Reposted by Karen DanielsAnders :) 🇧🇻🏳️🌈 @annesh.no · 25/11/2025So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout. 1143388891
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 25/11/2025These are *not* the same logs we inoculated last May: these oyster mushrooms simply volunteered in some of the remaining logs. This harvest (the 2nd one this month) was 4.5 pounds, which will make for a very nice Thanksgiving feast! 040
Reposted by Karen DanielsPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/11/2025The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support. They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast. www.science.org/content/arti...science.org‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI orderNASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive 619868
Reposted by Karen DanielsWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025UPDATE: Summers’ page is now offline. 14586112
Reposted by Karen DanielsDavid Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social · 18/11/2025CBP reported to be coming to Raleigh tomorrow. Here's the Siembra NC hotline. Please share widely. 169
Reposted by Karen DanielsRoland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”science.orgU.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborationsResearchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students 56583299
Reposted by Karen DanielsBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-... 117102845626
Reposted by Karen DanielsAPS DSNP @aps-dsnp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025📸 Image of the month: November 2025! This month we are delighted to feature “𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬” by Maher et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1103/l5hk... 121
Reposted by Karen DanielsNC State Physics and Astronomy @ncstatephysics.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Don’t miss out on the colloquium next Monday from 4-5pm in 2010 Biltmore Hall!! Dr. Vashan Wright, from University of California San Diego and Scripps Institute will discuss “Searching for Evidence of Water in the Martian Crust”. | More info: physics.sciences.ncsu.edu/event/physic... 111
Reposted by Karen DanielsJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025We have progressed from data collection to data analysis. 971344704087
Reposted by Karen DanielsDr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport. 107103283030
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 18/10/2025On the subject of cello-ing ... if you've got kids who'd enjoying hearing Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, @chphilharmonia.bsky.social will be performing it tomorrow at 3pm in Hill Hall @ UNC. Your kids will also have a chance to conduct us playing Strauss's Radetzky March. 020
Reposted by Karen DanielsRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us! 17725132
Reposted by Karen DanielsLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...heraldtimesonline.comPurdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campusThe special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers. 41153376
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Carrboro, NC has a sizeable fraction of its population talking about #NoKings today, high energy that I hope translates to action. 38320
Reposted by Karen DanielsNorth Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Here in Carrboro, NC, and across the world, academic freedom requires #NoKings @aaup.org 216820
Reposted by Karen Danielsdavid jon furbish @davidjonfurbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2025For those who are new to or already use LAMMPS… with reference to a new GUI arxiv.org/abs/2503.14020arxiv.orgA Set of Tutorials for the LAMMPS Simulation PackageThe availability of open-source molecular simulation software packages allows scientists and engineers to focus on running and analyzing simulations without having to write, parallelize, and validate ... 011
Reposted by Karen DanielsCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2025MW correctly reading the room 181312267
Reposted by Karen DanielsDr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025"Trump directives have undermined a 75-year history of independence and threaten the National Science Foundation's vaunted track record for excellence" www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🌊 ⚒️science.orgUnder Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year historyPolitical directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research 19048
Reposted by Karen DanielsSam Foley @samuelfoley.com · 26/09/2025This is a rather unfortunate change that seems to have come as a surprise to just about everyone. FYI for students and PIs who were looking to apply for the NSF GRFP 262
Reposted by Karen Danielsitati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 26/09/2025🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...nsf.govNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 01819
Reposted by Karen DanielsJason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/jasonjwilliamsny.github.ioAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ProgramAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 12225273
Reposted by Karen DanielsAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduPure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard GazetteGeneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement. 442668755
Reposted by Karen DanielsPhysics Magazine @physicsmagazine.aps.org · 24/09/2025When stressed, amorphous materials undergo plastic transformations aided by low-frequency vibrational modes. Now researchers have found the same association in an entirely separate class of materials: active matter.physics.aps.orgActive Matter Breaks like an Amorphous PlasticShearing a dusty plasma with a laser shows how vibrational modes lead to weak points in an amorphous active system. 072
Reposted by Karen DanielsElise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:sciencenews.orgHow a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the starsAt just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium. 221869863
