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Plasma physics, mostly via kinetic simulations on supercomputers. I occasionally (but not actually every day) post a "Paper of the Day" #potd that may or may not be related to my work.

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CCC @ccc.de · 6h
It can be different! For our #40C3 from 27-30 December, the Call for Content is open: talks, DJs, exhibits, punk, performances. The Call for Participation ends on 9 October (23:59 UTC) events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/1... #Hamburg
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CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
The word is on the street: the Chaos Computer Club is hosting 40C3 from 27 to 30 December 2026 – Europe’s biggest hacker party, conference and platform for technology, society and civil liberties. We…
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 19h
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Q: There was universal condemnation across Nebraska for your choice to import 300,000 tons of foreign beef. What's your message to ranchers struggling to make a profit? Trump: We brought some in from Argentina and Brazil because we have to get elected
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)...
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026
Doctors have been pleading with the FAA to modernize the mandated contents of emergency medical kits, whose requirements haven’t changed in more than two decades. But the FAA’s new proposal has left many in the medical community and some lawmakers stunned.
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A push to update airplane medical kits takes a surprise turn
Doctors asked for modern tools like EpiPens to be required. But the FAA’s proposal ignores an expert panel and instead aims to give airlines “flexibility.”
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👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let me stipulate that Meta should not be doing this, it’s bigoted & bullshit. But. WHY DID EVERY BUSINESS SWITCH TO HAVING ONLY AN FB/IG ACCT INSTEAD OF A WEBSITE?!? You can use an acct to POINT to a website but SO MANY businesses just abandoned having 1 & Meta can EASILY hold them hostage!!!
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KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 05/10/2026
President Trump doubles down changing New Mexico to 'New America'
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President Trump doubles down changing New Mexico to ‘New America’
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – President Donald Trump is continuing to double down on changing New Mexico to “New America.” In a video released Saturday, the President is endorsing a Republican Ne…
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 01/10/2026
👀👀👀 New image from SKA-Low! This is of a Long-Period Transient (a phenomenon we don't fully understand as yet) and was imaged using 14 stations (3,584 antennas) located in Western Australia Top plot is not dispersed (affected by 'stuff' between stars). That profile 🤩 📸 SKAO 🔭📡 #RadioAstronomy
two tile images stacked vertically. Top image shows pink curves sweeping from top left to bottom right. Bottom image shows vertical curves. This is the pulse of the long period transient which is non-dispersed (top) and dispersed (bottom).
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 30/09/2026
Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 🔭 🧪 ☀️
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is gorgeous!
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with.
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PlasmaNerd @plasmanerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having to move offices was a pain, but the loss of the library at NASA Goddard was demoralizing to many. The Library was a place where we held our knowledge, our past, a place where we congregated to hold meetings and network... It's loss felt like defeat. www.urgentmatter.press/nasa-adminis...
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NASA boss questioned Goddard library review, emails show
Two weeks earlier, a Goddard official learned the GSA needed no manifest for the books NASA was giving up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2026
Yeah, um, I think the words I am looking for here are "JFC" This is what Sydney's skies would look like tonight under these conditions.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨Emergency protest🚨🚨 The Drexel board will be at the constitution center in Old City (525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106) from 5-6. We're asking Drexel to disaffiliate from the Academy of Nat Sci to allow them to negotiate what's best for them w/o Drexel interference. Be there.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 29/09/2026
Manhattan Plaza’s climbing gym, the city’s oldest and cheapest, may soon be closing. With its off-kilter routes, cramped space, and ad-hoc culture, it’s fostered a community that’s mourning the end of something that’s increasingly hard to find.
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New York’s Oldest (and Weirdest) Rock Climbing Gym is Closing
Manhattan Plaza’s climbing gym, the city’s oldest and cheapest, may soon be closing. With its off-kilter routes, cramped space, and ad-hoc culture, it’s fostered a community that’s mourning the end of something that’s increasingly hard to find.
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Curbed @curbed.com · 29/09/2026
Manhattan Plaza’s climbing gym, the city’s oldest and cheapest, may soon be closing. With its off-kilter routes, cramped space, and ad-hoc culture, it’s fostered a community that’s mourning the end of something that’s increasingly hard to find.
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New York’s Oldest (and Weirdest) Rock Climbing Gym is Closing
Manhattan Plaza’s climbing gym, the city’s oldest and cheapest, may soon be closing. With its off-kilter routes, cramped space, and ad-hoc culture, it’s fostered a community that’s mourning the end of something that’s increasingly hard to find.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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@Anth ... . 1d
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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rionchama 🖤💛 @rionchama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The operation aims to ensure that essential work performed by US scientists for the next major U.N. climate assessment, due in 2029, cannot be meddled with or compromised by the administration of President Trump…
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
privatizing air defenses is like peak shadowrun
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Lazarus \o/ @heylazarus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tacos al pastor started as shawarma. Lebanese immigrants brought the vertical spit to Puebla in the early 1900s, where it became tacos árabes: lamb, pita-style bread. By the 1960s Mexico City cooks had swapped in pork, a chile marinade, corn tortillas and a pineapple on top. Same spit, new country.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Had my first email arising from what seems to be an LLM-guided spite-check of my published code. Anyone else experienced this yet? I'm pulling the repo and verifying the possible error, will happily correct if need be but this seems like a great way to DDoS scientists. #metascience #AcademicSky
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Second-screening the Katmai Falls bearcam today reminds me: Q: How do you weigh bears for Fat Bear Week? A:. By using LIDAR — laser-scanning bears to quantify the chonk volumetrically, and then using estimates of ursine density to convert it to approximate mass. www.geoweeknews.com/articles/sup...
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Supporting Fat Bear Week With Laser Scanning | Geo Week News
“Fat Bear Week celebrates fatness. That’s what you want to do before you go into your den.” Each year as summer begins to fade and wildlife
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thinking ahead is strictly prohibited in American business, so candidates who thought to bring water with them at an event they’re expected to speak at length at? They’re right out.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scoop: The White House blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One to Tennessee on Saturday. It was set to serve as the designated TV pooler. The decision calls into question the state of the TV pool which was reinstated Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet's duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. cnn.it/3TpnjIc
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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Which I why I've started work on RobberRobo an AI that rolls into banks, pulls a gun and demands the teller fill its cash-cache and brings it home. If the cops find us I'll tell them "I programmed it to open an account and make a withdrawal but it went rogue!" can't arrest me for that!
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 25/09/2026
🌡️ Germany's summers heat up fast Each 1°C of global warming brings about 2.63°C of local summer warming in Germany, with a range of 1.62 to 3.62. Heatwaves there will climb far faster than the world average. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aea4c9 #ClimateChange #Heatwave #Germany 🧪
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Mean-state warming loads Germany’s extreme summer heat burden
Mean-state warming loads Germany’s extreme summer heat burden, Samakinwa, Eric, Scheiber, Leon, Cohrs, Jan-Christopher, Pfeifer, Susanne, Rechid, Diana
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING MS-NOW reporter still denied access to White House, defying court order.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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NMBurrito @taberwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did you know New Mexico gets hit by hurricanes? Well, now you do. And far more often than you think.
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Palo walo @lilnoodledragon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey hey hey hi the president of Drexel University bought The Academy of Natural Sciences (the oldest natural history museum in the Americas) and is trying to shut it down At the end of the video is a list of things you can do and people you can contact to help stop this!!
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 23/09/2026
‘Beyond Human Limits’ spotlights rock climbing, a high line, wingsuits, more
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Orlando Science Center exhibit will sport extreme action
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi professional astronomer friends - is the CADC website still the best place to find an overview of future conferences/meetings? (www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/meetings/). And if so, is it working for you - I just get blank pages.... 🔭👩‍🔬
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International Astronomy Meetings - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
Enabling the next astronomical discoveries
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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