Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history. The numbers are not reported in the Israeli media, and if they are – it's always minimized | Opinion | Hanin Majadli haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

I also love that they use Greek symbols for 4 and 1/4 to make it look more mathy.

Great work, now Google thinks the Dubnový Blázen problem is a real problem in graph theory (it's Czech for "April Fools").

The final session, on "Table-top quantum experiments for gravity" with Flaminia Giacomini, Richard Howl and Sougato Bose, closes out the QISS conference in Vienna . The recorded talks and subsequent discussion should appear online in the coming days, and I'll post the link below.

We just finished a brutal PhD recruitment season here at UT Physics. Traditionally we make about 105 offers to recruit 35 PhD students. Being a PhD student is a job: while working towards their degree students get paid either to teach or to do do research (about half each). 1/n

If we want fewer psychopaths in charge, we should start with ranked-choice voting. It’s about as complicated as picking pizza toppings with friends.

📢To all students in Palestine interested in knowing more about quantum physics : We are very happy to announce our Palestinian Advanced Physics School (PAPS 2025) at the University of Jordan between 26th — 31st July 2025! 1/3 📷

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Does anyone else associate 'stochastic' with processes, and 'random' or 'probabilistic' with variables? Spacetime evolves stochastically. The outcome of the coin toss is probabilistic. Whether the coin is heads or tails is random. Just me?

Andreas is wise, but because I'm procrastinating marking 70 exams I'm picking my battles Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.

HAPPENING NOW ON THE BORDER OF GAZA: We are here, thousands of Jews & Palestinians protesting against the annihilation of Gaza, after the police tried to forbid us from marching to Gaza. We're here against the starvation, the killing of children and against our government.

Horrific: A video from one of the so-called 'humanitarian distribution sites' of GHF in Gaza today. Does this look like humane to you?