Delighted to see the awesome @lmcampbell.bsky.social ranked the #1 🥇#Deaf researcher in the world based on h-index (see precise methodology here stats.unusualverse.com) Recognition like this matters. It's not just for the work itself, but for who gets to be seen as shaping the future of research.

Missed it when it first came out, but if you haven't seen it, you are missing one of the best public service announcements ever (from Norway, yes in english)... I couldn't stop laughing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Caturday: mad skillz edition.

On a purely psychological basis, you have to think the #ArtemisII crew are going through that "wow, but it's over" feeling. Identity, purpose and focus are all intertwined in the lead up & execution of the mission. It's in some sense a closed loop of motivations.

Huge congrats to the #ArtemisII crew! Still some small things to work out, but honestly the mission could not much have gone much better! To all the crew: pls enjoy this moment with family and friends!

Sometimes astro prompts you to say some apparent oxymorons: "Ah, that's a collision of the collisionless component" Student: Can I use that in my thesis?😂

Chatted with Todd Battis of CTV Atlantic about the current state of #Artemis - a spacecraft, far, far away as current human spaceflight goes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1p_...

Honestly, I hadn't teared-up about anything Artemis related until Jeremy Hansen dedicated a crater on the Moon to Reid Wiseman's late wife Carroll. Then they all hugged. Hard not to feel the humanity from ~400,000km away.

"Five different types of hot sauce and 58 tortillas: the food powering the astronauts.... In total, 189 menu items have been chosen" says the Beeb. Next time you’re annoyed that your taco spot ran out of salsa, remember: somewhere above your head, an astronaut is meticulously counting tortillas 🌮😋

No shit! 🙃

Definitely adding "vibe coding cleanup specialist" to my common CV

Peak 2026: AI agents on linkedin arguing about whether someone has a AI agent working on linkedin to paraphrase previous posts about AI slop. Imagine if linkedin then asked if you want AI to help you write your response. Thankfully it doesn't!

Ottawa commits $200M to Spaceport Nova Scotia over 10 yr. Have to admit I didn't foresee a change in global geopolitics as the thing that would produce a government commitment after being non-committal for years. But sovereign space access has become increasingly sensitive www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Spring is trying to break free of winters grasp! Out walking at #OakfieldProvincialPark today with @lmcampbell.bsky.social and spotted this striking little beech still holding onto its winter leaves. #photography

Since it's become a bit of a tradition, here is the first crocus bloom of 2026 in our garden 😀🌷#photography

I'd love to be able to promote the work of Emily Fisher and Jorge Mesa as undergrads on bsky, except they aren't on bsky! 😜 Anyway here is their work on looking at the mixing of gas in collisions of galaxy subclusters. #scicomm

Got out for a quick walk around Mt Olivet cemetery with it being a #snowday. Gorgeous little scenes all the way around. #photography Halisky.

Doing some coding while recovering from an infection. Don't often post work stuff here, but here's a fun little plot of shock lobes following a collision of a pair of galaxy clusters. For the interested this is a div v * grad ln P tracker, seems to work pretty well. #sciviz

When you spend about 1 hour 10 mins on food prep caramelizing, and you still have to sit through another hour of the casserole cooking in the oven... Sorry, have a mouth full of saliva right now. 😋It smells so goooood.

The structures that nature puts together always draw your eye in and in and in... Here's a few quick pics from #Hemlockravine park in #Halifax on a - not so cold for once - Sunday afternoon. #photography

Just a little reminder that in the space of two years the Maritimes were treated to a total solar eclipse, and then this year a partial solar eclipse at sunrise. Incredibly (and it really is!) the sky co-operated for both! Here's the partial sun rising on March 29th 2025 over Halifax harbour.

White on white! 🎄🐿🤍❄️🌲 Very glad to see the local Frog Pond leucistic squirrel still active! All the best for the holiday break.

If you are celebrating Christmas Eve, sincerely hope it is full of fun & laughter. Got out to #oakfieldprovpark for a walk in today's chill. Lots of beauty ❤️, but a few limbs waiting to fall on the paths (be careful!) Beech leaves, ice and some intentional camera movement. #photography #mikmaki

Here's really fun entry by student Matt Corbett in the SMU Science Xmas Dec comp. One of the hardest things we do in the 3rd year classical mech course is the spinning top. The final part the analysis is to plot behaviours of the spin axis (below). Matt turned the diagrams into a bauble! #scicomm

Well, I'm standing by a river But the water doesn't flow It boils with every poison You can think of And I'm underneath the streetlight But the light of joy I know Scared beyond belief Way down in the shadows "Road to Hell" - RIP Chris Rea, one of the "truly human" people of music.

