Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 20hI used to do lattice field theory with Wilson Fermions! This is cool! Will be interested to see if someone can actually formulate this on the lattice. #QCD #lattice #QFT 000
Reposted by Timothy RabenLaw360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic... 321155438
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I guess it's a step in the right direction but m still feels like it's just a bunch of results w/o the human understanding part. That's the part mathematicians were seemingly upset about. Impressive results tho! Let's wait and see how many were already in their training data github.com/openai/mathgithub.comGitHub - openai/mathContribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub. 200
Reposted by Timothy RabenScience Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8scim.agHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 432181777
Reposted by Timothy RabenAbdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New collaboration between @sangerinstitute.bsky.social & @amsterdamumc.bsky.social in @natgenet.nature.com! Largest study to date on associations between DNA & intelligence. We reduce ascertainment bias & boost power by imputing missing scores in @ukbiobank.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👇🏽 1196
Reposted by Timothy RabenAdam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121770294
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's bad that our politics is so openly and simply for sale. It's bad that even attempted accountability takes over 5 years and can easily be scuttled. It's bad that SCOTUS has repeatedly been making bribery and corruption easier and legal. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini... 000
Reposted by Timothy RabenShai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Given the recent decline of social media for high quality science discussions, I have recently moved most of my activity into this Slack group, dedicated to population genetics and genetic genealogy. Everyone is welcome to join: join.slack.com/t/geneticgen...join.slack.comJoin Genetic genealogy science on SlackSlack is a new way to communicate with your team. It’s faster, better organized, and more secure than email. 0135
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's clear Kash Patel is distinguishing between doing any specific work on an investigation vs being assigned to an investigation. E.g. I think Patel fired people on the mar-a-lago investigation for *working* on the case not being *assigned* to the case. 100
Reposted by Timothy RabenTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 432073934
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I do wonder how many of these people and their staffs have completely outsourced speechwriting to LLMs? 010
Reposted by Timothy RabenProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 34776174459
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Navier-Stokes drama! #math One of the big Millennium Prize Problems (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...) is claimed to have been solved. But drama has immediately ensueden.wikipedia.orgMillennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia 100
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Does Oldham think attorneys should investigate the judges they are in front of? Dose he think every attorney in front of him should investigate him? Maybe hire a PI to follow him around? 000
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I mean this unironically. The court appears to be on a massive juristocratic bent and I think it's important this changes. Force the court to use some other building. Just start knocking down one first street and force the justices to own their hypocrisy if they want something different. 010
Reposted by Timothy RabenJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Happy GOTV weekend eve! Here's my piece detailing the history of bad votes Seth Moulton has taken and why he shouldn't be our next US senator. jonathancohn.medium.com/ma-elects-fi...jonathancohn.medium.comMA Elects Fighters to the US Senate. So What Does Seth Moulton Fight For?If you know me, you’ll know by now that I am strongly supporting Senator Ed Markey for re-election for Senate in Massachusetts. 310044
Reposted by Timothy RabenHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026NEW: A federal judge in Boston finds the U.S. Postal Service’s release of a final plan for federal ballot mail violated a nationwide ruling that blocks USPS work for President Trump’s order to restrict mail voting for the midterm election www.courtlistener.com/docket/73133...courtlistener.comMemorandum & ORDER – #201 in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump (D. Mass., 1:26-cv-11549) – CourtListener.comJudge Indira Talwani: MEMORANDUM & ORDER entered. For the foregoing reasons, the court finds that Defendants violated the court's Preliminary Injunction but imposes no remedy other than identifying th... 38439
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This story by @markjacob.bsky.social and this other bsky inside-baseball reporter news (bsky.app/profile/eric...) happened on the same day 110
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I agree with a lot in this thread and a lot in the linked threads as well. The only distinction I want to add to this discourse is that I think there is an important difference between what is bad about academia *for academics* and what is bad about academia *for society at large*. 110
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 10/08/2026WaPo has become bad and generally just a low effort attempt at doing center right/libertarian advertising. Does this article talk about how the modern filibuster dates back to the 70s and was largely a reaction to civil rights laws? What about that it's been changed through the 2010s? 111
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The thing that pisses me off about reporters (not Rupar here) is that they frame the question to Cornyn around "democrat[ic] claims". Frame it around reading the docs and some expertise. The "settlement" can only be amended by agreement with all parties. If you must, say "lawyers claim". 000
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026This is one of the big animating factors of my personal politics: try stuff. 010
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Curious if people have any that fit for either genetics or physics? 010
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 23/07/2026@atrupar.com always cleans up the quotes. The text sounds like an interesting exchange, but when i watch the clip Gallego fumbles through it and doesn't really hammer home the point. Makes for bad tv. Still appreciate all the work @atrupar.com does. Watching this much coverage would melt my brain 100
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 15/07/202630 seconds into his time to question Todd Blanche and Dick Durbin is spinning in circles chasing his own tail. I'm just shocked how bad so many democrats are at using their time. These people need *training* about how to use their time. They need to work on this. Practice. It's embarrassing. 232
Reposted by Timothy RabenAbdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026How do nature, nurture, and their interplay drive inequality? 🧬🧠💰 New PhD position in social science genetics at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social and @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. Your supervisors will be: Titus Galama, Aysu Okbay, and me. Apply by 21 July: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph... Please share!workingat.vu.nlVacancy — PhD position in Social Science Genetics – VU Amsterdam & Amsterdam UMCApplications are invited for a PhD position in Social Science Genetics, a joint appointment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC. Eligible candidates may start their studentship between J... 01211
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Justices Kagan and Barrett are in congress testifying. Right now in the house. Congress members are giving fawning overviews and treating the justices with the softest of kid gloves. Because of this almost nothing is actually getting asked or answered in any meaningful way. 100
Reposted by Timothy RabenProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.orgpropublica.orgKen Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo... 1228194698713
Reposted by Timothy RabenAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026You can’t do rushed, sloppy, and inaccurate historical work to change legal rules we all live under and not be treated as a player in the president’s political game. If a historian did that, they’d be called a hack, and not taken seriously thereafter. Why should the bar for law profs be lower? 227444
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Heart's in the right place, but CD-ROMs are hard and brittle. Let's be honest: they brake easy. I want my code stored on something physical that wont shatter if I hit the corner. Something with some give. Something...floppy. 000
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 02/07/2026After not giving a yellow for the cynical shirt pull takedown of pulisic earlier, it's really hard to swallow that red card. 100
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I think there is an argument that there is a version of an op-ed page that is good for society. The current version of major outlets op-ed pages is a sever detriment to society, exhibit #15,436,585 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Supreme Court Remembers Its Principles 010
Reposted by Timothy RabenEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It seems impossible that you're this stupid. You wrote several posts, the thesis of which was why are legal scholars wasting our time writing stuff in support of birthright citizenship. It was decided by one fucking vote, that's why. Had it been 8-1, you'd have repeated yourself. 1262
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I'm thinking a lot today of the claim back on May 3rd by originalist scholar Will Baude that the most unconstitutional thing the second Trump administration has done is the birthright citizenship executive order. Not statutorily, constitutionally. blog.dividedargument.com/p/new-articl...blog.dividedargument.comNew Article: Abuse of Power in the Second Trump AdministrationA short piece on the law firm orders 100
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This should be a major, huge, national news story. 000
Reposted by Timothy RabenSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/06/202620 of the 53 merits decisions from #SCOTUS so far have divided the justices 6-3 or 5-4. In *19* of those 20, the three Democratic appointees have been on the same side—dissenting 12 times; in the majority 7 times. A Court that was less defined by politics would have far *more* cross-party splits. 22905190
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Have been reading a lot today and was proded by listening to today's episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social about Slaughter, Cook, and Watson. Toward the end of the episode, a topic came up: why did Kavanaugh join the dissent in Watson? 1/ 100
Reposted by Timothy RabenJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 29/06/20265/ Why not? Because @janemanners.bsky.social @levmenand.bsky.social Three Permissions contradicts Roberts's assertions in Slaughter. Instead of supporting his Cook result, he'd rather pretend it doesn't exist... As if he can't be blamed for ignoring it anyway. It's a mockery of history. 18816
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Just astonishing he considers agencies created by congress, headed by agents nominated by a president w/advice and consent of the senate, and continually funded by congress, and full of political appointees nominated by the current president is..."a headless fourth branch". That's just government! 100
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026So much of today's conservative court movement seems to trace back to grievance about how they think Nixon was wronged and reconstruction was bad. I know some people try to project good faith onto the right, but this is just the most parsimonious explanation to me. 000
Reposted by Timothy RabenJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026No legislative veto. Hampered oversight. No agencies outside of presidential control. No attempt to meaningfully enforce the power of the purse statutes. This is the Court’s doing. 321445238
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I don't think Slaughter was a case where the dissenters should have "respectfully" dissented. I think it's a bad, bad decision that, coupled with decisions like Trump v USA, will completely upend the US govt. 110
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026But have you stopped to consider that Chadha was bad and wrongly decided? @joshchafetz.bsky.social 0153
Reposted by Timothy RabenLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 722704896
Reposted by Timothy RabenJed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...supremecourt.gov 4310114
Reposted by Timothy RabenAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The whole premise of Slaughter has no basis in the text of the Constitution, early practice, or any kind of original intent. Congress has insulated some officers from at-will presidential removal as it sees fit for more than 200 years. I talked to @narosenblum.bsky.social about it earlier this year:theunpopulist.netThe Founders Never Meant to Give the President Unchecked Removal Powers: A Conversation with Noah RosenblumIt would be a constitutional mistake for the Roberts Court to overturn Humphrey's Executor and embrace an extreme version of the Unitary Executive Theory 9503130
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Taken together w/ Trump v USA: SCOTUS thinks there is one unitary executive who is constitutionally mandated to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed", but no one, including congress, or the courts* can ensure it happens? *except apparently if it affects justice's bank accounts? 111
Timothy Raben @timothyraben.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A reminder: Humphrey's Executor was a 9-0 unanimous decision to curb the power of a left wing president. The apparent through line appears to be Democratic presidents don't get to wield power, but republican presidents do. 000
