This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 20h ago

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

Oven-roasted figs with goat cheese, thyme and honey with a side of arugula. Yay for fig season! Also, have been missing veggie/fruit dominated meals through the conference week in Italy. #ViciCooks #vegetarian #vegetarisch

Academic conferences are exhausting: fell asleep around 11 at night yesterday, fully woke up at noon today. (Was still 100% worth it.) #astrodon #AcademicChatter

Die Pisa-Ergebnisse, ne? Mich ernüchtert, dass wir seit der ersten Pisa-Studie da drauf gucken, in Wehklagen ausbrechen und dann das Gegenteil tun von dem, was notwendig wäre. Kontinuierlich wird weniger Geld in Bildung gesteckt, weniger Lehrer, marodere Schulen, nichts was […]

A reminder to myself: if someone upsets you, the "unfollow" button is easy to click on. "Remove follower" is pretty useful, too.

Ahaha, ich habe aus dem Anlass meines letzten Posts nach einigen Kolleginnen auf Wikipedia gesucht und der Beitrag über Irmela Bues verwendet meinen #Astrophysikerinnen Twitter-Thread (der nicht mehr existiert) als eine Quelle. Irgendwie cool und traurig zugleich. ▶️ […]

That's a new one: "Hi Dr. Grinberg, I came across your work while reviewing public academic records and researcher profiles. Your research appears to have an established presence, but I couldn’t find a Wikipedia page providing a broader overview of your career. I work with researchers on […]

Quick thank you card for my landlady in Cefalu. If the online translator was wrong about the Italian sentence, please don't tell me, I really don't want to know 😂 (Entry 8 in #52ArtWeeks)

Da hat mir @queerde.bsky.social die Möglichkeit gegeben, meine Sicht auf einen antiemanzipatorischen Trend in queeren Reihen darzustellen.

queer.de@queerde.bsky.social · 2d ago

Warum demonstriert eine queere Bewegung mit queerfeindlichen Kräften? Berlins Ex-Kultursenator Klaus Lederer über Antisemitismus, jüdische Queers und blinde Flecken der Linken. Wir sprachen mit ihm im Abgeordnetenhaus

I was happy to endorse this open letter from 25 Fields medalists on the misalignment between the goals of AI companies, the mathematics community, and the community at large. It was nice to see several other endorsements from people I’ve become acquainted with through this platform […]

Infinity magnolia #bloomscrolling

Non-Dutch friends often ask me how it’s possible that everyone has a bike here. It’s very easy. You just try a few of your friends’ bikes, then pick the one you like best, take a cutting, and grow it to the size you prefer. #cycling

From the American Institute of Physics FYI Bulletin: Astronomy, Materials Science Awards Plummet at NSF - AIP.ORG https://www.aip.org/fyi/astronomy-materials-science-awards-plummet-at-nsf#

Astronomy, Materials Science Awards Plummet at NSF

Physics grants saw a smaller drop in grants awarded this year compared to other fields within NSF’s Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.

aip.org

Quick thank you card for my landlady in Cefalu. If the online translator was wrong about the Italian sentence, please don't tell me, I really don't want to know 😂 (Entry 8 in #52ArtWeeks)

Ahaha, ich habe aus dem Anlass meines letzten Posts nach einigen Kolleginnen auf Wikipedia gesucht und der Beitrag über Irmela Bues verwendet meinen #Astrophysikerinnen Twitter-Thread (der nicht mehr existiert) als eine Quelle. Irgendwie cool und traurig zugleich. ▶️ […]

RE: https://openbiblio.social/@david/117252080274619255 Anscheinend sitzen Sie bei Mastodon in der ersten Reihe... Aber es wäre gut wichtig, wenn es zu dem Prozess gegen @Lilith auch anderswo Berichterstattung gäbe, journalistisch und so. Denn wie hier mit einer SLAPP-Klage offenkundig […]

Lese gerade in der neuen Ausgabe der Zeitschrift “Journalist”, wie der Klima- und Umweltjournalismus unter Druck ist, beiseite geschoben oder abgesetzt wird. Als jemand, der seit der COP1 über #Klimawandel berichtet, macht mir das große Sorgen. Und ich bin froh, dass wir @riffreporter gegründet […]

A reminder to myself: if someone upsets you, the "unfollow" button is easy to click on. "Remove follower" is pretty useful, too.

That's a new one: "Hi Dr. Grinberg, I came across your work while reviewing public academic records and researcher profiles. Your research appears to have an established presence, but I couldn’t find a Wikipedia page providing a broader overview of your career. I work with researchers on […]

It’s been a pretty dark week for me in #mathematics with all the (Open)AI mess playing out. Now that it is here, I have confirmation that I feel zero excitement about the resolution of a millennium problem. The AMS and EMS have put out these weird corporate statements not saying anything except […]

Conference dinners are such a whiplash: talking about dead colleagues & joking about our memorial conferences, being pulled over to make agroup photo of everyone who ever worked at API, planning an EDI talk at ESA, introducing a Chinese colleague to the different courses of an Italian meal […]

The happineas when your PhD student gives an amazing talk at a conference 🥳 🥳 🥳 (And gets a lot of questions from senior folks in the community that he deals with well 💚) #XraysAreTheBestRays #AcademicChatter #astrodon #research

This one solely exists because @fergus inspired me to overcome my inertia and use the time I had between end of talks and dinner to draw (and actually use this sketchbook that I shlep around unused). Let's see what it looks with color since I want to try […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Und immer dran denken: Augen auf bei der Plattformwahl! #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

Ausgerechnet am bundesweiten Warntag zeigt sich ein Problem der Warn-App NINA: Unter Android benötigt sie für Push-Warnungen die proprietären Google-Play-Dienste. Wer ein Android-System ohne Google betreibt, kann die App installieren, erhält aber keine aktiven Warnungen. Das BBK verweist auf […]

"Green Algorithms Dashboard" https://www.green-algorithms.org/dashboard/ - presented by Navirah Kamal (research programmer, Cambridge Uni), could be a useful tool for people using HPC in a research institute: #LOCO2026

Green Algorithms Dashboard

Enabling users to monitor the energy usage and carbon footprint of their HPC use.

green-algorithms.org

TIL from @desater's #PastPuzzle that in the past there were art competitions at the Olympic Games! ▶️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Art competitions at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

RE: https://reseauculture.fr/@MuseeOrsay/117236446301216272 The Musée d'Orsay is now on the Fediverse! It's the second most-visited museum in France after the Louvre. We're glad to see many French cultural institutions arriving here! 🇫🇷 😀 Their account is on an instance set up for French […]

As far as I can tell, the Navier-Stokes regularity problem has now been resolved in the most annoying way possible: - we have a single counterexample, not a general theorem; - we have no real idea how it was found, but it seems to have been existing ideas and a lot of elbow grease; - this makes […]

Conference dinners are such a whiplash: talking about dead colleagues & joking about our memorial conferences, being pulled over to make agroup photo of everyone who ever worked at API, planning an EDI talk at ESA, introducing a Chinese colleague to the different courses of an Italian meal […]