Wednesday, February 04, 2026

( via / me )

"Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists." (thread)

"as a young girl
mother prepared me—
toss your purse one way
and run the other
I didn’t know to ask
   when to stop running"

—@ireneaddie.bsky.social

Bookshop.org is teaming up with Draft2Digital to allow self-publishers to sell ebooks on the Bookshop platform.

"worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead" —@mattielubchansky.bsky.social

Maybe a CME bent the bars of the magnetic cage this morning.

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