Eddie Fuller

Harvesting sweet potatoes es at sunrise

"Marie" sent us this photo saying: "Here we are harvesting sweet potatoes in Merced County CA. We begin working at 4am. It is hard to see at this hour as we sort the potatoes and distinguish their size and shape just using lamps." #WeFeedYou

Sade releases her “Promise” LP 40 years ago today.

Of “Sweetest Taboo,” she said:

“.. It’s about a love that feels almost TOO good, the sort of feeling you don’t talk about because it makes you vulnerable. I like writing about that kind of emotion — the danger .. of loving someone that deeply.”

The best summary of the ongoing USGOV situation I've seen. One wonders if @schumer.senate.gov has anyone on staff with this level of clear insight.

The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸

@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk

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Proost en geniet ervan!

Really great and spooky for Halloween 'thread' 😀 about these interesting spiders. I grew up around them and was always on the lookout for their 'messy webs', shaking out shoes or anything else where they might be hiding out.

We designed a tactile outreach activity about polymer networks – their structure, how they're made, their properties, how they break down (or not) – using carabiners and a polymer derived from algae.

Check out our paper in J. Chem. Ed.! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c00578

The hierarchy problem (finetuning) of the Standard Model of particle physics is often presented as the question 'why the weak scale is so much smaller than the Planck scale'

But there is also a geometric interpretation that can be understood with little maths (but a lot of physics)

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Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts as Intrinsically Photoswitchable Dynamic Covalent Bonds Combining dynamic covalent bonds with photoswitches allows the kinetics and thermodynamics of exchange to be controlled with light. However, this two-component strategy introduces synthetic and compatibility challenges. Here, we present a single-component strategy using donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) as both the photoswitch and the dynamic covalent bond. DASAs isomerize from “open” to “closed” forms with light and heat, respectively. We discovered that open DASA isomers undergo dynamic covalent exchange of their amine donor via two pathways, reversible dissociation and conjugate transamination. Exchange can then be arrested upon irradiation to form the closed DASA isomer, offering a handle to gate dynamic behavior. Consequently, incorporating DASAs as cross-linkers in PDMS-based networks yields covalent adaptable networks (CANs) with viscoelastic behavior that can be tuned by light. We also identify degradation pathways that limit the reversibility of this system under extended heating. Overall, DASA exchange represents a synthetically accessible platform for photocontrolled soft materials. More broadly, this work introduces DASAs as a new class of intrinsically photoswitchable dynamic covalent bonds and lays the foundation for the discovery of other stimuli-gated dynamic bonds that combine reactivity and responsiveness in a single molecular unit.

🚨New research from @kalowlab.bsky.social:

“Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts as Intrinsically Photoswitchable Dynamic Covalent Bonds”

Read more in @jacs.acspublications.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying Better broke than woke, right?

Remember how conservative grifters started selling “anti woke” products at a premium to separate gullible conservatives from their money? Well under Trump that’s just the economy now, since we’re all paying more in the name of being “anti woke” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

18 YEARS AGO, I kicked off a wild chase after the brain's biggest secrets, like it owed its blueprint to how it builds itself from scratch 🧠 Me + my fearless lab family turned curiosity into a powerhouse, probing frontiers. Shoutout to the St. Jude's vibe fueling breakthroughs over copycat science.

YouTube video by Michael Peshkin Leslie Harris, Northwestern University Faculty Assembly, Oct. 15, 2025

Dr. Harris: "We cannot negotiate with people who are not negotiable, not trustworthy. They've gone back on every agreement…We're allowing people who have no respect for research, no respect for expertise…to dictate to the greatest institutions this country has ever built." 💯
youtu.be/5xotITMNAaU?...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

California test scores improve amid lingering pandemic setbacks. LAUSD, Compton show gains Compton Unified and LAUSD schools are among the high flyers for progress in latest state test scores, but pandemic setbacks linger statewide. Gov. Gavin Newsom signs literacy bill to implement science...

For the first time, many of our student groups are actually outperforming the state. @laschools.bsky.social saw improvement across all grades and student subgroups, surpassing statewide growth. This marks an unprecedented achievement for our District.

Timeline cleanse.

We must all stand up and speak out.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Excellent article about the higher ed “compact”.

Too much good stuff to pick one quote.

Agreed. If this is real and could be even a CR of some length, they should do it.

Do folks have a preferred platform for collecting survey responses?

MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

We are hiring! We are looking for a new member to join our department with research experience in math education. You can apply on MathJobs: www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

Undergraduate SCH by department at FIU for 2024-2025.

The 2024-2025 (fall/spring/summer) numbers for FIU MathStat undergraduate SCHs were around 78k. That's consistent with the 10y avg of 75k. This looks to be 3rd largest at FIU unless I missed a large enrollment department.

Here is an article about UNL from their j-school. It doesn't have math but it gives some idea of magnitudes overall and for arts and sciences. journalism.unl.edu/news/numbers...

This is an interesting article. I wonder if they had access to the row level data for their analysis. That NCES survey only allows table output for the access I have. Do you have a sense of how representative the data is? The BPS has about 40-50% 2-y responses. It would good to subset to see diffs.

Heads up! Solar wind conditions are favorable for mid-latitude aurora, and views will improve during substorms. Take a look north if you have claer skies. 45th parallel and further north should be in "pants on" mode.

Monitor:
go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag

Join us tomorrow for this introduction to pi-Base Zoom workshop!

Paging topologists, @clontz.org has a workshop for contributors tomorrow!