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High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) @hpsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ClusterShell is now officially part of HPSF as an established project! ClusterShell is an event-driven Python library for running commands in parallel across Linux clusters & server farms, with tools for node group management & output aggregation. --> hpsf.io/blog/high-pe... @sthiell.bsky.social
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Fossilized 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found by California scientist
Molar from large mammal that once lived in North America is in ‘immaculate condition’ after discovery in Bay Area
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Maxime Haes @maximehaes.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Un exemple donc, sur le fait que ces redevances, ces taxes : elles existent parce que des gens intelligents ont déjà réfléchi à la question, ont déjà répondu à un problème, et que la conclusion était bien qu’on en avait besoin. Et c’est d’ailleurs démontré.
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Universities need to stop half-assing their response to the all-out assault on science (and higher education more broadly) if we are to have a hope of surviving. We should know that a concept of a plan is not going to work. Universities need to coordinate and take bold action or we're cooked.
science.org
University science in the US needs a coherent plan
The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...
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Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We think this is one of the most important stories on the planet right now. That's why we put it on the front page of our newspaper @atlasnewspaper.bsky.social (Illustration is by @codastory.com's Anna Jibladze; and yes, you can win a limited edition print, details inside the paper) 16/
Front page of The Atlas Issue 3. Headline reads: The Company That Wants to Hijack the Sun: Astronomers fear the end of the night sky as we know it. Image shows a giant mirror in space, reflecting an image of the Earth as a tiny dot in space.
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 02/07/2026
"Day 139, orbit 2155 — 🤩 Watching this glowing green ribbon shimmer and dance, it's easy to lose yourself completely in the magic of the moment. Turn the sound on for the full experience 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. #εpsilon 🎥 ESA/NASA
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.theverge.com/science/9576...
theverge.com
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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NPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt
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Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
stanforddaily.com/2026/06/04/r...
stanforddaily.com
From the Community | America’s research engine is not a political machine
Science professors at Stanford criticize the OMB's proposed grant funding changes for advancing a political agenda.
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Stanford Research Computing @stanford-rc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#Stanford Research Computing is hiring an HPC Systems Administrator to steward our physical infrastructure. 2,000+ compute nodes, GPU galore, IB islands, PBs of flash storage. None of it runs without you. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/hpc-sys... #HPC #datacenter #hiring
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HPC Systems Administrator (Hardware & Infrastructure Operations) in Business Affairs: University IT (UIT), Stanford, California, United States
Please note: Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this position. The Sherlock HPC cluster is the flagship of Stanford’s research computing...
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Stanford medical students speak up on the DoJ investigation into admissions: “We want to see Stanford enroll more Black, Latino and Indigenous medical and PA students, not for optics, but because they deserve to be here without having their success dismissed as the product of DEI.”
stanforddaily.com
The DOJ is targeting Stanford Medicine's nonexistent problem
Akeke and Zhang defend against the DOJ's investigation into Stanford Medicine and advocate for the importance of diversity consideration in admissions.
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Stanford Research Computing @stanford-rc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
#Stanford Research Computing is hiring a Storage Architect / Senior Storage Sysadmin. 100PB+ of research data, 5+ billion files, Lustre/MinIO/HSM. The research is Nobel-caliber, the storage should be too. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/storage... #HPC #Lustre #Linux #hiring
careersearch.stanford.edu
Storage Architect / Senior Storage Systems Administrator (Research & HPC Data Platforms) in Business Affairs: University IT (UIT), Stanford, California, United States
Stanford’s Research Computing team is seeking a storage expert to join our Research & HPC Data Platforms group. This is a flexible-level posting;....
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/04/2026
Urge Stanford to reject the DOJ's demands for sensitive personal information about Stanford Medical School students: Please sign & share the petition: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/ca...
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org
Stanford: Protect student privacy — reject DOJ demands for admissions data
The Trump Administration is attempting to coerce Stanford Medical School into releasing sensitive admissions data that could compromise student privacy. While Stanford is not yet under a court order t...