Reposted by Karen DanielsMatt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 18/09/2025In 2024, a team of science writers at AAAS ran a long-term experiment to see if ChatGPT could cut it writing news items about scientific research. Here's what they learned. Worth a look. 🧪 #scicomm www.science.org/content/blog...science.orgCan ChatGPT help science writers? 23718
Reposted by Karen DanielsAlban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Excited to share our new preprint on the discharge of granular materials from a silo. Led by @ramsudhirsharma.bsky.social , we went after a simple question: What is the flow rate through the opening? The answer turns out to be "simple" and quite general. See more here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.14415 [1/4] 183
Reposted by Karen DanielsDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.cbsnews.comTrump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visasThe Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers. 431218399
Reposted by Karen DanielsNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/09/2025NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu. Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices. A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames. 632324947
Reposted by Karen DanielsCasey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...nsf.govNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 6342274
Reposted by Karen DanielsAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/09/2025The constitution is supposed to apply equally to all Americans. The Department of Justice is flirting with removing constitutional protections from anyone with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The top stories in trans news to start your week: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgDepartment of Justice Considers Throwing Out Constitution for Trans Americans — AssignedLeading Off: The Department of Justice toys with the idea of banning trans Americans from owning guns. The NRA comes to an unexpected defense of the trans community. Texas successfully passes a bathro... 8263117
Reposted by Karen DanielsMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/09/2025The US Administration has thus imposed a de-facto ban on most professional and academic interaction with a range of countries around the world. Barring those without a year of planning (or more, at their whim) equates to a ban. 07235
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 08/09/2025@paperhandpuppet.org's 25th anniversary follows NC (and them, specifically) getting hammered by water from Helene and Chantal over the past year. Yet ... water remains "The Gift" (this year's show) we all depend on, represented in puppetry at the Forest Theater. 143
Reposted by Karen DanielsN. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Busy yesterday so I missed that Anthropic had settled. Figures. LLMs have violated thousands of copyrights; they *knew* it would kill them if it went to trial. Anyway, the Authors Guild has some useful info here: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...authorsguild.orgWhat Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors GuildToday, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic... 4308114
Reposted by Karen DanielsRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. 223118759763
Reposted by Karen DanielsKaren Hallion Kenney @karenhallionkenney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out. 531268413
Reposted by Karen DanielsAAUP @aaup.org · 04/09/2025Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 18852
Reposted by Karen DanielsCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2025The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains. 5740981269
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 03/09/2025We have a double-header out this week: two papers examining how the stress-force-fabric relation manifests in both annular shear (PRL doi.org/10.1103/gp8t...) and more varied loading conditions (PRE doi.org/10.1103/rv25...). The anisotropies in the contact forces set the response to loading, (1/3)doi.orgParticle Scale Anisotropy Controls Bulk Properties in Sheared Granular MaterialsThe bulk dynamics of dense granular materials arise through a combination of particle-scale and mesoscale effects. Theoretical and numerical studies have shown that collective effects are created by p... 181
Reposted by Karen DanielsAAUP @aaup.org · 02/09/2025From Durham, NC to Washington, LA, Chicago, Boston, & dozens of cities in between, higher ed workers stood up today for the freedom & independence of higher education, because the future of our democracy depends on it. #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires @ncaaup.bsky.social 07927
Reposted by Karen DanielsNPR @npr.org · 30/08/2025It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.n.prQueen's Classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' finds a new voice in ZuluIt's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu. 18612119
Karen Daniels @karenedaniels.bsky.social · 29/08/2025I'm glad Forbes is covering this important issue. Talented students staying in the US after they complete their degrees have enriched all our lives, but future students won't be about to join a degree program if they won't be able to stay long enough to finish it! www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...forbes.com 020
Reposted by Karen DanielsAPS DSOFT @apsdsoft.bsky.social · 29/08/2025DSOFT invites students and recent graduates to participate in our Students’ Virtual Conference, on November 6th (10 a.m.-4 p.m. ET). The conference aims to discuss the latest advancements in soft matter physics by students. If you wish to present your work, please find details in the post below! 136
Reposted by Karen DanielsAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Welp, I guess I'm back on my tool time rants. So let me tell you about probably the most consequential tool maker of the last two centuries. A person who completely changed how we cut and process lumber. A Shaker woman named Tabitha Babbitt. 411560