Good thing England brought him up from central accounting.

This referee seems like he would absolutely turn the car right around if you don’t stop hitting your brother.

Ok, this is a Game.

Harry Kane looks like he was destined to process forms wearing an ill-fitting suit, but was accidentally good at football.

Blessings to the person who referred to Haaland as “Norwegian megafauna”.

I cannot handle trying to keep up with both the World Cup and a schism.

For Father’s Day, my dad in Somalia teaching physics while Aden Adde, the country’s first democratically elected president looks on.

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The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

BY SUBMITTING A GROUP COMMENT, YOU CAN BE MORE OF A HEAVY HITTER. "The Comment of 19 PIs whose labs have 497 patents related to the treatment of disease" IS FUCKING LITIGATION GOLD. 🧵

What we are talking about here goes beyond science — this is the dismantling of the American administrative state as we know it. This is maybe the biggest change in American governance since the New Deal. It is hard to overstate that THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL. 🧪🔭⚛️

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

Our Undergraduate and Graduate Research Showcase is back! Cash prizes to be won: 1st place - $1000.00 2nd place - $750.00 3rd place - $500.00 Register to present your research using the links in the thread below! #BlackSpaceWeek2026 #BlackInAstro

This succulent pet bed may be the best $30 purchase I’ve made in years. I just look at it and laugh and laugh and laugh. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

I am not ready to face the level of cringe in this to dare watching it, but Frank is a lovely interviewer, and there is backstory about why I haven’t shut up about Arp systems for 30 years.

Shout out to the aggressive autocorrect that changed “chat with” to “shag with” on a work email.

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

My mother: You’re responsible with what you post online, right? Always respectful? Me, about to post my definitive ranking of "most cancellable impact basins:" Yeah, absolutely

#astromethods #astrocoding #astrocode ☄️🔭

Please spread the word! In addition to becoming an important part of the MESA project, the person in this role would have opportunities to collaborate on scientific software across CCA, which has a vibrant, interactive community of scientists and code developers.

My pumpkins? Smashing.

Something I’m genuinely curious about: can academic research financially afford to go all-in on AI? We used to have to pass the hat to cover buying a new laser printer.

🔭 Storytime! This paper consumed my soul for a month and it turns out that you have to look at your 2D spectroscopic data. Thread... ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024OJAp...

Two decades ago, billionaire spending accounted for just 0.3 percent of federal campaign contributions. Now the 300 families we examined are giving an average of $10 million each — equivalent to the combined voice of roughly 100,000 typical donors. 2/7

Well, she is. @geckzilla.bsky.social

Because “looking at images, not catalogs” is a dying pastime, the paper includes a tutorial on -how- to interpret images of galaxies. Qualitative information alone can get you a surprisingly long way towards a reasonable model, if you’re thinking through the links between morphology and physics.

In LA, I had a neighbor with a dog named “Ted” and a boyfriend named “Rusty”. Also, I am not good with names.

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

Applications are open for our visiting grad student pre-doctoral program at the CCA @flatironinstitute.org ! More info here: www.simonsfoundation.org/2023-flatiro...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Thinking more about this, which is exactly right. I think this is a huge opportunity for public university faculty organizing. Active education campaigns. Shared tools for analyzing and projecting impacts of funding models. Recruiting & training at least one budget advocate per department.

Faculty have essentially two choices: (1) learn in painstaking detail how resources flow through your institution and how budgets work or (2) complain as you are cut to the bone and then broken. You’d be shocked at how many administrators and faculty do not understand their budget model.

NYC: Next weekend (2/20 - 2/22), Hands Off NYC is holding tons of community events across the city where you can help hand out resources (e.g., whistles, KYR info) and support mutual aid groups—all designed to protect your neighbors from ICE. Sign up to host or attend at HandsOffNYC.com/community.

Come make anti-ICE signs and banners with us by signing up at HandsOffNYC.com/build.

If you see this post a Star Trek

"reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience...Reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape."

Astronomer Eric Wilcots to become interim chancellor of UW-Madison! 🔭

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Extremely good analogy. The endgame for AI companies is that everyone becomes dependent on their tech, and has to keep paying $2000 / year to write software. High-quality software is not actually necessary to achieve that goal.

No kidding! You use AI for your work just once, and for the rest of your life people will look at your work and wonder if you really did it, or if it was AI. Not worth it.

The sheer joy I felt just now discovering that there is a new Dan Foreman Mackey video about JAX.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Working on my first FA paper in the era of LLM, so it was important to me to develop a position on how I want to use them in my work. IMO it makes sense to acknowledge and state how these tools were used! But I suspect many are using without limits or a position on how...

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.