White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
10.12.2025 22:00
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
MPS budget
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
As a physics journalist, it is fairly wild to see the names of the PIs with terminated grants: Misha Lukin, Philip Kim, Lisa Randall, Subir Sachdev, John Doyle...
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To the extent that Trump / Vance have a strategic vision for the US-UK relationship, it is not to strengthen the UK. The vision is to weaken Europe by severing UK from the continent. Trump-Vance true "special relationship" is with Russia. Russia desperately fears UK-EU unity 2/x
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
Happy to stand, partially, corrected. After Harvard's initial response seemed to imply that they bend the knee just as Columbia has done, they now make it clear that they will not accept interference with their core responsibilities. Hopefully other universities will follow this example.
The hope that universities nowadays are more than financial institutions with an attached educational/research department and that there might even be university leaders with some spine is, unfortunately, just not very realistic: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
2025 Trump inauguration ceremony vs
2025 Breakthrough Prize ceremony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=on5L...
According to quantum mechanics, it is perfectly fine to put scientists on the pedestal and simultaneously also throw them under the bus.
BREAKING: First direct experimental observation of closed timelike curves! The team behind this effort is guaranteed to get both the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics as well as Economy.
data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-i...
"Die Europäer müssen verstehen: Das ist das Ende der Affäre. Amerika geht unter. Lasst euch nicht von uns mit in den Abgrund ziehen. Ihr müsst euch mobilisieren. Das Schicksal der Welt – ganz buchstäblich – hängt davon ab."
U of W talk of possible financial crisis alarms faculty
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
The University of Winnipeg is looking at a serious financial situation. Here is a news story about it. With an inflation increase of 2.7%, a 2% increase in prov funding is effectively a cut. Strike 1. But this is only part of the story. 🧵 (1/7) #mbpoli news.uwinnipeg.ca/budget-updat...
Perhaps it is hard to get these numbers but there seemed to be more researchers than in the past who submitted an abstract but ultimately decided not to attend. Of course, I only looked at a few sessions so my impressions might be wrong based on small sample size but APS surely knows.
Anything known already about the attendance numbers at the recent APS meeting? Apart from the issues mentioned in the article I would imagine that scientists from countries constantly attacked by the current administration are souring on traveling to the US anyways.
An absolutely crazy story. One would hope that people put into these roles are capable to learn at least the very basics about how to perform their jobs. What an embarrassment.
So true… in today’s @newyorker.com #academicsky #chemsky
A parody Nobel Prize announcement with an AI-generated portrait of Satya Nadella and a citation reading “For the potential future experiments Microsoft might conduct with devices they have not built yet, but might be able to build in the near future.”
BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, the Nobel Prize committee has preemptively awarded the 2025 Physics prize to Microsoft! Read the full citation below. 👇
An important, excellent speech. One can only hope that Europe finally comes to its senses.
Students at the University of Manitoba will be going to classes next week after a potential strike by academic staff was averted early Saturday morning.
Microsoft's extraordinary claim last month—to have created a bonafide topological qubit—was met with caution by many experts. Now, a physicist is raising specific and substantive concerns about a key test that underlies Microsoft's approach. My reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
FAZ 05.03.2025
Yes. That’s what I meant. You don’t see what you expect from basic Majorana theory simply by looking at the data. It seems to me that the TGP is put on top just to distract from what is obvious. Smoke and mirrors …
Ok. Once and for all. Trump is anti Ukraine, anti Democracy, anti Europe and, above all, pro Putin. There can be no more doubt—it’s just a disaster it’s taken so long for people to understand it.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Finland’s then-president Niinistö said that the masks had fallen.
If anyone was still clinging onto some kind of hope of Trump coming around on Ukraine, this disgrace of a press conference should make everything clear now.
Trump is anti-Ukraine. Pro-Russia.
the detailed analysis - which I appreciate - this looked like coincidences from the start, not like Majorana physics. The apparent inconsistencies in applying the TGP make it even worse but in my view there was never a strong case, even assuming that the analysis was done diligently, to begin with.
Thanks for hosting the zoom meeting today. What I meant is not a qualitative agreement between theory and experiment. Rather, as you also mentioned today, the experimental data are dominated by impurity physics and the 'top. regions' are just random pixels. There is no structure. So even without ...
Good to see a detailed analysis but who really believed in stable topological regions after seeing these figures which looked nothing like one would expect theoretically?
The chaos and confusion of the Trump administration's science policy is taking its toll on early career researchers. Some prospective PhD students I spoke with have had informal offers rescinded as universities reduce or outright halt their programs.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