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Stanford Research Computing @stanford-rc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
#Stanford Research Computing is hiring a Principal Storage Architect, to lead our HPC Data Platforms team. 100PB+ of research data, full-flash file systems, Lustre at scale. Come architect storage for Nobel-caliber research! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/princip... #HPC #Lustre #storage #hiring
careersearch.stanford.edu
Principal Storage Architect & Team Lead (Research & HPC Data Platforms) in Business Affairs: University IT (UIT), Stanford, California, United States
We are seeking a world-class technical leader to oversee our primary research storage platforms. These services span the gamut from the 15PB...
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My resignation letter
screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA
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(spoo)key @lefttwix.com · 24/02/2026
“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better
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Stéphane Thiell @sthiell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Just expanded Sherlock’s /scratch to 15 PB of all-flash Lustre at Stanford Research Computing. Built in-house on community Lustre with our own backported patches, OSTs added live. No vendor black box. No appliance magic. Just open source and a couple people who know their way around it! 🧱🔧⚡️
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Scratch that: Sherlock now has 15 PB of flash - Sherlock changelog
We are excited to announce a major expansion of Sherlock's /scratch file system. We are adding 5 PB of full-flash storage, bringing the total capacity from 10 PB to 15 PB. This investment directly add...
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Kenneth Hoste (boegel) @boegel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have a feeling will be watching this a couple of times in the weeks, months, and years to come. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...
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I spoke to AI agent Claude
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Stanford Research Computing @stanford-rc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Tired of watching your API credits disappear mid-session? New Sherlock docs cover running Zed + Ollama entirely on-cluster: full AI coding assistant, free GPU allocation, zero data leaving Stanford. news.sherlock.stanford.edu/publications... #Sherlock #HPC #Stanford
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Free and private AI-assisted coding on Sherlock - Sherlock changelog
We're excited to announce a brand new section section in the Sherlock documentation, covering how to bring AI coding tools into your HPC workflows, for free, and without sending your code and data any...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 05/02/2026
Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?* A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
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FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...
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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
notice to Americans: the French are rapidly innovating in the burger space
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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Euterpe Jones @technomuse.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
If you are (as I am) watching The Princess Bride for REASONS today, please take a look at the quoted thread for a master's look at the masters of swords
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Immigrants Once Avoided Some Regions of America. That’s a Big Reason We’re So Divided.
Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
wonderful post by @kevinbaker.bsky.social “To ask about LLMs and science is to ask what program was already running when they arrived. The program, as it turns out, had been running for decades, and it was not optimized for epistemic depth.”
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
nature.com
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
www.theverge.com/news/807147/...
theverge.com
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com
The case for memes as a new form of comics
Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-d...
blog.pixelmelt.dev
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam." This goes in a direction you did not expect.
theoatmeal.com
A cartoonist's review of AI art
This is a comic about AI art.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.wired.com/story/satell...
wired.com
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
nytimes.com
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For all the AI-bubble-is-about-to-burst talk out there, if you've attended the #HotChips conference this year (that's been around for much longer than said bubble), it's really hard to miss the fact that a whole industry is aligning, and putting all its (vast) resources towards a single goal: AI.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
arstechnica.com/information-...
arstechnica.com
With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
projects.propublica.org
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/10/g...
gov.ca.gov
Governor Newsom’s Address to California: Democracy at a Crossroads | Governor of California
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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
65th #Top500 is out! o The Top 3 #Exascale systems remain unchanged: #1 El Capitan #2 Frontier #3 Aurora o JUPITER Booster (EuroHPC planned #Exascale system currently being commissioned – hence partial system) at FZH in Germany at #4 is the only new system in the #Top10 #HPC #AI #ISC25
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NSF grants down 51%. New grants are being awarded at the slowest pace in 35 years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Cecile Alduy @cecilealduy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In the past four months, the total, at universities across the U.S., is about $11 billion. The cuts affect things like cancer research, diabetes treatments, new wearable technology, farming solutions and studying domestic violence: research across nearly every discipline and subject.
npr.org
What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
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Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Planting the #HPCwire flag firmly in the ground: Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC www.hpcwire.com/2025/05/13/p...
hpcwire.com
Protecting the Bountiful Forest of Science, Technology, and HPC
Anyone who has worked at the leading edge will tell you they did not get there alone. Indeed, the breakthroughs that fit in our pocket or speed us down the […]
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
American science is facing an existential threat.
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