Jake Buzhardt
@jbuzhar.bsky.social
Interested in modelling and control of complex dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, reduced order modelling, and SciML
Postdoc, UW Madison; PhD - Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University;
jbuzhar.github.io
Postdoc, UW Madison; PhD - Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University;
jbuzhar.github.io
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The passing of Daniel Naroditsky hits hard. He was a sweet soul, a wonderful chess teacher, and he’s gone much too soon. www.joeposnanski.com/p/daniel-nar...
Daniel Naroditsky and the Chase of Beauty
Remembering a chess grandmaster who found wonder in every move.
www.joeposnanski.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The passing of Daniel Naroditsky hits hard. He was a sweet soul, a wonderful chess teacher, and he’s gone much too soon. www.joeposnanski.com/p/daniel-nar...
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Job season in academia can take a toll on confidence, identity, and energy. You’re not alone.
Sometimes it helps to zoom out.
Hunter Wapman’s thesis highlights some interesting hiring patterns:
www.hne.golf/static/pdfs/...
Non-US trends may differ, perhaps shaping distinct knowledge bubbles.
Sometimes it helps to zoom out.
Hunter Wapman’s thesis highlights some interesting hiring patterns:
www.hne.golf/static/pdfs/...
Non-US trends may differ, perhaps shaping distinct knowledge bubbles.
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Job season in academia can take a toll on confidence, identity, and energy. You’re not alone.
Sometimes it helps to zoom out.
Hunter Wapman’s thesis highlights some interesting hiring patterns:
www.hne.golf/static/pdfs/...
Non-US trends may differ, perhaps shaping distinct knowledge bubbles.
Sometimes it helps to zoom out.
Hunter Wapman’s thesis highlights some interesting hiring patterns:
www.hne.golf/static/pdfs/...
Non-US trends may differ, perhaps shaping distinct knowledge bubbles.
Excited to share a new preprint with Michael Graham on identifying efficient routes to laminarization in turbulent flows. In this work, consider the question: What is the closest point to a turbulent attractor that laminarizes without a chaotic transient? (1/3)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to share a new preprint with Michael Graham on identifying efficient routes to laminarization in turbulent flows. In this work, consider the question: What is the closest point to a turbulent attractor that laminarizes without a chaotic transient? (1/3)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08519
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The intricate folds of your lungs, gut, and brain are each the result of pattern formation. Tune in to my conversation with L. Mahadevan on "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...
Does Form Really Shape Function? | Quanta Magazine
From brain folds to insect architecture, L. Mahadevan explains how complex biological forms and behaviors emerge through the interplay of physical forces, environment and embodiment.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The intricate folds of your lungs, gut, and brain are each the result of pattern formation. Tune in to my conversation with L. Mahadevan on "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/does-form-re...
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"Supporting science and opposing the unfair targeting of universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism"
My letter (slightly amended), sent today to to my Wisconsin senators and representative. If you feel the same way, I encourage you to contact your representatives
My letter (slightly amended), sent today to to my Wisconsin senators and representative. If you feel the same way, I encourage you to contact your representatives
![May 17, 2025
SUBJECT: Supporting science and opposing the unfair targeting of universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism
Dear Senators Baldwin and Johnson,
I have previously written to you about my deep concern about the potential loss of American leadership in science, engineering, and medicine stepping from several policies pursued by the White House, including large-scale cuts to our agencies that support fundamental scientific and medical research: the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NASA, and the Department of Energy (DOE).
If enacted, the massive cuts to these science agencies will push premier American and global talent out of the United States, and the next set of scientific and medical discoveries will happen elsewhere or will not happen at all. We will miss out on technological progress, our health and national security will be harmed, and our economy will grow far slower than it would if we maintain our leadership in science.
But I also want to write about the extreme harm being caused to American science by individual targeting of individual American universities.
I am a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I run a research group the develops optics/photonics technologies, working at the interface of semiconductor science, quantum science, materials science, and imaging and sensing. My research has been supported by federal government agencies, including the NSF, DOE, DARPA, the Air Force, and the Navy. The alumni of my research group are doing cutting-edge engineering at top American companies like Honeywell, Google, Apple, and Meta, and R&D at government labs and American universities.
