Benjamin E. Hardisty

The sentence that should not be forgettable: Vought said he prepared Trump's executive actions so the president would not have to think about "whether something is legal or doable or moral." That is not a staffer describing efficient workflow. That is the architect of the second Trump administration describing his function as the removal of legal and ethical friction before the president encountered it. He was not hired to consider whether actions were legal. He was hired to make sure Trump never had to ask. ProPublica got the recordings. That is what the recordings say.

Perspective article: "From Coffee Rings to Self-Driven Assembly: Active Matter Enabled Design of Drying Droplets" (by Meneka Banik, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay): arxiv.org/abs/2605.15191

2/2 Alondra Nelson’s essay in Science is essential reading. Standards are not anti-innovation. They are what allow powerful technologies to move from impressive demonstrations to durable public trust. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… @aaas @ScienceMagazine @the_IAS @PhiBetaKappa

Supreme Court rules that Republicans can gerrymander as much as they want without any voter input, Democrats can’t change a map even if voters expressly approve. Sham of a democracy, institutionalism will kill us.

A large tyrannosaurid dinosaur may have stalked the floodplains of what is now New Mexico nearly 74 million years ago, according to a team of paleontologists. Image credit: A. Belov / CC BY 3.0. sci.news/paleontology/h… #fossils #paleontology

A comparative multivariate analysis of spatial clustering in Neanderthal and anatomically modern human occupations doi.org/10.1016/j.jhev…

DOJ told a federal judge this month that the anti-voting order's actions "do not yet exist" and cannot be blocked. Today, as the hearing was running, NOTUS reported White House officials have been actively meeting with DOJ, DHS, and USPS to implement it. Democratic plaintiffs filed a supplemental brief pointing out the contradiction the same day. The meetings include the DOJ Civil Rights chief, the USPS CEO, and an election conspiracy theorist appointed to run DHS "election integrity." The Constitution gives states the power to oversee elections. The government told the court nothing was happening. NOTUS found the calendar.

A type theory for probability density functions ashishagarwal.org/2011/10/04/pdf…

Our latest paper is out @ScienceTM! Natural killer cell immunotherapy reverses lung fibrosis by eliminating senescent fibroblasts | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Immunotherapy #Fibrosis #Aging #Senescence #NKcell

Take my physicist's intuition, there might be some missing symmetry to be studied even in genomics with graph and group theory. (I guess I won't get funding if I phrase this way.) #genomics #bioinformatics #exphysicist

Btw COVID was proven to be airborne bc of THIS WOMAN’s research and the WHO had to completely revise decades of science, she is a HERO, EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW HER NAME!!! She will be remembered by history and in the future so much about our infrastructure will change bc of her.

It's the birthday of Frans van Schooten, botd in 1615 in Leiden, Netherlands. To celebrate, explore this website and some of the applets on this page - each one a brain-candy fransvanschooten.nl/fvs_tekeningen…

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The first guy in America to wear a beard was so hated for it that he used to get into street fights with people trying to forcibly shave him.

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began retreating, new evidence suggests. Image credit: Shutterstock sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/… #fossils #paleontology

The UK can still turn around from this disastrous course. It’s the opposite of what this government promised to achieve

QDSB: Quantized Diffusion Schrödinger Bridges Tobias Fuchs, Florian Kalinke, Nadja Klein arxiv.org/abs/2605.11983 [𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝.𝙼𝙻]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is planning to drop charges against India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, after a lawyer for the billionaire made an unusual investment offer. nyti.ms/42DVKvU

Of for god sake, the unusual investment offer is a damn bribe. It’s a bribe.