I'm not a sports guy but it seems to me that this kind of genuine unbridled emotional joy, generated by actual human achievement, and not data centers, is something we really need to see these days.

but the tl;dr will be if you are willing to trade almost anything you have in your sphere of influence, eventually you will trade too much for nothing

Atmospheric pollution from falling SpaceX debris. Nice write up, with quote from yours truly squeezed in at end www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lithium? Could we get some **sodium** up there instead for us LGS AO people?

Five years ago today! We imaged Perseverance on its descent to Mars, under fairly challenging conditions but we did it because we have a kickass team. www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...

To be fair, if any journal is going to be particularly experienced with publishing low-quality papers, it is Nature.

the brief moment of hope and suspense logging in while you wait to find out if you need 2FA

If you see this post a Star Trek

Just some search results from jmail.world for a few uniquely-named #StarTrek stars 🖖

I will celebrate when schools re-open all the offices, programs, scholarships, and groups they closed.

For any Only Connect fans out there - and anyone else who wants a nerdy take down of 90s/00s pop melodies, behold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdxk...

Not a good look for Sminty :( #DragRacevsWorld

General 🔭 PhD interview advice from a recent email I sent: "We won’t be judging you on your clothes, but it’s a good idea to where something that looks kinda nice but *isn’t* a suit :)" Suits are weird, kids, but do make an effort.

This is yet another example where astronomers don't realise how good we have it. I do actually have a GS account, but the profile is private, and I haven't looked at it for many years. Everything we do is via NASA ADS, which is - and has always been - vastly superior to anything Google offered. 🔭

Galaxy Slam trading cards are in. Better stock up on Ty’s for selling on eBay after the HWO life detection discovery in 2041.

If you see this post a Star Trek

Stop adding alliterative words to the list of stress responses. I can't keep up. 🟨🟩🟪🟦

Just the local news feed. Who's been living in his (Higgs, presumably) all this time then?

The NRAO released some radio astronomy valentines and NGL this one is making me giggle 💘 🔭🧪

Aaah yes, the Rolling Stones who were in no way whatsoever stealing the music of Black people in the New World who were forcibly brought here by your favorite “civilization” to provide the labor to build your shining city one a hill here. Got it.

"You're gonna punch me?" "Yeah." "Then you're gonna get in trouble for that." "Okay."

The government need to raise the threshold that we pay our Plan 2 loans back. We were told that we would only pay the loan back when we have a good paying job, but now the threshold is only slightly above minimum wage. We were misled.

If you were dropped at a random point in the Milky Way, there is a less than one in a hundred billion chance (1 in 100,000,000,000) that you'd ever have enough starlight to read a book.

One day I just didn’t log into AIM. I think about that a lot.

I mean, we *can* see right through him... like he's bathing in Windex

OSU prof Luke Perez was put on administrative leave after assaulting this cameraman. Prof Perez is part of the new OSU Salmon P. Chase Center, created by Senate Bill 117 to promote "conservative ideology on academia". The OSU Chase Center plans to hire 100 faculty. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Benefits of the EU countries I've worked in so far (🇩🇪 & 🇦🇹): - better salary - better healthcare - better pension - higher standard of living - cheaper rent - more access to research funding - *significantly* more trans friendly I have basically no reason to move back to the UK. 🤷‍♀️

STAR TREK / DRAG RACE REALNESS!!! INCREDIBLE!

hey by the way if you want to be fucked up for the rest of the day, I saw a statistic once that the number of gay men in Florida who died of AIDS was something like 10x or 20x the number of Florida votes the 2000 election was decided by we don't know what world we'd be living in if they were here

To make it even better, a certain alien focused astronomer had been invited to speak at this now canceled event. We did manage to get the invitation rescinded. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

The staffer thing is so funny, like an entirely white nationalist administration has to be like oh no, there’s one of us who’s more racist that the rest of the ethnic cleansers

Once again I think in addition to the normal Olympics they should do one where instead of professional athletes they randomly choose 46 year olds from each country and make them compete

Some quick math etymology! algebra: al- (the) -jabr (restoring) From the book Al-Jabr Wa'l-Muqābala (on restoring and balancing), written by: al- (the) -Khwarizmi (from Khwarazm, broadly Khiva*) The book on restoring numbers, by the man from Khiva. And then! 1/3

The world has been sleeping on Cirroc Lofton since DS9. Turns in such a great performance tonight.

So #StarfleetAcademy is off to an amazing start. Using one of the biggest unresolved plot lines to educate a cadet 800 years later is 🤯

Hey, I lost a bunch of followers when I reposted this last night, so this morning I'm ordering MORE boxes and reposting it again!

which empire does the empire state building commemorate

MPs for Cambridge and Milton Keynes Central represent institutions (Cambridge and OU) with astronomy groups. If you're in those please email Emily Darlington and Daniel Zeichner ASAP.

Catching up on the Mission Impossible movies, and among the many funny parts is Ethan Hunt doing magic tricks looking like he was trained by Gob Bluth...

Brooks explains why he was in photos in the files (1 of him alone, 1 with Sergey Brin) at 6:32 in this PBS Newshour clip. AFAIK, there's no more to this. I love the Newshour! I love Jonathan Capehart and am not a huge fan of Brooks. I just think we should stick to facts. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

My partner tells me my point here is unclear. I'm making fun of "anti-woke" Star Trek fans, pointing out that they seem to hate love between people of any gender, but they're cool with Human-Vulcan, Trill-Klingon, etc... (The original Outkast lyric is about the hypocrisy of tabacco & cannabis laws)

You can dislike David Brooks, but he has been open about why he showed up in the background of a photo in the files. He didn't even know who Epstein was at the time or that he was there. I've been "at a conference" that Geoff Marcy was at "multiple times" - it doesn't make me "Marcy class"

5 classes I took in elementary school social studies math phys ed language arts science

617 Edinburgh astrophysics PhD application update emails sent out. Will sort through the bouncebacks on Monday.

We're recruiting international MRes and PhD students at Macquarie across stars & planets, galaxies, and instrumentation. Sign up here by February 8! In particular, I'm recruiting for exoplanet projects generally and have funding for RVs in particular. Submit your expressions of interest here!

Coming to you live from outside the very special screening of “Melania” at The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center

That we seem to be about to be hit by substantial cuts to the STFC budget, reminds that something similar happened about 16 years ago. At the time I was writing a blog that was read by almost noone. Looking back on what I wrote, I can see why 😀. 1/n

My favorite fun fact is that Dragonfly literally cannot fly on Earth. And if it tried, the rotors would basically immediately overheat.