Alexandre Adler
@bachpropagate.bsky.social
Postdoc at UC Berkeley and LBNL working on @simonsobservatory.org . I might work on the Cosmic Microwave Background, but my puns are never reheated.
The Department of Energy is tasked with a "Manhattan project-like" effort on AI and quantum computing. The Manhattan Project consumed about 1% of US GDP from 1942 to 1945. By that metric the new investment should be about $300B a year.
In 2024, the US government spent $3B on AI research. 🧪
In 2024, the US government spent $3B on AI research. 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The Department of Energy is tasked with a "Manhattan project-like" effort on AI and quantum computing. The Manhattan Project consumed about 1% of US GDP from 1942 to 1945. By that metric the new investment should be about $300B a year.
In 2024, the US government spent $3B on AI research. 🧪
In 2024, the US government spent $3B on AI research. 🧪
"Economy and inflation policies" "Tariff and trade policies"
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Quite like this question about the issues people say they're looking at when evaluating Trump's presidency
www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ve...
www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ve...
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Economy and inflation policies" "Tariff and trade policies"
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I guess we should all apologize to Graham Plattner then (no).
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I guess we should all apologize to Graham Plattner then (no).
Saruman cooked his brain scrying into Twitter 12 hours a day.
Salesforce tower = Barad-dûr, it works perfectly
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Saruman cooked his brain scrying into Twitter 12 hours a day.
To be clear, SF is the evil part.
"Oakland calls!"
"And Berkeley/Fremont/Hayward will answer!"
"Oakland calls!"
"And Berkeley/Fremont/Hayward will answer!"
sf/oakland
manhattan/jersey city
queens/great neck
brooklyn/staten island
staten island/bayonne
east bronx/west bronx (split by bronx river)
queens/great neck
brooklyn/staten island
staten island/bayonne
east bronx/west bronx (split by bronx river)
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
To be clear, SF is the evil part.
"Oakland calls!"
"And Berkeley/Fremont/Hayward will answer!"
"Oakland calls!"
"And Berkeley/Fremont/Hayward will answer!"
"As leaders, we lost our mission a bit about what higher education was about" says person charging students $70000 a year to get an education at a school with only a handful of PhD programs.
No, we didn't "lose our mission" & we didn't focus too much on identity diversity at the expense of viewpoint diversity, & no one knows the right amount of that (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & no amount of granting the premises warrants the lawless authoritarian assault on American universities.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"As leaders, we lost our mission a bit about what higher education was about" says person charging students $70000 a year to get an education at a school with only a handful of PhD programs.
I would like to thank MNRAS, @theguardian.com and the authors in Korea for creating and spreading this dishonest dogshit so fast it made it to the audience questions of an outreach event I was at tonight. Top science communication by all involved.
"The paper is likely to be greeted with heavy scepticism, but with the influential DESI consortium independently reaching a similar conclusion earlier this year, a fierce debate is opening up in cosmology over the nature of dark energy and the probable fate of the universe."
#Cosmology 🧪
#Cosmology 🧪
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I would like to thank MNRAS, @theguardian.com and the authors in Korea for creating and spreading this dishonest dogshit so fast it made it to the audience questions of an outreach event I was at tonight. Top science communication by all involved.
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
The turkeys vote for Christmas because they’re worried about gobble warming.
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The turkeys vote for Christmas because they’re worried about gobble warming.
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The hardest part of teaching science these days is you get to tell young people about all the cool shit we could be exploring, but in the back of your mind you know we're not going to because the next experiment would cost $100M and we need to spend $50B to build a plagiarism machine to do scams.
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The hardest part of teaching science these days is you get to tell young people about all the cool shit we could be exploring, but in the back of your mind you know we're not going to because the next experiment would cost $100M and we need to spend $50B to build a plagiarism machine to do scams.
Broke: Pizzagate
Woke: Lizzagate
Bespoke: The current President of the United States was on friendly terms with a pedophile who preyed on minors at his hotel, and didn’t report him to any authorities.
Woke: Lizzagate
Bespoke: The current President of the United States was on friendly terms with a pedophile who preyed on minors at his hotel, and didn’t report him to any authorities.
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Broke: Pizzagate
Woke: Lizzagate
Bespoke: The current President of the United States was on friendly terms with a pedophile who preyed on minors at his hotel, and didn’t report him to any authorities.
