abg, phd

Iran Has No Structured Program to Build Nuclear Weapons, IAEA Says Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran has an “ambitious” nuclear program but doesn’t have a program for building nuclear weapons currently. “It is an evaluation that...

Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA, on Iran:

"we don’t see a structured program to manufacture nuclear weapons" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Hahaha

There should be a new university league called the Jeffrey League. MIT, ASU, UCLA, Duke… all part of this illustrious league. What other unis are in the league?

Exoticism? Orientalism?

The Harvard Youth Poll is so fascinating. 45-50% of Gen Z see the Republican Party, Mainstream Media, and Healthcare CEOs as threats to the US.

Teaching my students Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat this week as a reminder of the violence that ensues bc of uranium (commodity) fetishism

Reading Benjamin Labatut’s _The MANIAC_ as a good archival confabulation about how the math and logic that undergirds these computational systems is deeply anti-human. Von Neumann desired the sublimity of math at the cost of humanity.

Opera at the Olympics! It’s the spectacle of spectacles!!!!

North Carolina Congressional Race Shows Perils of Big-Money Support - The American Prospect Rep. Valerie Foushee benefited from millions in super PAC dollars in 2022. Now she’s being massively outspent by a progressive primary challenger.

From me: The most fascinating money in politics race in America is happening in North Carolina. The incumbent, Valerie Foushee, benefited from millions in dark money 4 years ago; now her opponent has a 10:1 in Super PAC spending. Lots of scoops in here. 🧵
prospect.org/2026/02/20/n...

Oppenheimer (2023) was the last good MCU film

Anyone know of anyone who went through the TT to novelist pipeline?

Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940 @aaup.org Statement.
BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

I love Chicago. The hometown of only the truest heroes

Would have been nice to receive this fortune *before* the day I had

My little bro was always this sleeping kid at big family gatherings. Something very beautiful about the details of transcolonial culture

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet? The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much...

My colleague @mattkorda.bsky.social in Wired discussing his recent study (with Igor Morić) - Inspections Without Inspectors fas.org/publication/... - about use of OSINT for arms control. www.wired.com/story/satell...

I’m not typically one for school spirit, but I was def feeling it for the first and second court storms

Friendly reminder to Billy B that UNC is a basketball school

a woman with a #schittscreek logo on the bottom right Alt: Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara) in a scene from Schitt's Creek saying "Okay, that's enough news for today"

💔

Ah ok so it’s not just university presses, it’s any musical organization. And you can pay a yearly due of $475 to be eligible to win *checks notes* $1000. AMS what are you doing?

Ok and now AMS is asking academic presses to pay money so that their authors are eligible to receive subventions????? I mean I get it everyone is withholding their membership dues so you have no money but asking university presses to pay to play is bomkers.

Alex Pretti’s Next-Door Neighbor Talks Grief, Community Meetings, & Organizing Target Workers As Chris spoke of his grief, it combined with excitement and resolve about the organizing ideas that he heard at the meeting that day.

I interviewed Alex Pretti's next-door neighbor, Chris Gray, a teachers' union activist.

He describes the mood in the neighborhood, organizing for a general strike & the importance of organizing Target workers to achieve more leverage in another general strike.

paydayreport.com/alex-prettis...

AMS nuking the ethics committee… at this point who’s with me in making up a new academic society? Call it MSS “The Music Studies Society.”

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." 

Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Ohhhh so this is why they didn’t fund me 😆

Interim provost Dean listed the medical school, public health, and the Global FedEx international relations building as the places where UNC’s global identities will continue. The Global FedEx building HOUSES THESE CENTERS.

My joke about Coach Bill not forcing his players to sing did not go over well with my students who I forced to sing the Star Wars theme. But they learned what melody is so I got that on Bill, eh? 😉

FWIW I haven’t had the IG and FB apps on my phone for quite a while and can post on IG through the mobile site 😅 (and I’m over 30)