It’s true, my colleagues are the worst about that.

That’s my complaint with most of these comments Jim Cline has been writing: they’re responses to mostly unread work by mostly unknown people, so they only serve to bring attention to bad ideas.

My best estimate is that I've applied for private funding in response to open calls for proposals 20 times in the past, precisely zero of which I got. The one time I received private funding was when a program manager sought me out instead of the reverse. It totals many weeks of wasted time.

With my government grant in limbo for > 1 year, I looked at the Templeton site to see if I could try my luck there (after many past failures). Nope! This year it's only experimental searches for new physics (great! but not me) and aliens (🤨). Also they specify that applicants must use AI *and* ML.

And I was told many times before I had a kid that if I ever did, I would realize that no one can raise a kid in the city of Boston.

So from my viewpoint, Harvard is plenty conservative already.

One colleague told me he votes for Democrats at the national level and Republicans at the state level because “Massachusetts is almost a communist state.”

In my experience, a lot of Harvard faculty may vote for Democrats or identify as liberal but if you talk to them they are basically conservative: many think their taxes are too high and commute from far-flung suburbs because they view cities as unliveable and crime-ridden, for instance.

Is this true only of certain models? The HVAC people who set up my heat pump in Boston configured it to switch over to our hot water baseboard heat below around 35F, which they said was the point where it basically stops functioning.

I've also recently started receiving many of these emails, and also suspected that the LLMs themselves are suggesting that people send them to me.

Guess who’s bringing all the love and joy to DTX this fine evening! 🔥❤️💯

Starting to think maybe Elizabeth Holmes was legit after all.

Seriously though, I have started reading this and the evidence so far is like "he knew what a public key was" and "he learned to code in C++" and "he once used the word 'dang'." Is this going anywhere? Maybe Satoshi is Banksy is the Earl of Oxford.

"Cypherpunks is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly anarchist) cryptographers who broke from mailing lists in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, forming little democratic message boards of twenty to forty people with their typewriters in each other's garages"

A generic $ω_b$ tension in early-time solutions to the Hubble tension I show that early-time (pre-recombination) solutions to the Hubble tension are generically expected to increase the preferred baryon density $ω_b$. This puts these models in tension with Big Bang Nucl...

If you're wondering why I've been so quiet for the past 5 weeks, it's because I was writing this paper:

arxiv.org/abs/2604.05095

An epoch of cosmology apparently unrelated to the Hubble tension puts pressure on *all* early-time solutions to the Hubble tension--background provided below 👇

1/6 ⚛️🧪

Buddy, voting against the war isn't going to stop Trump. If the nominal opposition leader can't call for his removal from office today right now immediately, he should also be relieved of his job.

Where's Congress? Do your job and rein in our out-of-control, imperialist president. (2/2)

[stares in physicist]

Last time I submitted a form through one of these arcane web interfaces to get reimbursed for airfare for giving a talk, I asked the status several months later and was told it got "stuck in the pipeline" and "had to be taken out and put back through," which I imagine was literal.

A bit disturbed that the latest update from my son's daycare is about them building a leprechaun trap. Keep that Eric Adams stuff in New York, please.

Why call it "rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation" when "cancelled by woke" is right there.

Donald Trump does not care about civilians in the region or the safety of US Troops.

He’s illegally bypassing Congress and starting a war with Iran that has already killed dozens of children. This is unacceptable.

Congress must take action to rein in Trump and save lives.

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

Maura Healey desperately needs a primary

Have you made other lectures for this class publicly available? I’ll be teaching QFT 1 in the fall so I’m starting to look for sensible approaches that don’t follow a textbook.

All the examples I’ve found fall in the category you might call “shocking but not surprising.”

No one told me working at Harvard would mean getting to read all the private emails between my colleagues and the world’s most famous pedophile.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.

They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.

My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

Screenshot of post reading: These are not rogue agents. This is an all out assault on American life. ICE is a criminal organization that is entering homes without judicial warrants, detaining witnesses, and killing people. All at the direction of Trump. We must stop funding DHS. There is no other path forward. Responding to post reading: The Tribune also says ICE has transported several witnesses into detention.

We must stop funding DHS.