Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant. Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.

Yale Loses the Capitulation Bowl - The American Prospect

The university’s president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.

prospect.org

Bicycles are joy machines.

Proud of UW-Madison and the Madison area's showing with Genesis (even though my proposal wasn't selected). Happy to say that the Data Science Institute is supporting some of the successful proposals.

UW–Madison Data Science Institute@uwdsi.bsky.social · 2w ago

UW–Madison will receive 5 Phase I Genesis Mission awards from the Department of Energy addressing urgent energy, scientific, and engineering challenges with AI and advanced computing. @uwmadison.bsky.social earned more awards than any other public university in the US. news.wisc.edu/5-projects-a...

The full list of Genesis Proposals. I see @uwmadison.bsky.social mentioned 5 times as well as Realta Fusion, SHINE technologies, and a mention of TypeOne fusion. science.osti.gov/-/media/fund...

Kyle Cranmer@kylecranmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Screenshot of inaugural Genesis mission institutions. I’m looking for the detailed list. Note all the fusion in Wisconsin!

Following the update of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI, openscholarlyinfrastructure.org) to v2.0, @joss-openjournals.bsky.social has updated its commitment to the principles in blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/07/JOSS...

JOSS's 2026 Updated Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure | Journal of Open Source Software Blog

Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>

blog.joss.theoj.org

The Sprints are one of our favorite parts of the conference! 🎉 This is where many of us made our very first contribution to the Scientific Python ecosystem, thanks to the welcoming and friendly maintainers who make it easy to get involved. 🫶 Here's to all the new contributors started this week 💙

💛 That's a wrap on Day 1 of #SciPy2026! Today's tutorials covered Python fundamentals, LLM agents, GPU computing, causal inference, interactive notebooks, scientific web apps, and image analysis. 🚀 Looking forward to another full day of tutorials tomorrow!

Approaching ***300,000*** comments on the proposed OMB regulations on federal grants. TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY, GET YOUR PERSONALIZED (NOT COPIED-AND-PASTED!) COMMENT IN BY NOON EST. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

I've got a suitcase full of coffee, a brain full of computational workflows I'm excited to teach, and a heart full of excitement to see amazing colleagues and friends. Must be time for #SciPy2026!

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

nature.com

⚡ Tutorial Spotlight: Reproducible CUDA doesn't have to be complicated! Matthew Feickert, Ruben Arts & Katrina Riehl will show you how to easily create reproducible scientific and AI/ML environments that leverage GPU acceleration across multiple machines and platforms with Pixi. 🚀

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

Our not-too-secret project allows Pixi to depend on packages built from source. Build graphs, multi-language support and more are handled transparently. Sounds great, doesn't it? Then let us finally introduce it officially! prefix.dev/blog/pixi-b...

prefix.dev – solving software package management

The software package management platform for Python, C++, R, Rust and more

prefix.dev

The 25th annual #SciPy2026 conference is only two weeks away! Join us in Minnesota or virtually for a plethora of scientific Python talks, including the Physics and Astronomy track 👀 see the full schedule at scipy2026.scipy.org/schedule You can sign up here 👉 ti.to/scipy/scipy2026

So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...

📣 Last but not least 🥁🥁 🚀Meet our third keynote: Dr. Joseph H. Kennedy, Staff Scientist at the Alaska Satellite Facility & Geophysical Institute, UAF. He specializes in bridging the gap between scientists and software engineers, building ground-up Cloud and HPC data processing/analysis platforms 🙌

📣 And our second keynote speaker is 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🚀 Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute & Research Director at the Metagovernance Project. MIT & Harvard fellow dedicated to making technology work for humans, not the other way around! Catch her talk at #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

📣 Meet our first keynote 🥁🥁 🚀 Thomas Caswell: Project Lead for Matplotlib & staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab. 15+ years of scientific Python: from a 1-character patch to leading one of its most-used libraries 📊 Don't miss him at #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🎯 Tutorial Spotlight: Think everything is a for-loop? Think again. Jim Pivarski & Iason Krommydas show you how array-oriented thinking unlocks Python performance you didn't know was possible. Time to rethink the basics 🧠 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🍺 Talk Spotlight: Paul is bringing the legendry with "Pun Intended Consequences", a hilarious romp through SciPy history, lightning talks, and the absurd wisdom that shaped our community 😄 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

🛠️ Talk Spotlight: Why does scipy use pixi.toml? Ruben explains how Pixi solves scientific Python's toughest dependency challenges; C++, Rust, CUDA, Fortran, all in one tool 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

Stop scrolling to the reference list. Stop squinting at figures. Curvenote Reader puts citations in context as you read. Figures zoom independently. References live where you need them. The research doesn't change. The experience does. Tell us what you think 👉 reader.openrxivlabs.org

🌲 Talk Spotlight: Jim shows how LiDAR + lightweight ML catches hidden gullies to prevent erosion and forest fires. See Numba tackle massive datasets with unconventional kernels. Real data, real impact. 🛰️ #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

⚛️ Talk Spotlight: Iason takes us inside CERN's petabyte data challenges. How is Python revolutionizing particle physics? 🐍 Discover the Scikit, HEP tools reshaping high, energy physics analysis. #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

@zoekeating.com Thank you very much for releasing the "The Edge of All We Know" soundtrack! :D

Cowan @kylecranmer.bsky.social Gross Vitells 2013 Eur.Phys.J.C article "Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics" inspirehep.net/literature/8... reaches 6,000 citations.

LEP impact study (1982). Fermilab is somewhere in North Manitoba.

I don't enter into these kinds of debates either. Nothing in my scientific training equips me to argue with a conspiracy theory.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.