Amy Snyder Hale

This is an excellent idea.

Even here in tiny Centreville, a deep red area, there is a sizable protest in the town square. #nokings

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Yes, Netflix, I am still watching. One of the good things about a sick day is the ability to binge watch without guilt.

Got my COVID and flu shots yesterday. The COVID shot always hits me hard, but this one is especially nasty.

I called in sick and plan to binge Resident Alien.

Kitties!

Okay, this made me literally lol.

I miss having a cat.

I mean, this seems like solid advice.

It is extremely petty of me, but my favorite genre of reels/short video these days is the “making fun of Pete Hegseth’s pull ups genre”.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire

www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

#booksky

Spam filters could definitely be a thing. The last paper I reviewed I recommended some changes, but the second review got dumped to spam. I eventually got a shaming email directly from the editor basically saying “Well, since you couldn’t be bothered to respond we assume these changes are good.”

YOU AND ME BOTH, BUDDY

Isn’t this a major reason for private schools? Working as intended, I suppose.

I HATE this sort of system. Anything other than 5 stars is simply shitty? Thanks for giving absolutely no nuance to the system whatsoever.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

I need to find more folks to follow here who aren’t explicitly and only political. My feed in 99.9% screaming politics, and needs more travel, pets, books, and friends.

19 space missions…or more ICE hiring. What do you choose? @standupforscience.bsky.social

A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

I hear you on that! The best things I ever did for my back were learning deadlifting and running.

Deadlifts today. They were hard.

At one point in my life I could deadlift 140 pounds, but that point is not the current one.

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

After 15 years of endurance sports (triathlon and single sport running and cycling), I have decided to dip my toes into the world of weightlifting. I’ve only been at it for two weeks, but so far I am digging learning a new skill set. And thanks to the coaches who haven’t treated me like a dumbass!

One hemisphere of Jupiter, with its characteristic bands and stripes of colorful clouds, and dozens of swirling storms and eddies within them. Image processed from raw JunoCam data by Raihan Mohammad.

A desert landscape with bare hills and small, pointy peaks of layered, reddish rock. Image processed from raw MastCam data by Kevin M. Gill.

A full-disc view of Earth in space, centered on the Indian Ocean. Brown continents, blue seas, and swirling white clouds. seen yesterday by NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR satellite

More postcards from the planets! 📸🪐
Recent views from NASA spacecraft across the solar system
- Jupiter from Juno in May
- A Martian landscape from Curiosity in June. Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
- Earth seen yesterday by NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR

Fake Feuds, Real Crises: Your Questions Answered On Trump vs Musk, the LA protests, the US military firing on Americans, and more.

New Q & A! I wrote about the Trump vs Musk "feud", why to be wary of Gavin Newsom, the LA protests, whether the US military will fire on US civilians, future elections, and other topics readers asked me about: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/fake-feuds...

Trump moves to slash NSF: why are the proposed budget cuts so big? Major US science funder could lose more than half its budget — and researchers are reeling.

What does he has against LIGO, I wonder?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1 in 12 Americans live in California.

1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.

LA is America

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.