Got to enjoy a fantastic conversation between @chanda.blacksky.app and @dnlee5.bsky.social in STL @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social!

Oh cool, we're already to AI slop overtaking real images in search results. Second Google Images result for "op amp configurations" is nonsense. (Forgive me, I needed to remember how to do a differential amplifier. Apparently I just tape a resistor to the case or something) #electronics

They’re going to make me wait three days to read @chanda.blacksky.app’s book??? It’s 90 miles away 🥲

We are hiring a tenure-track organic chemist! Truman State is the #1 public regional in the midwest...29 years running. Our Chemistry and Biochem/MolecularBio programs are @acs.org accredited. Apply by 4/7! #chemsky #chemjobs #chemistry #iteachchem 🧪 trumansu.peopleadmin.com/postings/1532

I preordered it now that I have proof you actually wrote it 👀

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

I HAVE HELD THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME IN MY HANDS! ok, not literally, but I did hold my book *The Edge of Space-Time* in my hands for the first time! Preorder from your favorite local brick and mortar! B&N members get 25% off with code PREORDER25. 📚💙 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

i wrote this paper. i hope you like it. #physics #darkmatter #axions #iteachphysics arxiv.org/abs/2603.13451

Ultralight Dark Matter: Undergraduate Physics in Modern Cosmology

Ultralight dark matter is a hypothetical class of particle with a number of interesting theoretical and experimental properties, many of which are best understood by direct analogy with or application...

arxiv.org

It's not too late to apply, but review starts soon! We are pretty cool to work with, tbh #physicsjobs #astrojobs #physics #iteachphysics

Tim Wiser@tdwiser.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're hiring a physicist/astronomer for a sabbatical replacement position. This is a great chance for a newly minted PhD or postdoctoral researcher to build up a teaching portfolio as an instructor at a primarily undergraduate institution! apply.interfolio.com/181520 #physicsjobs #astrojobs

Astronomers are celebrating the end of error bar jokes at their expense

Sharon O'Dea@sharonodea.com · 8mo ago

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

come work with me! #physics #astro #iteachphysics

Tim Wiser@tdwiser.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're hiring a physicist/astronomer for a sabbatical replacement position. This is a great chance for a newly minted PhD or postdoctoral researcher to build up a teaching portfolio as an instructor at a primarily undergraduate institution! apply.interfolio.com/181520 #physicsjobs #astrojobs

We're hiring a physicist/astronomer for a sabbatical replacement position. This is a great chance for a newly minted PhD or postdoctoral researcher to build up a teaching portfolio as an instructor at a primarily undergraduate institution! apply.interfolio.com/181520 #physicsjobs #astrojobs

We are hiring TWO TENURE-TRACK CHEMISTS (organic+inorganic) here at Truman State University (the #1 public regional university in the midwest...29 years running). Our Chemistry and Biochem/MolecularBio programs are @acs.org accredited. #chemsky #chemjobs #chemistry #iteachchem

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

Hey @duetosymmetry.com did you see this? Oh I guess not huh

Bluesky@bsky.app · last yr.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

WHAT A LEDE

Missouri on the verge of taking over St. Louis police, a return to Civil War-era policy • Missouri Independent

Legislation that could reach Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe's desk this week would replace local control of the St. Louis police with a state board.

missouriindependent.com

How can it be bad it has “tech” right in the….oh there’s the rest of the word oops

Sarah Tuttle@niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 2y ago

Technofascism sucks, you guys.

I in fact turned down a job at a top private school to come to the University of New Hampshire. Twice. Because public universities matter, and they especially matter in rural communities where they are major economic engines. $100 million being stolen from Maine is catastrophic. PAY ATTENTION.

HOT TAKE: Magnetic fields aren’t vectors. 🧲🧪🧲

Some timing 👀

The Universe, just as inflation ended:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Honestly baryons got a little kick to em

First trip to Costco in a few years. My spirit of holiday commercialism is totally restored 💸

ope I guess they did

Tim Wiser@tdwiser.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Am orca, have retro hat" is the only kind of news I intend to consume from now on

When my students complain about a homework problem I wrote:

Four women, zero men targeted www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...

cnn.com

Recording and reporting on every single thing someone says in public would, at one time, have been considered stalking and required being a creep…now that it’s technically trivial to do, that must make it okay!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

So the incident with a machine learning company offering up a way to do ML on the AT firehose, along with initial attitudes about moderation, highlights the ways in which the current structuring of #BlueSky and the AT protocol is essentially libertarian and failing in the ways libertarianism does

A reminder to 🔭 and ⚛️ sky, esp #cosmology and #particle #physics folks: I'm hiring a postdoc! In principle the application deadline is on Monday night, but if I know you're planning to apply, we can discuss a late application! Our dept is 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ populated & friendly! jobs.usnh.edu/postings/63459

Melissa Sevigny@melissasevigny.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's my story about the new science center at Lowell Observatory - click 'listen' to hear lots of excited kids! 🧪 www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Physicist in literally any subfield: I will model the cup as a collection of simple harmonic oscillators

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Theoretical physicist: The cup’s contents are an O(1) fraction of the cup

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves

the face of someone unbothered by the cosmological constant problem