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Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him 🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/ @duetosymmetry everywhere

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This was the ultimate geopolitical goal of Vladimir Putin: to break off the United States from Europe. Trump is doing Putin's work for him at the expense of the United States.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Dear Manager: 1. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 2. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. 3. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. 4. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. 5. Time to die.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

Wake up babe, new preprint just dropped Length dependence of waveform mismatch: a caveat on waveform accuracy Mitman, Stein, et al. arxiv.org/abs/2502.14025 ⚛️🧪🔭

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, the coveted whitespace-only bugfix

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 5 days ago • 153 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 583 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 9 days ago • 710 comments

“Why are corporations pushing so hard for AI in everything?” gizmodo.com/microsoft-st...

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

The armed individual who blocked senators from entering federal property bears the insignia of "Triple Canopy", which merged with Blackwater in 2014. This is a mercenary paramilitary guard for Musk and his minions. Anyone wearing this insignia should be considered extremely dangerous. #resist

submitted 15 days ago • 334 comments

NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over. "Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.

submitted 15 days ago • 236 comments

Look, the Trumpists and Muskrats aren't going to say "Oh, I didn't mean bias like 'parameter estimation bias', whoopsie!" They are not good-faith actors. They score points with their racist/sexist base by attacking DEIA, and if they can destroy universities at the same time, it's a bonus.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

In case you want to know where my handle, "due to symmetry," comes from — it's from Emmy Noether's eponymous theorem! 🧪⚛️🧮

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I realize this is a minor point amongst all the bigotry and, you know, high crimes, but LLMs are dogshit at what they claim to do. They're not AI, not intelligent, and it's frankly embarrassing that we let the techbro belief that they're magic get this out of hand.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

submitted 19 days ago • 73 comments

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

submitted 23 days ago • 400 comments

I don't mean to keep harping on my books, but I just noticed that my QFT book with Lorenzo Sorbo "A Prelude to Quantum Field Theory" is presently discounted to only $22.37 on the Princeton University Press website. Seems to be a good price. press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I have decided to upgrade the scope of MaC Fund, and now highschool, undergrad, and grad students (in a US institution) are eligible to apply for funding! Please spread the word. Next deadline is Feb 15th. afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

submitted 26 days ago • 474 comments

If you remember the olden days, LRR used to have a big ol' flat index, listing every single article. I missed it, so I built my own! duetosymmetry.com/lrr-index/ Just ran the script to update, so it includes this latest article from Bagui+. ⚛️🔭🧪

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

submitted 33 days ago • 87 comments

What is the VinFuture Prize and why would they want me to be a nominator?

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments