Holy shit. The government is conceding it willl pay some amount of fees to the Broadview Six. They are DESPERATE to stop further inquiry into the case. Never heard of such a thing.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New filings from the "Broadview Six" defense attorneys tonight. The first reveals the feds decided to "not contest that defendants are entitled to their legal fees," though they have "not yet committed to the amount of legal fees" they will pay. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/0c/07/4afee6...

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

This is really important. The US government wants to end independent scientific and medical research. Please comment and push back on the sweeping proposal that would give the White House veto and clawback power over Federal R&D funding. Here's guidance

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've seen a lot of info for specialized audiences (e.g. scientists, non-profits) on how to comment on the proposed OMB rule change for grants, but less for the general public. So I made this one-pager that can be shared more widely. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

"Accept (spotlight)" at ICML'26 😎 Our paper brings particle filters back to life: autoregressive diffusion models + posterior sampling yield optimal proposals for Bayesian filtering, scaling up to GenCast-sized systems. arxiv.org/abs/2605.20028 w/ Thomas Savary and @francois-rozet.bsky.social

Training-Free Bayesian Filtering with Generative Emulators

Bayesian filtering is a well-known problem that aims to estimate plausible states of a dynamical system from observations. Among existing approaches to solve this problem, particle filters are theoret...

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ICML Conference@icmlconf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats again to authors of accepted #ICML2026 papers! The camera-ready deadline is 5/28. Drawing your attention to two specific features: 1. As last year, to help communicate research to a broad audience, papers will have lay summaries. Tips & details in blog 1/3

a long time ago i followed @sgillies blog and the moment he announced he had left a job we hired him to work at mapbox, a major coup. now is the time for you to do the same thing for your company, i guarantee you will not regret it: https://sgillies.net/2026/04/24/laid-off.html

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

For those of you who love space exploration: we have robots exploring all across the solar system, and they can’t make anybody any money, they just discover cool stuff, so billionaires aren’t interested. Rovers and orbiters at Mars, orbiter at Jupiter, missions on the way to distant asteroids…

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A sad thing about all this is that I have gotten kind of tuned out of space stuff because so much of it now is at least partly billionaire propaganda. To be honest, I didn’t even fully understand that this launch wasn’t until today. Just another thing I’d love to feel better about someday.

The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

Aimee Knupsky@aknupsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.

🌍What would my home region look like in a different climate? ClimSat is a diffusion autoencoder for climate-conditional satellite image generation by a #CRC1502 member. It can simulate how landscapes might appear under different climatic conditions. 📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr... 🎥 youtu.be/YAPaGKBGJ3g

ClimSat - Climate-conditional Satellite Image Editing with Diffusion Autoencoders

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator

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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

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Dr. Jen Irwin@drjenirwin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you need a reason to do whatever you can to avoid COVID, here’s about a half million of them…take your pick. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

Too many “middle ground” AI arguments—“I have concerns, too, but we have to adapt”—proceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of “inevitability” which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.

JFC I've heard that Fetterman is considering supporting the SAVE act. It's a disaster of a bill that would create sweeping disenfranchisement. Whoever your senators are, I don't care, call them. I don't wanna hear if you think they definitely will or won't support this, take 3 minutes & call.

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser

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“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November." It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

Net zero sustainable development remains the only established path to reversing this trend for ever hotter days. It is imperative politicians regain the initiative towards it. @nature.com  @ox.ac.uk @oxmartinschool.bsky.social 

Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios - Nature Sustainability

Accurate projections of heating and cooling needs are vital for planning energy use and achieving the sustainable development goals. A global dataset now maps global heating and cooling degree days, finding future hotspots, rising cooling demand and early shifts in energy needs with major global impacts.

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ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

Masked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens. Call it what it is — fascism. History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.

Let's be perfectly clear: every single Republican in Congress who allows this to continue without removing this president and prosecuting these lawless ICE murderers, is declaring their allegiance to a tyrant, and themselves enemies of the very Constitution they swore to defend.

Reminder: ICE’s budget has not been renewed — the House voted, but not the Senate — It will take 10 Democratic votes to stop it Pressure your senators

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

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Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

NEW: On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback. The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism. Tonight, at Law Dork:

On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback

The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism.

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You know what we used to call "purity tests" before the internet and wreckers fucked everything up? Standards. As Winifred said down thread: if your only standard for a representative is a letter before their name, you will continue to get played.

Translation: don't annoy my donors. Until Democratic leadership visibly sticks to its values & demonstrates integrity, they will continue to languish in low approval and weakness. As others in this thread say, the idea of rich flight has been shown a myth elsewhere eg MA

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vowed to block a tax on billionaires, saying that a ballot proposal has already scared off tech leaders.