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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."

$7M grant from NASA, Schmidt Sciences to upgrade arXiv | Cornell Chronicle The funding will help arXiv – which is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech – finish migrating to cloud infrastructure and modernizing its code.

Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)

Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts.

“It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”

Cornell Tech is launching a new Summer Innovation Intensive for high schoolers! Explore AI, ethical coding, data science & product design on our Roosevelt Island campus this July.

Join us at our Open Houses on Dec 7 & 11.
https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/summer-innovation-intensives/

Day 2 of the Urban Tech Summit brought together innovators, policymakers & urban tech leaders to tackle some of cities' biggest challenges—from governance & markets to climate risks, migration & rapid technological change.

Thank you to everyone who made the Summit a success!

Day 1 of the 2025 Urban Tech Summit is in the books!

Thank you to all who contributed to a day of deep inquiry, practical collaboration, and shared purpose in shaping the future of urban technology. Stay tuned for Day 2!

View the program here: https://www.urbantechsummit.com/program-2025

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time Waymo, a spinoff from Google, is expanding its autonomous vehicles rapidly in the face of competition from Tesla’s planned robotaxi service.

I go out on a limb and say this might not be horrible… www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

This is how Trump does everything. Reporting from reliable sources says he’s going to do something outrageous/ridiculous. He immediately claims it’s fake news. Then a few days or weeks later he does exactly what was originally reported.

Page One.

@latimes.com

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

It might be okay to go back to talking about all the amazing stuff we did and saw today and just let the plane thing go, otherwise we're getting played.

Definitely more inflatables than in previous events, but also I saw people dressed as pickles, tacos (I get that one of course), and avocados.

If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔

#A_NewHope ✊

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

Chuck Hoberman: Transformable Design — Building Structures that Change Themselves | Cornell AAP Attend a lecture that explores techniques for creating objects that controllably change in size, shape, and surface, and that demonstrates how these methods offer broader insights into the very proces...

Chuck Hoberman is kicking off the Design Tech Lecture series for the 2025-26 season! RSVP to join us, Wednesday, September 9th, at 5:30pm ET, in person at the Tata Innovation Center, or on Zoom. @cornelltech.bsky.social
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OHCA Student Fellowship 2025 Application The Student Fellowship is a program geared towards undergrad and graduate students who are looking for ways to expand open source hardware in their work. This Fellowship will provide mentorship opport...

The Open Source Hardware Association is launching a new Open Hardware Creators in Academia program for undergraduate and graduate students: The Student Open Hardware Fellowship.

Want to nominate or self-nominate to participate in the Student Open Hardware Fellowship?

forms.gle/aq9YCZS8gzUL...

Yellow-Eyed Cats with Bernie Roth podcast on Instagram: "Episode 10 is out now! Go listen wherever you get your podcasts 🐈‍⬛ 💛" 8 likes, 0 comments - yelloweyedcatspodcast on August 6, 2025: "Episode 10 is out now! Go listen wherever you get your podcasts 🐈‍⬛ 💛".

I'm the guest on this episode of Yellow Eyed Cats with Bernie Roth! We talk about teaching Transformative Design at the d.school with Bill Moggridge and Lochlann Jain.

the open healthware logo stacked over the OpenNerve logo

Now up on the OSHWA site! Our second Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that OpenNerve has committed to the work of open source healthware from the very beginning of its' existence. Read more: oshwa.org/announcement...

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator Federal agents manhandled and cuffed U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Friday as he tried to ask questions of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. It's starting to feel like being brown is a crime.

Commentary: First they came for the immigrants. Then they took down our Latino senator. It is starting to feel like being brown in America is a crime. Brown man allegedly lunging is the new Black man driving — scary enough that any response is justified. www.latimes.com/california/s...

UNACCEPTABLE. @padilla.senate.gov - a sitting U.S. Senator - was just physically assaulted and handcuffed for asking DHS questions about issues that impact his constituents at a PUBLIC PRESS CONFERENCE. This is the stuff of authoritarian regimes.

the open healthware logo stacked over the COSMIIC logo

We are so excited to be starting the journey on Healthware Highlights, a series of write ups that will be delving into all the ways the open healthware has existed for years! As soon as we started working on these we knew that COSMIIC was an excellent inaugural post: oshwa.org/announcement...

Trump instigated this entirely on his own. You don’t overrun a state’s National Guard without a request from that state, that’s a violation of constitutional limits. He manufactured a crisis.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

It's finally public! 🎉

Excited to announce I'll be joining UIUC's iSchool as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. My lab will focus on AI information ecosystems, computational social science, and social computing. I will start recruiting PhD students this cycle, so please reach out if interested.

Stop trying to make Chess happen! It’s not going to happen!