I recently learned that some mathematicians deny the existence of large numbers.

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Heroes, villains, and childhood trauma in the MCEU and DCU. "This study somewhat refutes the idea that villains are a product of their experiences." At least in fiction. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Peterson, Positivity, and Perspective: Steven Pinker | Unbound Ideas #50

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I choose to interpret this JHU blackboard as aimed at the USA as a whole.

The new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy will go into effect in January 2025. This policy mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review, and removes funding for APCs.
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Arnold with the casual zeugma.

In this episode, @helenagellersen.bsky.social and I learn about Emmanuel and Lamis' journey in science, the obstacles they have overcome and what they hope to achieve (and have already achieved!) with the African Reproducibility Network. I think it's an inspiring story to listen to!

There is a variety of theist that likes nothing more than to notice a temporary puzzlement among scientists, and quickly leap in to declare victory. It’s a good racket, as science will never run out of temporary puzzlements.

Congratulations to this year's APS @apsphysics.bsky.social prize winners! Including my former collaborator Alan Kostelecky (not pictured below), for understanding ways to violate Lorentz invariance and how to experimentally test them.

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"The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is this year’s winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, a $500,000 prize awarded by the Library of Congress recognizing work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes." bit.ly/4fNzmFQ