NIH indirects case update:
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
Matthias Troyer @Microsoft At AI+Quantum, ACP 2025 showcasing Microsoft’s AI results on accelerating materials discovery.
#quantum #ai
Can’t believe I’m typing this but…
FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC.
If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
A summary of budget cuts to US research funding agencies.
Big cuts in US research budgets were recently announced. Summary below, read www.science.org/content/arti... for more.
Yeah but it's haaaaard
I was expecting more perturbation theory. Maybe that's exam 2 :)
Huge!
obviously it was pea-hacking
At WIRED How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin By Byron Tau. February 27, 2024 Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."
Must read by @byrontau.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/how-pe...
This can't be Gouda.
Well, if we're sharing our favorite bad science jokes today:
A hundred kilopascals go into a bar.
Hadn't heard of "low background steel" but it really is a great analogy here
I don't think I would feel any better than "oh no oh no oh no"
@greenleejw.bsky.social
Currently sitting in a University of Kentucky Board of Trustees meeting with a HUGE faculty turnout.
That's not a coincidence.
The first item on the agenda is a Deloitte consultant recommending that the Board strip the University Senate of much of its authority over academic regulations.
I'm in this skeet and I need help.
Closing physics programs is short-sighted: our majors pursue careers requiring quantitative and critical thinking skills. Departments without a physics major can't educate students who started college before they discovered physics. UNC Greensboro is facing this
www.wunc.org/education/20...
T-Rex: It's time to settle this once and for all! Which city... T-Rex: ...is the BEST city??
T-Rex: Now of course if we try to do this in the PRESENT, it's impossible, because the true value of cities includes how they affected the world and that can be known only in retrospect. Therefore we limit ourselves to best ANCIENT city, and I gotta say - Rome is coming out here by a mile!
Utahraptor: Uh, forget ATHENS much? T-Rex: OH DANG! T-Rex: I totally did. Honestly, I was just trying to find a way to settle a debate, but man - yeah, I guess we can't even agree on which historical city is best. We truly are two solitudes, never to meet in consensus or mutual understanding!!
Off panel: I mean, we both like eating fried chicken parts. We'll always have that in common. T-Rex: Oh yeah! Off panel: And we both like Çatalhöyük, the world's first known city? T-Rex: YOU TAKE THAT BACK
sorry t-rex but Çatalhöyük was egalitarian and had bodies buried under the floors. Awesome city by any metric
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
I would love this. Instead, grocery stores near me insist on aggressively bland early 90s pop
They didn't just wake up. They inhaled 3 espressos and adopted a puppy.
And Steve Ott!
Wake up, sheeple!
The defunding of basic science and basic science training continues 🧪
For the NSF DEB community - see the new solicitation for the core programs.
What’s to note?
SG (Small Grants) changed to STAR - new acronym with more $, now $400k. Great for theory, synthesis, postdoc initiated ideas, etc. Only 10 pages too.
new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
James A. Harris looks at a chemistry arrangement with a ring clamp. He is gloved and wears a lab coat. He has a goatee and is looking intently at the device in front of him.
Let's talk about James A. Harris, the co-discoverer of Rutherfordium and Dubnium, elements 104 & 105.
He was the first African-American to be involved in the creation of a new element.
Born Waco, TX in March 1932 BS in Chemistry at HBU Hutson-Tillotson College in Austin, TX.
@karenedaniels.bsky.social know anyone?
"Q is for Quantum" would be a good addition.
The VTech folks have built a whole course for non-physicists that uses it -- and an arxiv article along with that.
This is Just to Say
I have used up
the patience
that was in
the glovebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for the children on roadtrips
Forgive me
I was in traffic
And other drivers were so stupid
and so wrong
Norad has the opportunity to do the funniest thing