Katie Mack

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in an open field when we could hear thunder 😑

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

Periodically refreshing the weather radar for DC like it’s a scoreboard

Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be blocked immediately.

Me (closer plane) and @peacewind.aero (lead plane) flying the DHC-1 Chipmunks back to the Canadian Aviation Museum after a wild trip to #Oshkosh #AirVenture. Thanks to Matt in the support plane for the photos!

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

(Thanks @brittlestar.com for the t-shirt!)

In my neighborhood there’s a public square with a big screen where they are broadcasting what must be nearly every one of the World Cup games and each game draws a crowd and every team has people from that country cheering them on and it’s just a really lovely thing that makes me love the city more.

This is like when I had a breakup in early 2020 and vowed to get out more and meet new people

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It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

I am from LA and my grandma was Mexican so of course I am rooting for Mexico but going solely by the real-time reactions online I am also sort of rooting for the game to continue to be as chaotic and unhinged as possible

The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down but when it comes back it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! 💥

Looking forward to the High-Luminosity LHC (technically more *luminous,* in the sense of having way more proton collisions, rather than necessarily more powerful) in 2030!

CERN @cern.bsky.social

So long #LHC and thank you for all the collisions 👋 Today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Find out more: home.cern/cern-bids-fa...

I have not been watching the World Cup but even with all my windows closed I heard the cheering in my neighborhood when Canada scored
🙌⚽️🇨🇦

Good morning,Ontario, the sky looks like armageddon and the air smells like a campfire where you were burning something you really shouldn’t. Be careful out there. 😷

Hey look it’s me! 👋 Flying the Chipmunk into Oshkosh #AirVenture

Specter177✈️ @specter177.bsky.social

Oh hi @astrokatie.com or @peacewind.aero (sorry didn't grab a picture of the first one)

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Honored to meet a local legend today, @charlotteprong.bsky.social’s grand-puppy, the incredible Dr. Richard Biscuits (Ricky Biscuits to his friends)

I have been waiting for this feature!!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com

Best part: You can now search the posts of people you follow!!

I have a colleague visiting me from the UK this week and the timing didn’t work to take the day off so I spent my Canada Day in a conference room with him and a student collaborator and a whole wall of chalkboards covered in equations but we found a pretty cool result so I’m happy

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Sharing this specifically for the small number of tedious people coming into my mentions to say that the chance of being struck by lightning is low:

xkcd.com/795/

Conditional Risk

semi truck cabs without trailers are the ocean sunfish of vehicles send post

ABC Australia has a YouTube series called “You Can’t Ask That” in which they bring in people from various marginalized/stereotyped groups who have volunteered to answer “inappropriate” questions. I’m sure they aren’t fully representative but they do foster empathy & I think they’re generally great.

Muslim women on hijabs, gender inequality, abuse and faith | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode

YouTube video by ABC Australia

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Any sentence that starts with “it’s not really rape because…” is a sentence about rape

Well the score wasn’t what I wanted but the rest of this definitely panned out