celebrate

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

Fascinatingly the SCL's main page seems to have scrubbed any suggestion that they do research over there

School of Civic Leadership: but what if the Founders wanted a despot? feat. John Yoo
civicleadership.utexas.edu/events/dispu...

I feel that every few years particle physicists go "but what if circuit-switched networks"

Somehow this managed to cost half as much per mile as the FCC tunnel

CRJ 900 of Ibom Air at Enugu Airport

Ibom Air

We did it. We defeated Mandelbrot

A stadium in the center of Enugu. Team flags are flying over it.

Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu, home of Rangers International FC