In case you are not into Eastern European geography: Tisza is the name of the other major river that crosses Hungary (next to the Danube), on the eastern part of the country. Long ago (150 years ago), it used to overflow every spring. Now it is contained by route management and levees.

Daughter and I both finished reading Project Hail Marry this week. Going to go see it tonight in theaters.

Immensely huge news!! I may break my many months of not having any alcohol to celebrate.

Not ashamed to say I've had them together. No need to choose.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, it’s bullshit,” he said. It's comical that he needs a toddler translation.

The genocide in Gaza was normalized. What did we expect to happen?

Did anyone check how viewership dropped while he was talking and the comments?

So why is the crew using a 10 year old Nikon? For those that are interested: petapixel.com/2026/04/06/t...

Really the ultimate solar eclipse. Must be a life altering experience.

Happy first Sunday, following the first full Moon, after the vernal equinox!

Found an injured/immobile hummingbird on our doorstep. Hive mind: what to do?

It's going to get very interesting after the midterms. Large scale GOP losses, unpopularity, and a lame duck president will bring out the opposition members of the party, who will get mercilessly attacked by the weak leadership. Some serious fracturing will happen.

Got a shirt for the final four game tomorrow. Notice the JWST mirror behind the Bball and the JWST PSFs in the Arizona logo

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing." Perfect summary sentence.

I would really like to know what an A-10 was doing flying near the straight? They are very specialized ground troop support aircraft. The only reason for one of those being there is that they are really considering boots on the ground.

Two planets for the price of one 🙂👍 Playing around in Celestia, I was able to identify the approximate time & orientation of that #Artemis II shot of Earth's nightside. Revealing that the bright object at lower-right is Venus. Thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting that I check 🙇‍♂️

Imagine the publicity this would be receiving with an administration that appreciates science.

The rising full Moon is gorgeous! Imagine the view that crew will have up there!

The cost of the Iran War so far would have paid the entirety of the development of SLS *and* the now-cancelled Mars Sample Return mission.

In an alternate universe, she is there at Cape watching the launch as President, and this is the major news on all outlets.

It's quite crazy that in a few hours we may be sending astronauts on a voyage around the Moon and there is basically ZERO media coverage. Science PR is failing badly and this is a reason why science funding is so low. If only we had a working economy and peace and the public could pay attention.

That's affordable housing for 500-1000 families.

People are not paying attention - and why would they to a country of 10 M people - but Hungary is having an election on April 12 and Orbán may finally actually be ousted. This is an enormous test to how a possible loss would be handled here in 2028. Keep an eye out for it in 2 weeks.

While I am yet to get paid for a talk, this is the same deal with honorariums for review panels.

We are all gonna miss TSA agents! Who would have thought the day would come.

The appropriate response would be to make the entire Muller report public.

I dare any Republican to just even try to defend this post.

There was a shooting in Tucson at Park Place mall between two young boys. There is a terrible video of the event on Instagram (not gonna share), but you can find it if you search. We go there occasionally. Little kids on video playing at the playground next to it. Just awful.

Tucson decided to skip spring altogether this year. It would have been nice.

China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

This is why the Easter bunny brings eggs. We have way too much.

My partner in crime! Best Co-PI!

1/5! Considering the 10x oversubscription and that I've seen more than one first quintile rejections, I am satisfied. So, what will we be doing? We are going to bring JWST/NIRCam coronagraphy into the optical! We tested a flight spare mask and surprise surprise ... it is transparent.

The expected JWST massacre is unfolding. The horror!

I am old enough to remember McCain singing Bomb Iran to the tune of Barbara Ann.

He said "zero illegal aliens were admitted". Illegals by definition are not admitted and you would not know their numbers.

The Streisand effect. Average view count for main guests are around 0.5-1 M for Colbert on youtube. This interview has already gained almost 4M.

And tossed weak babies off Mount Taygetos. Surely a culture they want to be associated with.

I wonder how the state department is going to handle the influx of people trying to obtain a passport just to be able to vote. You know who has those? Immigrants and young (left leaning) people who like to travel. Young women are also more likely to have kept their last names after marriage.

You know who won't get Mumps or Measles? Immigrants. We have to get booster shots as part of getting greencards.

(Settles in rocking chair, grumbling and muttering and rubbing a sore knee joint) Last week we had the sixth installment of the Spirit of Lyot conference series hosted in Pasadena, focused on direct imaging of exoplanets and high contrast instrumentation. It was an excellent conference. /1

I've been reading a gazillion posts about the SB. And yet, not one about the game itself. I don't even know (or care, truth be told), who won.

The kids are alright.

This is exactly what's going to happen!

Thank goodness for Bsky.

The 2A doesn't say that a tyrannical government will leave you alone if you have a gun. It just says you are allowed to have one to oppose said tyrannical government.

Turns out, "deplorables" didn't go far enough.

That was straight up execution.