Pointless baseball digression incoming: I saw baseball logos from 1955 including the Cincinnati Redlegs. I knew they were originally the Red Stockings, but I didn’t know they switched their name in the midst of the full on red scare.

Presented without comment. Well, except to say that this was not my idea.

Okay #astro people. I get that arcminutes and arcseconds are fractions of a degree which is the same thing we do with minutes and seconds on degrees latitude and longitude, but does anyone then use the term arc hour then instead of a degree since it’s 60 arcminutes?

Okay, I’m not Jewish, and Hannukah is over, but I noticed this was labeled gluten free, so I bought this on a whim, and I’d have to say that this package produced about 8 times as many latkes as I expected.

Merry Christmas one and all.

Seems like I now need to charge both my phone and watch in the middle of the day when my watch at least used to only need to be charged before I went to sleep. My guess is they traded battery life for “intelligence” and silly Liquid Glass animations and it’s a poor trade.

Regularly scheduled rainstorm trip to the sometimes inaccurately named Arroyo Seco. The first one is looking up the channel towards the La Loma bridge around noon today after ~3 inches of rain. The last one is from a couple weeks ago slightly down stream looking down towards the San Rafael bridge.

xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread

“What’s up with this shit?!” he exclaims.

Nothing is more disappointed in the world than my dog after he comes running to the opening of the dishwasher only to find it’s full of clean dishes.

Being unwillingly gluten free and living far from southern Indiana, I think breaded tenderloin sandwiches is one of the things I miss the most. I miss the ridiculousness of the damn thing being tenderized out to twice the size of the bun.

MALE Santa??? It's Christmas Eve, not Christmas Steve

Live long and be merry. op: omegaparticlepodcast via IG

#POTATO1 #POTATO2 #MARS EXPRESS TARGET = #DEIMOS #PHOBOS 2025-06-23T03:43:15.043Z > 2025-06-23T03:43:31.394Z ORBIT = 27104 HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA #HRSC MAXIMUM_RESOLUTION = 177.839 <m/pixel> CENTER_FILTER_WAVELENGTH = 600.0 <nm> psa.esa.int/psa/#/pages/... ESA/j. Roger

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

This reminds me I had a letter jacket in high school in with letters in band, orchestra, and theater. Nothing wrong with theater kids! But as a skinny kid with long hair, I certainly heard it used interchangeably with every asshole’s favorite f-word insult, regardless of my actual orientation.

I am not going back to work until January 5th, y’all. (I can say that since I was a Florida resident for many years).

My wife signed us up for a New Year’s Eve Rose Bowl Lawn Bowling competition of IU alums against either Alabama or Oklahoma alums. I’m not even sure what lawn bowling is, but I’m quite confident that I will be preternaturally gifted at it.

Nature research paper: Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean go.nature.com/4s061hm

Very exciting new result we were able to help a bit with. Among many other things it is possibly the first geophysical detection of high pressure ices, and the first real world observation of the cenotectic.

Should have put some feed info in this one: #PlanetaryScience 🧪🛰️⚒️

I wanted to do a quick thread about this paper led by a great postdoc here at JPL, Flavio Petricca, which suggests that Titan may not have a global ocean after all. www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

From NASA: Is Titan a “slushy” world?🍦 New research reanalyzing data from our Cassini mission suggests Saturn’s moon does not contain a global subsurface ocean, as once thought. It shows Titan is mostly ice, with slush layers & small pockets of liquid water. go.nasa.gov/3Y0ncBK

Another proud advisor moment as Henry Dawson presents his work on the tectonic states of icy satellite seafloors! tl;dr there might not be very much going on at the ocean floors of many of these moons...

I deeply relate to this new EarthScope sticker. I deal with brown bears instead of polar bears, but the behavior is the same. Intelligent, curious creatures who are sometimes complete jerks around GNSS stations. ⚒️🧪

At my poster now! #AGU2025

GEOSCIENTISTS OF NEW ORLEANS: I will be presenting this poster (#0267) on our EarthScope-supported and quite awesome annual InSAR short course this afternoon. Do stop by! #AGU25

I'm not attending the AGU meeting this year but you can check out these collaborations with my group!

hey friends. my first ever AGU talk is this tuesday at 8:40 AM about the Moon (in a deep earth session no less)! if you wanna hear about how the Moon is squishy, and how measurements of that squish may revolutionize our understanding of the Moon’s formation, come on by! @lunascope-brown.bsky.social

Cryo folks at #AGU25, go talk to all of these wonderful people! Make me jealous that I'm not there!

#AGU25 badge acquired. Come see me talk tomorrow on how Colombia's Cauca Cluster represents a location where hydrofracture is causing intermediate depth earthquakes! We've thrown thermal models, earthquake relocation, Vp/Vs estimates, receiver functions, and stress drop estimates at this problem

It is very strange not to be going to AGU today. I did not want my attending to prevent any early career people from attending in an environment where the expectation was that NASA would approve almost no one.

Before the Artemis II astronauts lift off on their journey around the Moon next year, find out what it's taken to build their mission from the ground up. Episode 1 of Moonbound is up! It's free to watch on NASA+: go.nasa.gov/4pxIoel

As an astronomer I get asked a lot what kind of telescope 🔭 so-and-so should get for themselves or their [spouse/kid/etc]. I’m clueless. I use BIG telescopes and have never purchased one in my life. But @philplait.bsky.social knows! Thx, Phil! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ban-275-te...

Gorgeous day up in the mountains today.

Despite regularly biking, walking, or driving near the Rose Bowl and watching the parade every year, I’ve never attended a game there. Since IU just won their first solo Big Ten title in 80 years, earning the #1 seed and a trip to the Rose Bowl, that’s going to change this year.

This one is for the foodies 🧑‍🍳 You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭🐡🧪

Well, 13-10 isn’t exactly an offensive showcase, but it’s a big 10 championship and top seed in the CFP.

And they’re somehow still in front in the 4th quarter. Defensive show so far.

For one of the first times since spending two years in the IU Marching Hundred in the mid-90’s, I’m watching IU football. Not a very similar team, though.

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

David here points out some of the bits of South Pole Seismic Station that I’m most excited about, which is the ongoing and growing international collaboration of it all. We’ve had a long collaboration with CNES and universities in France, but SPSS is bringing in JAXA and the University of Tokyo.

Great news for lunar science! 🧑‍🚀🌓🚀 NASA has selected the SPSS payload for the Artemis IV mission (2028) It will be deployed near the Moon’s South Pole to record moonquakes and reveal the deep interior. A proud international effort led by JPL! #ArtemisIV

Does the person who wrote the Kars4Kids jingle qualify as an evil genius?

Just to get it on the feeds, this could be of interest to #PlanetaryScience 🧪🛰️⚒️

Big news! We have a follow-up to Farside Seismic Suite called South Pole Seismic Station selected that will build a new seismic station that can be deployed by Artemis IV astronauts including an active source survey. More to come, but here's the release: science.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Spotify thinks I’m 10 years younger because of my weakness for 2000’s emo and indie.

You haven’t experienced real joy until you dislodge a chunk of ear wax from your ear after half an hour of using an ear syringe and suddenly the world is in full spectrum sound again.

actually Die Hard is a Cow Tools movie

@profanity.accountant how about me? I think I’m relatively clean on here.