Eduardo Jiménez Hernández

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

A grayscale image of a comet surrounded by a glowing halo. An arrow shows the comet's trajectory toward the bottom left and a scale bar shows that the approximate diameter of the comet's core is 932 miles.

During the U.S. government shutdown, several NASA missions observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed by Mars. Check out some of their amazing images, including this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! 🧪🔭☄️

📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

WTF? MAGA face is a thing? 🤦‍♂️

wake up babe new phil trans cover just dropped.

Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.

A quote by Greta Thunberg stating that, "The one thing we need more than hope is actoin. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere." It's in white font on a blue sky background with puffy white clouds.

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"

My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)

The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?

Because Greta is right ..

Vaccine Safety MENU V 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 has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“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”.

Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.

He needs to face consequences for this.

His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.

But I thought social scientists could just study LLMs now.

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Could it be that these two things are related? Like in a cause-effect relationship? Who knows

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him ALT: a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

Just like COVID, but this time it was caused by negligence.

Mobility of PhD students studying abroad. Chart showing results from Nature’s 2025 PhD-student survey, which tracks where international doctoral candidates hail from and where they end up for their studies. The most popular destination countries include the United States (17%), Germany (11%) and the United Kingdom (9%). India and China supply the most students (11% and 8%, respectively)."

Living costs and politics have lead to PhD students studying abroad

Read the full story: go.nature.com/3Xx4G3t

More about Avi Loeb embarrassing himself and, by proxy, the astronomical community.

A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes

This is bad. Some thoughts from a TAMU faculty member.

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

A digital illustration of a star going supernova, surrounded by a gaseous disc in orange and red tones. The star is seen exploding in an olive shape, directed above and below the star.

For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface.

Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/

🔭 🧪 ☄️

COP30 kicks off today! 🌍

We’re highlighting AGU member voices from Brazil’s scientific community who are leading efforts to understand and address climate change.

Meet Ana Carolina Vaz, an ocean-climate expert and program committee member for the upcoming JpGU–AGU Joint Meeting 2026. 💙

New York Times headline “did liberal feminism ruin the workplace?”

I guess not being allowed to sexually harass people at work really killed the vibe.

Image of 3I/ATLAS by M. Jager, G. Rhemann and E. Prosperi November 8, 2025, days past perihelion, showing very normal-looking comet jets and tails.

New image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by M. Jäger, G. Rhemann & E. Prosperi.
Avi Loeb's: "Is the network of jets associated with pockets of ice on the surface of a natural cometary nucleus or are they coming from a set of jet thrusters used for navigation of a spacecraft? We do not know."

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social

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Interior of the Funhouze in Seattle with a can of Nazi Punks Fuck Off beer.

It’s a good night for it.

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse?

It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

An X screenshot of the DHS profile in which they shared "finishing this fight" with a picture from the Halo video game with the text "DESTROY THE FLOOD join ICE"

For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.