Nigel Goldenfeld
Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UCSD. Interested in everything.
Theoretical physicist researching condensed & living matter, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics. Bad at staying in my lane.
guava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel/
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldBREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
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- There's a CR to fund ICE and DHS for 2 weeks while a budget deal is done. Democrats have an opportunity -- and a moral duty to condition their votes to pass a budget on real, ironclad restrictions on ICE and CBP. Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldThe DHS funding bill can’t pass the Senate without Democratic votes. Our senators can’t vote to give Trump’s secret police more money to kill innocent people, terrorize our communities, and violate our rights. Demand that your senators vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads.
- Public service announcement for those in California, from the Governor's office. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/24/k...
- www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s... This is America today.
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- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldIf you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldMasked government agents are conducting “show me your papers” stops, detaining 5-year-olds to use them as bait, and brutally murdering U.S. citizens. Call it what it is — fascism. History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.
- Appropriations bill for multiple agencies came out. Unfortunately NIH is part of a "minibus" bundle that includes Homeland Security & ICE. To be voted on soon. If ICE funding matters to you, consider this: 👇👇👇👇👇👇 act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out... www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
- Some more detailed background: www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
- What could possibly go wrong?
- The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldWalz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldThis is so incredibly heart-breaking. To Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli at NIH--you have betrayed the entire scientific community. Deeply committed staff are leaving in droves--because you are destroying the institution. Shame on you. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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- Many contributed to this behind the scenes: "Analysts foresee a possible rise of more than 2 percent in the budget category known as basic research ... Last year, the Trump administration called for a cut in federal basic research of more than one-third." Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldNever forget. 🇺🇸
- This. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldNCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldNSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)
- Clearly all these steps will lead to gold standard science. 🧪
- 6 simple steps to reduce American leadership in science 1 - Lay off staff & rotators 2 - Try to reduce IDC 3 - Terminate & freeze grants 4 - Reduce programs & GRFP fellowships 5 - Propose a >50% FY26 budget cut 6 - Run merit review, without enough expert reviewers: www.science.org/content/arti...
- "PhD students and postdocs on the project .... face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay." From the Frontline: Heartbreaking thread about the way in which science in the US is being cut in ways that most people don't know. 👇👇👇👇👇
- Reposted by Nigel Goldenfeldwtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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- 🧪⚛️ Reposting and mentioning @mattiaserra.bsky.social Congratulations!
- Congratulations to Mattia Serra on receiving the Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics! 🎉 Mattia has made groundbreaking advances in using #FluidDynamics to better understand developmental biology.
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldCongratulations to Mattia Serra on receiving the Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics! 🎉 Mattia has made groundbreaking advances in using #FluidDynamics to better understand developmental biology.
- 🧪 Gift article. Well explained summary of a huge change in the way science is being funded by OMB and its implications for graduate fellowships, grant application success rate, etc. Leaves out the disastrous issue of political intervention/control in process. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Winston Churchill: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last. Cambridge University + Russell Group: Let's get a head start on anticipatory compliance. Even before the Reform party in UK has been elected.
- Fantastic!
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- 🧪Gift link. International cryptographers couldn't decrypt the results of their own society's election. 🤣 Game: Suggest similar headlines for other societies. I'll start. American clairvoyant society annual meeting cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
- blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/p... Many reports of Illinois State Police arresting protestors exercising 1st Amendment rights at Broadview, despite @jbpritzker.bsky.social saying that ISP are there to protect protestors. @jbpritzker.bsky.social or @annecaprara.bsky.social please comment. Thx
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldBREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
- 🧪⚛️ Get ready for Thanksgiving and the curmudgeonly uncle who's going to try and convince you that #climatechange is a hoax. Here's an easy read by one of my colleagues, which also provides a political context for the current administration bias on the issue. thebulletin.org/2025/11/the-...
- It's time for Chuck Schumer to go. Tried to call my Senators, but no answer & voicemail boxes are all full. But you can still send email. Here's the easiest way. If your Senators were not in the 8 who voted with GOP, don't forget to thank them! act.indivisible.org/sign/dem-sen...
