don’t take advice from people who have long forgotten what it’s like to be precariously employed

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3w ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

There is an exhibit of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. One of the installations invites viewers to waltz in pairs on an impromptu dance floor framed by lights. Espose led, and Kid 1 took some lovely pictures of us, but I am visibly weeping in all of them.

I've been thinking about the Rubik's cube in 4D. I found an old java version from by Don Hatch and Melinda Green and decided to ask claude to port it to a standalone web app that can run in your browser. You can play it here: theoryandpractice.org/cube4d/ Blog: theoryandpractice.org/2026/07/four...

pretty good month for rainbows

We'll see if it takes, but I seem to have finally won the trust of my neighborhood crows

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

it'll do motel office, jonesborough, tennessee, 1987

immaculate heart of mary except instead of the heart it's midland plate 45

Lady Topham Catt@ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · last yr.

Like any good terra cotta nerd, I always stop for Midland catalog designs. So why not inflict these pics on you, dear reader? Ubiquitous in the 1920s, it's still everywhere in Chicago today, & I love greeting it in its various permutations like an old friend. Seen here in West Town and West Pullman.

“wurlitzer” is the perfect name for a company that made Contraptions

Wisconsin's upcoming governor's race has big implications for trans rights. The state senate today passed a set of anti-trans bills that Governor Evers is likely to veto. But if the Evers, who's retiring, is replaced by a Republican, they're sure to come up again. spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

Wisconsin State Senate debates several gender-related bills

Some Democrats believe the bills are part of an effort to legislate transgender people out of the public eye.

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At the airport and saw a mouse scurry from under a maintenance door onto a jet bridge. Hope he makes his flight

That is quite a sunset…

Still riding the joy from our first ever BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin photo exhibition at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee. Grateful for the community, the love, and everyone who made it possible. Just the beginning! 🐦🖼️🫶🪶

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

"The process by which specific features emerge during denoising remains an open question. To investigate this, we propose a new architecture we call the Feature-Hierarchy Quantized Wasserstein Hybrid Generative Adversarial/ Diffusion Sampler (FHQWHGADS), and probe its behavior in the limit of... "

Moon is out, sweater is on, and baby it is AMTRAK TIME

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 3y ago

I asked ChatGPT to list all nine billion names of God, and it couldn't, cheap knock off.

“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community, and might be a cause for abandonment.” Love a droll researcher.

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

Why I Need the Birds

A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025

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I'm at the KITP in Santa Barbara this month and ran into the great workers of @afscme3299.bsky.social fighting for a fair contract - solidarity!!! If you're a UCSB worker, join the picket line if you can!

people hate AI, but they don't actually understand what it is. for example, you know the most famous AI program? that's actually an example of AI! the more you know

WORT is one of the gems of radio, I haven't heard anywhere else like it. They do it all - feminist news, 30s big band, a midnight "anyone from the community can run a show" block... toss em a few, if you can!!!

Jonathan Mertzig@mertzigzag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The “Big Beautiful Bill” shows its petty ugliness once again… this time locally. isthmus.com/news/news/wo...

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Marshall Steinbaum@econmarshall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

I’ll be done aurora-posting soon. But I wanted to add: Columbus is a big city with vibrant immigrant communities. Word spread that you could see it from the dam, so by this substorm there were ~50 people up there with me. Shouts of joy and awe in so many languages, a memory I’ll forever treasure

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is my last and longest of three aurora threads, for the final substorm I saw from Columbus Ohio USA. It was by far the most brilliant and the strongest (at one point visible *south* of us)! It started ~11:30PM local time and lasted a full half-hour. Just unbelievably stunning! 1/10

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference