If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me
This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology
Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide
Pao de queijo - one of the many things I loved about Brazil when we lived there!
Never bring a sword-elephant to a gun-elephant fight.
Getting old you start to experience age as a social obstacle because of prejudices of others. Suspect that for many white men this is their first experience of being taken as other than person in good standing. Could lead to newfound empathy with other groups but mostly triggers resentment and rage.
On 18 March 2026, Adelene Buckland will give a talk to Leeds HPS titled "Artificial Mothers: Technoscientific Utopias in the 1830s and beyond."
Find more information here: hpsleeds.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/v...
Reminder: office hours with James Ladyman THIS FRIDAY at noon EDT! Register at the link www.philsci.org/psa_office_h...
Boosting this for the link to Tony Leggett’s 1977 piece. It contains a very early and little-known discussion of Bell’s Theorem – by, as we know, a future star. #quantum #philsci #philsky
Last week, UC Merced Philosophy hosted @haraldwiltsche.bsky.social for a super interesting talk on the relationship between phenomenology and QBism (Quantum Bayesianism) #philsci #philsky
i say this with love and understanding
A black-and-white historical portrait photograph of Edmée Chandon, the pioneering French astronomer (1885–1944), shown as a young woman. She has short, curly dark hair styled in a bob with soft volume, adorned with a dark headband featuring two prominent vertical barrette-like pins or clips. Her expression is calm and direct, gazing straight at the camera with a subtle, composed demeanor. She wears a dark velvet or satin dress with a high neckline accented by a white lace ruffled collar or jabot, and a small decorative brooch or button at the center. The image has a classic early 20th-century studio style with soft lighting, a plain background, and slight vignetting, evoking elegance and determination.
Astronomer Edmée Chandon died #OTD in 1944.🔭
She was the first professional female astronomer in France, working at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941.
She is one of the 72 pioneering women whose names are to be engraved on the Eiffel Tower.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy #WHM
⚡️ This is what pilots sometimes see above thunderstorms.
They’re called Red Sprites — massive electrical discharges that appear 30–50 miles above storms near the edge of space.
Mulugeta Bekele was awarded the 2012 Sakharov prize from the American Physical Society for keeping physics in Ethiopia alive during the military rule of the 1970s and 1980s. Robert P Crease tells the story of a remarkable physicist. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/mulugeta-b...
And the winner of the BJPS Popper Prize for 2025 is...
www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-...
#philsci #philsky
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
🧵 1/3
One of my favorite stories is a Dutch food story.
I was in Amsterdam for several days after my bar exam en route to a month-long safari in Kenya. Seeing the sites. Doing the thing. Last evening there I walk up to the concierge:
“Where should I go to get some traditional Dutch food?” I ask.
The Ig Nobel awards (for science that makes you laugh and think at the same time) have traditionally been given in the US but this year they are moving because of concerns about safety of winners and journalists from Trumps regime
This is Boulder Opal stone from Australia.
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A type of gemstone that combines a host rock, usually ironstone or sandstone, and a precious opal. As the rock is forming, a silica compound containing water penetrates the rock, and deposits opal in the cracks.
Free story from our Weird Science Fiction Issue, available now! #weird #sciencefiction
open.substack.com/pub/utopiasc...
As we enter the second half of Issue 13's reading period, we would love to see more transhumanist or cyberpunk flash fiction.
We have a fair number of longer dystopian works, and want to round out with our futuristic meat and potatoes
Diabolical Plots logo: a smiling begoggled face on teal background
New fiction for March:
Jefferson Dines Alone by S.L. Harris
www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
Sad news about Tony Leggett, who was a lovely man. I first came across him in a 1977 book The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance. He was the first author I ever discovered who toyed with the idea of a retrocausal approach to EPR-Bell. Full piece here, extract in the image.
drive.google.com/file/d/1zFaR...
As with most things, Pratchett had the explanation for the lack of money in the arts
Ghost Rider, Tower Grove South, St. Louis, Missouri
#iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nightphotography #stl #stlouis #TowerGroveSouth
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere."
- Elie Wiesel
Trump has been going around calling all enemies "a cancer". We are familiar with this biopoliitcal language. Paired with technological acceleration, we also know in what direction this will likely be headed. Regrettably, my book Death Machines remains relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JR8...
We’re remembering the life of a giant in the movement for Palestinian freedom, Walid Khalidi, who passed away at age 100 on Sunday. He was the Honorary President and one of the founders of @palestinestudies.bsky.social
Watchmen issue #1
Discussion of Watchmen is dominated by the thoughts and feelings of male writers, so @shelfdust.bsky.social paid 12 female and non-binary writers to talk about each issue of the serial instead: shelfdust.com/tag/we-watch...
The Sultan of Swing States mulls taking over a dire Strait
If you shuffle a deck of cards and then hide most of the labels on the cards, no-one will know what permutations you made. But in the #quantum world, this intuition fails in surprising ways, hinting at deep links between information, symmetry and computation. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
📹 Recording online!
Sigma Club Seminar by Alexander Niederklapfer from #LSEPhilosophy: 'Localisation of Particles in Quantum Field theory'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQG...
#PhilSci #Philosophy
