Adrian Fraser

For those of you who care about thermohaline convection in stars; coming soon to a preprint server near you:

LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves from Black Holes On September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (09:51 UTC), the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Wash...

The @ligo.org and @egovirgo.bsky.social collaborations officially announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves #OTD in 2016.

Hard to believe we are ten (ten!) years into the gravitational wave era of astronomy and astrophysics. A remarkable tool for understanding our Universe. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Ducky Stardust

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

So I was just strolling through the area and out of nowhere three individuals apprehended me saying they will take me back to Hallownest whether I like it or not

mr president, you've lost the silksong subreddit

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

Imagine getting into nuclear fusion as a physics/engineering PhD student because you’re passionate about climate and energy, getting a job at one of the first handful of fusion startups, and 5 years later waking up to find that Trump is now your boss

*scratching head*

A friend points out: Maybe someone told dear leader you can fuse gold

Is it April fool’s day? Waiting for the NYT to post an update saying “sike!”

This was not on my Trump 2 bingo card

Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal

Why is there not enough content on Bluesky this morning talking about how absolutely wild this news is www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Would be an absolutely devastating blow for science on an international scale, not just within the US. Hard to comprehend.

Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

See, e.g. bsky.app/profile/atru...

(Oops, switch “upper” and “lower” in the above)

Nonmodal growth and optimal perturbations in magnetohydrodynamic shear flows In astrophysical shear flows, the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability is generally suppressed by magnetic tension provided a sufficiently strong streamwise magnetic field. This is often used to infer up...

Hey astrophysicists, a presence (absence) of KH billows in some astrophysical shear flow doesn't always imply a lower (upper) bound on the local magnetic field strength! See arxiv.org/abs/2510.031...

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Friends, colleagues, my heart is heavy as I share with you some deeply saddening news: “asymptotically spicy” will not, in fact, survive to final publication of this manuscript. But it will live on in the arXiv preprint, at least

Where do people study MHD turbulence in The Netherlands? Asking for a friend looking for a job

It was a good point, though! There were some pertinent examples on academic twitter ca. 2020ish where the same point could’ve been made

Just trying to prepare myself to argue why my research actually does align with the WH’s priorities

Like most modern astrophysicists, Trump is quickly realizing that he can’t keep neglecting magnetic fields

Suddenly thinking this old proposal idea might have a chance

Accepted for publication in JFM Rapids 🎉

Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus

If this continues, the most talented American students will want to study abroad, because they'll want to study with the most talented students and faculty from around the world, and those people won't want to come to the United States even if they can. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

NYT spelling bee takes all kinds of niche words but NOT “adiabatic”??? Anti-science sentiments from NYT in the Trump era, you hate to see it

BREAKING: The NIH director has ordered an immediate review of all the agency's research activities. Any projects that don't fit agency priorities "may be restricted, paused, not renewed, or terminated." My story:

So bad.The EO institutionalizes and intensifies the politicization of federal research funding. The provisions weaken scientific expertise in funding decisions and effectively cede control to political appointees. The basic logistics here will also further slow walk release of federal research funds

Obnoxious!

Inspired by a certain program I’m submitting to requiring TEN PAGES for TWO YEARS of support for ONE PERSON, while the RSURF requires FOUR PAGES for like 4-8 years plus additional support for a student and postdoc. Wild range