A great long-term takeaway from my time at Stanford was their university policy of EANABs: for every college event with alcohol, equal $ had to be spent on Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, so it wasn't a choice between Fancy Cocktail vs Sprite. It helped both reduce stigma & pressure.

My family are useful canaries of what news the public actually sees from astro, and only yesterday did my mum ask me about a study (one article of many linked below) who said they "trained an AI" to simulate the Milky Way. This was NOT AI as how the public sees "AI", and this is disingenuous.

Hvorfor er sveitsere så søte? Fordi de spiser nüsslisalat!

Avslører du deg selv som oldebarnet til Zinovjev? Forøvrig også en kar som var i eksil i Sveits. Her bør nok overvåkingspolitiet sjekke om det plottes revolusjon igjen…

Rikinger har som kjent ikke smak, så jeg trygger meg mot å bli forvekslet med dem med min oldefars ashtrakanhatt

Remember that lovely aurora last week? Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱 🧵

Når du ser Tom Cruise og Mads Mikkelsen i håndgemeng skli nedover solcellepanelene på Powerhouse Brattøra vet du at noe er på gang!

The first wintry bite is making itself felt today & thoughts of a cosy cape are very appealing. This early #1880s example is constructed from stranded down filaments & silk so that it is almost weightless but warm. Precursor to the down jacket but in white bobbly style #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This will be my goto answer to anyone from now on. Especially physicists: «we need to make more electrons»

I am going to be banging this drum forever, but holy shit moving menus is evil from an accessibility standpoint. It sucks for those of us who can see and aren’t in any stage of senility, but if you can’t see it’s the fucking worst.

my new AI startup will spin your dumbass prompts into gold but you have to guess its name

6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.

Kanskje litt bra at Technotika er litt for stor til å ta med i vesken, ellers hadde jeg sittet og grått og ledd på trikken

Confusing stats language: The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters". It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models. online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less... 1/2

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Two very interesting papers about dark energy on the arXiv today, both very relevant to the ongoing interest in possibly evolving DE as suggested by the DESI results 🔭🧪 Here's the first and potentially more explosive one: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07517

bing bong! Solen har en hel del solflekker på høyrekanten, og sendte masse partikler til oss som ble til nordlys i går natt, hold utkikk!

Hei, @erlendebo.bsky.social jeg tror noen forsøker lage etterlikningskonto av deg, (@erlendeideb) som forsøkte følge meg og andre -- rapporterte til bsky

petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed

it had better make a star cluster when it does 😠

Finnes ikke sjans for at en buss kan erstatte et slikt tog!

Var på sivilforsvarsmuseum og fikk vite at 1) ja Sveits har tilfluktsrom til hele befolkningen men 2) de fleste av dem er kjellere med svært variabel beskyttelse og 3) de som ikke har kjeller vet som oftest ikke hvor de skal gå, og det er med vilje (!) for at de ikke skal dukke opp før de er klare

Moderne komfyrer må være en svindel, spør du meg, det finnes alltid en høyere induksjonshøyde om du legger til 1, så man kan aldri oppnå en induksjonstopp

Hurra for våtmopp, gulvvaskens zen

Happy Women in Physics Day to all of the amazing women and gender minorities in physics!! We are still greatly under-represented at all levels, so we need to continue encouraging girls and young women to consider studying physics and make systemic changes to the climate in the field. ⚛️ 🎢 👩‍🔬 🧪

Å putte braille på _fronten_ av toget var litt vel ideosynkratisk selv for Frankrike synes jeg!

Hvorfor heter det cybersikkerhet og ikke totallforsvaret 🤔

The secret that #BigMaths doesn't want you to know is that real numbers are vectors, complex numbers are vectors, matrices are vectors, and even tensors are vectors. You might ask "is there anything that is not a vector?" and the answer is "spinors". But spinors are evil. 🙃 /s

Hi, direct detection dark matter people! ⚛️🧪 github.com/kdund/dd_lim...

Are Wave Guides the female equivalent of Sea Scouts?

kan egentlig ikke slappe av, men jeg kan forsømme mine plikter en kort stund

Though today the atmosphere among Bluesky leftists is idealistic, the realities of New York are familiar to anyone who has witnessed the city up close. I have visited several times, and each time, I saw things that stayed with me. The Empire State Building was one. I also saw the Statue Of Liberty.

" Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" er bare fransk for "ta deg en bolle"

Fant et mer firkantet tog!

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

that's me in the corner that's me in the float point losing my precision

Tirer moi en arriere avec la Grande Vitesse travers la caisse du oiseaux!

Grøsselig halloween, alle sammen, fra meg og Terry!

sometimes I think math is a whole extremely-long running inside joke that's not actually very funny

Første forsøk! Synes det ble en ok tintinaktig look :)

“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript. #science #academia

"I like your style!" fra en ekspeditør er validererende både rent motemessig og i at jeg virker uslibrig nok til å gi kompliment, men får en ørliten bismak fra antagelsen om mine tyskkunnskaper

I am proud to be a knobhead

Har tatt på meg briller, så nå ser jeg dere meget bedre, alle sammen er fjonge! (Cc nytt profilbilde: jeg har bart, briller og smiler mot kamera i flatterende sidelys)

Hver dag:

Å være voksen betyr at man kan spise kjeks med masse smør og gammelost til frokost mens man hører på Lily Allen

Not my specialty, but look at these wonderful plots! Swirly contours plus lines in all kinds of colors

Folkeopplysning fra arbeids- og miljømedisiner: bly er et naturlig forekommende grunnstoff som finnes omtrent over alt. Det finnes i små mengder i maten vår, drikkevannet vårt, og dessverre også i hygieneprodukter. Det er ekstremt vanskelig å bli kvitt. Ja, det har negative helseeffekter.