They were quick to identify that Trump’s campaign didn’t really seem to be about fighting antisemitism @ all, but rather about using that fight as a justification for govt overreach. Roth, a historian & the pres. of #Wesleyan told The New Yorker, “Anti-antisemitism can be appropriated by any political movement. They can use that as a vehicle for persecuting researchers & institutions that are not aligned w/the ideology of the person in charge.”
https://forward.com/opinion/712714/jewish-university-presidents-trump-antisemitism-campus/
Sunday - SWAPFEST is BACK - The Flea at #MIT in #KendallSquare #CambridgeMA $6 admission, dozens of eclectic vendors.
If you haven't been - go - and the first one of the year means all the weird stuff folks found since fall will be for sale. Let someone's spring cleaning detritus become your new favorite thing.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A microscopic realization of dS3
Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Beatrix Mühlmann
SciPost Phys. 18, 131 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.4.131
https://www.europesays.com/2003379/ How to Manage Risks When Employees Use AI Secretly for Work #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #GenAI #innovation #MIT #News #PYMNTSNews #technology #What'sHot
I love that #Harvard has taken a stand against the current administration and chosen not to fold their research efforts. Too much is at stake for the future of citizens of the US and globally. Their website profiles the work of Dr. David Walt. David and I shared a lab while at #MIT. He is a wonderful person and researcher. It is critical that his efforts, and those of scientists around the country, continue.
#science #research
https://www.harvard.edu/
Photonic computing needs more nonlinearity — #acoustics can help
Researchers from #MPL, @unihannover & #MIT demonstrate an all-optically controlled activation function using traveling sound waves. This optoacoustic approach enables nonlinear signal processing in the synthetic frequency dimension and could pave the way for more efficient, scalable optical neural networks — compact, fast, and energy-saving.
Read more
https://mpl.mpg.de/news/article/photonic-computing-needs-more-nonlinearity-acoustics-can-help
© Grigorii Slinkov
#MIT, other schools sue Department of Energy for slashing funds to support research grants
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/mit-other-schools-sue-department-energy-slashing-funds-support
#CambridgeMA #lawsuits
https://www.europesays.com/1990826/ $30 million from tech startup, not a single Ivy: Teen prodigy rejected by 15 top US colleges | World News #$30Million #business #CalAIApp #CollegeAdmissions #CollegeRejections #EliteInstitutions #Entrepreneurship #GeorgiaTech #Harvard #IvyLeague #MIT #stanford #StartupSuccess #TechGenius #UniversityApplications #UniversityOfMiami #UniversityOfTexas #ZachYadegari
Tiny Pogo Robot Gets Wings, Does Flips - Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/ #hoppingrobot #robotshacks #one-legged #micro #wings #pogo #mit
Zwei lapidare Sätze in Zeile 1.354 + 1.355 im #Koalitionsvertrag: "Wir streben eine Fokussierung auf unmittelbare #Betroffenheit bei Klage- u. Beteiligungsrechten an. Wir verschlanken das #Umweltinformationsgesetz." Was harmlos klingt, könnte ein gefährlicher Eingriff in demokratische #Mitwirkungsrechte der #Naturschutzorganisation|en sein. Hier geht's um die Beteiligung der #Zivilgesellschaft an Entscheidungen. Für #Natur u. #Umwelt könnten die Folgen katastrophal sein. #Klagerecht
"Today, space technologies underpin vital services we often take for granted—satellite navigation, global communications, and real-time climate monitoring. As the industry evolves, so too does the need for coherent and inclusive space governance that ensures sustainable and secure use of the space environment for generations to come."
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/strategic-intelligence-map-space/overview/
Monday - #art - 6pm @ #MIT, free.
#JoanJonas in conversation,
#performanceArt and #VideoArt pioneer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpkZa12Qwc
https://artfinity.mit.edu/event/act-lecture-joan-jonas
https://www.moma.org/artists/2930-joan-jonas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6wI33GTnf0
#industrial #experimental #noise
#BostonWeekend 24/x
MIT develops small, energy-efficient one-legged hopping robot
The MIT jumping robot is only 5 cm tall and weighs less than a gram. But it can still make big jumps.
MIT entwickelt kleinen energieeffizienten einbeinigen Hüpfroboter
Der Hüpfroboter des MIT ist nur 5 cm groß und wiegt weniger als ein Gramm. Große Sprünge machen kann er trotzdem.
A recent paper out of MIT pours cold water on the idea that AI has the capacity to develop value systems. Read more at @Techcrunch. #AI #MIT #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/F1kblE
If you're in #Boston and love old computers, electronics, and games, check out the MIT Swapfest flea market. First meeting this year is April 20th.
I went a few times last year and saw some wild things like Commodore 64s, Apple ][s, a NeXT cube, and tons of video games. I also saw a lot of old radio equipment and miscellaneous electronics parts.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Lattice T-duality from non-invertible symmetries in quantum spin chains
Salvatore D. Pace, Arkya Chatterjee, Shu-Heng Shao
SciPost Phys. 18, 121 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.4.121