Wrapping up a very nice visit to the Yale Astronomy Department. Lots of lovely discussions about Rubin, ZTF, compact binaries, and much more!

Really stoked that dear family friend Steve Joo has been named one of @foodandwine.com's Best New Chefs for 2025. If you are in the Bay Area, check out www.joodooboo.co! www.foodandwine.com/2025-best-ne...

Yes but I, personally, was young then

ZTF 🔭 is now shadowing the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Science Validation survey footprint with a daily cadence in gri! www.wis-tns.org/astronotes/a... I made a "watchmap" for the Lasair broker that for all ZTF alerts falling in this region: lasair-ztf.lsst.ac.uk/watchmaps/568/

So the Grand Canyon is on fire...

Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Yesterday, astrophysicist Eric Bellm told us about his involvement with the groundbreaking Vera Rubin Observatory, as well as the astonishing things this #telescope could achieve in the coming years. 🔭 Watch at buff.ly/RcmRZEy

Just finished rereading Jane Smiley's 1995 university satire "Moo." Highly recommended for academics looking for a diversion this summer. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/168699...

Senate markup is tomorrow, call call call! 🔭 www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...

3I/ATLAS now recovered back to May 22 (mag 20.5 in g) in ZTF imagery, thanks Quanzhi Ye. In the latest MPEC

Build it! Everyone should learn the joy of changing trains at Park Street. This is what peak transit system design looks like. Seattle to San Francisco? Just go Inbound to Park St and change trains to go Outbound to San Francisco! Nothing could be simpler!

Full house at @dirac-institute.bsky.social for our @vrubinobs.bsky.social Data Preview 1 sprint! 🔭

We had a lot of fun last night with 500 of our friends and neighbors, celebrating the First Look images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social, and 20 years of vision and effort from our team at UW

🔭 Friendly advice for astronomers in the US and Chile--if you are excited to access @vrubinobs.bsky.social Data Preview 1 on Monday, request your account *now*--it has to get approved by a human. For best results use your university single-sign on, if available. rsp.lsst.io/guides/getti...

Two decades after RCSA’s catalytic investment in the project, we are thrilled to see first images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social‬! Looking forward to igniting further discovery at #Scialog: Early Science with the LSST.

Someone please talk me out of this impulse buy so I can view the @vrubinobs.bsky.social images.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

A tour-de-force intro to @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭 by @danclery.bsky.social‬ with some awesome graphics and quotes from many colleagues and friends!

Congrats to Dr. @tomwagg.bsky.social, who successfully defended his excellent PhD dissertation today!

Somehow, 25 years after its release, elementary school kids today are still finding and loving "Who Let the Dogs Out" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojUL...

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

Whether an individual student uses ChatGPT or not, I think any remaining value of their college degree as an employment credential is about to evaporate.

RIP to the few bucks of Skype credit I've been laboriously keeping active for the past 9 years

Wrapping up a great visit to @thenrao.bsky.social--I learned a ton, got to talk to folks about @vrubinobs.bsky.social, and ate lots of excellent New Mexican food!

v excited to see this work from @astrobonk.bsky.social on the arXiv !! In this, Rebecca Kyer + report the discovery of two Galactic accreting compact objects consistent with being transitional millisecond pulsars !! I worked on this optical variability plot with Rebecca !! 🧪🔭☄️ #highenergyastro

Yay SPHEREx! 🔭

Excited to see the science these talented folks are planning with @vrubinobs.bsky.social! Early-career faculty can join us for the 2025 edition of the LSST Scialog meeting series by self-nominating here: rescorp.org/scialog/earl... 🔭

Just wrapping up a lovely week in Oxford talking with the Lasair team and other European brokers about @vrubinobs.bsky.social. Many great discussions and a memorable conference dinner!

Attention #AAS245! 🔭

If you’re in the fire zone in pasadena and need a place to evacuate, let me know. We also have our rental south of Washington with lots of space

This program at MPIA (applications due Jan 15) is open to all nationalities and two positions are guaranteed to folks from non-rich countries. www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

I miss paper posters so much, @aasoffice.bsky.social! Amazing work by @nertushka.bsky.social 🔭

Posting to 🔭 since I got a review invite from Qeios.com today--a warning to authors that you can't submit your preprint to Qeios.com and the AAS journals.

ZTF's Bright Transient Survey has now classified 10,000 supernovae--the most by any survey to date! www.washington.edu/news/2024/12... 🔭

We've got a bit more than a week left of ComCam commissioning observations with @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭! We'll be focusing on these fields: community.lsst.org/t/locations-... ZTF is observing the accessible ComCam fields daily, look out for ZTF alerts at lasair-ztf.lsst.ac.uk/watchmaps/521/

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Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hi, I’m Cïre, a set of five cork coasters.

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

🔭 Latest @vrubinobs.bsky.social commissioning update is up! community.lsst.org/t/2024-11-22... Science images are starting to trickle in, including repeated imaging of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) and the Euclid Deep Field South!

Directory of 🦋 labeling services www.bluesky-labelers.io

So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard

Dollar for dollar the best NASA astrophysics mission! 🔭

It's shaping up to be a windy night in the PNW www.windy.com?46.271,-125....

bsky-follow-finder.theo.io is a great way to find all the colleagues you didn't realize you are missing (choose "sort by proportion") 🔭

a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about

🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social future's so bright, gotta wear shades

Types of 🔭 software papers

Kinds of 🔭 instrumentation papers

Had a lovely weekend helping facilitate the LSST Scialog. Early-career 🔭 faculty, look for another call for participation next year!