I am just 15 marks away from completing my SXPS288 EMA with a week until the deadline. That’s pretty chill considering my study was over 31 degrees C today, even with the fan on.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Why does Word - when used with UK settings - think use of an Oxford comma is grammatically incorrect?

How can iOS 26.5 be considered a robust product? It feels like a bad beta and I’ve paid $$$ for this. Roll on the fixes…

Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved...

Will Apple ever have a universal back button, and what sort of muppet pays £35 for one of their 2m HDMI cables? Maybe the metal is hewn from Unobtanium.

My OCD COED (CMDs of Each Day) are: sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt dist-upgrade #GottaKeepEmCurrent

Early Complex Earth Life Clung To Oxygenated Seafloors For Hundreds Of Millions Of Years astrobiology.com/2026/05/earl... #astrobiology #AbSciCon #AbSciCon26 #originoflife

#AbSciCon26 Poster 361 #SciX Supporting Open & Interdisciplinary Science Tue May 19 3:45-5:15 PM CDT 4,966 #astrobiology publications is a lot to manage 36M #research products even more so learn to navigate them effectively & efficiently #openscience #NASAscience #FAIR #Earthscience ☀️🧪 #library

If "Hothouse Earth" is inevitable, maybe now is the time to arrest the expansion of AI and not create data-centres undersea or in orbit just so they can stay cool enough to give us a curated and often hallucinatory short-cut to our rapidly diminishing ability to think critically.

“UK must get used to being a hot country”.

#StarTalk ⭐ An Astrobiologist Pieces Together How Life Started, with Betül Kaçar www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ug... Neil & Chuck explore the beginnings of life on Earth and what they might tell us about life everywhere else with astrobiologist and bacteriologist, Betül Kaçar.

Remember when we found samples that could possibly prove life existed on mars and then we defunded the mars sample return mission? Yeah me too.

My department stands to see 20 wonderful colleagues thrown out like they are worthless. These are the most hardworking, kindest and loyal people I have ever worked with. As a research fellow, I am not “at risk” (yet), but I will not be grateful.. or silent. nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

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/

Isolating Broadband Radio Technosignatures (BRaTs): A Framework for Detecting Planetary-Scale Leakage astrobiology.com/2026/05/isol... #astrobiology #astronomy #SETI

An analysis of 141 films since 1919 finds geologists are usually portrayed as likable characters, though nearly a third of on-screen geologists die, most often by murder or geological events. doi.org/hb3tq4

The Origin, Extension, and Future of the "NASA Definition" of Life. astrobiology.com/2026/05/the-... #astrobiology #NASA #Biology

The discovery of an atmosphere on a tiny Kuiper belt world Pluto's atmosphere was discovered in 1988, during a stellar occultation. Only now are we discovering a second Kuiper belt object with an atmosphere, and wow, is it a surprise. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #NAOJ

Launching today - a first project with @vrubinobs.bsky.social and @galaxyzoo. Dive in quickly - these galaxies won't last long. 🔭

Curiosity Astrobiology Rover Gets Stuck And Unstuck In "Atacama" astrobiology.com/2026/05/curi... #astrobiology

That's surprising: Astronomers discovered an atmosphere on 2002 XV93, a small world in the Kuiper Belt, out beyond Pluto Maybe the atmosphere comes from ice volcanoes or from a recent impact? Either way, it points to dynamic events in the cold outer solar system. 🧪🔭 www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/scie...

In the website www.grantecan.es it is possible to follow, in real time, the operations of the Gran Telescopio Canarias, the largest optical telescope in the world. 🔭

Not sure you’re “smart enough” for physics? Taryn Dorrough (BoM) says: you belong. Say yes to opportunities—even the unlikely ones. And learn to communicate what you know. Physics is for the curious. Read more: www.aip.org.au/PGMH_Tarryn_... #PhysicsGotMeHere

NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal #Science #Geology #NASA #RareMetals #EarlyLife https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/nasa-research-shows-early-life-relied-on-rare-metal/

What gives me solace, is that, even if we manage to kill ourselves through some brain dead idea like this one, life and the Universe will still go on.

I have a big new research paper on an epidemic problem we don’t discuss enough in astrobiology. Currently in review but I couldn’t wait to share so here is the video, paper should land on the arXiv next few days. youtu.be/u3HLrDkMRXY

Another nigh in which we can't observe because of high humidity! So lets enjoy the short drive from the residence of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory to the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, home of the HARPS-N specteograph 🔭#exoplanets

Amsterdam sending out the right message. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Observatories are truly incredible places 🔭#exoplanets

Today i'm heading to La Palma to observe with HARPS-N at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, which was almost a second home during my PhD. Its been years since my last visit. I'm low key excited to be back 🔭#exoplanets

Humans will never realise lasting peace, because they cannot achieve universal consensus. The bizarre thing is we *know* this to be true, yet are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. Maybe artificial sentience - devoid of bias - really would be the next step in our evolution. Maybe.

Ancient Mars had lakes that may once have supported microbial life. New Curiosity rover results reveal chemical fingerprints of shallow lakes in Gale Crater, with contributions from Susanne Schwenzer Read more: buff.ly/nhv7xgf #Mars #Astrobiology #PlanetaryScience

As the Artemis II crew was rounding the Moon—the first crewed lunar mission in 54 years—the White House was proposing to cut NASA's budget and terminate FIFTY science missions. Here's a timely rundown of just *some* of what we'd lose if those cuts came to pass. www.planetary.org/articles/mee...

Happy Alien Day!

Horrifying.

On this Alien Day, worth sharing this again: Top is sunset on Mars (from the Curiosity rover, April 2015) The bottom is sunset on LV-426 (Alien, 1979)

A new study highlights one of the largest temperature anomalies recorded anywhere, ever.

100% this.

Every serious step forward on Venus helps us interpret rocky exoplanets better. “Earth-size” does not automatically mean Earth-like, and Venus is the Solar System reminder that planetary evolution can take a very different turn.

Hooray for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who now has her own blue plaque in London. 🔭 www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p... (Thanks to @helenarney.bsky.social for reminding me)

Survival of NASA-cleanroom microbial isolates under simulated space and Martian conditions #Mars #PlanetaryProtection #astrobiology #fungi journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Interstellar Spacecraft Voyager 1 Instrument Shut Down to Assure Continued Mission Operations astrobiology.com/2026/04/inte... #astrobiology #interstellar #Voyager

ALL FLOATS OF THE RAVE THE PLANET PARADE Here you’ll find all participating float crews of the Rave The Planet Parade 2026, listed in alphabetical order. Online Check: www.ravetheplanet.com/en/floats/

Pen-aur-y-chalon Wir.

Possibly my favorite part of my recent interview with @chrislintott.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/tdL65...

I must stay away from triple-chocolate granola cereal and white-chocolate milkshake. Delicious, but undoubtedly UPF and calorific AF.

Maybe this should be CETA... I'll get my coat.