Ben Allen

It's so disruptive to sleep rhythms!

Also, young people these days seem to dislike having huge amounts of money. Why don't they understand that having lots of money is great?

“Hawley Renews Claims of Soros Funding U.S. Protests Against Iran Strikes”

If you’re an antiwar right-winger like Tucker Carlson, Jews are the reason the US went to war. If you’re a pro-war right-winger…

Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples Behavioral economics relies heavily on studies of Western, educated people. A recent analysis provides evidence that ignoring racial diversity within the United States has led to flawed generalization...

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

If you like matrices + microbes, have I got the paper for you. Work with @janamassing.bsky.social, @jdyeakel.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We study dynamics of cooperative bacteria without specifying a conventional model: doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Today, we release a letter calling on @massgovernor.bsky.social to support our immigrant communities:

1. Declare sanctuary state
2. Cancel 287g agreement with ICE
3. End voluntary cooperation with ICE
4. Support PROTECT & Dignity Not Deportations Acts

www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/healey-ice-out

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

Congrats!!

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For the MMEE 2026 in Cork www.ucc.ie/en/matsci/ev... note the updated deadline!

Submission of talks and poster presentations: March 30th, 2026.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

deversity?

Both sound like good options

Which university? Tufts?

$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup.

That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

Live updates: Oil tankers and refineries under attack as US and Israel exchange strikes with Iran and war widens Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states and Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded Monday with statements of defiance and warnings o...

Kuwait accidentally shot them down (three of them) apnews.com/live/iran-us...

Which one of you posted this

The color in this photo is incredible

Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

I don't think the right and left are equal dangers to American Jews, but if you want to discuss antisemitism on the American left, Graham Platner is right there: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

But groups like the ADL are far more obsessed with Zohran Mamdani. Hard not to think that's about racism.

Reason #65,356 why we need new Jewish institutions

Given that clonal biofilms of single bacterial species rapidly diversify into niche specialists, how do biofilms of multiple species evolve?
A 🧵 featuring new collaborative pubs:
1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Turns out being on a slope makes you go fast

It's Sunday afternoon, and you know what that means. Form a single file line and please submit your #MathCoffeeSelfie for inspection.

Me sitting in sled (not visible) in the snow

Math sledding selfie (I couldn't get the sled in frame but trust me it's there)

"Being a mathematician is about doing things that make zero sense for the sake of it"

-my kid, attempting to use calculus to solve a problem he already easily solved by geometry

The idea that the people destroying democracy in the US are somehow going to foster democracy for a country of people they actively hate is ludicrous.

Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).

A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

We stand in solidarity with all people caught in the crossfires of Trump and Netanyahu’s reckless attacks on Iran and the ensuing escalation of violence throughout the Middle East.

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A members-only what now??