Snack? It’s an entire sit-down meal you heathens
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoTyphoon Dim-sum: how Hong Kong put a tasty snack on the storm map
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Astronomer studying the intergalactic medium.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago
HAPPY BOOK DAY TO ME 💞📚✨🥰
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo ago@toomanyspectra.bsky.social's Cloudy with a Chance of Starships is an entertaining tour of the seemingly simple formula guiding the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... 29 September UK pub | #Astrobiology #Astronomy #Science
Saw the date '26-08-03' today (Japan uses year-month-date) but my brain considered it more plausible that it's now 26th August 2003 than 3rd August 2026.
Talk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪
Congrats to emeritus prof Ken Nomoto @ Kavli IPMU for winning the Gruber Cosmology Prize for his seminal work on supernova modelling! I'm in his former office so hopefully some of his mojo rubs off some day ;)
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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Hey Bluesky peeps, I'm looking to speak to astronomers that are looking for alien life in unusual ways - think Ceres, weird technosignatures, unexpected exoplanets, etc - for a story in the BBC. If that's you, or you know someone, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!
ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)
Yesterday, 56 of our fab colleagues at the Physics & Astronomy dept in Nottingham, received “at risk of redundancy” letters. The Uni is planning to reduce the size of the Physics dept by almost a third.🧪⚛️🔭 Sign this petition to show them your support ✍️: nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4mo agoSTFC cuts will accelerate the closure of UK physics departments, even though everyone recognises the importance & value of physics to UK PLC. Physics is explicitly listed as an area affected by planned compulsory redundancies at Nottingham. So sad to see this. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Astronomical acronyms now extend across 3 layers: I was just asked to expand VUDS in a paper proof: VUDS -> VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey -> VLT Infrared Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph ( Ultra Deep Survey -> Very Large Telescope Infrared Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph Ultra Deep Survey
Best raw data to look at is to be physically perched at prime focus of your telescope staring at the primary mirrow.
Sarah Kendrew@sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 7mo agoI'm going to expand this statement to say that astronomers should actually look at their data whatever the format. Yes pipelines and high level science products are great, but you learn a lot from just spending some time exploring the counts-on-pixels images, even for spectroscopy. 🔭
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
In this age of LLMs, it's trivially easy to get a Phd-level-expert™️ summary of any journal article that will extract the main arguments and findings for you and often even flags up the most relevant connections to the larger literature: just look for the bloody abstract, kid #AcademicLifeHacks
Hey y'all. I'm hiring. Are you interested in building instruments for astrophysics? wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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Happy 94th Birthday to 🇺🇸American composer, conductor and pianist #JohnWilliams KBE born #OnThisDay in Queens, New York City
Did not expect to be in a good mood all day from the fact that the 2yr old finally deigned to shit in a potty this morning.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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I am looking to recruit a PhD student for the October 26 entry. It will be funded by STFC. Project(s) will be some combination of early universe cosmology, numerical relativity and strong gravity, and dynamical compactification of extra dimensions! Apply through this portal apply.kcl.ac.uk
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German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.
North Korea on track to have a female executive before the United States.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo agoKim Jong-un’s daughter visits state mausoleum, fuelling speculation she will be next North Korean ruler
Do not keep your lip chapstick in a drawer next to a glue stick. Ask me how I learned this.
I see we are at the 'demanding expensive and impractical wunderwaffen that nobody in the military is actually asking for' stage of things.
Naval News@navalnews.com · 9mo agoTrump Announces Nuclear-Armed Battleships for the U.S. Navy 🇺🇸 The U.S. Navy will take delivery of new-build battleships, the largest ever built, according to President Trump Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Flying through #Dulles Airport this week? Don't forget to check out the new James Webb Space Telescope exhibit in the corridor between the Metro station and the main terminal. If you missed it, you can still read about it: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-403 🔭
🚀The Roman Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is OPEN! Unlock new discoveries with the Wide Field Instrument—your science starts here! Apply for funding to analyze Roman data, perform theory/lab research, and propose new observations. 🔭☄️ 📅 Deadline: Mar 17, 2026 (5 PM PDT) 📝 bit.ly/4q3jbbL
Not typically into dumpster diving, but spotted this in my buildings recycle bin.
