A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit." Back to the Future Time Travel! Hosts, @robertmassey.bsky.social, Izzie Clarke, and @drbecky.bsky.social! Great interview with @drcarpineti.bsky.social and Dr Emma Osborne. 🔭🎢

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

Coming to the end of three days of #darkandquietskies at the UN here in Vienna. Brilliant to be hosted by the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs and a pleasure to meet so many people in person.

Look Mum I’m at the UN

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

The Super Massive Podcast talks about Protecting Our Dark Skies! Hosts @robertmassey.bsky.social, @drbecky.bsky.social, and Izzie Clarke. 🔭

Dr Paul Bate @ukspaceagency.bsky.social announces at #Appleton2025 that the #Beagle2 programme will be celebrated in 2026 with the installation of 10 plaques around UK linked to UK and Europe’s first successful landing of a probe on another planet.👏👏👏 #spacepolicy #space @esa.int

Check out the latest Supermassive podcast episode, about Dark Skies and all them pesky satellites. With Izzie Clarke, @drbecky.bsky.social, @robertmassey.bsky.social, yours truly, and @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, aka Sam Lawler. Then lobby your MP. shows.acast.com/the-supermas...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Was asked to give a 30 min talk to my @ukspaceagency.bsky.social Alumni about my back-garden astronomy imaging today. It did drift on a bit to 40 mins but @robertmassey.bsky.social @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social may be pleased to note that I left them with a firm last slide!

People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.

Biologic treatment for Crohn's disease makes me a bit more clinically vulnerable. As a result I'm grateful every single day for vaccines. The conspiracists are an absolute menace for public health and trust more generally.

The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…

If you're here at the Dynamic Earth science centre and planetarium come and say "Hi"! We're here until 7.30pm.

Hello from the 25th annual Science and the Parliament event in Edinburgh! 🪐🔭👋 Our Deputy Executive Director @robertmassey.bsky.social has been joined by Professor Andy Lawrence, from the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Sophie Butcher, of the British Geological Survey. ⤵️

Bonus episode of The Super Massive Podcast - Gone Rogue! Hosts, @robertmassey.bsky.social, @drbecky.bsky.social, and Izzie Clarke! Share and Enjoy! 🔭 Also, join the Super Massive Club! No ads!!!

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

The Super Massive Podcast helps us prepare for the big storm! Izzie Clarke, @drbecky.bsky.social, and @robertmassey.bsky.social host! 🔭

A wonderful and thought provoking talk by @robertmassey.bsky.social this evening to @bathastronomers.org.uk and visitors from the public. So kind of Dr Robert Massey to travel to us from London. It is the kind hearts of people like Robert that keep astronomical societies fun and vibrant communites.

Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.

Murder rates aren’t just dropping steeply in Britain — they’re even dropping in the US (though of course they’re far higher there). The 2024 homicide rate in the US decreased by about 15%, one of the largest drops in American history — and mostly in the largest cities.

Bonus Episode of The Super Massive Podcast! Help support the podcast by joining The Super Massive Club! Ad free and it helps the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social! @robertmassey.bsky.social, Izzie Clarke, and @drbecky.bsky.social host! 🔭🛰️🪐

Shouldn't the response to this be that Ukraine & its allies view any Russian troops in Ukraine as legitimate targets, since they're there in violation of the UN Charter and a variety of bilateral Ukraine-Russia agreements?

The UK couldn't take Reform's Trumpism. It doesn't print the world's currency; it doesn't have a vast internal market; it can't just ignore the bond markets; it doesn't have loads of really strong sub-national government. It would just break up like a satellite hitting the atmosphere.

In large part it's the fault of the Conservative Party just kind of... falling apart and giving up that we've got this massive threat burgeoning right in front of us. But if you asked me (I know you didn't) I'd recommend leaving the blame games at home and focus on stopping the UK doing the same.

This is what I mean. I'd vote for almost anyone to stop this lot. Doesn't matter what your political stripe, I'd recommend you do too. They are a clear danger to basic state functions. Just ask RFK Jr.

