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📣 Hear! Hear! 🦋 Behold this Bluetorial on a cool paper written with my PhD student Nathaniel Wesnak 🧪 If you want to dive into the rabbit hole of lipid flop-flop and its description as a stochastic process—here’s your TEASER TRAILER on some flippin’ awesome work: doi.org/10.1063/5.03... 1/26

Need to save this. If he loses, we need to remind him that, indeed, it was the VOTERS’ fault, and not the result of some harebrained election fraud conspiracy bullshit.

People who say the Nazis were left wing… (Live stand up clip)

Brazil rejected its far right dipshit. One down, two to go.

Every once in a while it is healthy to stop the doomscrolling and remind ourselves how many things have become genuinely better in our lifetimes. This is a very wholesome thread that will put you in a better mood.

We have an open position for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Quantum Science in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University (physics.asu.edu). Details & application at apply.interfolio.com/195358

Pittsburgh! On Tues Oct 20 I'm at Carnegie Mellon giving the Carl & Amy Jones Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science. It will be about the Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics. Hope to see you there. www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...

CMU physicist Colin Morningstar is helping lead a DOE-funded effort that uses AI and supercomputing to advance particle physics and deepen our understanding of the universe. 🧪⚛️ www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

As always, things are more complicated. But then also more interesting. And then also more frustrating.

Anyone who has watched the now viral exchange between El-Sayed and “Tommy” will know that this CNN headline is a spectacularly dumb and misleading summary of the main takeaway. El-Sayed eloquently defended the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion against a bad-faith bigot who denied it.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

She lasted about half a Scaramucci. Or rather, Scaramucci lasted about two Zacharias.

I’m not a finance wizard, so I might misunderstand what “pops” means.

New from me: Michael Lewis provides a timely reminder that even the heroic federal employees who tried to block DOGE grifters could only do so much. If DOGE could not be stopped at the time, accountability must be on the agenda for the future. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

People with the ethical awareness of a turnip should not be asked to comment on these issues on national TV.

Why didn’t my enemy interrupt me while I was making a mistake?

Dumbo has been staring at me for two hours straight. 😅

Language barriers and national cultures are important, but they look tiny next to the deep cultural divide that separates LaTeX users from normal humans.

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

Since this administration was unsuccessful cutting the NSF budget, they instead withhold congressionally appropriated funds by simply not making awards. I want to see every one of these criminally destructive gang members held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

New achievement unlocked 😳 This was about to happen this year, but it still feels unreal to actually see it. If even a small fraction of these citations came from people whose work benefitted from our discussion of such super technical details, then I am proud and happy!

Awesome! Congrats, Rumy! This is so very well deserved!!! 🎉🍾🎊🙌

Very excited to share that my department at @uwchemistry.bsky.social will be hiring an Assistant Professor of Chemistry! Come be my colleague at the University of Washington in Seattle! It is a wonderful city filled with wonderful scientists. Details in the link: ap.washington.edu/ahr/academic...

PANTHEON What an absolute masterpiece. Just truly blown away.

Good advice for athletes and life in general: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

I don’t know even… The video is so much worse than the text summary.

A fantastic summary of the inanity of longtermism.

From last year. A good history lesson.

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

I think if Hegseth knew who Leni Riefenstahl was, he’d be sad that she is dead.

📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 HAPPENING IN ONE HOUR!!! 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣 📣

Reminder! THIS IS TOMORROW, September 15, 11am EST. Please join us! Details for how are in the ALT text of the original post's image! Also, due to some logistic-snafu a wrong Zoom link was sent, but you all received the correct one later by email, and will again receive it prior to the webinar!

An appropriate response.

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

Hi, #notability app! I am *that* close to ditching you forever. Your absolutely coercive business approaches are repugnant. I don't *want* to grant you permission to record, but you will not let me proceed. You put "upgrade to PRO" screens into my workspace that I cannot remove! F you.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Das ist alles so unfassbar traurig. Was da alles derzeit in Deutschland schief läuft ist wirklich schwer zu verarbeiten.

#StarTrek Spock vs Kirk

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected...When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…We want to put them in trauma.” -Russell Vought

📣 I am super thrilled to announce that during “Emerging Science Week” the MSAF subgroup of the Biophysical Society will run a webinar with three awesome speakers on “Lipids Feeling the World.” More info, including how you sign up, is contained in the ALT text of the image! Please share widely! 🧪

@jackktierney gets the shot: #AGoodPlace

I know people who dedicated years of their lives to the Roman Space Telescope, whose careers will be unimaginably boosted by the data it will send. Congratulations to all of them on its successful launch, and Godspeed to L2!

I’m sorry I’m 9 years late to this party, but… …is this the modern day “Invictus”? (For you Millennials: the poem, not the film.)