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Gillian Lynn Ryan
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Professor of physics, drinker of tea, herder of cats, Bluenoser, Canadian in Pittsburgh. She/Her. Statements and posts made here reflect only my own thoughts or feelings.
This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two
Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
I love this so much “I’m often asked why close reading is having a moment. The renewed focus on our fundamental methodology must be connected to the austerity that has been inflicted on the humanities”
Bonnie Honig@bonniehonig.bsky.social · 2w agoA beautiful, reflective, informative, essay about teaching under austerity by @johannawinant.bsky.social
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Man disrupts his ex’s new engagement and impending wedding years after he ghosted her. Probably too much kissing for some audiences.
W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD@wbrianlane.bsky.social · 3w agoMake your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Man palms a bullet in his hand to distract you from the fact that he's giving away the movie's ending once every 90 seconds.
![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people running] PERSON 1: They’re right behind us! PERSON 2 with ponytail: It’s OK! I have a plan. (2) [zoomed out view of group with weapons chasing first two people as they reach a small object on the ground] PERSON 2: This part of the continent used to be an island arc before it collided with North America. (3) [Person 1 looking behind as Person 2 hits buttons on small pillar sticking out of the Earth that makes a “beep beep” sound] PERSON 2: Just gotta access the control panel… Yes! It still works! Okay, full reverse! (4) [zoomed out view of map of east coast of North America. There is a jagged edge on the northeast, and an island with a jagged edge has separated from it.] FROM CONTINENT: *No!* FROM ISLAND: *HAH!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreieiupj3rcaosmcgmsjz4bi66iwly4uly6yoj4fs2nvjhud22lfpwy)
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
miamiherald.com
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
Annual checkup done. I’m currently persona non grata, but Fergus has a clean bill of health and is up to date on his shots. I absolutely love that my vet has evening appointments, they’re a lifesaver.
Sure seems like a cascading series of contaminated food making Americans sick should be a massive scandal for the USDA and Secretary Brooke Rollins
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair wasn’t supposed to be an instructional manual www.newsweek.com/biggest-fda-...
This is why we, the people, have to be LOUD and KEEP PUSHING our elected officials. They will be forced to bend to the majority. Good move here. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
Gov. Josh Shapiro signs executive order restricting data center development in Pennsylvania
The far-reaching order does not include a moratorium on data center development. However, it requires local approvals to receive state permits, which in effect may block many from moving forward.
inquirer.com
“I don’t believe in climate change.” Dude, this is physics, not Santa Claus.
The OMB rule will put the future of science in the hands and agenda of the President and his cronies. The rule is on ice till early December, but we need it permanently revoked. Contact your MoCs at the link and tell them to Revoke the Rule: zurl.co/H1ENh
That’s what the fight is all about. Historians do matter, and the historiographies of slavery and the Revolution formed in the final decades of the 20th century& the beginning of the 21st have shaped current-day understandings about so much.
Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · last mo.Historians may have played a decisive role last week in a judge's ruling that overturning a school board's decision to change the names of public school honoring Confederate generals ignored its impact on Black students. Historians matter. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
I say this as someone with a math degree: replacing calculus with stats in the standard high school curriculum is one of the higher ROI reforms for improving our collective capacity for citizenship.
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
CMU graduate Carmella Li uses quantum field theory to uncover how AI models work, advancing efforts to make neural networks easier to understand and more efficient. 🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Carmella Li Brings Physics Knowledge to AI Research
Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Carmella Li applies physics principles to understand artificial intelligence.
cmu.edu
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”
Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 2mo agoFascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
![Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihztdrvxjeyzmz6dmz3xb4vi6wiwwtge6fwdoxjcum5aptndv3kfm)
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo agoTaylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2mo agoComments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
