Big day for us today at the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: it's Data Release Day! Our twentieth(!!!) data release will go out later today, with lots of spectra and catalogs of stars, galaxies and quasars, and some new webtools! Our DR20 paper has all the details: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 #DR20

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy survey that is mappi...

arxiv.org

Since we don't have a good name for the satellite of a brown dwarf I would propose "broon"

ESO@eso.org · 3w ago

That's no moon. It's a...hang on, what should we call it? 🤔 Our VLT has revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Yet this new ‘exomoon’ detection is challenging cosmic labels! 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets 1/4

Thank God for that

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

Arieh Kovler@ariehkovler.com · 4w ago

In two years Net Zero went from broad political consensus to politically toxic, without any particular scandal over the policy.

Messi and Co. getting it done when it matters most* *in regulation time so we can all watch Falkirk vs Airdrie in a preseason friendly

Punning on left-sided French players like this is un-digne-fied

Window needs recharged again

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think Americans don’t realize how old the London Underground is. It was over 40 years old when Mark Twain went on it. Waterloo veterans rode it

this took way too long

Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:

Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty in historical sex offences trial

Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of 18 historical sex offences against two women when they were children, including one count of rape, 13 of indecent assault and four of gross indecency.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Probably not the first to say the but Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, Alan Rickman

For anyone who grew up during the cold war it's incomprehensible to see Moscow burning like this and the Russian government powerless to stop cheap, slow-moving drones.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Moscow resident showing off the spectacular view of the burning Moscow Oil Refinery from his apartment.

He'll study UAPs with the same amount of credibility as he has when discussing interstellar objects

David Grinspoon@drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s now official: Avi Loeb is the RFK Jr. of astrophysics. 🧪

Barney Stewart going from playing for his uni in the Scottish 7th tier to a multimillion pound move to the English Championship in less than 2 years is quite the story falkirkfc.co.uk/barney-stewa...

BARNEY STEWART DEPARTS

Falkirk Football Club can confirm that Barney Stewart has joined EFL Championship side West Bromwich Albion on a permanent transfer after the clubs agreed terms on a club record fee, with the potentia...

falkirkfc.co.uk

There's probably never been a better time to remind you that when David Hockney first took his Mum to California she remarked 'all this lovely weather and nobody puts their washing out'.

everyone please stop reposting this the image below is almost certainly AI generated, as per the replies, thank you

Very sad news that John Blanche has died. A very good claim to be the most influential recent British artist of whom the fewest people have heard. And his talent helped build the brand of one of the UK’s most successful firms.

I love that the way the BBC news algorithm picks stories from sub-pages under the "UK" banner for the Live Updates section makes it seem like ferry sailings to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are 25% of things happening in the UK www.bbc.com/news/uk

the image of Sturgeon cautioning against panic buying while, just off-screen, Murrell is frantically trying to wedge 100 toilet rolls, eighty tins of baked beans and two twenty-litre cans of petrol into a cupboard

Chris McCall@dennynews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic buying during the Covid pandemic.

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

“What is the charge? Owning a motorhome? A succulent German motorhome?”

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Peter Murrell pleads guilty to embezzling £400,000 from SNP ft.trib.al/6sPZyaK

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

This was stupid when John Swinney suggested it, it’s stupid now

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Treasury pushes supermarkets to cap food prices ft.trib.al/sDCXR5J

#alb "so who's a famous Austrian? Sigmund Freud, great let's do something he would be in to"

Choosing to read this through the lens of Welsh politics

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 3mo ago

OpenAI has announced plans to let users “securely connect” ChatGPT to their bank accounts through Plaid. The proposed intention is for ChatGPT to provide users with curated financial advice.

I think I'm right in saying that only of the Prime Ministers who have taken over mid-Parliament in the last 120 years, only Douglas-Home hasn't previously held one of the other "Big Four" offices. Streeting would be quite junior to become PM, Cairns astoundingly so.

Here for people asking *Dan Neidle* when he will investigate the Tories or Reform. So wonderful to see people who have spent the last decade living in a cave on the far side of the Moon joining Bluesky

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there. If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid. His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

Interestingly the UK sticks out because the 1961 baseline is before the inner city slum clearances and new town movement were finished. I imagine a 1971 or 1981 baseline would look very different.

Matt Ashby@mattashby.com · 3mo ago

Really fascinating and detailed maps on how the population of different bits of Europe has changed over the past 60 years: rural depopulation and the move from east to west being the big stories. correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...