Espelie Furrow
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Espelie Furrow
@poplarfurrow.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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looking forward to reading the 5,000 word Wired profile about me where they "reveal" that i secretly hold cryptocurrency and then spend 20% of it quoting that one bitcoiner who really hates me
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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@adrierising.bsky.social and I are so smart and cool and I just desperately want you guys to listen to these eps
If you haven't checked it out yet, @adrierising.bsky.social and I dropped two episodes for #PagesAndPrejudice about kinktober, swerfs, and so much more!

Ep 48: spotify.link/5hhts0KqsXb
Ep 49: spotify.link/JU7sgZ9qsXb
E48: It's a Communal Fridge
spotify.link
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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John Cusack says message from Chicago to Trump is: ‘Go to hell!’

#NoKings 👑
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The grant to protect the village in Alaska that lost all it's homes this week, with houses literally floating away in the flood, was only $20 million 🫠
bsky.app/profile/napa...
$172 million on private jets for Kristi Noem? Incredible.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is supposed to save lives and protect our coasts, but apparently it’s easier and far more important to fund her personal travel budget. Wasteful doesn’t even begin to cover it.
Trump Administration Buys 2 New Private Jets for Kristi Noem To Use: What To Know
The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.
www.forbes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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We're going 6/10 for today (Tuesday): As long as the sun breaks through by afternoon, we can give this day a slightly above average rating.

We finally break free of the coastal storm later day. That means sunny days ahead but with a lingering breeze.

Full forecast at cwg.live
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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AFN has a story today. This is the first that I heard someone died. So many villages devastated. It will take years to recover because it's so expensive to build in these rural villages.

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?
Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska
Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.
www.adn.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Reminder that you can donate here: bsky.app/profile/napa...
Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Did not balance ultracentrifuge
Threw away the pellet
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It is impossible for me to stress to you, as one of the authors of the widest-cited paper projecting Aedes aegypti-borne virus risk under climate change, the degree to which we do not need to be worrying about yellow fever epidemics in the United States right now compared to other real things
June 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I tried something similar using ChatGPT 4.o.

"I'm trying to put together a portfolio of three to five papers to highlight my breadth and depth as a research scientist. (I'm Carl Bergstrom.)

Could you help me choose papers?"

Here's the result.
June 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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There is a lot of discussion going on right now from Jews about left wing antisemitism. One of my frustrations is that it feels like any time this gets brought up, we get dismissed. There is left wing antisemitism, it is harmful, & it should be a larger discussion.
June 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Serious question, has anyone found a simple way to export tabyls and tibbles from R to Excel?
May 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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A working paper that made a big splash last year for showing that AI improved productivity in a scientific workplace has been withdrawn. "MIT has no confidence... in the veracity of the research contained in the paper." Econ grad student author is no longer with MIT. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
www.bloomberg.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The Closest Social Security Office to You in Minnesota Updated

I've now included offices that are outside of the state but still close, such as Fargo, and I moved Marshall into the correct position. I've also made a python script that sort of automates the making of these. Sort of.
April 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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What Tufecki is doing is not good for the reputation of either the NYT or Princeton fwiw. And it's a solid paper, worth considering seriously. (paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... )
But apparently Zeynep Tufekci is taking it seriously, and thinks that we "juniors" (erm, we are two PIs) were abandoned on the sinking zoonosis ship by "senior authors", who would have refused to join us because they now know it's a lab leak...

Just wild conspiratorial thinking. ▫️11/+
This is a real Catch-22 where you won’t read my paper unless there are “seniors” on it and you’ve decided every “senior” in the relevant field is misleading the public on origins.
April 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The Daredevil
Simpsons 🤝 Born Again Ep 8
April 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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My latest scoop:
DOGE descends on FDIC
The Handbasket was first to report the nefarious team's entry into the agency that protects our bank accounts.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM