David W Hogg

NSBP / NSHP are my people!!

I’m so proud to be a jury member for

The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad

(haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)

Itai Linial @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about stellar problems at supermassive black holes

I mean the helium matters too?! And the love?

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are tra...

Excellent piece by @briles34.bsky.social on writing in the discipline. It’s depressing that we think that theoretical physics expertise is not just more important but INFINITELY more important than writing to… *writing* PhD dissertations (on any subfield of astro, say). arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493

Was it even 36 hours? I think it was more like 29

The main thing that it all makes me—Palestinian genocide, ICE kidnappings, tariffs, H1b visas, infinite detentions without hearings, all make me—is sad. Tired and sad. Love to all, and strength for this journey.

Probably too late though; it’s hard to revoke such agreements.

That’s why they build all those alien megastructures.

Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.

Josh Ruderman @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about freeze out and freeze in of dark matter candidates.

Academic Freedom on Trial

My colleague Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) wrote a nice blog post about political things on campus, academic freedom, and our @aaup.org lawsuit. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...

Many universities on lockdown after black faculty were sent extremely racist death threats and threats of racial extermination. Stay safe out there. Black faculty at NYU received extremely frightening emails today.

It’s back to school, but not for anyone in Gaza. We all have responsibility for the scholasticide, the killing of students, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.

This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.

Gaza Biennale, featuring works by artists from the war-torn strip, will come to New York City The roving exhibition—previously staged in London, Berlin, Athens and elsewhere—is a beacon of resilience amid destruction and turmoil

Gaza Biennale in NYC

And it reads like it’s 1999. Thank you!!

Naah, what could possibly go wrong??

It feels like we’re in the first act of a B movie.

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.

Fascinating piece by @stephenornes.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social on “emergent misalignment” showing that we really don’t know much about what LLMs are doing. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...

Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

“AI For Good” isn’t for good.

Hear hear! Please write it up and publish it. People need to know that their supposedly intellectual partners are in fact aligned with weaponry, big tech, and genocide.

Please ask the police to arrest kidnappers. Kidnapping used to be illegal in LA.

It’s a good year to join.

I meant @aaup.org

Trial to consider Trump’s ‘ideological-deportation policy’ targeting pro-Palestinian students Case is the first of several legal challenges to White House’s sweeping crackdown on universities to make it to trial

The NYU AAUP (@aaup; of which I am a member) made the news yesterday with its lawsuit against the Trump administration:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m interested! I feel like many metaphors are wrong (in the technical sense sometimes, and sometimes worse). Would love to hear (and respond to) your take.

‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens h...

We (and I mean US physicists) dreamed up these weapons, and soldiers deployed them. Enormous suffering was the outcome. Never again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I’m happy to contribute 🙃

Helen Sullivan · Diary: Trapped in the Mine Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries stopped...

The most heartbreaking thing I’ve maybe ever read. CW: Deaths of workers; exceedingly unsafe workplace. I apologize if this is paywalled (@lrb.co.uk please don’t paywall old things) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...