I don't want the job. I work alone and am too old for this shit.

Odds Of Disneyland-Sized Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Went Up Astronomers have upped the odds of an asteroid called 2024 YR4 striking Earth, albeit in 2032, but warn that it will most likely soon be downgraded, and miss Earth.

This asteroid just got a little more likely to destroy the world, I guess now it will soon be shortlisted for a White House cabinet post www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...

Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

In mathematics, sometimes it feels like the universe is just messing with you ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=851U...

The LSE must stop sexual misconduct, not stop women from speaking out | Good Law Project

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Pollution resistance of Saturn’s ring particles during micrometeoroid impact - Nature Geoscience Simulations of micrometeoroid impacts into Saturn’s icy ring particles find limited pollution of the particles by non-icy material, suggesting Saturn’s rings may appear younger than their actual age.

Saturn’s rings were thought to be under 100M years old (younger than butterflies) because they're so pristine, but this model says they’re a billion years old with a built-in epilator vaporising the space-blemishes to stay pretty, and either way I’m like slay girl www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To be fair you should really leave earlier and bringing less stuff anyway

Thank goodness symmetry is spontaneously broken. It would be hard to enjoy symmetry if it still had hopes and dreams

Now I'm loose on the internet, and I've got some strong opinions about contact manifolds.

LSE researchers awarded European Research Council Consolidator Grants 2024 Professor Bryan W. Roberts and Dr Milena Tsvetkova have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants.

Congrats to Bryan Roberts @soulphysics.bsky.social and Karim Thébault, with their new ERC project The Edge of the Universe.

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My inaugural lecture at 6.30pm tonight will be livestreamed right here: www.youtube.com/live/6n9mrmT...

The Hegman Lake pictographs, now known to be a star map made by the Ojibwe people. The line underneath represents the ecliptic.

A new post by my co-author Tanya Klowden on our "Cosmic distance ladder" instagram, on the constellations on the ecliptic (most familiar to western astrology as the signs of the Zodiac), as viewed by native Americans prior to European colonization. www.instagram.com/p/DC8gvXXxtfw

Here is the full PDF of The Tenure Memo describing an attack on 'tenure' at the LSE www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tnyvl...

'Tenure' for all LSE academics is under threat. PLEASE LSE academics come to the extraordinary Academic Board meeting this Mon, 2 Dec at 9:30am. Share and help us 1) demand transparency, 2) demand the Staff+Student Veto be restored, and 3) demand 'tenure' at the LSE be saved (12/12)

The Memo documents the rise and fall of LSE academics' power to halt redundancy. The last row of the table is quite sobering. LSE academics would be reasonable to demand that power be restored before any further changes to the Annex (11/12)

Now LSE wants to change the Annex again. Most of their exact proposals are being kept secret up to now. But, given their above pattern of secret attacks on tenure, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT ANY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE ANNEX BE MADE PUBLIC (10/12)

This table summarizes of how and when these locks on 'tenure' were dismantled at the LSE, for everyone from Research Staff to full Professors. The @ucu.org.uk is now one of the few remaining safeguards that plays a substantial role in employment protection at the School (9/12)

The third attack reported on 'tenure' at the LSE was that the Annex checks and balances were systematically ignored for years, despite being found in the employment contracts of impacted staff (8/12)

The Tenure Memo seems to indicate the handful of Academic Board representatives on Council at the time actually voted to dismantle this key tenure lock, without seeking permission from the Academic Board. Very surprising and saddening if true (7/12)

The second attack on 'tenure' was the secret removal in 2022 of statutory seats providing a Staff+Student Veto on Council, the LSE governing body. Council must approve all redundancies, so this removed a crucial tenure protection through an egregious procedural error (6/12)

The first attack on 'tenure' at LSE was the sneaky removal of government oversight over changes to our Articles of Association. This was said to be caused by the Higher Education Reform Act 2017. That's false—it seems the LSE actively removed it and nobody noticed (5/12)

The Annex only protects 'tenure' if it's hard to change. Three things used to assure that: Oversight, Veto power, and Contracts. All were recently undermined, with more changes planned. By undermining 'tenure', the LSE has massively undermined academic freedom here (4/12)

Tenure was abolished in the UK by Thatcher in 1988, but a watered-down version remains protected at the LSE and roughly a dozen other UK universities by a document called the Model Statute, or "Academic Annex" at the LSE. It prevents redundancy without good cause (3/12)

The 'Tenure Memo' describes how protections were removed by misleading the LSE Academic Board and the union, and in some cases failing to consult them. Now, ongoing revisions are apparently again being carried out in secret (2/12)

The worst attack on 'tenure' at the London School of Economics in years was just revealed by the
@ucu.org.uk LSE branch. It is ongoing and impacts all LSE academics, from Research Staff to Full Professors. Please share widely, as we're in trouble here (1/12)