Baseball fans seem to suffer so much. I bet they would like soccer

This paper is so cool and so important. Rex took a verbal model seriously and showed that it just doesn't so what people say it should do, and it opened up a ton of questions

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I've heard it said, though I don't really believe it, that as many as three things might be true.

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Blog post on "The AI Rewrite Dilemma": lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/t...

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

Trump must be removed from office. He has no capacity to do the job, and he’s destroying the US and the world with incoherent flailing. He thinks he can bully and blackmail the whole world and will start WW3 or nuke someone eventually. He absolutely cannot he allowed to continue.

Typically, in my experience, university honoraria are in the $250-$1500 range, whereas clinical trainings for state organizations tend to be $1000-$5000

A $30k speaker fee from a state university is mind boggling

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

An armistice can take weeks to negotiate. A comprehensive peace treaty can take months. No one on Earth who knows a thing about history or diplomacy thought anything could be resolved in six hours. This will confirm for everyone the extreme incompetence and bad faith of the American regime.

1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.

"Not included in my consultant-approved talking points."

It looks like there will be an open postdoc position in my lab soon. I'll be looking for someone with substantial wet-lab experience in microbiology / microbial ecology / evolution / physiology. If everything goes well, an ad will be coming. But if you know someone, ask them to reach out already.

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!

If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

I95 in Connecticut has a lot of billboards for local lawyers as well.

Perhaps. Pretty sure he is toast in either primary.

If he even bothers to run

We’re about to experience the largest loss of health insurance coverage in U.S. history. The Pitt helps explain how it will happen—in the mundane morass of undone paperwork. But this is exactly as Trumps One Big Beautiful Bill planned it.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Trump’s unhinged threats of violence and genocide are inexcusable.
 
He is a warmonger, escalating the conflict for his own profit and consolidation of power.
 
My Republican colleagues can't keep turning a blind eye. He must be stopped and impeached.

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Trump is threatening war crimes to annihilate "a whole civilization".

Republicans in Congress repeatedly voted for Trump’s war and still won't do their job to end this madness.

Enough. Bring Congress back into session.

Republicans must grow a spine and stop this catastrophe.

This is crazy and completely reckless. Speaker Johnson and House Republicans need to bring us back into session immediately to stop Trump’s power-hungry regime-change war.

He’s killed thousands of people, and he doesn’t care if he kills a thousand more.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.

The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Donald Trump is openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization.

25th Amendment proceedings must begin immediately, but if the Cabinet is too cowardly, the House should begin the impeachment process now.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.