Woke: Lizzagate
Bespoke: The current President of the United States was on friendly terms with a pedophile who preyed on minors at his hotel, and didn’t report him to any authorities.
René Girard was a mistake.
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
René Girard was a mistake.
When there is a leak on a spaceship, Roscosmos gets to blame sabotage, CNSA space debris, and NASA Boeing.
Also the quotes and replies seem to indicate not many people understood the chronology from the whole article.
Also the quotes and replies seem to indicate not many people understood the chronology from the whole article.
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
When there is a leak on a spaceship, Roscosmos gets to blame sabotage, CNSA space debris, and NASA Boeing.
Also the quotes and replies seem to indicate not many people understood the chronology from the whole article.
Also the quotes and replies seem to indicate not many people understood the chronology from the whole article.
Ah shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Homayoun Ershadi, 78, Dies; ‘Kite Runner’ and ‘Taste of Cherry’ Star
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Ah shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Why can we make raw milk cheese in France with short maturing without poisoning ourselves with E. coli and salmonella en masse but the Americans are unwilling to do so? Is it just a different appetite for risk and cheese?
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Why can we make raw milk cheese in France with short maturing without poisoning ourselves with E. coli and salmonella en masse but the Americans are unwilling to do so? Is it just a different appetite for risk and cheese?
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A reminder that "Alien observations" is an anagram of "Avi Loeb's insane rot"
Avi Loeb's calculations about 3I/ATLAS are 100% wrong because he has never understood that dust in the tail(s) responds to solar radiation pressure. Solar wind shapes the ion tail. But the radiation pressure is about 1000 times larger than the solar wind ram pressure, for particles that feel it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A reminder that "Alien observations" is an anagram of "Avi Loeb's insane rot"
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Apropos of nothing in particular, two cosmology questions for my followers:
- in the first figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with the pink ones?
- in the second figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with (w0,wa)=(-1,0)?
🔭🧪☄️
- in the first figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with the pink ones?
- in the second figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with (w0,wa)=(-1,0)?
🔭🧪☄️
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, two cosmology questions for my followers:
- in the first figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with the pink ones?
- in the second figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with (w0,wa)=(-1,0)?
🔭🧪☄️
- in the first figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with the pink ones?
- in the second figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with (w0,wa)=(-1,0)?
🔭🧪☄️
I have a feeling we can wait a long time for reactions from any of the 39 idiots who co-authored a book with Krauss last year about how science was under attack www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wa...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I have a feeling we can wait a long time for reactions from any of the 39 idiots who co-authored a book with Krauss last year about how science was under attack www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wa...
It’s glonzover/We’re so Tom Barrack dichotomy
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s glonzover/We’re so Tom Barrack dichotomy
Today’s forecast: clouds
Tonight’s forecast: rain
Aaaaargh
Tonight’s forecast: rain
Aaaaargh
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today’s forecast: clouds
Tonight’s forecast: rain
Aaaaargh
Tonight’s forecast: rain
Aaaaargh
Of course tonight is cloudy in the Bay…
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Of course tonight is cloudy in the Bay…
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If you live anywhere in the North half of the US I don't think you'll even need to go outside smaller cities to see them. My partner can set them from inside Cedar Rapids! #aurora #northernlights
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you live anywhere in the North half of the US I don't think you'll even need to go outside smaller cities to see them. My partner can set them from inside Cedar Rapids! #aurora #northernlights
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If you’re in North America and have a view to the north or northwest, there’s heavy auroral activity going right now!
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If you’re in North America and have a view to the north or northwest, there’s heavy auroral activity going right now!
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I talk about The Random Universe (the book, and the Universe itself) on [Sean Carroll's Mindscape. We cover epistemology, probability, quantum mechanics, cosmology and more. Sean and I were cosmology grad students at the same time, and it was a pleasure and an honour to spend time with him online.
335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe – Sean Carroll
www.preposterousuniverse.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I talk about The Random Universe (the book, and the Universe itself) on [Sean Carroll's Mindscape. We cover epistemology, probability, quantum mechanics, cosmology and more. Sean and I were cosmology grad students at the same time, and it was a pleasure and an honour to spend time with him online.