Steuard Jensen
@steuard.bsky.social
Physics professor, Tolkien scholar, JoCoNaut, and all-around science nerd.
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As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
I wonder if this is a "all the money for addressing historical inequities just got cut" thing? Or maybe a "not enough institutions signed up" thing? Because yeah, it's disappointing: the regional meetings were so easy to get students to attend!
This is disappointing. The APS merged all of the regional Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) into one conference in Colorado for 2026. This will make attendance for undergraduates a lot more expensive in terms of both money and time. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 #WomenInPhysics
Attendees
Find mentors, explore education and career opportunities and network with and learn from fellow students with varied backgrounds and perspectives in physics.
www.aps.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I wonder if this is a "all the money for addressing historical inequities just got cut" thing? Or maybe a "not enough institutions signed up" thing? Because yeah, it's disappointing: the regional meetings were so easy to get students to attend!
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.
Please pass it on!
Please pass it on!
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US.
Please pass it on!
Please pass it on!
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
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Many thanks to autocorrect, which has decreed that the heir to the French throne was not in fact handed over 'aux hommes' – i.e. to the care & education of men rather than women – in 1787
No, he was handed over to 'his homies'
If you find this wild misprint in my book, please blame Microsoft Word
No, he was handed over to 'his homies'
If you find this wild misprint in my book, please blame Microsoft Word
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Many thanks to autocorrect, which has decreed that the heir to the French throne was not in fact handed over 'aux hommes' – i.e. to the care & education of men rather than women – in 1787
No, he was handed over to 'his homies'
If you find this wild misprint in my book, please blame Microsoft Word
No, he was handed over to 'his homies'
If you find this wild misprint in my book, please blame Microsoft Word
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This is hilarious and brilliant, and also the script for a sitcom in which one of these people actually wins practically writes itself.
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is hilarious and brilliant, and also the script for a sitcom in which one of these people actually wins practically writes itself.
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In honor of the upcoming #WomenInPhysics Day, let's create a thread of amazing women physicists. I'll start with one my favorites, Chien-Shiung Wu, who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬 🎢
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In honor of the upcoming #WomenInPhysics Day, let's create a thread of amazing women physicists. I'll start with one my favorites, Chien-Shiung Wu, who is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved. ⚛️ 🧪 👩🔬 🎢
My fears of Skynet have just gone down a notch.
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My fears of Skynet have just gone down a notch.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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That's pee in the corner
That's pee in the spot. right.
Where I plug my fridge in
Trying to clean up for you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've stretched too much
My paper towels won't touch
That's pee in the spot. right.
Where I plug my fridge in
Trying to clean up for you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've stretched too much
My paper towels won't touch
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
That's pee in the corner
That's pee in the spot. right.
Where I plug my fridge in
Trying to clean up for you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've stretched too much
My paper towels won't touch
That's pee in the spot. right.
Where I plug my fridge in
Trying to clean up for you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no, I've stretched too much
My paper towels won't touch
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Your occasional reminder that test audiences for “Good Night, and Good Luck” said the actor playing Senator McCarthy was too over-the-top trying to make him into an obvious villain.
It wasn’t an actor. The film used real archival footage of the real Joseph McCarthy.
It wasn’t an actor. The film used real archival footage of the real Joseph McCarthy.
i'm reminded of that one anecdote where focus groups straight up didn't believe Romney's actual policy positions were real because they were too austere
i think a similar thing is happening for media people who live in denial of what the American right is all about, it's not just Twitter edgelords
i think a similar thing is happening for media people who live in denial of what the American right is all about, it's not just Twitter edgelords
a genuine problem is that a lot of this stuff is just completely alien to the mass media elite
like who else besides weirdos like me take time to analyze what the intellectual righties are saying
like who else besides weirdos like me take time to analyze what the intellectual righties are saying
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Your occasional reminder that test audiences for “Good Night, and Good Luck” said the actor playing Senator McCarthy was too over-the-top trying to make him into an obvious villain.
It wasn’t an actor. The film used real archival footage of the real Joseph McCarthy.
It wasn’t an actor. The film used real archival footage of the real Joseph McCarthy.
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2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
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October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is how.
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
Every Dem, please, this is how.
EVERYONE in the media, please!!
The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
![Screenshot of a New York Times headline and accompanying photo, reading: "Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title". (Andrew doesn't look too happy about this development.)
[Subtitle: The extraordinary move caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e6densrxdlt2oseqserykkpo/bafkreid6f577ejfwtaxe2j4xhaoln5butjamtyypujna66vnriourpb73e@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Andrew formerly known as Prince.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
I'm usually up in arms about CEOs cashing out big when a company struggles while ordinary workers get screwed. I'm still unhappy about the CEO, but I have no sympathy for anyone who chose to work at Chegg (or any other "pay-to-cheat" service). Them getting crushed is a tiny silver lining of AI.
The irony of Chegg calling LLMs parasitic...
(They are both parasites!!!)
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
(They are both parasites!!!)
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
CEO gets $3.2M severance deal as Bay Area tech company lays off 388 workers
Chegg's four recent layoff rounds combine for 1,396 jobs.
www.sfgate.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I'm usually up in arms about CEOs cashing out big when a company struggles while ordinary workers get screwed. I'm still unhappy about the CEO, but I have no sympathy for anyone who chose to work at Chegg (or any other "pay-to-cheat" service). Them getting crushed is a tiny silver lining of AI.