great to see this summary of Yuhan Yao's paper on AT2024tvd !!

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

very cool thing I saw on arXiv is an @astrobites.bsky.social linked on the arXiv page of the paper [click “1 blog link”]  !!! I’ve been pushing for this for the past few years, and I’m excited to see it live — big thanks + congrats to the team that made this happen !!!! 🧪🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2501.09580

$1,000,000 is only like 34 sedans btw; rounding change for Toyota

Gillian Anderson as James Bond when

dua lipa released 'Future Nostalgia' in 2020, and I was convinced she'd never write anything better, and then she released 'Radical Optimism' in 2023, and I was wrong, and again I'm convinced she'll never write anything better than this

conference idea: everyone presents a 2-5 min flash talk on the first morning and then everyone votes what they want to hear a 15 min/hour long talk about and that's how schedules are decided

stressed

i see i see but gas is still $5 a gallon ok right www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

this is good music.apple.com/us/album/rhi...

got excited briefly thinking this was an Atlantic piece about the TXF reboot : (

really great talk from Swift-PI Brad Cenko on the history of Swift and the boost mission sprinkled with several Taylor Swift references; his talk starts at ~ 39 min. 🔭🧪✨🎤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nAs...

msu dairy store ice cream >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Why bike somewhere when you could bike nowhere?

mmhmm mmhmm www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvUP...

'Chonkers,' the massive sea lion, is drawing crowds at San Francisco pier

wanting to reshare this

me also this summer with the Swift Boost mission

SOMEHOW THINGS GOT EVEN BETTER OH MY GOD

nearly 1 trillion USD ........... truly having difficulty comprehending that

this would fix the website

new ariana grande album coming 7.31 ..................... dreams do come true

new taylor swift interview www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/m...

How your email finds me.

incredible photos of a walrus falling off a pontoon in scotland. source www.facebook.com/groups/scotl...

evermore..... my overlooked old friend music.apple.com/us/album/gol...

good morning

cool cool cool

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A message on the Camden Yards scoreboard: No more fireworks tonight as the Orioles have hit too many home runs.

whomst amongst us does not love a manul

so stressed and busy that in my dream last night i just went to work and had a normal 1-1 research meeting about the paper i'm working on

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

'Hot Blooded' by Foreigner ........... 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

'The Black Dog' by Taylor Swift.......... mmhmm

Throwback post: This week's image is of the Orion "Bullets," which was captured with Gemini’s GSAOI. These structures result from iron gas (blue tips) rushing through neutral hydrogen gas (red pillars) due to nearby star formation. Check out a few paper highlights in the thread! #Astronomy

Never thought I'd be able to see a spider's heart beating with the naked eye. 🕷️ Cool story by Olivia Maule at @science.org

As a reminder, NASA's entire budget, *including* human spaceflight (which is about half of it), is already less than 0.4% of US federal spending. As a comparison, defense spending, even when NOT actively starting wars, is more than 10% (with a huge increase proposed for FY2027).

This is more broadly generalizable: If you don't do the research yourself, you have no idea if AI is making stuff up. And if you do the research yourself, then AI isn't saving you much labor, if any.

The Milky Way, seen from Cerro Pachón in Chile (with a meteor passing through!). Behind the Gemini South telescope, you can see NSF–DOE @vrubinobs.bsky.social #astronomy Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek

rare speaker dinner last night where all members (6, incl. speaker) were women < 3 #womeninSTEM

ICYMI, here are some stunning new images showcasing baby star and planet systems 🤩 Here, combined images from #jwst, Hubble, & ALMA let us see the edge-on planet-forming discs. More: esawebb.org/images/potm2...

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"Why aren't satellites visible in Artemis II photos?" Me: Because they're tiny. Learn With Sherlock: Hold my abacus.

oh to be an eastern newt climbing on some leaves

"Grief requires a language, and sometimes prayer is the only language people have. But prayer cannot be policy. It cannot be prevention." open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

I get to write about some pretty unusual medical case reports for @livescience.com, and this one was a doozy. A woman in the UK suddenly started hearing voices urging her to get medical attention for a brain tumor, despite having no symptoms or prior diagnosis. The "voices" turned out to be right 🧪

rip ADS is down : (