I’ve been a Professor for 20 years. I’ve never been so depressed as I was by what I witnessed this week.

Riots
Hatred
Slander
Ridicule
Violence
Obstruction
Demonization
Academic Boycotts

We are approaching a dark age on college campuses.

I’ve never been more relieved to…

Fun fact: 100 billion trillion avocados is known as a ‘Guaca mole’.

“From the Riverside to the Sea, Sabra Hummus will be reviewed bimonthly!”

“From the Riverside to the Sea, Sabra Hummus will be reviewed bimonthly!”

Don’t work. Don’t research! What Department is this person Chair of?

More life hacks, fewer p-hacks.

Four years ago, Gavin Newsom and the Supermajority enacted a law making a class in 'Ethnic Studies' a high school graduation requirement. I warned at the time that this would spread anti-Semitism in California schools. Unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened.

When the…

Hosting Professor Rajendra P. Gupta on The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on Monday. Leave a question for him here 👇

Gupta is a theoretical physicist currently teaching astrophysics to senior undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on…

How Well Can AI Learn Physics?
youtu.be/VpIyvcVAhAU

You can lie to not hurt someone’s feelings, but Immanuel Kant…

Seems like for Mental Health Awareness Month, everyone decided to lose their minds.

Which current speculations do you think will prove true for the next generation?

Perhaps the multiverse? Learn more in my interview with Paul Halpern 👉 buff.ly/4bax14q

New paper tonight with some old friends: we explore the implications of the DESI neutrino mass measurement. When we extend neutrino mass to allow for negative values, we find a 3 sigma exclusion of the minimum sum, 58 meV (posterior below)

arxiv.org/abs/2405.00836

Green and white camping tents. Protestors. Pizza all spotted UC San Diego right now in what Chancellor Khosla called a “violation of campus policy, which prohibits unauthorized encampments.”

The most beloved tradition ⁦UC San Diego⁩ - Sun God Festival - has been cancelled.