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.

I wonder what it is going to be like, when AI starts learning from databases generated by AI. The entire internet is going to become an in-bred mutation.

We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org

Imagine Gandhi saying that he wants war with the British because he never got a Nobel.

Did she also give him the ~$1M?

A slightly more interesting Nobel medal story: In 1943, Nobel laureate chemist Hevesy György dissolved the gold Nobel medals of Max von Laue and James Frank in aqua regia, who had sent their medals to Denmark for safekeeping from the nazis. After the war, Hevesy found the solution unharmed ...

The ultimate re-gifting.

It's fun to have a friend with you at work. He's been sad without his brother at home so joined me today.

Ok, something is going on. Within a few minutes a dozen or so high follower (and high following) accounts just started following me. Are bots coming online to bsky in droves?

Sky & Telescope has a great in-depth article on the new Fomalhaut collisional object, with some quotes from yours truly. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Our NASA’s Pandora space telescope is on orbit!! Congrats to the team and NASA, LSP, SpaceX, and everyone who helped to get to this exciting point! What will Pandora do and why is it important for exoplanet science? Read my short article on this: theconversation.com/nasas-pandor...

The first space telescope whose Mission Operations Center is at the University of Arizona has been deployed. @stewardobservatory.bsky.social astro.arizona.edu/news/nasas-p...

Too bad he can't run for president.

What a privilege it has been to be your friend for almost 11 years. Best dog ever.

3m aperture space observatory announced by Schmidt Sciences, with a coronagraph! I'd recommend everyone come to their talk at AAS tomorrow (Wednesday): arxiv.org/abs/2601.025...

My parents, born in '53, first learned about the true history of the 1956 revolution in Budapest when we came to the U.S. in '85 and met some kind older immigrants from Hungary. They were shocked. Lies by regimes can last generations, if they are allowed to spread.

Spotted a Sonora bobcat this morning just when it snatched a white-winged dove. Such a beautiful animal!

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

I am just surprised that they didn't make Fraktur the default font.

Just a reminder: when the 2nd amendment was written, they didn't even have these types of guns (percussion), only flintlocks.

I remember when Twitter used to be like this ....

"He grew up surrounded by his gran's [DVD] collection" ... My Gran had a tunable tube TV.

So foreigners won't have to pay the $100 if they enter the national parks on T's birthday this summer?

Humankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades. 75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).

The main problem is that space telescopes in Low Earth Orbit share the similar orbits as the telecommunication satellites. Here we show a simplified representation of the increased orbital crowding between 1958 (Sputnik) and the projected satellite population at the end of the next decade.

The big juice off. I recently bought a cold press juicer and we have had a centrifuge style for 15 years now. My wife said only one can stay. 900 g of carrots into each. The Breville centrifuge one gave 480 ml while the cold press one gave only 320 ml. I am a bit surprised.

I am getting old. I just want the simple things I used and liked when I was 25. Breathed life into an old MS Zune30. Upgraded it with a 120Gb SSD and a 3600 mAh battery (factory at 1200 mAh). Has all my old favorites and goes on for a long time. No need to stream. BTW, these Zunes are awesome ...

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Going to the grocery store Thanksgiving morning is fun. Horde of dads with shopping lists wandering around.

If ya need a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Search for "Krauss" and get a vomit bag. Everything from how to deal with accusations, to how he was denied presentations, to T's attitude towards climate change and NASA science.

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.