Yesterday I posted a pic of Colonel Armstrong, a famous California Redwood tree. But in rare circumstances, these giant sequoias can be found elsewhere...such as this one in northern Michigan! There are about six of them up there that were planted in the 1940's and I visited in 2023.
See also the Wellingtonia in the UK- I found one and I was very surprised!
Hi, if you're a student or postdoc, living in the US, going to #IUCr2026, we at the American Union of Crystallography want to give you money.
New deadline: May 1st.
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Gifs and insults aside, science in general - including space science - is *incredibly* international. This is something we can do because we do it together.
#chemsky, give me a hand sharing this, if you can.
Hi, if you're a student or postdoc, living in the US, going to #IUCr2026, we at the American Union of Crystallography want to give you money.
New deadline: May 1st.
aucryst.org/auc-student-...
She is living history. An Oakland woman who turned 105 last month is being celebrated for her contributions to her country, to her community, and for her legacy as a Rosie the Riveter working on the home front here in the Bay Area to support U.S. military efforts during World War II.
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
This is an explicit call for mass war crimes by the President of the United States. In the face of this evil and madness, every member of Congress should be calling for his removal from office based on the 25th Amendment. He is a danger to America and the world.
Da pope
This is a great thread on how we got here.
People are sometimes surprised that Trump and other reactionary politicians don't have consistent policies.
They shouldn't be. Reactionaries hate abstract systems and coherence. They don't understand NATO, USAID, public broadcasting, literature, or science. So these things must be destroyed.
Close to 100% of people have no clue how right-wing psychology works or how the modern world aggravates and fuels it.
This guy gets it.
Read this thread. Retain it. Base your strategies and tactics on it.
If you do, you'll be about 50 years ahead of the curve.
17 ways to celebrate MLK Day with art and activism in Chicago: blockclubchi.co/4qSQKNR
More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025, while the rate for employed white women with bachelor’s degrees fell less than one percentage point during the same period
I could do basic or advanced. Currently working on something simple in geometry but twinned with a strong sub lattice.
In these hellacious times, would anyone be interested in some nice peaceful times on twitch, working through problematic crystal structures? #chemsky
Cultural Regions of the US
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
It's real bad, and so many people are just sleepwalking towards disaster.
Thanks, New Yorker
I think it’s very interesting how emphatically these conversations are about inevitability—it’s time, it’s happening, like it or not, and in particular, a sense of: “You have to.”
When it comes to treating an AI product as a person, I assure you that I do not have to. And you do not have to.
If you've ever laughed at a post about writing or fanfiction, this fine human is probably responsible. Please help!
Yes!
Limbless, Slippery RFK Jr.: ‘Becoming An Eel Is A Sign Of Good Health’
Limbless, Slippery RFK Jr.: ‘Becoming An Eel Is A Sign Of Good Health’ theonion.com/limbless-slippery-rfk-jr...
