My husband shouldn’t spend all day cooking five different unsolicited Ethiopian dishes and dirty every pot and bench and utensil in the house and then expect me to clean the kitchen.

‘He always voted Republican’ is now on the record as a reason to let criminals out of prison.

It’s Friday night I’ve done _enough_ this week. You’ve done enough this week.

Same, grain bin, same.

The JWST Users' Committee (JSTUC) will host a Community Forum on Oct 27th at 12 pm Eastern Time - community members are encouraged to submit questions and feedback. Details here 🔭 >> www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window. Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat. "Oi!" I called. "The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it." Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

My work is pre-sliced for me.

But I don't *want* to know what they found behind the wall of their 1930's farmhouse, I rail at the algorithm, which clearly believes I do.

Remotely attending a five-day, 6am-2pm working meeting, including giving three talks and chairing a breakout session, while solo parenting twins with seven (7!) after-school extra-curriculars between them.

God I really want there to be an actual earthquake at 10:16am.

Should I be worried that my 10yo daughter is smart enough to both implement an informal school currency scam *cough* scheme, AND to make sure she wasn't the kid named on/directly implicated by said currency? 😐

I want nothing more than for Brennan to subvert expectations and come in with such a normal paced, normal level of excitement 'Hello, one and all, and welcome to another episode of Dimension 20, Cloudward Ho!' for the finale.

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

Excited to announce that we are advertising the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship. A 3 year position open to women in any area of #Physics or #Astronomy at the University of Sydney @sydney.edu.au Deadline: 16th November ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

For the first time in his career, Narvi is a Gold Glove Award finalist!

Wilyer is a Gold Glove Award finalist for the second year in a row!

Congrats to Ceddanne on being named a Gold Glove Award finalist!

EVERYBODY SEES WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

Remind me next year to start a pool on how many new planet papers will be submitted to appear on arXiv the day of the JWST deadline. 😂

Hey #exoplanet formation theorists - you have ~1 more year to get your Roman population predictions published before we start being able to test them! What features should we see out past the Kepler population?

White privilege is when white men in their 20's and 30's are 'kids', and 12-year-old black boys are a 'threat'.

One month later, this company is still appearing in my news feeds. Make this go away already it's a bad idea.

I made Phil tell me all the ways stars in the middle of the Galaxy are different from stars out here, and then explained how Roman is going to uncover the planet populations of those stars and isn't that exciting? He asked if we'll know any of these things about the stars and I said probably not.

So many spectacular, kind, brave people who I've worked with for years being let go from JPL today. We will all be poorer for their absence from the forefront of human knowledge.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

It feels useless to point out but if we stop pointing it out that's definitely worse: SURELY IT'S ILLEGAL FOR TRUMP TO ORGANIZE PRIVATE FINANCING FOR THE US MILITARY. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

Me, watching the dog accidentally roll her ball under the couch for the nth time today: You silly billy. Also me, tipping the mug towards me to see if there's any tea left in it: Ah, dammit!

Inch by inch still gets you a mile.

Gibson et al. “TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme Debris Disk of RZ Psc” showing 24 exocomet transits and the existence of a broken power law for the sizes of these exocomets, unlike Beta Pic’s exocomet distribution #exoplanet #astrodon #astrosci

Ugh this new AI trend of 'home videos' of animals saving babies is so fucking gross.

Can I just say that my son’s little league team got themselves into a very similar dropped catch/double play situation on Saturday and it was so confusing that at the end of the play it was eventually realised that the other team had gotten my son out twice and it wasn’t actually a double play.

I was annoyed to get yet another burn scar Evacuation Warning for tonight's storm until I realised they're predicting 2.8in/7cm of rain. Yeah okay we'll pack our bags. 👀

Hands up if you still remember your childhood home phone number.

Less than a year later, once again feeling anxious for my remaining fabulous JPL colleagues. 😬

I have an ask, as they say: My newsletter is always free on Monday. Please share it with a nerd you know! I love astronomy and space, and I bet you know a lot of folks who do too. My whole point is to get the word out, and you can help immeasurably with that. Thanks!

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

Call me when it’s the 18th inning and the concessions have been closed for 11 innings and your husband warns you to zip up, because if the Dodgers fans start eating people, they’re starting with the Red Sox fans.

Bruised limbs and dignity, otherwise fine. 😅

It’s Friday night. Another parent just texted me that my son was getting rescued from the top of a tree by a crew of firefighters. I have to go deal with that. But you’ve done enough this week.

Sitting on my nth committee scheduling their meeting for the weekend before/after the AAS, and I launched half-heartedly into my well-worn lament that meetings on the weekends are difficult for people with families* and... they listened to me?! And are looking at other dates?!?!?

And chaos goblin like no-one is watching.

Oh my god heartbreaking finish.

Are... The Machines... men?

To be clear, they will 'make the proof' that Tylenol causes autism by controlling who does the studies and who reports the results. They have built a mechanism to 'make the proof' for whatever they want so say. About protestors, about elections, about immigrants. We have to keep speaking truth.

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Me too, and honestly the zoom chat is a great place to be doing this. Just constant asides, affirmations, riffs on what the person talking just said. People who don’t like interruptions can ignore it, people who like having multiple parallel conversations can enjoy themselves.

DAAAAAAAAAAA JANKEES LOOOOSE.

Among today's Macarthur Fellow honorees! Jeremy Frey, the Maine artist and Passamaquoddy tribe member who is bringing indigenous basketry traditions into the modern art world. Such a brilliant choice. His work is breathtaking. All Mainers should be pleased.