The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years. But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

anyone know more about NASA FINESST than on the solicitation page? nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol... it just says that it _may_ solicit proposals this year. I know the funding rate is low, but this is still an important source for grad support. #astro

These grad school recommendation portal questions are getting out of hand! If the student were a tree, what kind of tree would they be? [ ] Sturdy Oak [ ] Majestic Maple [ ] Weeping Willow [ ] Petrified Wood [ ] K-D Tree

Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions on Proton-Rich Nuclides. Thomas Rauscher https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03206

New set of astrophysical reaction rates for #nucleosynthesis studies

ha yeah

last day of classes! here's the collection of Jupyter notebooks illustrating stellar physics concepts I made for my grad Stars class this semester: zingale.github.io/stars/notebo... #astro

ugh! 550,000 satellites!!! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

good morning to everyone waking up to inboxes filled with recommendation letter requests!

This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)

Your donation = a student’s future. This Giving Tuesday, every dollar donated to the SBU General Scholarship Fund goes directly to undergraduate students who need it most. Support student success and ease the financial burden for a deserving Seawolf: https://gosbu.co/48bRAir

I asked the machine if you had joy 💀

I'm starting to think that the next generation is going to go back to film cameras because they want something authentic in a world of AI...

this is mesmerizing

just reviewed a 1-page course syllabus that spent more text describing the instructor's accomplishments than the course itself... never saw that before.

Good news: "We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience ..." blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/a... #arXiv

nsf submitted!

This is a disaster. www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/n...

I LOVE that this year so many of you are applying EARLY. Every single year people wait til the night before to try to get it in and start emailing us for extensions (that we are NOT going to honor ever. You have til 2/27/2026 to have ALL materials in). We’re already reading & learning about yall!

5 stages of proposal writing: denial: I can't believe this is due so soon! anger: seriously! 12 point font! no URLs allowed?? bargaining: come-on LaTeX, you know that figure can go there depression: there's no way they'll fund me :( acceptance: I've done all I can, it's in the panel's hands now

don't make me create a password just to submit a recommendation letter!!!!!

Do you enjoy the Astronomy feeds? Help us to build them! 🔭 We'd especially love to hear from you if you're a frontend developer, but we're looking for a range of skills:

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics. COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...

Assessing the quality of a random number generator is luckily quite simple. Every time it gives you a value, ask yourself: did I expect this to happen?

collaborative proposal writing tip: start the narrative out with one font size larger than the minimum allowed. Then in the final days when everyone is squeezed for space, drop down to the proper font size. This forces everyone to write more concisely from the start.

generative AI disclosure: this proposal used ChatGPT to figure out how to have LaTeX output a separate PDF for the narrative and references from a single .tex source.

Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on: – spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image, – computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements, – cross-matching astronomical catalogs? Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode

We're blown away- the PSF received an anonymous $100k donation 🤯🥰 Thank you, anon, for your investment in #Python, its community, and the PSF. We are deeply grateful and committed to using every dollar to make a difference. Want to join in? Donate today: donate.python.org#Python #PythonForEveryone

Congrats to @berkeleylab.lbl.gov 's John Shalf! He’s been awarded IEEE's 2025 Seymour Cray Award for pioneering work in energy-efficient computing & hardware-software co-design bit.ly/JS_CrayAward Heading to @Supercomputing ( #SC25 ) next week? Connect with our experts: bit.ly/LBL_SC25 #HPC

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Apparently the search filters in Amazon when looking at TVs really let you zero in on the voltage you want ;)

Too cloudy to see the Aurora Borealis. Even if it were localized entirely within my kitchen.

Some days I wake up and look at my email and imagine my inbox to be a video game, where the objective is to clear as many rows as possible. But I've come to realize that it really is just tetris, but designed to always give you the worst shape possible, and never the vertical 4-box one. Game over.

great day to open the office window -- final got the office temp below 74 F!

surprised no tech company has pitched replacing air traffic controllers with AI yet...

seems AcademicJobsOnline still lets you submit a letter if you enter the wrong password (because you forgot your password).

if we all agree to turn our clocks back another hour this week, who's going to stop us? Every weekend = bonus hour!

Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet? Help archives help you! (Help archives keep funding!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Twenty-six codes were added to the ASCL in October, 2025: BoGEMMS-HPC: Large-scale simulations for X-ray and Gamma-ray observations CMDFitter: Fit a probabilistic generative model to a color-magnitude diagram #openscience #opensource #astronomy 🔭 ascl.net/wordpress/20...

pynucastro can now plot the nuclear partition functions from @rauscherthomas.bsky.social 's work: pynucastro.github.io/pynucastro/n... #astrocode ne20 = pyna.Nucleus("ne20") ne20.partition_function.plot()

yes, I know I have some reviews due soon. You don't need to send me a reminder every day...

lazy imports are coming to python. This will be nice for start-up times peps.python.org/pep-0810/ #python

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

What do you mean the clocks changed? Dinner time is dinner time.

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...