I've got no doubt that Reform UK are a threat to state security - to internal cohesion, intel co-operation with the EU27, to continued use of Faslane and to the Coalition of the Willing. And yet here we are.

So many people are soooo complacent about liberal freedoms they take for granted. Just like they were complacent about Trump and Putin. Don't be those people.

The interesting thing is that far more of the UK population remain tethered in reality. RefUK would have won, what, only 30% and a bit of the vote. And after this lot got going on science, vaccines, Ukraine, the BBC, the EHRC, the Reset and everything else they'd be in single figures within months.

It's clear from today's Reform UK Conference that if they gained an overall majority the UK would in some ways be even worse off than the US under Trump 2.0. Utterly unhinged Call of Cthulu-style stuff. Wouldn't take much for the country to become an autocratic semi-democracy either.

An unpleasant scene in central Oxford. On the left, anti-immigrant shouts of 'send them back' and (I'm pretty sure) 'shoot the f**kers'. On the right, singing of 'stop the hate/ stop the fear' through a tannoy. Crowd on the right about double the size of that on the left.

Another "Live" Q&A from @royalastrosoc.bsky.social's The Super Massive Podcast! Hosts, @robertmassey.bsky.social and Izzie Clarke along with some amazing guests! Check it out and join The Super Massive Club! 🔭🎢

Trump is reportedly creating a loyalty scorecard that rates how hard corporations work to support his agenda.  His regime is apparently planning to consult the ratings when considering corporate requests.  This is how things work in a dictatorship.

Ever wondered about the shape of space? 🌌 Join Izzie Clarke & @robertmassey.bsky.social as they tackle listener questions in the latest Supermassive Podcast. ✨ Plus, UK @esa.int astronaut Rosemary Coogan shares her journey from astrophysicist to astronaut! 👩‍🚀 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre. #affordablehousingUK www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...

Just had a look at my notifications on X, and find I'm accused of monomania by @iainmartin1.bsky.social. Yet in three-quarters of the manufacturing sector, electricity consumption is less than 3% of gross output. So it's not got much to do with it.

What is the shape of space? The Super Massive Podcast Bonus Episode!! Izzie Clarke and @robertmassey.bsky.social host! And don't forget to join the Super Massive Club for ad free episodes! 🔭🎢

Thanks to @meganeaves.com, @robertmassey.bsky.social from the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social, and the others who were able to share their expertise with us in this first episode

For the last seven months, Chris and I have worked on creating a limited series to tackle the topic of dark skies and light pollution, and why you should care about it. We couldn’t be prouder. The first episode is now out on all your favourite podcast apps www.theastroholic.co.uk/blog/fading-...

If you missed the live event, here is The Super Massive Podcast entitled, Astronauts: Do we need them? Thanks to @robertmassey.bsky.social, Izzie Clarke, and Richard Hollingham! 🔭

Another hugely exciting story I've been working on at #NAM with astronomers Matthew Hopkins & @chrislintott.bsky.social: Matthew confirmed that the newly discovered interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS, is older than our entire Solar System! ☄️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Personally I'd bet on the squirrels.

Following controversy at the #nam2025 quiz last night, we have now confirmed that Robert Massey *would* win in a fight with four squirrels. The results of the quiz are therefore unchanged.

On an LNER train after a great NAM conference in Durham. Once again it's hot, rammed, the wifi is threadbare, food and drink running low and we're already 30 minutes late. And people wonder why enough investment doesn't go outside London.

If you missed the STFC executive talks at #nam2025, then the take home message is that it’s all great and there’s loads of money.

Want to know about the secret side of @nam25-durham.bsky.social? Follow @unofficialnam.bsky.social... It's the only way I find out what's really going on... 😂😉

Good news at #nam2025 : new investment in instrument building in the UK. Bad news: it consists entirely of the leftover Lego from the creativity session. First come first served!

One for @royalastrosoc.bsky.social and @nam25-durham.bsky.social to note...