eponymous moose

Neutrinos are just the coolest things.

Neutrino nonsense is what made me want to be a physicist! (although not the field I ended up in)

Remove a letter, ruin a band

The Mountain Oats

Actually, nevermind; that's still cool

I went through a period during which basically every book I read had the words "palimpsest" and "scrimshaw" in it. Probably at least once in the same sentence.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

One argument that is often made is that AI is bad but "the genie is out of the bottle". And my question is: is it? Because unlike digital music or smart phones or whatever, there is this enormous cost to AI that currently customers are not having to pay. What happens when that changes?

USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sp...

I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System.

This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine.

Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

today it's the edgier portions of pro-palestinian activism, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", a year later maybe it's "the climate hoax". you draw the line here or not at all.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

They have the votes to impeach and convict him

So they are not helpless

They are complicit

Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

When I said I was flexible for a Zoom anytime before 3, I didn't mean 8:30am. That's not anytime. Anytime starts at 10am.

Idiosyncratic Spotify daylist titled copium folk punk morning. You listened to punk rock and summer camp in the morning. Here's some folk punk, lycanthropic, stomp and holler, copium, quirky, and anti-folk.

Um, tag yourself? #WeirdSpotify

The annoying thing here is that I'm starting to come around to the idea.

My complaint with AI isn't that I think it'll cause an apocalypse or put everyone out of work. It's that I know what they really want it for, which is to offload responsibility. They want a machine to make the decisions so they, the humans in charge, can't be blamed.

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I usually go with dissipated if the context is waste heat, otherwise ... I don't know. I probably just revert back to energy language.

By tomorrow I will know whether we are too old to drive 3 hours each way to see @themountaingoats.bsky.social. Or, I mean, any band, really. But honestly the list of bands worth that journey is pretty short.

There's no better feeling!

I will be borrowing "everyone knows why (whatever), it's just that not everyone is right" for my Lecture Jokes stash.

Last time I saw y'all (in Columbia) was probably my second favorite show. Will be hard to unseat #1 unless Franklin Bruno is there and John is dressed as Batman.

It's looking like I'm going to have some "topics of interest" time left at the end of my 4th-year (more linear algebra / Dirac notation centric) quantum course. Any recommendations on where to go post hydrogen atom? 🎢

I tell my students this often: it's much easier to learn and much more fun to figure things out when you're not afraid for your academic life

Hompen

Ok but actually that's a pretty reasonable take

10 things you should know about me (and 3 that no one must ever discover)

Okay so actually with respect to my post from yesterday, why did they win?

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I don't think I'll be winning the Nobel in physics this year. #SnubbedAgain #IAmActuallyInterestedToSeeWhoDoesThough

I think I'm supposed to say hello bluesky. #iIntendToContinueToIgnoreThePurposeOfHashtags