Erik Lindahl

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”

It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:

Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes

Trump vs. the Declaration of Independence Several of the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.

Several items on Declaration of Independence list of grievances against George III also apply to Trump today, most notably on immigration, trade, and deportation without due process. Like King George, he is "unfit to be the ruler of a free people": reason.com/volokh/2025/...

In May 1940 the Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany and Nazi policies forced on Dutch institutions. As a result of protests by professors & students at Leiden, the university was closed by the Nazis until the liberation of 🇳🇱 by 🇨🇦 forces. Today, Leiden U remains consistently in the World Top 100.

The very first structural images of a tuberculosis-fighting virus
New insights could advance phage therapies for the world’s deadliest bacteria—including drug-resistant strains.
www.scripps.edu/news...

Be proud.

Proud of whom you love.
Proud of who you are.
Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power.

Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally.

This week and every week.

Be proud. Always.

Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Friends on #MathSky, I hope you realise that we have _finally_ an option to get dogmatic answers to long-standing questions like:

- What's 0^0?
- Is 0 a natural number?
- What's the dimension of the empty set?

#MathPope

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

I am shocked, shocked that Leavitt doesn't understand what kind of thing the Library of Congress is.

China trying to repair some reputational damage in an attempt to woo Europe and seize the disruption in the US-Europe relationship ?

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

NIH is canceling new/ongoing grants that contain foreign sub-award contracts w/ some "new" framework coming in September. For now, you have to remove the sub-award or they will terminate the whole grant. Looks like Jay Bhattacharya is all in on the MAGA "foreign is bad" idea.

tinyurl.com/mv59rp32

Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

This structure is absolutely _nuts_. Lipids are captured marching through the tunnel

Trump’s peace deal is terrible. Ukraine should still accept it Hard as it will be for President Zelensky to accept terms so generous to the invader, Russia may find it’s a tainted triumph

Nobody can in good faith recommend Ukraine to take the ”deal” proposed by the US.

Simple as that

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Fransk militär ökar närvaron: Kärnvapnen skyddar även Sverige Samtidigt som USA varslar om minskad militär närvaro i Europa – så kliver Frankrike fram. SVT var på plats när franska stridsplan i en unik operation flög in direkt från sina hemmabaser för att fälla ...

WOW

The new French ambassador to Sweden just definitely included allies in the French vital interest:

”Our French vital interests also include the interests of our allies. In that sense, the nuclear umbrella also covers our allies and of course Sweden is among them”

www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Penguin colony on Heard Island.

Today there was even a protest rally on Heard Island.

Screenshot of tweet from @realDonaldTrump, 6 Nov 2012, reading: "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"

what if it just took one though

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

At least I guess it gives us an opportunity to see what companies in the EU have a spine & conscience and worth trusting for your long-term business needs vs. which ones will happily hurt their staff and customers for short-term profits.

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

NY Times graphic. Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

So, Hungary can leave the EU. Wont be missed.