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'Right now, I could be UFC champion': Bella Mir is the future face of fighting With Dana White as her mentor, the daughter of heavyweight champ Frank grapples for an NCAA title this weekend.

@thehallieg.bsky.social, Bella Mir is the future face of fighting www.espn.com/mma/story/_/...
“when Mir was 4 or 5…loading up duffel bags w/an array of makeshift weights…grab those duffel bags & start sprinting…until she ran out of gas. She caught her breath, then began anew…for about an hour.”

06.03.2026 14:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
middle-aged grimacing Inuk holding a book of poetry titled WITH SNOW POURING SOUTHWARD PAST THE WINDOW. Book cover art is pen and ink by Tulluk. It shows a woman transforming into a crane flying above two distant distinct human beings in the background atop a timber and sod structure.

middle-aged grimacing Inuk holding a book of poetry titled WITH SNOW POURING SOUTHWARD PAST THE WINDOW. Book cover art is pen and ink by Tulluk. It shows a woman transforming into a crane flying above two distant distinct human beings in the background atop a timber and sod structure.

porch pirates nabbed my 1st copies but! here! in time for pub day w/thanks to all at @upittpress.bsky.social
for publishing my book today

🖤🦭🦅🫶🏼🌕

awp Sat 3.7
1pm booth 975 @upittpress.bsky.social

2pm booth 734 @penparentis.bsky.social

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launch 7pm Sun 3.15 @powells.bsky.social

04.03.2026 04:04 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Map of the lake, showing Wild Cat Island, Rio, High Hills etc, from early edition of Swallows and Amazons

Map of the lake, showing Wild Cat Island, Rio, High Hills etc, from early edition of Swallows and Amazons

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus (Happy St David’s Day) to Bluesky friends! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌼

Hope you can find time today to ‘gwnewch y pethau bychain’ (do the little things), as St David said … a perfect day to spend outside in nature, or curl up with your favourite Ransome perhaps?? 📚 ⛵️

01.03.2026 10:01 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Have you ever wondered about the dimensionality of the massive Schwinger model with a two-dimensional, non-periodic electric field? Well, we counted it and proved that it follows the bisection of the Lucas numbers (oeis.org/A005248). This leads to incompatibility with Gauss's law stabilizer QEC.

02.03.2026 18:46 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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’Twas a bright and sunny afternoon in Southern California. Suddenly, looming before us like the putrid hulk of some unknown deep sea creature, beached by the unforgiving tides … Dark AI.

02.03.2026 04:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For my birthday Ms17 signed us up for the Strides Running Club 5K race @ucsandiego.bsky.social this morning. She finished several minutes ahead of me, but it was fun—I even ran into a couple of students from my Fall Quarter class.

02.03.2026 02:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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it seems that, nearly every month, a new journal focusing on quantum information & computing gets started. Here is a screenshot of a paper in a new one. They'll be happy to publish your papers without consideration for formatting & most authors won't care enough to check for these problems either.

28.02.2026 05:17 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
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Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

26.02.2026 19:16 👍 24869 🔁 7667 💬 1462 📌 583

Am not the biggest HRC fan but she’s the most “should have been President“ of all the “should have been”s that ever lived.

27.02.2026 00:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The role of epistemic reasoning in mutual exclusivity inferences When encountering a novel word, adults and children as young as 12 months old often reason that it refers to a novel object rather than one with an ex…

Check out my new paper with @drbarner.bsky.social in JECP! We asked whether mutual exclusivity inferences involve epistemic reasoning about what a speaker knows, and whether children can infer speakers' knowledge of words from linguistic conventionality. (1/7) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

27.02.2026 02:41 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Surabhi Balachander on Instagram: "Joan Naviyuk Kane, with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) I’ve read most of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections, and I think this is my favorite one—... 33 likes, 2 comments - surabhi.reading on February 25, 2026: "Joan Naviyuk Kane, with snow pouring southward past the window (2026) I’ve read most of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections, and I thi...

www.instagram.com/p/DVMa6hKEi1...

