Paper day! We have discovered the brightest strong gravitational lens on the sky: 15th mag! "Persephone's Torch" is a quad quasar which was hiding in plain sight. But no longer, thanks to SPHEREx full-sky spectro-photometry +LBT. Congrats @freddavies.bsky.social #astronomy arxiv.org/abs/2604.13152

I had a ton of fun filming this documentary with ARTE! Discussing wild hypotheticals for how humanity may, one day, use black holes as a power source ⚡ #astronomy @artefr.bsky.social

Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics The number of papers submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics continues to rise, as demonstrated by this nice graphic which shows the stats for new submissions for the last five years: It's very clear that the thicket is getting thicker!…

Remember the days when eduroam was a global academic WiFi network that actually worked? Yeah, me neither

Hot take: If you are thinking about observation planning, and if you have choices, you should choose the plan that maximizes your long-term future-discounted information gain. . . .

Not targeting anyone in particular or anything, but making a press release for something that's just posted on arXiv is cringe

Today the ESO time allocation results have allegedly been announced. But gone are the days when they could just tell you the outcome by email. Now all PIs and CoIs need to log into an online portal... All at the same time You guessed it, it's been down for an hour

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