Why do we all smile whenever young children do absolutely anything? :)

The Gestapo progression:

- illegal aliens who are criminals
- illegal aliens without a criminal record
- legal immigrants without a criminal record
- F-1. J-1 Visa holders without a criminal record
- Green card holders without a criminal record
- You

What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?

Appeasement of fascists never works! #harvard #columbia

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

“How long will I be here?”

“I don’t know your case,” the man said. “Could be days. Could be weeks. But I’m telling you right now – you need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”

Scientific writing becomes infuriating with AI suggestions. No, I do not want to rewrite “similar to” as “like” for conciseness. “similar to” has a specific mathematical definition. The helpful prompts are always distracting and often just wrong

Tipping culture is out of control

Watching DOGE cut DoEnergy funding precisely at the moment we are running out of critical isotopes like tritium and plutonium, feels very much like precisely what precipitated to collapse of the Galactic Empire in Azimov’s Foundation series.

YouTube video by AAS AAS Journal Author Series: Stephen Markham on 2024PSJ.....5..269M

Check out my interview about our latest paper! What is helium rain, and how does it work?

But doing so would require acknowledging that billionaires are bad (IMPOSSIBLE!)