- "Trump’s primary power is the power we give him when he asserts he is in control of everything, and we believe him.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- We have the best Oval Office money can buy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- 🧪 "Because we need a war on cancer not a war against our cities" @standupforscience.bsky.social hilariously and joyfully delivers 150,000 signatures to HHS, petitioning for the removal of RFK Jr www.youtube.com/live/3Hi18Fv...
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- re: GOP/media clutching their pearls about Mamdani being a socialist. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
- Meanwhile Trump is busy extorting and nationalizing our most lucrative private companies. Is that what "of the people ..." actually means? qz.com/trump-govern...
- "But" --> and "a party" --> the Republican party "rebuilding" -->building "brand" --> fascist brand There. Fixed it for you @nytimes.com WTAF??
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldMamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
- Chien-Shiung Wu was fantastic and it is egregious that she did not share the Nobel Prize with Lee and Yang for the breaking of parity. Without her brilliant experiment, the theory would have been worthless. 🧪⚛️
- Reposted by Nigel Goldenfeldserious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
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- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldOn Friday night, Donald Trump held a Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party themed "A little party never killed nobody.” On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldIn Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
- 🧪 #evolution OTD 1977 Carl Woese appeared on the front page of the NYT in a story about the discovery of a "form of life that predates higher organisms" a 3rd domain of life. Here is a perspective on this groundbreaking discovery of the Archaea, made with George Fox. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- "We must recognize that there are thresholds beyond which we will simply exceed the adaptive capacity that human civilization affords us. This is the real lesson your readers should take away from the unprecedented summer we’re currently experiencing." @michaelemann.bsky.social nails it again.
- This message and the thread below. 👇👇👇👇👇 But it's not too late to help. A number of organizations trying to assist. Here's one for example that I want to mention. www.rescue.org/article/cris...
- Reposted by Nigel Goldenfeldso @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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- 🧪"Instead of doing some genetics & biochemistry to solve structures, we ... started with AI & used its structural predictions to design genetic & biochemical experiments. Thus, AI has helped to speed up initial discovery ... establishing testable hypotheses." www.news-medical.net/news/2025103...
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- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldIndependent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...
- 🧪⚛️ Here is a terrific research opportunity at OIST. Basically a Principle-Investigator position that prepares advanced postdocs for tenure-track faculty positions in Japan or abroad. Deadline is 30 November 2026. I know OIST well - an excellent research environment. www.oist.jp/research/bur...
- Trump "when asked the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?,” answered, “I don’t know.” And the man who, when asked whether every person in the United States is entitled to due process, replied, “I don’t know.” " www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
- 🧪 Hard to believe that this is still something we have to argue for in 2025. The science is settled.
- This thread and some of the replies are simply chilling. Particularly if you think of one of the principles of Project 2025 as being to "restore the family as the centerpiece of American life" with its own particular interpretation of what qualifies in that vision.
- 🧪 EPA plans to cancel endangerment finding despite compelling evidence for increase in climate change. "Ignoring that evidence [shows] science, the best method the human species has ever come up with for discerning objective reality, has no role in this government.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
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- 🧪An exciting opportunity to work on a very underappreciated area of #evolution. 👇👇👇👇👇
- I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- One of the biggest protests in US history takes place in > 2500 locations, but no mention on the front screen of the NYT this morning. 😯 Nor that a live fire drill "coincidentally" on same day (with Hegseth & Vance) north of San Diego damaged a police car. Thx to @governor.ca.gov for closing I-5.
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldThey don't think they're public servants. They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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- Reposted by Nigel Goldenfeld'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
- Reposted by Nigel GoldenfeldThe following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
- As far as I can tell, this $8B in cuts to clean energy as part of the government shutdown is on top of the $13B from the pocket rescission. "...this administration is not serious about American energy dominance”. Big surprise. www.energy.gov/articles/ene... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Nigel Goldenfeld“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
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