David W Hogg

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...

Dear Professor Giovanetti MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A (MPLA) On behalf of World Scientific, we would like to invite you to write a brief review article based on your talk on “Hogg once told me BBN is old school and here’s why he’s wrong” at New York University, for publication in Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA).

easily the funniest papermill invitation I have ever received @hogg.bsky.social

Harriet Tubman’s church in Canada was a crucial force in the abolitionist movement. It’s still standing today Located in Ontario, the church provided shelter and aid to Black Americans who participated in the Underground Railroad to escape slavery in the US

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

James Beard Foundation!

Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social

An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’ Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers

Lots of good ideas in this piece by @leylandcecco.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequality

This very long read by Bolin is great, imho. It’s about tech bros but many of the arguments have relevance to the “great men of science” narratives that I despise.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

King Charles’s visit brings frustration for First Nations amid ‘backslide in reconciliation’ Spectacle of royal visit evoked a model of national identity at odds with efforts to confront Canada’s own violent history of colonization

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Cc @thejunaverse.bsky.social

A screenshot of p.43 of https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf showing $119.3B moved from Defense to Non-Defense.

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.'

TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

Yes that’s correct!! I don’t understand why this is being reported as cuts.

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

I don’t love the US exceptionalism arguments—science is global—but I said something for this piece

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

ps: Apologies for the paywall. @lrb.co.uk please give me article gift options, and make past content free! #openscience

James Meek · ‘Everything is possible’: In Greenland The immediate effect of Trump’s menaces, and the visit to Nuuk in January of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, was to...

Amazing and wide-ranging long read about Greenland by @jamesmeek.bsky.social We’ve done so much harm to the Inuit. May they be free.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Wenzer Qin @nyuphysics.bsky.social explains a new viable route to supermassive black hole seeds (not quite primordial)

I only know of this concept from the KLF’s Justified and Ancient from the 1990s

This article is about really important contributions to mathematics by an amateur
www.quantamagazine.org/marjorie-ric...

There are no universities left in Gaza.

Nytimes said the explosion had unknown cause?! I guess the standards of evidence are very high there all of a sudden?

I agree very much with this piece. The political trends in Canada are not generally good.

Generalized symmetries in QFT and axions with Marius Kongsore @nyuphysics.bsky.social