@bryanjfield
Program Manager for the Cosmic Frontier in DOE Office of Science. Theoretical physicist. Former professor. Sometime poet. Minor playwright. Major pain at times. LLM != AGI. All posts are my own. https://bio.site/bryanjfield
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Me too! This'll be the first time I actually have to go. Too many highly educated people around here to use the PhD-get-out-of-jail-free card.
“If deep reading cultivates empathy,” Joel Halldorf writes, “the attention-fracturing, dopamine-hitting, scroll-spurring design of digital media often undermines it”:
(Adjusted to be funny...)
You may have just discovered a new kind of reaction video…
PI = Primarily Ice-shoveling...
Goodbye, Superman…
WELL-PAID OPPORTUNITY FOR A PHYSICS EDITOR!
Physics Today is hiring -- apply apply apply! 🧪⚛️🔭
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People often overlook Arvix...
This is Aki. He just realized how to unify Einstein's general relativity theory with quantum mechanics to solve the black hole information paradox, but then remembered he's supposed to be a dog. 13/10 (TT: katelyvxxn)
Damn
My first editorial in @science.org was published today: what to do (and, importantly, what NOT to do) when your grants are suddenly cut or research funding is uncertain. Please read and share!
#AcademicSky #Science #Astronomy
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I never cheer when anyone dies, but … www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Poor guy. He’ll never be able to sit and relax by the pool…
You've just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"The Ferengi Laundry"
Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved --The Register, 31 Jul 2025
2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
Someone is making Phoenix walk the plank...
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Oh, no.
Mistletoe Held Above Meatball Sub
Mistletoe Held Above Meatball Sub
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
“Ayuh” *clicks OK*
Cartoon of a person stumbling out of a time machine and saying to another person: "I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”
ha yeah
