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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 15h

New: A heat pump that can be installed in minutes is allowing Boston to quickly decarbonize a public housing complex for the elderly and provide air conditioning as climate change-driven heat waves intensify. The window heat pump is made by SF startup Gradient.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Public Housing Upgrades Units With Window Heat Pumps

A pilot project aims to cut heating costs and provide air conditioning while reducing emissions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Anna Nagurney @annanagurney.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations to the 2025 MacArthur Fellows www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 12h

There's also Kanopy and Hoopla! Libraries rule!

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 12h

You know what's a great, free way to watch movies and listen to audiobooks in our declining empire? Your local public library (if still open)! I quit Audible when I quit Amazon, and I listen to more books now, through Libby, than I did before. Libraries have DVDs, too! Maybe even DVD players!

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 6d

One of Jane Goodall's last interviews here www.ft.com/content/9600...

‘You must not give up’: the last testament of Jane Goodall

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. She gave the Financial Times one of her final interviews

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Chris Gorski @scigorski.bsky.social · 20h

From a 2019 interview with Kitagawa -- "it was common sense that organic materials could not make a stable porous structure. People thought we were doing “useless” research because they did not realize the potential of the seemingly trivial space inside the pores." pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Interview with Professor Susumu Kitagawa

CONTENT TYPES

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington

The Department of Astronomy has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. General Information for applying to UW Astronomy Graduate Program. Applications must be submitted using ...

astro.washington.edu

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Dr. Gita Gnanadesikan ❌👑 @ggnanadesikan.bsky.social · 1d

I know a lot of wonderful people at Emory who are continuing Jane Goodall's legacy of studying chimpanzees at Gombe.

Here's a little bit about their stories and their ongoing work:

news.emory.edu/features/202...

Emory scientists work to continue Jane Goodall’s legacy

Emory University scholars forged close bonds with the legendary naturalist and humanitarian Jane Goodall over many years, supporting her work to put hope into action in Tanzania and globally.

news.emory.edu

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 1d

Today's reading begins with Lise Meitner, who co-discovered nuclear fission (she wrote the paper!) and was in general an INCREDIBLE trailblazing scientist.

Except, as a Jew, she had to flee Nazi Germany to Sweden and lost her professorship in Berlin. The men she worked with got the prize instead 🧪🔭

Lise Meitner - Wikipedia

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for being so kind. You always are, and we value that.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

Kvetch: Why does Bluesky give me no science (it did not even bring up last night's Nobel Prize in Medicine?). The Twitter, before turning into a cesspool, did that.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Peskin might have been in the audience. Maybe. He got it. I never wrote it down, so curls still remain a problem set.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

I promised to do it without a single formula. Might have been a lecture on Green's theorem for flux. I explained the birdtracks technology, and the rest of the lecture was only birdtracks, no letters. It was beautiful. Kiddies might be still digesting it.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

The longer version goes like this:

In Spring 1985 I was a visiting professor in Cornell physics department. One time my friend Mitchell Feigenbaum asked me to teach his insanely popular graduate (no Jackson) E&M course that filled one of the large lecture halls. It was formula after formula.

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that has to do with my prejudices: 3d is just a special case, and I would never call 3-index Levi-Civita a "curl". But indeed, it's a homework - if you write it up, I'll add it to birdtrakcs.eu .

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 2d

An aside: l only respond to science posts, but Nobel Prize for Medicine has not showed up in my feed yet? Algorithm, hello?

Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 2d

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to some neat fundamental research on the immune system: peripheral immune tolerance. It's what keeps the body's defense mechanism in check—and could be key to new therapies for autoimmune disorders. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 2d

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Lauren J. Young @laurenjyoung.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to some neat fundamental research on the immune system: peripheral immune tolerance. It's what keeps the body's defense mechanism in check—and could be key to new therapies for autoimmune disorders. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d

Sound familiar? Trump and Mussolini are two peas in a pod. "Only twelve out of some 1200 university professors refused to swear [their allegiance to Mussolini] in 1931." Who will bow down to fascism a century later? blognostrumuva.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/t...

The Italian university professors’ oath of allegiance to fascism (1931)

«I swear fidelity to the King, to his Royal successors and to the Fascist regime, and I swear to respect the [National Fascist Party’s] Statute and the other laws of the State, and to fulfil …

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 8d

Remember that as a professor you can be a member of @aaup.org

Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social · 8d

Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Judge rules Trump policy to deport students over pro-Palestinian views is unconstitutional

Judge ruled that non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment

www.theguardian.com

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Predrag Cvitanović @chaosbook.bsky.social · 4d

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools Trump just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America...

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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 5d

Thanks to the Oxford comma for clarifying that Peter Higgs and Fabiola Gianotti are not my parents.
From the CERN style guide translation-council-support-group.web.cern.ch/style-guides

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d

Did you know that UC leadership has *refused to share* the demand letter it received from the Trump administration? We deserve to know what's in it. On Sept. 30, UCLA's Legislative Assembly, which represents senate faculty across campus, voted UNANIMOUSLY to call on admin to show us the letter.

September 30, 2025, Special Legislative Assembly Meeting –
Notification of Actions
1. Resolution to Request the Department of Justice Letter
Legislative Assembly members voted via the Academic Senate Data Management System on the Resolution to Request the Department of Justice Letter. The Legislative Assembly received a total of 116 votes cast: 116 Approve, 0 Oppose. This Resolution required a majority of votes cast by present members to be approved. [AIPSC (2nd ed.) 5.1]. All eligible votes cast (100%) were to Approve this Resolution.

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Physics Magazine @physicsmagazine.bsky.social · 5d

Within every cell is a molecular motor, adenosine triphosphate synthase, which churns out energy-rich molecules for fueling the cell’s activity. By artificially cranking the motor, researchers have discovered that maintaining a fixed rotation rate minimizes energy loss.

How a Molecular Motor Minimizes Energy Waste

Turning a biologically important molecular motor at a constant rate saves energy, according to experiments.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 5d

Inkscape for scientists 3 is up! In this video, learn how to set up your workspace, and how do you find that damn fill/stroke panel? 🧪
youtu.be/PFcnjuMhUHI

Inkscape for scientists 3 - Setting up your workspace

YouTube video by Kevin Bonham

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 6d

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000!

To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits.

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