Hi everyone! I am trying to look into demographics + potential recruitment/retention initiatives for minorities in astrophysics, particularly in the EU, and have no idea where to start. Any advice, papers, and academics would be super helpful!

My hope is that whenever these “plans” come up people first think about the ethical and legal parameters here. He doesn’t own the moon nor does he own mars. He cannot simply do whatever he wants to any planetary body just because he’s bored. It’s a natural environment that we all share.

Sweet 16 🤩 🚀 Sixteen years ago today, the largest space window was on its way to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. 🌍 Enjoy the views from Europe's bay window onto Earth. 📸 @esa.int/ @astro-slawosz.bsky.social

once a week, as a little treat I make myself a fried egg breakfast sandwich and week over week, it has been progressively the best fried egg sandwich I've ever had. is this what happens when you're approaching 30, is there some sort of secret cooking level you unlock

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Super interesting 🧵 on darkness and how we conceive of it (both legally and culturally). 🔭🧪

while anthropic secretly buys and destroys millions of books in hidden warehouses, let it be known that human staff at @archive.org carefully scan physical media by hand as always and there's literally a daily livestream because the process is so wonderful to watch!!!

Mitfreude: the joy of sharing a friend’s joy Vorfreude: the joy of looking forward to future joy

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Today is a full Moon! Let’s celebrate with some art. In some cultures the February full Moon is the “Snow Moon”. #linocut #Moon #FullMoon

accidentally pavloved myself into only being able to write while listening to “the elder scrolls v: skyrim atmospheric music & ambiance | binaural | lofi | asmr” youtube videos -__-

Tell me five classes you took in college: “Introduction to Game Theory” “Shakespeare Page to Stage” “Mathematical Composition & Communication” “Special Problems in Geology: Gravity & Magnetics” “Combinatorics & Graph Theory”

A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

And now... Council of Europe goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Haymarket Books has made three of their eBooks free for download during this time of turmoil. You can get copies of: "Unbuild Walls" by Silky Shah, "Border & Rule" by Harsha Walia, and "The Case for Open Borders" By John Washington.

"abolish ICE and prosecute everyone involved" is the moderate position

The Marías boygenius (collectively and individually) MUNA Arlo Parks Maggie Rogers

Near most bases are lawyers ready to help work through the objector process. If not they can call 202-483-2220 centeronconscience.org/who-is-milit...

The last time the US took this attitude, the White House got burned down

looking outside my window every 15 minutes like the clouds are going to magically disappear

ESA is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected at 18:09 UTC on 18 January 2026. Aurora were observed over Europe last night and continued high levels of space weather activity are anticipated over the coming days. www.esa.int/Space_Safety... @esaspaceweather.esa.int

2026 science/art thread (because it's all sort of the same in my heart these days)

Folks saying this is just as bad, I need you to reread about reconstruction. Not holding people accountable is how we get into this position. Removing people who colluded with the administration in an authoritarian takeover of higher ed from their position is the most reasonable thing to do.

if I can ever afford a leica, will be getting one purely because of this image

Another year, another dark red stripe - the iconic climate stripes quietly show how relentlessly our planet is heating up… www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

reviewer 1: 2 minor comments about fixing figure and table labels reviewer 2: rejection

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

the reason there are going to be more incidents like this is that you’ve hired a bunch of murderers and told them they’ll be protected and celebrated if they shoot people

Fundamentally, just because there are minerals in the ground you don't have to mine them. Calling them resources has already moved them from a natural phenomenon to an unrealised profit

a car-sized mountain of snow as a gift from the plows, this counts as a “plowed” street I guess

An Open Letter Regarding LPSC https://blog.planetary-research.org/2026/01/06/an-open-letter-regarding-lpsc/

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

Planetary Research is now open for submissions!

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

no tunnel but the tunnel whose contours we identify for the purposes of finding its exit, no light but the one we follow to better times

art dump from this year since I have not been consistent about posting like... anything

what if I put this as a figure in the appendix of this manuscript draft I’m about to send to coauthors

You will be visited by three spirits

i unironically love the star trek moments where there is just. zero encryption on any information ever. sure this 87 million year old spaceship can upload things to the enterprise via a science scan. we have a peaceful society in the future but we had to give up ccsds protocols

as a former em dash enjoyer, I’ve fully changed my writing style in this manuscript so reviewers don’t flag AI. some of us spent our teenage years writing dramatic dialogue breaks goddamn it, the em dash has more stylish flair than parentheses

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

2/ Over the last month, the Gomez family has been exploring immigration visa options that would allow them to stay in the U.S. but that comes with costly legal fees They’ve been fundraising to support that process, including via Lost Origins’ sale of Gael’s astrophotography:

30 minutes of daylight left here, I guess this counts as golden hour

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”