My daughter has been googling me also, but is yet to find my teacher ratings. I have one negative rating on ratemyprofessor and I am actually quite proud of it. It says "Great class to take if you are interested in astronomy". Don't take an astro class if you are not interested in astro.

Final count: 2935 #Cycle5 JWST proposals. 🔭 🪐 www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House. Al-Sharaa is the former leader of U.S.-designated terror group al-Qaeda who was once wanted by the U.S. as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. He has even served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison.

They are burning down the library of Alexandria. Knowledge lost, forever.

I think he just likes to break flip phones in half.

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

I just realized that my birth year is closer to the end of WW2 than it is to today and I don't know how to process this fact.

Gotta appreciate the astro term. And he didn't even say lightyear ... he said parsec! www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Fantastic analysis by Robert Reich.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Well, NOW I know that Reagan had a speech on free trade.

Is the new ballroom going to share a wall with the residence building or is there going to be a new corridor built? Please tell me he is not adding on to the existing residence.

It looks like the colonnade is also gone.

Today, Hungarians protest again. And a traveler captured an image of the crowd, snaking up Andrassy Boulevard to Heroes Square, from their RyanAir flight. Who needs drones?

A great article ... do read if you have 5 minutes.

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

"A bulldozer removing debris from the inside of the White House, during the renovation of the building. The bulldozer had to be taken apart and moved into the WH in pieces, as President Truman would not allow a hole large enough to fit the bulldozer to be cut into the walls of the WH."

75 years ago, under President Truman, the entire internal structure of the WH was gutted and rebuilt, as it was falling apart. Even they didn't touch the facade and it was vital that they preserved that as much as possible. I recommend reading about it: the bidding process and the conservation.

I am hearing final proposal number counts of 2940, which include removal of duplicate submissions. 🔭

Updated plot — now with <<Peeples>> Time 😅

So, we are tracking well above Cycle 4. Figure by @mpudoka.bsky.social and Yongda Zhu. 🔭

Fun fact for today: in the first few years of HST, proposers had to submit their proposals via postal mail (and send a template electronically). No late last minute submissions then! Postage stamp and large envelopes. 🔭

We are at least at 2308 submissions right now. 🔭

The JWST Cycle 5 "Procrastination Monitor", i.e. Molly's proposal counter submission form, is up an running. Please fill it out if you have data to add to it. And do share! #JWSTCycle5 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our paper on the JWST/MIRI observations of the epsilon Eridani system, led by Dr. Schuyler Wolff, were published today! This is the last of the Archetypical Disks in our MIRI Survey, after Fomalhaut and Vega. Just like for those disks, our MIRI images reveal an extended inner asteroid disk!

Completely cancelled our Disney+ subscription. Will buy the boxed Bluey DVD set. That's all the kiddo watches anyways. Not only did they not give full support to Jimmy, they also are raising their prices. Know your audience.

House prices in Silicon Valley and Austin are going to drop quite a lot, is my guess.

Holy cow. This is gonna cause so much trouble.

So much for international faculty or tech workers. This is how you lose all the money invested in international PhD students. Just let them all go back home. Well done.

Converted our Disney+,HULU, Max bundle to only Disney+. My kids would murder me if I cancelled Disney also, but give it few more years and that will be gone too.

This isn't the way.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

'mkdir Cycle5' ... here we go.

Bobcat hanging out on top of our chicken coop, hoping for a tasty snack and locking eyes with a coyote.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Who's gonna be the first politician to offer thoughts and prayers on the murder of little kids while they were praying?

What's more to say?! LOOK AT IT!

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

As he ducks the Zohran question, worth remembering Senator Booker has gotten $900,000 from AIPAC. (He also voted for Kushner’s pardoned father’s ambassadorship)

Trump canceled the research grant for America’s — perhaps the world’s? — top mathematician (via @weakinstrument.bsky.social)

Loeb: we must stick to the facts, not judge things based on public opinion. Also Loeb: Look at how many likes and messages my ideas get! I must be doing it right.

For 40 years, Michelle Cournoyer has supported students and faculty, solved problems, and shown up with heart. As she prepares to retire this August, we celebrate the impact of a true Steward Observatory legend: bit.ly/3GWkAQv

💥Viktor Orbán’s demographic strategy is a disaster. Over the past decade, 37.8% of Hungary’s population decline was due to emigration to other EU countries. Hungary is losing the competition to retain its own citizens while birth rates tank. Read Direkt36's in-depth article on @vsquare.bsky.social👇

There was a Shuttle launch that I worked on console…STS-133 maybe? Anyway, Stephen Colbert was at JSC to tape a bit for his show. And after the launch I went to the building he was in. After taking a nap in the car, he showed up in an orange ACES suit. That’s me with the sunglasses on my head.

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)