Carlos Wu
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SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kings
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October 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.
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Horse nations: Animal began transforming Native American life startlingly early
Sweeping new study based on archaeological evidence, chemical isotope analysis, and ancient DNA “totally changes the game”
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October 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
After the Spanish conquest, horses transformed Native American tribes much earlier than historians thought.
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Learn more on #IndigenousPeoplesDay: https://scim.ag/3KGvYBs
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If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
August 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.
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For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
NSF Award Search: Award # 2347850
Structure theory for measure-preserving systems, additive combinatorics, and correlations of multiplicative functions
www.nsf.gov
July 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
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"Operation Moon Bounce," #OTD in 1954, was the first time a human voice had been sent beyond the ionosphere and then returned to Earth.
It worked like this:
t₀=0.0s 🗣📡---->----🌕 t₁=1.25s
t₂=2.5s 👂📡----<----🌕 t₁=1.25s
That's it. They bounced a signal off the Moon.
It worked like this:
t₀=0.0s 🗣📡---->----🌕 t₁=1.25s
t₂=2.5s 👂📡----<----🌕 t₁=1.25s
That's it. They bounced a signal off the Moon.
The first test of "Operation Moon Bounce" took place #OTD in 1954. Naval Research Laboratory engineer James Trexler spoke into a microphone, bounced the signal off the moon, and received the return signal a few seconds later. 🔭 🧪 📡
Image: Page from Trexler's notebook, APS History
Image: Page from Trexler's notebook, APS History
July 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Operation Moon Bounce," #OTD in 1954, was the first time a human voice had been sent beyond the ionosphere and then returned to Earth.
It worked like this:
t₀=0.0s 🗣📡---->----🌕 t₁=1.25s
t₂=2.5s 👂📡----<----🌕 t₁=1.25s
That's it. They bounced a signal off the Moon.
It worked like this:
t₀=0.0s 🗣📡---->----🌕 t₁=1.25s
t₂=2.5s 👂📡----<----🌕 t₁=1.25s
That's it. They bounced a signal off the Moon.
This is an amazing photograph!
Whoa.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
July 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is an amazing photograph!
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This is a new image from JWST.
The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything else is a galaxy.
The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything else is a galaxy.
June 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is a new image from JWST.
The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything else is a galaxy.
The six-pointed features are stars in the Milky Way.
Everything else is a galaxy.
Everything else is a galaxy.
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The new Vera Rubin #telescope has released the first photon images, and they are breathtaking.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The new Vera Rubin #telescope has released the first photon images, and they are breathtaking.
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Today in
As The World Burns
We're suggesting integrated solutions in order to amplify both the mitigating effects and the dollars spent.
By reallocating subsidies today doing the most harm into the most immediate solutions and using all the mitigation tools in the box.
We can beat this thing
As The World Burns
We're suggesting integrated solutions in order to amplify both the mitigating effects and the dollars spent.
By reallocating subsidies today doing the most harm into the most immediate solutions and using all the mitigation tools in the box.
We can beat this thing
June 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today in
As The World Burns
We're suggesting integrated solutions in order to amplify both the mitigating effects and the dollars spent.
By reallocating subsidies today doing the most harm into the most immediate solutions and using all the mitigation tools in the box.
We can beat this thing
As The World Burns
We're suggesting integrated solutions in order to amplify both the mitigating effects and the dollars spent.
By reallocating subsidies today doing the most harm into the most immediate solutions and using all the mitigation tools in the box.
We can beat this thing
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
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(Longish thread. Apologies)
I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/
I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/
June 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
(Longish thread. Apologies)
I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/
I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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If a couple like Trump and Musk can't make it in this crazy, mixed up world, what hope do the rest of us have.
June 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
If a couple like Trump and Musk can't make it in this crazy, mixed up world, what hope do the rest of us have.
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Very good cognitive abilities on display here, definitely no issues
Trump: The whole stealth thing—I'm sort of wondering. We shape a wing this way, they don’t see it but the other way they see it? I’m not so sure.
May 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Very good cognitive abilities on display here, definitely no issues
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Top US universities were created as the country’s elite-reproduction machines, and then had a world-class research engine grafted on top of that by the federal government. With the ongoing destruction, the likely path forward is that they shrink back into mere elite-reproduction machines.
Again, to dispel many wrong replies...
I have done biomedical research for 39 years. Universities and colleges are amazing places to do research. They are *cost-effective*: we educate and we discover, both at once.
If federal $ goes away, the research part goes away. I am certain of this.
I have done biomedical research for 39 years. Universities and colleges are amazing places to do research. They are *cost-effective*: we educate and we discover, both at once.
If federal $ goes away, the research part goes away. I am certain of this.
May 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Top US universities were created as the country’s elite-reproduction machines, and then had a world-class research engine grafted on top of that by the federal government. With the ongoing destruction, the likely path forward is that they shrink back into mere elite-reproduction machines.
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This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
May 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.
This is an extinction-level event.
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It’s important to note that every dollar the NIH distributes for basic research returns between $2 and $3 in economic activity, on average. It’s one of the best investments we can make as a nation. Only Donald Trump and his idiotic minions don’t understand this.
May 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It’s important to note that every dollar the NIH distributes for basic research returns between $2 and $3 in economic activity, on average. It’s one of the best investments we can make as a nation. Only Donald Trump and his idiotic minions don’t understand this.
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In 2019, with the help of Egyptologist Serena Love and Microbiologist Rich Bowman, I went to Boston’s MFA and Harvard’s Peabody museum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. In this thread, I baked with some of it.
(this is an old thread moved here for safety!)
(this is an old thread moved here for safety!)
April 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
In 2019, with the help of Egyptologist Serena Love and Microbiologist Rich Bowman, I went to Boston’s MFA and Harvard’s Peabody museum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. In this thread, I baked with some of it.
(this is an old thread moved here for safety!)
(this is an old thread moved here for safety!)
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BREAKING: Pete Hegseth plagiarized 8 different passages in senior thesis at Princeton, with many passages of 10-30+ words verbatim, per Daily Princetonian
Princeton has strict policy against plagiarism, often with 1 year suspension
He was untruthful then — and untruthful now
Princeton has strict policy against plagiarism, often with 1 year suspension
He was untruthful then — and untruthful now
May 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth plagiarized 8 different passages in senior thesis at Princeton, with many passages of 10-30+ words verbatim, per Daily Princetonian
Princeton has strict policy against plagiarism, often with 1 year suspension
He was untruthful then — and untruthful now
Princeton has strict policy against plagiarism, often with 1 year suspension
He was untruthful then — and untruthful now
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Looks like Putin is seriously rattled by the collective ultimatum he received today from the West. Calling press conferences in the middle of the night does not exude confidence
May 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Looks like Putin is seriously rattled by the collective ultimatum he received today from the West. Calling press conferences in the middle of the night does not exude confidence
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National Endowment For The Arts Lays Off 30,000 Muses
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May 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
National Endowment For The Arts Lays Off 30,000 Muses
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What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
May 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.
Free speech on campus is clearly declining.