Help a vital community project in Gaza stay open! Volunteers help displaced & homeless youth connect to remote jobs (to feed their families!!!), study and learn skills, and reconstruct their lives & society. 260/770 for the week. Hit weekly on a five! chuffed.org/project/spar...

Bumping this!! The deadline to present your work as a graduate/undergraduate student and get paid for it is coming up in 5 days! Don’t miss the opportunity to sign up! #BSW2026

Lowkey forgot about this website for ages until I was proper to sign in specifically to do 🌟 Cosmic Queer Shit™️ 🌟 so uhhh hi new followers, sorry I haven’t followed you all back yet, hope you liked reading some of my science scribbles and there’s more where that came from ✍🏻 🌌

Paper day: Stone Skipping Black Holes in Ultralight Dark Matter Solitons with Luna Zagorac @cosmolooney.bsky.social Frank Wang and Alan Zhang 🔭🧪 This is a lovely piece of work and some subtle physics relating to a fascinating model of dark matter arxiv.org/abs/2602.11512

Really nice essay by @cosmolooney.bsky.social about the importance of pursuing scientific ideas that turn out to be wrong: "This is not a reason for despair; being wrong is not the same as failing." 🧪🔭⚛️ #cosmology www.firstprinciples.org/article/some...

Our work literally said “binary who? I don’t know her” and I think that’s peak June behaviour

I love sneaking pride flags into figure colour schemes and seeing who notices 👀 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

WHAT IF DARK MATTER IS MADE OF TWO PARTICLE TYPES?? New paper! My latest to get through peer review: Congrats to @cosmolooney.bsky.social @markneyrinck.bsky.social and our crew for getting this paper across the finish line! We show that two axion scenarios have 3 distinct ground states. ⚛️🧪🔭

1/2 through this 2-day drive for Spark Space, a community project to provide some safety with electricity & internet for remote workers & students. £5 will help them expand internet services - we’re trying to reach £1700, and I’m matching up to 150. chuffed.org/project/spar...

Dear friends. I’m think of moving here to Bluesky. I appreciate if you all can share this with your friends to find my account.

🇷🇸 Serbia: March 14th saw the largest protest in Belgrade against dictator Vucic since the 2000 protests against dictator Milosevic. Those protests eventually led to Milosevic's overthrow and extradition to the Hague for his war crimes and genocide. He died in a prison cell.

The rally — which is probably the biggest anti-government protest ever held in Serbia — comes after more than four months of anti-corruption demonstrations. #EuropeNews

The week of March 17 is going to be filled with major data cosmology releases. On March 18, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) will present its cosmology results from DR6. On March 19, DESI and Euclid will independently have data releases with PR. What might we learn? [1/n] ☄️🔭🧪

Today is my first day taking my ADHD medication and holy shit are you telling me there are people whose brains are naturally this quiet and focused?? I could have just…been living like this? Get to work and start without going through 27 load bearing coping mechanisms first?? …wild.

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

The other day I asked what's been bringing me hope and joy in dark times and for me that's 100% the Serbian students and their dedicated protests against government corruption. The foreign reporting I've seen on the topic hasn't been the best, but here's a start: balkaninsight.com/2025/01/28/s...

"What I learned about Hamilton from the musical" is such a fantastic parallel to "what I learned from chatgpt". Absolutely cooked.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Considering how many will be impacted by this decision, the story isn't getting enough traction. www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

And, also. . . I think if we stop at "she predicted this!" we miss the real value in her work. . . which is that she helped us imagine how we could thrive in it.

Hey bluesky! Do you want to develop your own open-source software in Python? Apply to attend Code/Astro! Website: semaphorep.github.io/codeastro/ Scroll all the way down for the application link. :) Apps are due Feb 1! (1/2)

Let's start sending the bills for firefighting and home replacement to oil companies. Great way to internalize their externalities since they all love the market economy so much 🔥

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

Does this imply that “feeling 22” is equivalent to the feeling of being surrounded by 7 pies?

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Astronomer: ah you mean when I was Dark Working

Reminder ⏰. Deadline to register for the networking is December 30, 1 week from today.

Map of the constellations within the Milky Way.... #astronomy #cosmology

Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one

@blackinphysics.bsky.social is now up and running !

while i appreciate the work astrobites does, i feel like theres a currently overlooked niche for satirical astronomy publishing

Caprice is an outstanding scientist, a great speaker, and on the postdoc job market this year! 🔭🧪⚛️

If any non-physics post secondary students in Canada are interested in doing a cross-disciplinary internship with me, reach out through my website! Check out the previous project on the role of metaphor for inspiration ✨ mcdonaldinstitute.ca/events/cdi-p...

The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane. It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.

dual citizens this week

Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Fun fact this is basically why I chose physics and I would like a word with whatever list of “best paid majors” led me down this rabbit hole. 🧪

The rumors are true, uniform circular motion makes way more sense after successfully achieving a few REM cycles.

“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

I’ve managed to string together 8 hours of sleep for the first time since last Friday, let’s see if this newfound superpower brings any cogency to the lecture I have to prepare this week.

Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) saw its last sunset for 67 days the other day. As the northernmost town in Alaska, they won't have another sunrise until the end of January! Fun fact: my parents taught there in the early 90's. I graduated a Barrow Whaler with 31 others in 1992. 📸: Katie Mumford

I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them. 🔗 boxd.it/xlziu/detail

Trying to digest the army of DESI papers on the arXiv today? Cosmology Talks has your back! youtu.be/-2mlU-YzEbw

On trans day of remembrance I’m asked If I have names of Trans Palestinians to add To Trans day of rememberance I struggle with an answer Knowing that the names I Know will never be uttered Fading even from my own memory #transdayofremembrance #tdor

So more trans people will be traumatized and die as a result of this bullshit. Fuck you. Here, read @sbearbergman.bsky.social, from his Blood, Marriage, Wine, Glitter essay collection. On Hanukah, TDOR, light and fighting back. ❤️‍🔥

For over a year, the Biden admin has been pretending to be working for a ceasefire & for increasing humanitarian aid in Gaza, all while arming & supporting Israel's genocide there. In their closing days, they are no longer pretending. May this monstrosity haunt them forever.