This is sad news. Good luck to the repair team at Lick in the upcoming months.

He lied that Haitian immigrants were trapping and eating cats...

What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...

they've always been biased against anyone who's not a white man and now white men are feeling more of the economics of scarcity as well.

I wonder if these guys don’t realize people will lie to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. The hiring committee chair lied to me the first time I was shortlisted; I learned from that and never forgot.

This reminds me of the time I was on a panel and we got a one-sentence external review that basically said "[Proposal PI] does good work; anything he proposes is worth funding." Reviewer is, not surprisingly, a notorious asshole.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

George Retes is a U.S. citizen and Iraq war veteran. He was detained by ICE and held in solitary confinement for three days without explanation. George shared his story before Congress to make sure no American has to endure the same abuse he did.

Very sorry to hear that Raul Malo died. I've had many happy hours listening to The Mavericks and his solo albums. RIP.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations. Read our new NASA article in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy. President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.

Cedar fever has entered the chat.

The right's anti-empathy shtick has predictably slid into straight psychopathy. At worst these are low-level cocaine smugglers. More likely they're locals trying to make some extra income. Some are likely innocent. Meanwhile, Trump just pardoned a high-level distributor. And an ex-dealer leads HHS.

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

Thomas Chatterton Williams & co are desperately flogging "the work right" to justify their focus on the left. The more obvious parallel is that the right is obsessed with a form of identity politics that far outstrips anything you see on a college campus, and with much more radical policy goals.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵

@deschscoveries.bsky.social continues to do yeoman's work demonstrating why speculations of the alien origin of 3I/ATLAS isn't just wrong, it's really crappy science. His writeups are also very funny.

Incredibly infuriating when the "pro-life" position allows a woman to die rather than provide her with proper medical care.

I dunno, can I hope that when Larry Summers says he will honor his teaching commitments, he's just referring to this semester, of which there are just a few weeks left?

I too was very fortunate in my career and wish everyone could have said the same.

No defense of Nuzzi, who should have been permanently sidelined after breaking one of journalism's sacred rules, but her writing isn't always terrible. Her articles about Rudy drunkenly butt-dialing her were on point. It's also why her Biden article hit harder than others of the same ilk.

This is why his colleagues are so annoyed by Loeb's work. It is not good science to ignore the work of experts who know more than you.

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

We just said goodbye to Willow. For 15 years, she was our best companion. We’ll miss her so much.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

What I wonder is what is driving MTG and Hanania to articulating positions of relative normality. Is the MAGA craziness about to lose its grip?

OMG that’s hilarious.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Hey, @chanda.blacksky.app, I was just reading about your mother and grandmother last night.

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Whoa, I hadn’t heard who was ousted. I worked with Markham in 2020, when we worked with the UT admin on covid response planning. He put an enormous effort into serving the university during that time. What a farce.

Does anyone have a word for the guilt you feel when you are working but you are avoiding the hard task you really need to be addressing?

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

I wrote my last term paper (on boron in the interstellar medium), finishing at 3 a.m. the day it was due. I was pulled over by a police officer as I left campus. He let me go when he realized I wasn't drunk, just dorky.

E Pluribus Dumdum

Ooh, the next SPIE meeting is in Copenhagen. Getting excited already.

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard

jesus: turn the other cheek pete "christian crusader" hegseth: shut up pussy

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...) Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

For those posting things they perhaps shouldn’t, it costs you nothing to show someone’s small children the kind of grace that Someone Else would never think to show the children of their slain or hurt enemies. That is not the same thing as accurately assessing a dead man’s legacy or record

Let’s hope the NYT public editor looks into why Times reporters witnessed multiple instances of cash being handed out at the mayor’s events but didn’t write it up til they got beaten on the story by a feisty nonprofit site …. Apologies … We are being told the Times no longer has a public editor.