Britt Lundgren
@brittlundgren.bsky.social
Quasar gazer | data miner | science / education policy wonk | Associate Prof. of Physics & Astronomy at a public liberal arts college | Illinoisan
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My article on the likely influence of the experiments of polymath Thomas Young on the early abstract art of Hilma af Klint is now published & open access at Leonardo / MIT Press 🎉 direct.mit.edu/leon/article...
Is someone going to tell the lawmakers that they are the ones who declare wars, and that we are not, in fact, at war with Venezuela? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Is someone going to tell the lawmakers that they are the ones who declare wars, and that we are not, in fact, at war with Venezuela? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
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Good Journal reporting on amoral corruption. Gift link:
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Good Journal reporting on amoral corruption. Gift link:
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine: The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
This is extremely messed up. It begs the question what these guys will do in order to stay in power and escape accountability for these murders.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is extremely messed up. It begs the question what these guys will do in order to stay in power and escape accountability for these murders.
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NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Please enjoy the head of hair on this Spanish moth
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Please enjoy the head of hair on this Spanish moth
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
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Are you in London? Go see this, promises to be wonderful.
Come for our free lecture at 5pm this Thursday & hear from Dr Fabio Silva & Prof Clive Ruggles FSA about the 13 towers of Chankillo that form part of a monumental complex built in the Peruvian coastal desert in the 3rdC BC! ✨🔭⭐ Organised w/ @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
www.sal.org.uk/event/ras-le...
Robust Methodologies in Skyscape Archaeology: Case Studies from Malta and Peru - Society of Antiquaries of London
Evening lecture organised jointly with the Royal Astronomical Society. Learn about the thirteen towers of Chankillo which form part of a monumental complex built in the Peruvian coastal desert in the ...
www.sal.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Are you in London? Go see this, promises to be wonderful.
Streamlining scientific discovery, or the private capture of public cyberinfrastructure? Who can say. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Streamlining scientific discovery, or the private capture of public cyberinfrastructure? Who can say. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Current level of Thanksgiving/end-of-semester anxiety: magic erasering the walls
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Current level of Thanksgiving/end-of-semester anxiety: magic erasering the walls
Foreign leaders are giving the POTUS literal gold bars in broad daylight, but OK. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/g...
Pras Michel of the Fugees sentenced to 14 years over illegal campaign donations
The Grammy-winning artist was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling foreign contributions to former President Obama's 2012 campaign.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Foreign leaders are giving the POTUS literal gold bars in broad daylight, but OK. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/g...
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I truly believe that Regional Public Universities provide the best possible answer to questions about what value/ROI higher education provides society, which is why I co-wrote a @thirdwayedu.bsky.social brief about them.
New publication 🚨!
www.thirdway.org/report/regio...
New publication 🚨!
www.thirdway.org/report/regio...
Third Way
www.thirdway.org
March 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I truly believe that Regional Public Universities provide the best possible answer to questions about what value/ROI higher education provides society, which is why I co-wrote a @thirdwayedu.bsky.social brief about them.
New publication 🚨!
www.thirdway.org/report/regio...
New publication 🚨!
www.thirdway.org/report/regio...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
"Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back to 5,200 years ago, making it the third oldest canoe discovered in eastern North America.. The canoes likely were shared among community members and stored at designated points like the Lake Mendota site." apnews.com/article/anci...
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back to 5,200 years ago, making it the third oldest canoe discovered in eastern North America.. The canoes likely were shared among community members and stored at designated points like the Lake Mendota site." apnews.com/article/anci...
Someone please put "same old serpent" on a t-shirt. @reforest-kelley.bsky.social ? teachingamericanhistory.org/document/spe...
Speech at Chicago, Illinois
teachingamericanhistory.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Someone please put "same old serpent" on a t-shirt. @reforest-kelley.bsky.social ? teachingamericanhistory.org/document/spe...
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With ICE in the Triangle, UNC student and faculty groups are joining to demand that our Campus leadership ensure the safety of its students and staff in the face of domestic terrorism! @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social + TransparUNCy +SUNRISE UNC
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
With ICE in the Triangle, UNC student and faculty groups are joining to demand that our Campus leadership ensure the safety of its students and staff in the face of domestic terrorism! @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social + TransparUNCy +SUNRISE UNC
2008 -> 2025. America first, though.
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
2008 -> 2025. America first, though.
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Just found out the awesome team at @climasillinois.bsky.social will be in Asheville in the next couple of days to conduct interviews about Risk Communication during #Helene.
If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group!
#NCwx
If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group!
#NCwx
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just found out the awesome team at @climasillinois.bsky.social will be in Asheville in the next couple of days to conduct interviews about Risk Communication during #Helene.
If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group!
#NCwx
If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group!
#NCwx
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a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Prairie and edge habitats provide valuable nesting resources for bumble bees (Bombus) in the midwestern U.S - Apidologie
Bumble bees use three main habitats to complete their life cycle: foraging habitat, overwintering habitat, and nesting habitat. Overall, the majority of bumble bee research has focused on the foraging...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Publications only had proof they nested in forests
This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My great-grandmother's small potato chip factory is three blocks away and in the background of this shot of the GMT mount, currently under construction in Rockford IL! 🔭🥔https://giantmagellan.org/gallery/telescope-mount/#data-fancybox-7
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My great-grandmother's small potato chip factory is three blocks away and in the background of this shot of the GMT mount, currently under construction in Rockford IL! 🔭🥔https://giantmagellan.org/gallery/telescope-mount/#data-fancybox-7
Featuring Mr. Rogers, a baby squirrel, and @blueridgepublic.bsky.social ! 🙌
Here’s last night’s story about public media, who it serves, what we can do to counteract the Trump administration’s budget cuts to it, and why the answer is “sell Russell Crowe’s jock strap.” You’ll see. youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Featuring Mr. Rogers, a baby squirrel, and @blueridgepublic.bsky.social ! 🙌
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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.