26.02.2026 19:02 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Tied at the end of regulation. Ms17’s team about to start overtime in 2nd round CIF tournament game:

21.02.2026 00:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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20.02.2026 04:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really honored to be appearing here and to celebrate the great Colin Camerer @sweiwang.bsky.social @cfcamerer.bsky.social

16.02.2026 00:55 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,

W. H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant


He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

poets.org/poem/epitaph...

19.02.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

19.02.2026 15:14 👍 170 🔁 98 💬 6 📌 11

CONSEQUENCEMAXXING UK constitutional monarchy ACCOUNTABILITYMOGS America’s democratic republic

19.02.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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James Talarico on Colbert! An unedited clip shared for visibility — watch and share if you think it should be seen.

🧠📺 James Talarico on Colbert.

“Allegedly” Trump’s FCC didn’t want this to air on the show. 😬

Here's the full clip on Youtube, we need to bump the numbers on it to bother anyone who wants it censured! ‼️

So… share it everywhere. 🔁

thelibertypear.com/2026/02/17/t...

17.02.2026 13:35 👍 108 🔁 74 💬 2 📌 6
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Charles III's philosophy of harmony The monarch's philosophy of ‘harmony’ is a theistic vision rooted in Renaissance humanism and natural law, seeking to reconcile unity and diversity in an ordered cosmos.

Partridge, Charles III’s philosophy of harmony @engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/char...
"the king’s philosophy is strikingly close to that of Christian humanists of the European Renaissance, who similarly blended ancient wisdom with orthodox faith"

17.02.2026 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Listening to Nauman Ibrahim explaining "The Thickness of Timelike Geodesics in Causal Sets" in the Virtual Causal Set seminar:

17.02.2026 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe it's more than one "it"?

16.02.2026 23:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

spoiler alert: this is one of the papers that will be included in the JEBO issue in honor of @cfcamerer.bsky.social stay tuned for more great papers in the issue.

12.02.2026 14:11 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
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Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now? There is no real middlebrow any more.

@lkonstan.bsky.social, Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now? www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...
"I...would resist blanket dismissals of literary genre writers. ... As for the question of what else 'the literary' might become, I must admit I find it hard to care."

14.02.2026 18:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm an American who studied abroad at Zhejiang University in China. It was unlike anything I experienced back in the US. When I studied abroad in college, I attended the school that just unseated Harvard as one of the best in the world: Zhejiang University in China

Stack, I'm an American who studied abroad at Zhejiang University in China www.businessinsider.com/american-stu...
“a minor error in pronunciation or a stroke askew in a written character, mistakes that my Chinese profs back at Tufts may have overlooked, were marked down harshly by my profs at ZJU”

14.02.2026 01:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Golden wattle blooming in San Diego:

14.02.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From von Neumann’s axioms for quantum mechanics to Feynman’s path integral to the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism in 3 blackboards for my graduate seminar on causal set theory today.

14.02.2026 00:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image reading: Join us at Sips & Stories After Dark and author signing event. Friday, February 13th from 8:00 -10:00 pm. The Hyatt Regency SF on Embarcadero. All ages welcome!

Image reading: Join us at Sips & Stories After Dark and author signing event. Friday, February 13th from 8:00 -10:00 pm. The Hyatt Regency SF on Embarcadero. All ages welcome!

Tomorrow night (Feb 13th) I'll be joining dozens of writers at the San Francisco Writers Conference Sips & Stories After Dark Event. It's free to attend, but you must register. Come say hi! I'd love to see you.

"Come mix and mingle with authors and other book […]

[Original post on sfba.social]

12.02.2026 18:19 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeff Goldblum should make a film about this legendary mathematician Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians to ever live, known for showing up at the door of others in the field and declaring they should host and feed him while they do maths together. H...

very on board with @jjaron.bsky.social's campaign for a biopic of Paul Erdős' life starring Jeff Goldblum www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

10.02.2026 13:42 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics by Frank Verstraete Find out more about Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics by Frank Verstraete

Headlines fade, but the wavefunction flows on! Happy that the book "Why Nobody Understands Quantum" is available in the US as of today.
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/fran...

11.02.2026 01:20 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Back from Patagonia!

08.02.2026 01:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0