Looking forward to hearing from @snatale.bsky.social on “Talking to Parrots, or How to Make Sense of AI” at this year’s #ecsite conference…

Getting ready to speak about @openspaceproj.bsky.social at #ecsite in Göteborg! But realizing that no one at the conference seems to use BlueSky…

The gravitational center of the fulldome world has shifted to Brno for this week’s festival! What better way to mark the event than a giant inflatable sphere showcasing the EHT polarization image of M81’s black hole on the grounds? www.fulldomefestivalbrno.com/festival/?su...

You know you’re back in Brno for the fabulous annual fulldome festival when the line for delicious Czech food goes all the way down the stairs and into the lobby! www.fulldomefestivalbrno.com/program/

Great to be back at @universeum.bsky.social for the opening of the new @liu.se Visualization Center C production “Once Upon the Moon.” liu.se/en/news-item...

Very excited to present at Astronomy on Tap tonight! I’ll be talking about the making of “Spark: The Universe in Us,” as a nod to my Academy days… astronomyontap.org/event/astron...

Attending “Exploring AI in VFX,” sponsored by the New York section of the Visual Effects Society. (The walk-in music is Starship’s “We Built This City.” Do they know I’ve just arrived from the Left Coast?)

“I practice hope like an Olympic sport.” –Katharine Hayhoe at @amnh.org during New York Climate Week

Attending #LPS25 in Vienna. It feels somewhat insulting to subject 6,000+ attendees to an AI-generated “welcome” in an opening plenary. Like, you wouldn’t take the time to shoot a video but you’re going to have your AI clone take up our collective time? Am I being a curmudgeon?

There are LOTS of ways to #StandUpforScience! Take your pick from our menu of actions: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... And check out our event host guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

From @aaas.org: “We can’t let passive things happen, like the idea that we’re not going to obligate funds that you already appropriated, destroy something that we’ve built over 80 years. Because if we allow it to break, we can’t just put it back together again next year.”

For the next several months, I’ll be at the amazing Visualization Center C in Norrköping, Sweden! I have a chance to work with the talented team here on some exciting visualization projects, including those that touch on climate and the environment.

Take a moment to reach out to your lawmakers about protecting our libraries and museums! takeaction.io/aibs/write-t...

This Tour of the Universe is one of my favorite #dataviz that I ever helped produce. Take a journey through the observable universe and back in time. Thank you @ryanwyatt.bsky.social and @marksubbarao.bsky.social two masters of the genre ✨

At @calacademy.bsky.social this morning, we hosted an amazing talk by Lori Fogarty, who heads up the Oakland Museum of California. For folks in the museum field, this talk is absolutely inspiring—to think about how we exist in and for our communities! I recommend watching.

Last week, I had the incredible opportunity to visit the Shanghai Astronomy Museum and speak at their symposium on the future of planetariums! The scale of projects in China boggles the mind…

Now that everyone is starting to show up here, I guess I should post something. What better than a photo of Nigel helping me organize my office?