Jeffrey Tate

Very shortsighted. Obeying in advance. Truly unfortunate.

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

This.

This is what happens when folks think the Heritage Foundation is just playing at things. I wouldn’t be surprised if a future EO doesn’t enshrine slavery in flowery language. Seems like that is where we’re headed.

Abnormal 'Arnold's tongue' patterns appear in a real oscillating system – Physics World Ultrafast laser sheds new light on complex synchronization phenomena

Abnormal versions of synchronization patterns known as “Arnold’s tongues” have been observed in a femtosecond fibre laser that generates oscillating light pulses. So what's an Arnold tongue, what does it usually look like and why does the new result matter? 🧵(1/n)
🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/abnormal-a...

Third party assholes have been fucking this country for decades.

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Thread.

Quantum fields, mathematics and the search for rigour | Timothy Nguyen Galileo claimed that “mathematics is the language in which the book of nature is written” and no more is this apparent than in our most successful theory of nature, quantum field theory. As the…

Galileo claimed that “mathematics is the language in which the book of nature is written”, and no more is this apparent than in quantum field theory. | iai.tv/articles/is-...

But Timothy Nguyen argues that predictive success along is not enough for a fundamental theory of reality.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪

📣 OPN's May issue is now live 📣

The latest issue has stories about topological light waves, squeezed light, the history of laser research funding and so much more!

Check it out: bit.ly/3YEOHBq 💡🧪⚛️

Motion 1: Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise Option Votes Yes 2761 (92.8%) No 214 (7.2%)

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

Good question.

Erasing Black History? These Unions Say Not on Their Watch The heads of the Florida Education Association and Georgia Federation of Teachers talk advocating for kids and fighting censorship.

“If we only teach what makes people feel good, we aren’t teaching the full truth. The history of this country includes painful and unjust moments. It’s our responsibility to make sure students learn from that.”

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a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a room with a harp in the background

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

color photo of Angela Davis: a Black woman with a gray afro, looking skeptical and wearing lovely plain dark clothing.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” — Angela Davis
(Happy Birthday, Professor Davis!)

Increasingly desperate hypotheticals to spin a use case for the tech they've invested tens of billions of dollars in that no one seems to actually want outside of some (relatively) niche use cases

Physicist Polykarp Kusch standing at a blackboard, pointing at a calculation of the electron magnetic moment. He wears a dark suit, white shirt, patterned tie, and glasses. His left arm is raised to point at a diagram on the blackboard.

Physicist Polykarp Kusch was born #OTD in 1911. His measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron revealed that its value disagrees with naive predictions by a tiny amount — about 0.1%.

Quantum Electrodynamics offers a marvelous explanation of this minuscule discrepancy. 🧪 ⚛️

Image: AIP

Maths locations - I'll start... #UKMathsChat #iTeachMath

the findings are fascinating, but it's also a masterclass of thread explaining a new paper 💯

If you have a professor/teacher who impacted you in a positive way, send them a short email and let them know and tell them what you’re doing these days.

Teaching can be a thankless and exhausting job but one note can energize an educator for a year.

Lola on screen saying what's wrong?

Watching Run Lola Run in 4k

Mark, with all due respect. Sit down and visit with some folks who are intimately familiar with the NIH, the scientific process, how grants are handled and funded.

The NIH is not a business. There are no shareholders. There is no mandate for profit. This is not a business model and should not be.

A star field is dominated by a red and blue glowing nebula. This nebula appears, to some, to have the shape of North America and so is called the North America Nebula. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 The North America Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Dimitris Valianos

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Why Do Stars Twinkle But Planets Don’t? It is easier to spot planets once you know that.

'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' is probably the first scientific fact babies hear in the English-speaking world. 🔭✨

As a Jewish person, I find myself disgusted by the willful and intentionally ignorant embrace of Musk by the ADL. The Musk salute was clear and for the ADL to go soft and weak today is something that I just can't believe.

Biden issues pardon to late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced civil rights movement Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey's mail fraud conviction in the 1920s was politically motivated and an effort to silence the…

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

God fucking damn it.

The guy used a sharpie to alter the path of a hurricane so…