David W Hogg
@hogg.bsky.social
Astronomer, physicist, statistician, data analyst, open scientist. (Totally not at all the other David Hogg). I live on Lenape land.
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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪
Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.
Hot take: If you are thinking about observation planning, and if you have choices, you should choose the plan that maximizes your long-term future-discounted information gain.
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February 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Hot take: If you are thinking about observation planning, and if you have choices, you should choose the plan that maximizes your long-term future-discounted information gain.
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NSBP / NSHP are my people!!
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NSBP / NSHP are my people!!
I’m so proud to be a jury member for
The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad
(haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)
The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad
(haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m so proud to be a jury member for
The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad
(haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)
The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad
(haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)
Itai Linial @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about stellar problems at supermassive black holes
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Itai Linial @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about stellar problems at supermassive black holes
Excellent piece by @briles34.bsky.social on writing in the discipline. It’s depressing that we think that theoretical physics expertise is not just more important but INFINITELY more important than writing to… *writing* PhD dissertations (on any subfield of astro, say). arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493
Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are tra...
arxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Excellent piece by @briles34.bsky.social on writing in the discipline. It’s depressing that we think that theoretical physics expertise is not just more important but INFINITELY more important than writing to… *writing* PhD dissertations (on any subfield of astro, say). arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493
The main thing that it all makes me—Palestinian genocide, ICE kidnappings, tariffs, H1b visas, infinite detentions without hearings, all make me—is sad. Tired and sad. Love to all, and strength for this journey.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The main thing that it all makes me—Palestinian genocide, ICE kidnappings, tariffs, H1b visas, infinite detentions without hearings, all make me—is sad. Tired and sad. Love to all, and strength for this journey.
Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.
Josh Ruderman @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about freeze out and freeze in of dark matter candidates.
September 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Josh Ruderman @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about freeze out and freeze in of dark matter candidates.
My colleague Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) wrote a nice blog post about political things on campus, academic freedom, and our @aaup.org lawsuit. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...
Academic Freedom on Trial
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My colleague Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) wrote a nice blog post about political things on campus, academic freedom, and our @aaup.org lawsuit. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...
Many universities on lockdown after black faculty were sent extremely racist death threats and threats of racial extermination. Stay safe out there. Black faculty at NYU received extremely frightening emails today.
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Many universities on lockdown after black faculty were sent extremely racist death threats and threats of racial extermination. Stay safe out there. Black faculty at NYU received extremely frightening emails today.
It’s back to school, but not for anyone in Gaza. We all have responsibility for the scholasticide, the killing of students, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It’s back to school, but not for anyone in Gaza. We all have responsibility for the scholasticide, the killing of students, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.
This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.
📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine.
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...
Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...
August 28, 2025. FSJP Roundup #21
FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #21: August 28, 2025 This is the twenty-first issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we wr…
facultyforpalestine.education
August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.
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Gaza Biennale in NYC
Gaza Biennale, featuring works by artists from the war-torn strip, will come to New York City
The roving exhibition—previously staged in London, Berlin, Athens and elsewhere—is a beacon of resilience amid destruction and turmoil
www.theartnewspaper.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Gaza Biennale in NYC
Fascinating piece by @stephenornes.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social on “emergent misalignment” showing that we really don’t know much about what LLMs are doing. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fascinating piece by @stephenornes.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social on “emergent misalignment” showing that we really don’t know much about what LLMs are doing. www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-f...
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It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It’s long been suspected that Rubio and Noem were targeting foreign students based on info supplied by these fanatical, sinister groups. This is the first time the government has acknowledged it in open court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
“AI For Good” isn’t for good.
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
July 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“AI For Good” isn’t for good.
I meant @aaup.org
The NYU AAUP (@aaup; of which I am a member) made the news yesterday with its lawsuit against the Trump administration:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trial to consider Trump’s ‘ideological-deportation policy’ targeting pro-Palestinian students
Case is the first of several legal challenges to White House’s sweeping crackdown on universities to make it to trial
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I meant @aaup.org
The NYU AAUP (@aaup; of which I am a member) made the news yesterday with its lawsuit against the Trump administration:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trial to consider Trump’s ‘ideological-deportation policy’ targeting pro-Palestinian students
Case is the first of several legal challenges to White House’s sweeping crackdown on universities to make it to trial
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The NYU AAUP (@aaup; of which I am a member) made the news yesterday with its lawsuit against the Trump administration:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We (and I mean US physicists) dreamed up these weapons, and soldiers deployed them. Enormous suffering was the outcome. Never again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens h...
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We (and I mean US physicists) dreamed up these weapons, and soldiers deployed them. Enormous suffering was the outcome. Never again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The most heartbreaking thing I’ve maybe ever read. CW: Deaths of workers; exceedingly unsafe workplace. I apologize if this is paywalled (@lrb.co.uk please don’t paywall old things) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helen Sullivan · Diary: Trapped in the Mine
Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries stopped...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The most heartbreaking thing I’ve maybe ever read. CW: Deaths of workers; exceedingly unsafe workplace. I apologize if this is paywalled (@lrb.co.uk please don’t paywall old things) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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easily the funniest papermill invitation I have ever received @hogg.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
easily the funniest papermill invitation I have ever received @hogg.bsky.social
James Beard Foundation!
Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social
Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
James Beard Foundation!
Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social
Prizes to Hamada Shoo and Mosab Abu Toha today. Two of my heroes, uplifting Gaza. And: Food is critical to liberation and justice. So much love. @mosababutoha.bsky.social
