David Vizgan

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience

In order to serve Trump, being unqualified is the qualification.
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-sur...

Had to double check the outlet lol

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The arxiv needs more papers like this!

Promotion to the prem is the best birthday gift I could get today

I’m an astronomy PhD candidate who is interested in joining the community on bluesky.

Yes

@bot.astronomy.blue signup

“Terrible negotiating strategy” implies that there’s some kind of plan here. But the only plan i can figure out from Trump II looks constructed to destroy the United States

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Very cool

The spatial resolution obviously won’t match something like NIRCam, but it’s very much designed to be in the same vein as Roman + Euclid. Large surveys of astrophysical data are the future

Haha no worries, thanks for sharing :)

R = 35-130 from 0.75 to 5 microns per spherex.caltech.edu

From what I’ve seen and read — it is a near-infrared observatory. It will efficiently make scans of the entire sky over the next two years in order to create all-sky maps in the NIR. It will study cosmic inflation, take spectra of hundreds of millions of galaxies, and study water in our own galaxy.

this is fabulous

@davidvizgan.bsky.social have you seen this?

Did not see this what??? 128 NEW moons?

RIP Boris Spassky, one of my favorite chess players of all time

What a horrible day to know how to read

This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all year😭

I can’t believe how stupid FIDE is acting over this whole situation. If they are so threatened by a rival company investing into Chess960, perhaps they should try investing more of their resources into the variant themselves

With this point and as an armchair observer I totally agree, Magnus definitely seems to have lost his competitive fire for chess

To me this sounds like classic Magnus snark-casm? Calling it match fixing is a quite a stretch imo

And happy new year everyone! Wishing you and your loved ones a great 2025

What a crazy day of blitz
Congrats to Nepo, really happy to see this new chapter in his story develop

It’s up there… if we’re talking more recent championships, Nepo’s 27.c5?? in Game 9 vs Carlsen was pretty awful too, but given the match score it doesn’t rank as bad as this one

The Lichess database of games, puzzles, and engine evaluations is now on @hf.co - https://huggingface.co/Lichess. Billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream and we're excited to see what you'll build with it! ♟️ 🤗

Even better, top search results on Google are being increasingly flooded with computer-generated slop, which to me is a much more serious problem than Gemini being hilariously bad at the whole AI thing

The problem is that traditional search engines have been totally and utterly destroyed to the point where I don’t know if they can outperform ChatGPT (despite the occasional hallucinations)

And yes, I have strong opinions about both of these works!