Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.

Long-wavelength radio astronomy is some of the only science that would get a major benefit from being on the lunar far side. The Moon blocks radio noise from the Earth & presents the possibility of ground-based astronomy with no atmospheric interference. (Of course there are many other challenges!)

THANK. YOU.

I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.

All the little quail hatched out today. The hen had laid a bunch of eggs in a planter and she hunkered down under last season’s dried-out basil. I went out to check on them today and they were just leaving the nest. I counted 11 on the ground and another 5 still bopping around in the planter.

I talked to CBC-Kitchener-Waterloo Radio this morning about #Artemis II and they recorded a little video version of the interview afterward (with similar questions). You can watch here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Cyril Cox – "Late Afternoon Light" (2022)

From last night ….. M83 — total integration time was about three hours using Seestar S50. You can make out little red bits which are the h-alpha regions in the galaxies spiral arms.

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

This is entertaining ... after years of Ezra Levant whining about being persecuted for his political beliefs, he finally concedes that in order to avoid more prosecution for violating election financing laws, he is registering as a third party. In short, he admits he broke the law all this time.

Come on then, and remove him.

Actually do it in Independence Hall

they get really big and then stay out in space: lonely and immortal

How are our emotional support astronauts doing today? I haven’t checked on them.

The threat of tyranny is not over. Congress must reconvene, Speaker or no Speaker, and remove the rogue President.

The difference in Weekend Update between the shows is incredible. The UK one flirts with the smell your own farts smugness that I loathe about Jost and Che but there's very funny, very real anger to the UK one that's so refreshing.

For the first time in my life I looked up at the moon and thought: someone is over there

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

"...is he gone yet?"

Out of my late night classes. Decided to make good on my promise

Kinder Eggs imply the existence of Meaner Eggs except Meaner Eggs already exist in the overall zeitgeist and those are all made by Cadbury.

I was sold when Microsoft told its corporate customers not to use Copilot with Excel because it could make math mistakes. A computer program. Could get math wrong.

The first image we get after comms come back is us. All of humanity is in this shot. And I’m crying again. 🧪🔭 📸: NASA, annotations by me

GRANT REVIEWER REMINDER: in Canada you are not allowed to use AI of any kind for peer review of grants. ** reviewers are meant to keep grant content confidential ** please do not share someone’s unpublished, planned research with an AI program. kthxbai

Yup! Paywalls, anti-adblocker popups, and (most recently) drowning entire sites with banners and videos that force auto-refreshing. All these have made "mainstream" news sites completely inaccessible. But guess what sites don't have any of these? You guessed it, disinformation warehouses!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCIENCE POLICY TOPICS 🧪

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

they zip tied children for landlords

anecdotally, my experience is that Instagram is actively pushing videos to people who will hate them for the specific purpose of creating engagement / trolling loops like this. feels like a relatively new thing in the last month or two, but a bunch of my videos have gone viral "in a bad way"

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

I feel like not going to attend would be a less subtle but pointier statement but what do I know besides knowing that the president is not someone who should be treated like a normal person

The journalist plays one of the most important roles in a free society. They give the public information we need to be aware & make decisions. They are witnesses to the times bearing testimony. This is no small matter to be a journalist, it is a high calling, & these people in the press abdicate it.

this isn't some secret. they're killing us while wearing their nametags, we're each in our assigned seat waiting for our turn to burn bsky.app/profile/wind...

Oh no anything but that

Going to go on www.lbc.co.uk in about 90 minutes to enthuse about #Artemis II

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Be nice if any actual journalists left out there scratched this one until they found the money trail that leads from the public figures responsible for this push to the private industry players who bought the public figures, because that money trail absolutely does exist.

Reminder as Trump does war crimes that the Bush administration enacted the 'American Servicemembers Protection Act', colloquially referred to as the "Hague Invasion Act," which states that if any US politician or soldier is indicted by the Hague, the president may legally invade the Netherlands.

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

Think about how so many people who were in power in the beginning of the post-9/11 forever war bloodthirst, are still in power. Over two decades later, zero consequences. Same names, older and more wrinkled faces, still doing their warmongering thing.

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

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