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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last wk.

Next week, 8/5 at 7:00pm EDT, @bgsqd.bsky.social hosts a book launch for Seven Rasmussen's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships! Rasmussen will read, speak, and sign copies of their book, a tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. RSVP: buff.ly/9PTHong

Winning the Fields Medal ought to be the ultimate endorsement of Jacob Tsimerman’s mathematical talent, an announcement of a tall wave of his career that will only keep cresting higher. Instead of riding it, he is leaving mathematics for AI. I asked him why. www.newscientist.com/article/2582...

Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead | New Scientist

Jacob Tsimerman won a Fields medal last month – now he is leaving mathematics to work on AI safety

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what does "sidestep laws" mean

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws reut.rs/3RzNU4A

By filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...

“ @kpc.bsky.social writes with a scientist’s sharpness and observational power about what it means to be a queer, non-binary immigrant and find belonging and build a career between the edges of rigid societal expectations.” — @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social

Immigrant Strong: June 2026 Issue

On World Cup fever, remembering an Iranian writer, and American subjectivity

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This is really, really bad. This is one of the complexes we use to communicate with spacecraft in deep space. The effects of climate change are extending out into the Solar System.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Once more for the folks who joined late: Food safety is a food waste issue,

Stone Cold Jane Austen@abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 2w ago

New contamination just dropped

Trying and failing to think of other reporting that illustrates how blatantly surveillance can be something applied to most of us without recourse but that the elite can choose to opt out of.

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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As an international student who took 6 years to finish a PhD, I can't but find this disastrous www.aip.org/fyi/us-caps-...

US Caps Length of Student Visas, Eliminates ‘Duration of Status’

Students looking to study in the US face new restrictions on how long they can stay.

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Happy Fields Medal day to all who celebrate. My write-up oh the winners for New Scientist and some notes on the ceremony below www.newscientist.com/article/2580...

Fields medal 2026: Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize | New Scientist

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients of the Fields medal

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🧵 Three more scientists - brain scientists - leaving the US due to Trump's assault on science. This time for the UK. Ron Mangun and Tamara Swaab are leaving University of California, Davis for University of Birmingham, and Megan Peters is leaving University of California, Irvine ...

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

What happens after you revolutionize a field? Peter Shor is one of the researchers who had a profound impact on the history of quantum computing, giving it a huge part of its reason to exist. He is a living legend, his algorithm is a foundational text, and he spoke to me for @newscientist.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. abcnews.com/Technology/w...

Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic

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INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

On my personal newsletter this week, I wrote about using clothes to build and affirm who you are but with an eye towards embracing community and rejecting overconsumption ultracold.substack.com/p/maroon-dre...

Maroon Dress Shoes

How do you birth yourself without overconsuming?

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@vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social is so right! @kpc.bsky.social’s ENTANGLED STATES smartly merges science writing with memoir and will appeal to many readers who don’t perfectly fit in any box.

Immigrant Strong: June 2026 Issue

On World Cup fever, remembering an Iranian writer, and American subjectivity

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The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

This will set back American math and science advancement for decades. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

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nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

Hard but lightweight 'bio-metal' material discovered in sea worm jaws - @kpc.bsky.social @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2579...

Hard but lightweight ‘bio-metal’ material discovered in sea worm jaws | New Scientist

Marine bristle worms have jaws made from a mix of proteins and metal ions that may constitute a whole new kind of material, with possible applications in engineering

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Physicist Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber was born #OTD in 1911. In 1942 she discovered that spontaneous fission is associated with the emission of neutrons and in 1948 she identified beta rays as atomic electrons. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Brookhaven National Lab

Want to pick a book for Science Friday’s Book Club? 📚 Our book club members will decide our last read in 2026. Vote for "The Comfort of Crows," "Inside of a Dog," or "Wild New World" for our November/December pick.

"Shortly after the new rule was published in the federal register, the law firm Earthjustice, alongside more than half a dozen other environmental groups, filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Seattle against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries" www.npr.org/2026/07/14/n...

Environmental groups sue government to stop a big change to the Endangered Species Act

By altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing.

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My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

This is such a cool shout-out from @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social for @kpc.bsky.social’s ENTANGLED STATES! 💗💗😍

Immigrant Strong: June 2026 Issue

On World Cup fever, remembering an Iranian writer, and American subjectivity

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The point is that members of Congress have de facto unlimited paid sick leave, even when members of the public are asking why they aren't turning up for work. Its a benefit that he, and other Republicans like Tom Kean, oppose for the rest of us.

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

It's been nearly four weeks since Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was hospitalized. It's not the first time this year that a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with scant details. n.pr/4f8IxAT

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

Cities, states warn of credit impact from proposed federal grant rule

Discretionary termination of grants allowed under the rule would pose a particular risk, issuer advocates said.

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