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Prior to coming to UW-Madison, I received excellent undergraduate training at Cornell University and graduate training at Harvard University. In recent days, the federal government canceled billions of dollars of grants and contracts for science and medical research that were previously awarded to Harvard, Cornell, and a number of other universities. As far as I can tell, this was done under the guise of fighting antisemitism at these universities.
As a Jewish American whose family moved to the United States in significant part to escape antisemitism in the former Soviet Union, I find our government’s justification for funding cuts to these universities to be preposterous and counterproductive. While I am sure that one can find some amount of antisemitism at every university and in any large organization, major research universities like Harvard, Cornell, and UW-Madison have been some of the biggest drivers of the success and prosperity of Jewish Americans. I am confident that a large majority of Jewish Americans oppose these massive, untargeted cuts to research funding to these universities.
I would like to encourage you to use the power you have as a member of the Senate to support the American science enterprise and to oppose the defunding of major American universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
Sincerely,
Mikhail Kats
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but *writing in my personal capacity* and not on behalf of my employer](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:abkp4sglznvkptyncrltve6t/bafkreiajfhhvyzs7y3sm6ylmgzjguuwqhg3zmrqb546ltdg7djrdf2ocv4@jpeg)
May 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Supporting science and opposing the unfair targeting of universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism"
My letter (slightly amended), sent today to to my Wisconsin senators and representative. If you feel the same way, I encourage you to contact your representatives
My letter (slightly amended), sent today to to my Wisconsin senators and representative. If you feel the same way, I encourage you to contact your representatives
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
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Powerful look at what may soon be lost with the proposed end of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, whose roots extend back to the earliest days of atmospheric modeling 70 years ago. And GFDL is just one of multiple NOAA labs/coop institutes on the chopping block.
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Powerful look at what may soon be lost with the proposed end of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, whose roots extend back to the earliest days of atmospheric modeling 70 years ago. And GFDL is just one of multiple NOAA labs/coop institutes on the chopping block.
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Researchers have developed a new way to tackle a central problem in the study of complex systems: How to model the interactions between individuals when you can observe only collective behavior?
With Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?
A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.
physics.aps.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Researchers have developed a new way to tackle a central problem in the study of complex systems: How to model the interactions between individuals when you can observe only collective behavior?
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
Introducing CyberDiver!
This new untethered robotic device is capable of actively controlling impact forces and splash dynamics during water entry.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20702
Design source files:
github.com/harrislab-br...
Work led by #harrislab PhD student John.
This new untethered robotic device is capable of actively controlling impact forces and splash dynamics during water entry.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20702
Design source files:
github.com/harrislab-br...
Work led by #harrislab PhD student John.
March 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Introducing CyberDiver!
This new untethered robotic device is capable of actively controlling impact forces and splash dynamics during water entry.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20702
Design source files:
github.com/harrislab-br...
Work led by #harrislab PhD student John.
This new untethered robotic device is capable of actively controlling impact forces and splash dynamics during water entry.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20702
Design source files:
github.com/harrislab-br...
Work led by #harrislab PhD student John.
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network?
Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time"
1/14
Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time"
1/14
March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network?
Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time"
1/14
Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time"
1/14
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
Over the past month, the Trump administration has enacted dramatic budget cuts and mass layoffs across federal health and science agencies.
In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond.
Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bf3rfn
In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond.
Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bf3rfn
February 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Over the past month, the Trump administration has enacted dramatic budget cuts and mass layoffs across federal health and science agencies.
In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond.
Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bf3rfn
In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond.
Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/4bf3rfn
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
www.reddit.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Enormously harmful to the future of science. My heart breaks for these students who were excited to learn and experience research firsthand.
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I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
Humor me?
February 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.
Humor me?
Humor me?
Reposted by Jake Buzhardt
Support your local public radio stations. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
F.C.C. Chair Orders Investigation Into NPR and PBS Stations
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, recently expressed concern about NPR and PBS’s sponsorships.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Support your local public radio stations. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky