Are you a professor? If so, consider signing the petition against the American Association of University Professors' recent about-face, in which they cravenly declare that academic boycotts are OK after all. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

If you’re faculty, consider signing here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

I am once again asking you to fucking build something

In 2020, Nature magazine endorsed Joe Biden for U.S. president. A pre-registered, large-sample experiment found that the endorsement didn’t change people’s view of the candidates - but it did cause them to lose trust in Nature and in scientists in general. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/should-scien…

Make science non-partisan again.

Applications are now open for the next edition of CERN's Latin American School in High-Energy Physics, which will take place in Costa Rica from 30 April to 13 May 2025. indico.cern.ch/event/1467690/…

My latest for Symbolic Capital(ism) responds to a question I've been getting a lot since the election. There are multiple variations, but the gist is: Will (shouldn't) Trump's return to office change how I talk about the themes and arguments of We Have Never Been Woke? My short

DEI hiring is bad, but if this is supposed to be a meritocracy, the only merit they seem to care about is personal loyalty to Trump. Replacing identity politics with a cult of personality is not an improvement.

My thoughts exactly. We need to do some real damage control and compromise where we can. The worst thing we can do is double down on the excesses that brought this culture war upon us in the first place.

Detailed article about indirect costs of grants. If you are not interested, the short summary is: Trump acted wisely. city-journal.org/article/nih-un…

It’s wild that the net political impact of the Great Awokening was that nonwhite voters became…more Republican

This was not protesting, it was terrorism. Expel. Prosecute. Deter.

What does America get from foreign students? - They subsidize American students' education - They inject life into small towns across America - They do a large portion of America's STEM research noahpinion.blog/p/america-need…

"Test-optional" policies both A) let unqualified people into universities, and B) disadvantage actually qualified people from poor minority backgrounds. Dumb policy.

An explanation of Isaac Newton's theory of bunker busting, from George Gamow's _The Great Physicists From Galileo to Einstein_ (1961) #bunkerbusters

I must respectfully disagree: Lots of data show that, in fact, academia began to moderate, and the speech environment on campus, began to improve starting after 2021 -- well before Trump's reelection: liberalpatriot.com/p/the-great-aw… Schools also began adopting institutional

shameful University of Washington thefire.org/news/2026-coll…

Every argument progressives made against the intuitive broad definition of free speech in 2014-2021 is now being weaponized against them. No one could have predicted this, it's a total surprise