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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 1d

"Ping pong ball size hail." ‼️

Alerts from NWS Salt Lake City UT (UNOFFICIAL) @slc.nws-bot.us · 1d

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued October 11 at 4:28PM MDT until October 11 at 4:45PM MDT by NWS Salt Lake City UT 🚨
Additional Details Here.

At 428 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 19 miles north of
Big Water, or 29 miles south of Escalante, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect damage
to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
central Kane County.

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 2d

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 3d

🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, October 10. 🍂 Sign up for an appointment—

POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 6d

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, October 10. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

POWDER Office Hours

Welcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 4d

This is a hell of a Freudian slip from the Republican majority in the Utah House of Representatives.

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful! Are those larches?

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 4d

I know what that is like! I occasionally receive requests that are meant for Eric Eide, the economics professor.

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 4d

A.k.a., new pie computer.

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 5d

📢 Applications for the 2026 CyberPowder Fellows Program are now being accepted! For full consideration, applications are due by Friday, November 21 2025.

Program info and application form: powderwireless.net/cyberpowder2...

Summary in thread. 🧵

CyberPowder Fellows Program - 2025

Website for Powder

powderwireless.net

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 6d

Fun with ordinals.

Screenshot of text: "Utah's US Representatives
* Blake Moore (R), 1st District
* Celeste Maloy (R), 2rd District
* Mike Kennedy (R), 3th District
* Burgess Owens (R), 4nd District"

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 6d

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, October 10. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

POWDER Office Hours

Welcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

calendly.com

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8d

Important context from @genevievelakier.bsky.social:

Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 9d

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

blog.dividedargument.com

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 8d

As they say, "a fine is a price."

(An excellent paper, by the way: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... )

A Fine is a Price | The Journal of Legal Studies: Vol 29, No 1

Abstract The deterrence hypothesis predicts that the introduction of a penalty that leaves everything else unchanged will reduce the occurrence of the behavior subject to the fine. We present the resu...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 9d

"Me too, button, me too."

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 10d

📢 The POWDER team will run a series of POWDER User Training sessions via Zoom in fall 2025 and spring 2026!

The fall training will focus on POWDER platform concepts and workflows.

More details: powderwireless.net/news#news-se...
Signup form: forms.gle/QPCKEE1LuECr...

Powder - News Room

Website for Powder

powderwireless.net

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11d

They went back to the woods and looked on the dark paths.

Frog and Toad in the woods, looking for Toad's lost button.

From "A Lost Button"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 14d

These are lovely pictures! Thank you for sharing them.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 15d

I’m happy to have my cartoons reposted, but it’s always nice when credit is given to the artist so people can find me

There’s a lot more where this came from

Shawn Eli @elistrums.bsky.social · 15d

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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 16d

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 16d

A recent article about changes at NSF under the current administration. The article is a nice summary of what has happened in the last several months. www.science.org/content/arti...

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history

Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

www.science.org

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 17d

🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, September 26. 🍂 Sign up for an appointment—

POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 20d

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, September 26. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

POWDER Office Hours

Welcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

calendly.com

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 18d

Maybe he recently read _The Left Hand of Darkness_.

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 20d

📢 The POWDER team will run a series of POWDER User Training sessions via Zoom in fall 2025 and spring 2026!

The fall training will focus on POWDER platform concepts and workflows.

More details: powderwireless.net/news#news-se...
Signup form: forms.gle/QPCKEE1LuECr...

Powder - News Room

Website for Powder

powderwireless.net

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · 20d

On Bach and semantics: "What does that mean, 'Ah, Bach'?" youtu.be/0zWbpZPsrfc

MASH AH Bach!

YouTube video by rooksms

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POWDER Wireless @powderwireless.net · 20d

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, September 26. 🍂 calendly.com/powderwireless

POWDER Office Hours

Welcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 22d

If this is implemented and stands in the courts, significantly fewer international graduate students will come to American universities because it will be nearly impossible to get a job in the U.S. after graduation. Another major hit to the U.S. higher education system

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23d

Trump is cutting America off from the world by degrees.

The H-1B visa is for high-skilled specialists.

Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb ov...

www.bloomberg.com

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