And the excellent Seaborg supercomputer at NERSC that I heavily used as as postdoc

this is some of the most important science done all year!

The best brownie recipe, according to science Fat is key for fudgy brownies.

The best brownie recipe, according to science www.popsci.com/science/best...

Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities By this Interim Final Rule ("IFR"), the Department of Justice ("Department") is revising the regulations implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") to extend the compliance d...

ADA II compliance deadline seems to have been extended by a year: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Starting a petition to rename it the Schrodinger Straight--it's simultaneously open and being blockaded.

The "two guys on a bus meme": On our left, a sad rider whose window faces a rock wall with the caption "meetings". On our right, a happy rider facing sunlit mountains with the caption "coding"

moving all meetings to the surface of the Sun, since it is cooler than my office...

(I might have to *gasp* turn off some computers...)

should I have coffee #5

[ ] yes
[ ] also yes

Plot comparing awardees and honorable mentions by field of study

The folks on the GRFP subreddit have also made an interesting plot, comparing awardees to honorable mentions by field: www.reddit.com/r/GRFPApps/c...

Plot showing GRFP awards by directorate shows a big dip last year and major increases for engineering and biology (though this only brings it back to parity with 2024).

The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500).

I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field.

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

of the 4 classical elements, we have phones that are earth proof (dust, cushioned cases), water proof, air proof (noise suppressing mics), but not yet fire proof. why have we stalled? I want to be able to drop my phone into a campfire and have it survive.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Some lucky elementary school will get those slightly-used parachutes for gym class

how many times is that XKCD cartoon on python environments being shown in the session?

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out.

We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal.

This is another extinction-level event for NASA science.

Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

it's one of those "let me add items to my todo list just so I can cross them off" kinda days...

until he sold out to big-SI in the 3rd edition and abandoned CGS...

a cartoon dog is standing next to a man and says coffee ! Alt: Dug (the dog) from the movie Up! looking at his human and then turning away quickly as if distracted by coffee

current mood:

Sign the Petition Ban "xi" from the greek alphabet

my students shared this petition with me:
www.change.org/p/the-entire...

Indiana Jones meme -- Indy looking frustrated / scared saying "Grading... Why'd it have to be grading?"

huh

Uff... DOE Office of Science is 12% cut, NSF is a 54% cut!

This is so, so well-articulated.

meetings++;

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Everyone should have an emotional-support Lego millennium falcon

ChatGPT just told me that if something is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license, that AI is not allowed to train on it.

Because training requires making a copy (so the license applies) and it is commercial (so the NC applies).

a man with a mustache is pointing at something with the words it could be better behind him ALT: a man with a mustache is pointing at something with the words it could be better behind him

Between 2/28 and 3/13, 97 awards were issued:

Directorate of
Math and Phys Science: 36
Engineering: 19
Computer and Info Science: 14
STEM Education: 10
Geosciences: 8
Tech, Innov, Partnerships: 5
Social, Behav, Econ Sci: 4
Biol Sciences: 1

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