Waking up today I thought I dreamed this for a moment, but nope, I actually met a Star Trek actor's niece last night 🖖 (Danara Pel from VOY)

I've never been bothered by like "pin number" or "atm machine" but I just saw "one of the goats of all time" and I rebuke that in the strongest of terms

Dune 4: Ghola Protocol

Dune 3: Messiah Impossible

There’s still space available to sign up for our FREE dinner at the 247th AAS! Deadline to apply has been extended until Dec 29, we hope to see you there ☺️

little known fact, but Santa's inner circle is George Bush, Al Roker, and Sir Edmund Hillary

Plenty of time left to apply to the Astro PhD program in Edinburgh! (Deadline in 2 weeks)

This is the best Christmas special ever, and it's not close!

𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦

It's sad that the people who are able to take the *most* paid time off over the holidays are the ones who deserve it the *least*. (I count myself among them) How did Christmas end up like this?

i can't stop laughing at: HUSBAND WAS ASKED TO PARTICIPATE IN FINAL DISAPPEARING ACT; AT END OF SHOW, WIFE GOT VERY UPSET BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T FIND HIM

You know we keep having these scandals of famous people being sexual predators and harassers. I think we should remember that this is business as usual under the patriarchy. All women have to be kept in their place. It's not unusual. It's everyday behaviour.

These guys know there’s just one plane, right? Like obviously there are lots of reasons someone who is otherwise ambulatory might need a wheelchair at the airport. But even if the premise in this article *were* true, you’re not actually going to be getting to your destination any later for it

Love this plot of the infrared absorption of lots of different hydrocarbon molecules (and DMS). Titan measurements are used here as an exercise for interpretation of exoplanet measurements. Niraula+ iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... 🧪🔭☄️🪐

got an email auto-reply with a disclaimer/proviso referring to 3I/ATLAS lol

i was quite possibly radicalized by Quantum Leap growing up. (my partner keeps flipping to it on Pluto, and man, it could be "woke" for light sci-fi entertainment... especially episodes on gender, race, and disability)

advance my career beyond simply professor? no, thanks, i prefer to give a shit about my colleagues and our students...

regretting not putting the inverse-square law on the exam-provided equation sheet 😔

Why are junior ppl burying their publications at the back of their CV after pages of meshugaas these days? Supervisors: plz tell them to put something, anything, about their pubs up front.

These screenshots show the differences between the older TR-560 Medical Tricorder VI ⬅️ (#StarTrekTNG's "Where Silence Has Lease"⬅️) and the latest model )as of #TNG season 4), the TR-580 Medical Tricorder VII ("The Host"➡️). Notice the beige vs. black area around the "red button".

The reason Christmas song covers don't work is we don't actually want to hear another version of the song. Christmas songs only become 'classic' by being played over and over and over and over again until we give in. Corollary: want to make a good Christmas song? Write your own damn one like Mariah.

If you can't have/don't want a real Christmas tree and you don't want a plastic one either, Norfolk Island pines are coniferous houseplants that clean up nice around the holidays 🎄

'Hallelujah' is NOT a Christmas song!

Not tricked, just dumb Puzzle #909 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

WB owns Babylon 5, right? So can we get B5 on Netflix again? (Not for me, obviously, I just want more converts...)

emails from students submitting a PDF application have gotten quite wordy. gotta read a paragraph or two just to find out that, yup, there's just a PDF being attached here. ChatGPT escalation? (maybe I should be using Copilot to handle all of this...)

ok maybe trump is performing for andrea bocelli and not the other way around

love to see it! marking hand-ins where our astrophysics students spell the name of the planet with the big red spot "Jupyter"

Salient that 'Banditos' is playing - "the world is full of stupid people" - as I fill out a recommendation form asking me about: "one of those students who will stay in your memory for years to come as the best...the potential to make a significant impact in their academic field..." - the hubris!

Similar story for astronomer Vera Rubin as first woman allowed to observe at the Palomar Observatory www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors...

Learned recently that there were no women's restrooms at Palomar when Vera Rubin first went observing there. (That's like half a century after this Prussia story...)

"All I did was embolden a series of anti-queer, right-wing and anti-trans hate groups, and now there are more anti-queer hate crimes! I am appalled" metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...

They call us the lost generation (not old enough for Stranger Things to feel nostalgic, not young enough to be into the actors)

Teaching myself Portuguese listening to various eras of Nelly Furtado

welcome duck museum

Astrophysics PhD Chris Williams is going to the ISS for eight months on November 27!! 🔭 physics.mit.edu/news/bound-f...

CDT in Aerosol Science is welcoming applications for fully-funded PhD studentships as part of our 8th cohort to start in autumn 2026: www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/ Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships! #PhD #academicjobs

Why would you ever 'pass' on Mastermind??? Just say egg or whatever.

like a month ago I got a new-to-me loveseat from a neighbor who was moving out, and my cat still refuses to sit on it so i assume it's a horcrux or something

Great NSBP-NSHP conference in San Jose. My first as a postdoc and invited speaker. Great to see mentees and folks shine. And see my peeps!

It's November already?

Not a reference to the wonderful STAR TREK: VOYAGER episode "Distant Origin". (Where at least some dinosaurs were sentient, developed spaceflight, left Earth, and built a civilization in the Delta Quadrant)

Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.

TFW someone on Bluesky says something other than DS9 is the best Star Trek

🧪🔭⭐ #exoplanets #exoplanet #youngplanets New paper from our group and @madysonbarber.bsky.social today! We report a brand-new planet around a <50 Myr star—adding to a very small (but rapidly growing!) population of the youngest known transiting planets. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10734

The origin of 'pedigree'. This type of C12 figure (not a family tree but a way of calculating relatedness – the titles of various relatives have not been put in the circles) looked like a crane's foot, thought medieval folk. So 'pied de grue' and hence 'pedigree'. Source in alt.