Asif Siddiqi

WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.

Let me fix that for you:

Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic On the Beach (2016 Remaster)

Happy 80th Birthday to Neil Young. #neilyoung
A towering figure who has produced so much beautiful sound.
Long May You Run.
Hard to pick his greatest song, so I'll just pick what's on my mind this moment:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Ck...

Congrats Alex!

The new book... exists!!! Got my author copies in the mail today! Looks quite readable! Spelled my name right on the cover, even!!!

harpercollins.com/products/the-most-awful-responsibility-alex-wellerstein

This is really good and captures precisely how AI, as a longstanding field of scientific inquiry dating back decades, has been coopted by tech companies into a marketing term for a specific set of practices that bring attention to them.

oh wow. That's really bad. That server is an invaluable archive.

In my comics class today, I talked about Billy Graham (1935-1997), artist for Black Panther in the early '70s (and the first African-American artist to work for Marvel) who brought some incredible style to the idiom of comic art. #comics #comicshistory

Unbelievable first couple of episodes, not just just in terms of plot, but also pacing, cinematography, subtle exposition, and general creepiness.

Tenure-track opening at my institution in the urban history of modern Europe, with a preference for an interest in migration, the environment, and/or cultural diversity in the history of towns and cities in any area of Europe: networks.h-net.org/jobs/69160/f...

P.S. I love Steely Dan although I prefer The Royal Scam and (the highly underrated) Countdown to Ecstasy.

Wow - that was just a guess! 79th and 5th Ave!

Somewhere on 5th Avenue, maybe the 70s or 80s?

This is really great, about the NY Times, but about the media in general.

Finally got my copy of @historyasif.bsky.social book, Cosmic Fragments. Now time to ruin it with notes and highlights!

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Yes 100%.

This is a translation from Russian describing the fate of the space dog Laika who died from overheating

from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), translated into English (2/n)

68 years ago today the dog Laika was launched into orbit, the first living being to break the bonds of gravity. Unfortunately she died soon after. I found the previously classified document on her fate in a Russian archive. Here's what it said about her fate #laika (1/n)

I am definitely thinking of leaving.

Journey into Mystery # 115? Is the “Tamam shud” from Omar Khayaam?

Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Michael Gordin - Five Way Interview Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean of the College at Princeton University. A specialist ...

Interview: Historian of science Michael Gordin tells us why he and Diana Buchwald felt there was room for another book on Einstein, why fascination with Einstein remains high, and new areas of Einstein research. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/mich... #interview #einstein #historyofscience

💯, yes.

Exactly.

No.

Should humans colonise space? We asked 5 experts Earth is the only home humans have ever known. But that might not be the case for much longer.

Should humans colonise space? We asked five experts – four of whom said no. It’s not just a question of whether humans try to live in space, but also about how we do it. Here are their detailed answers.
via @aunz.theconversation.com 🧪 🔭

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Wow.