The little bit of snow this morning has settled on top of the @smuhalifax.bsky.social Atrium roof. We half jokingly call this the "igloo effect!" - it makes the light inside really soft. Imaged with a superwide lens, hence the off-axis distortion. #photography #halifax

It's that time of year. The feathery touch of winter is upon us. #photography #mikmaki

There's gotta be a ringette pun about this image! 😊On the @smuhalifax.bsky.social campus this morning. #Halisky

At the request of Canada Post, to avoid confusion with New Brunswick, in 1969 Nebraska agreed to change its shortening from NB to NE.

The source of bias in a probabilistic system lies in its construction, not in its use of probability. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AI can easily be biased. Please don't argue because it is probabilistic it isn't biased. That's just not true. With that logic you'll end up arguing a loaded die is fair.

Delighted to announce the 2025 Dan MacLennan Memorial Lecturer in Astronomy as Dr Laurie Rousseau-Nepton of the University of Toronto. Her talk (Fri Nov 21st 7pm) title is: Solving the Universe: Past, Present and Future. All ages welcome. Free event (with tix): www.eventbrite.ca/e/dan-maclen...

It's been a crazy fall with new course preparation on top of additional things like contract negotiations. But can't complain too much when you have amazing places like Shaw Wilderness just a few mins drive away. Here's a couple of fun little reflections. #photography #mikmaki

I'm not sure if getting chores done counts as procrastinating on work work 😅but got a new garlic bed assembled today and @lmcampbell.bsky.social got our next crop of garlic planted. Shout out to allthingscedar.ca for their cedar planters (yes could do it cheaper with pine or by hand, no time!)

Have to admit this was a pretty awesome combination of the fall colours. The reds are so vivid this year! The yellow is a ginko, the red is a maple behind it, while the tree that is still green is an oak. #halifax #photography

As the northern hemisphere feels the first few portents of winter coming, got out to #Oakfieldprovpark this afternoon for the first time in ages. Such a beautiful place, the colours are vibrant already & will likely be stronger in a few days. Here are a few small vignettes. #photography #mikmaki

Here's a callery pear on the SMU campus blooming in late September. I had a minor freak out on seeing this, but apparently the trees will do this after periods of stress, most notably drought. It's only a couple of blooms as well, most of the rest of the buds are dormant.

A truly spectacular morning at Mellon Udrigle beach in the scottish #highlands. It really is pretty pretty amazing to see the sun rise over the mountains to the east, in turn lighting up the sea mist. #photography

Here's a farmer sowing gulls 😉They grow very quickly and are quite mobile. #photography

Treated to a truly amazing sky this morning. Clouds were breaking up and letting shafts of light through. #photography

It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been.

And here we go - ruby-throated hummingbirds feeding on the crocosmia as well as landing on the tomato cages and giving us a stare down! 😀Little bit windy tonight so they weren't able to hover for long periods in the same place...

Crokey-bees 😉 An awesome #crocosmia spray alongside some bee-balm in the garden. As always @lmcampbell.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job of shepherding everything to bloom. Will see if we can get some hummingbird pics tonight. #photography #bloomscrolling

Doe with three fawns walking around the neighbourhood tonight (quick phone pic). They weren't even remotely scared of me watering the garden. Not good in that it means ticks are going to be spread around peoples' gardens. halisky

With it being a colder summer, blooms in our garden are about 4-6 days behind '24. However, the first strands of #crocosmia are out! We jokingly call it "hummingbird crack" as they will get pollen on their heads while feeding. @lmcampbell.bsky.social has seen one flit by so far. #bloomscrolling

A cute little dogwood spray on the SMU campus. It's pretty difficult to reproduce the delicate structure on the white petals, but doing the best I can with a phone cam. #photography

I guess you call them the "Not so Jolly Rancher" sweets... From article: "The FSA is advising people who have any of the listed products to not eat them and dispose of them at home." More details: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Despite the cool spring, @lmcampbell.bsky.social's bearded irises are starting to bloom. Here's a quick pick from this morning in the overcast light. Halisky

Just finished hosting the annual Canadian astronomy research conference (CASCA) at Saint Mary's U. in Halifax. That's "Squinty" the conference mascot in the pic. We loved hosting everyone and it was amazing to receive a standing ovation at the end. But I truly miss 2015 sci twitter. #CASCA2025

Conference organizer dubious badge of pride: 28,000 steps today... 😅

Tough to see our awesome neighbours move out. After being friends for almost 15 yrs, & watching their kids grow up it's a truly bittersweet moment. Gave them a little piece of their (now) former neighbourhood as a house warming gift for their new place: A pic of Mt Olivet's stream. #photography