虽然没挂上号（意料之中）
走过站又恰好雪下大了
就去对面教堂暖和一会
拉丁语学的还是不到家
加上大写基本看不懂
志愿者大姐衣服很好看
门外很多人拍圣诞树🎄
想到近来友人遭遇
想不到大开方便之门的是宗教场所

看到鸽子就知道这家人还没搬走
原来以前普通教职工楼只有四层
教授小楼是三排连排
四栋校长小楼两个一排
以前觉得每栋楼都很高，小区也很大
现在没一会儿就走完了，觉得楼很矮

Today is my birthday. I don’t have any peers around to talk with, and I feel quite lonely. I’m reading the original edition of a book my professor gave me, with a kind of quiet reverence. I really like the old Beijing “qǐzi mó” 起子馍— it seems to be the local version of a scone.

Check
arxiv.org/abs/2511.02753

I’ve lived in this noisy, miserable apartment for years. I never planted anything in the old flower pot left by a former tenant — yet after a month of rain, it bloomed on its own.
I hope my research can blossom like that wildflower.

As research continues to be attacked (destroyed) elsewhere, European countries are installing new programs to attract researchers from around the world. Here is one from Ireland (deadline in October):
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

To appear today on the ArXiv. (For there’s a blog post here: asymptotia.com/2025/06/24/s...)

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...