More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

am speaking for myself, not the IFG or anyone else, but it strikes me that making bus travel free, doing NOTHING on fuel duty or trains (probably capacity constrained) would be visisonary ...

Is this real? The audio sounds real. Apollo managed to actually land on the moon using a computer with 4kb of RAM and these poor bastards have to install Outlook updates?

We have two paid internships available in our group starting this summer, suitable for master's / pre-PhD students: - Protein structure search - Promoter variation For full details and how to apply see: www.bacpop.org/jobs/

Halfway through the countdown to all channels of communication becoming functionally unusable.

Kudos to the city of Helsinki webpage for this nice UX touch when you try to switch languages on a page they haven’t translated. Almost always the default behaviour is just to dump you to the homepage, which is NEVER what the user wants!

Happiness booster (Alt text is an exercise in the futility of a picture being worth a thousand words)

This is such a good idea for families. Would make a world of difference.

U.S. female workers in US steel mills,1943 by photographer Margaret Bourke-White. Known as 'Rosies' based on the Rosie the Riveter icon, representing women who worked in factories and shipyards #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

homestarrunner.com in 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060820193808if_/http://www.homestarrunner.com:80

Just catching up on the meningitis outbreak in the UK (John has some excellent early thoughts on his blog, below). Why is it always Kent with the major infectious disease events?

If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk

Failure to understand that the fundamental principle of Mendelian randomization (MR) is of gene-environment equivalence contributes to the flood of nonsense MR papers that are appearing; Shah Ebrahim, Gib Hemani and I explain why in this short commentary. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

First naturalistic night sky in Renaissance art: Flight into Egypt, c. 1609, showing moon, Milky Way & constellations, painted in oil on copper, by Adam Elsheimer, German artist, born #OTD 1578; influenced Rubens and Rembrandt. Alte Pinakothek

A new ocean research ship is a rare and exciting event, but today the Netherlands said an official hello to its brand new ship RV Anna Weber-van Bosse. 🌊🌊 80 metres long, 47 berths and with high sustainability ambitions. Hello Anna! www.nioz.nl/en/facilitie...

In London you mind the gap, but in Sydney you BEWARE it because of the metro crocs. 🐊

Completed my decennial ritual of looking up the weird ass plug they use in Australia.🐨

He was so mad they tried to fade him out twice it was brilliant.

We should use the opportunity to get rid of our bad habits (scientific innovation living in loose scripts), because codex/claudecode are way better developers than most scientists, so we can have it all, great science and good dev practices!

I think of these tasks when people are adamantly anti-AI in research. This task before was the academic equivalent of processing grain before the invention of the thresher. Nobody will mourn the loss of this type of work.

Illumina Constellation Becomes TruePath Genome #AGBTGM26 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/02/illu...

My day is summed up by this exchange with @dgmacarthur.bsky.social

And personally I don't think it is healthy for democracy if all the other discourse is "only we can beat the monsters and that guy's a wally" rather than principled discussion of things that matter like foreign and drug policy, where it's perfectly possible for reasonable people to disagree.

I gave up on hard math in my undergrad degree because it didn't come naturally, and I didn't understand that working through the problem sets was the way to get better. And now it's so much harder for a student to push through that feeling, because the magic answer machine is always there.

This is either a nonsense analysis or very poorly explained: in any year precisely 25% of firms are below the 25th percentile of anything. The article cites BCG analysis…could it be a report written by AI?

This article was helpful for me as I try to get my bearings about what’s been happening in AI world in the past 3 months. It called out a testable prediction from one of the xAI evangelists, which is a helpful anchor to use when evaluating vaguer statements. 80 days to go.

#apod 2026-02-21 Twilight with Moon and Planets Image Credit: Tunc Tezel Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260221.html#apod

Study of a Cat, c.1909 by Welsh born painter Gwen John #WomensArt

Was sitting by this fireplace listening to a family speaking what I thought was a very Savo-accented Finnish, but turned out to be Estonian 🇪🇪 😂 cc: @kauralasoo.bsky.social

Waterfall, Lake District, painting by Julia Borodina. Based in west Yorkshire, born in western Siberia

My new favorite Bluesky account

The cut of those trousers is amazing, and was probably downright subversive in 1956

Physics strikes back

Always my first move at a conference. Helps people who forget who you are check your name less obviously!

Guy's Entire Job Just Asking People If They Have Time For A Quick Chat https://theonion.com/guys-entire-job-just-asking-people-if-they-have-time-fo-1819574667/

What kind of maniac left aligns the list numbers and right aligns the text?

🚨Exciting data alert!🚨

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

And now baseball season is on deck.

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt #Sunday

Labour just needs to close its eyes, elect Angela Rayner or Ed Miliband as leader now, and hope for the best. No one is going to emerge from this broken government as a better alternative than them so you're only wasting valuable time until the inevitable happens

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. -Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -Quantum Physics III -Supreme Court & Civil Liberties -Statistical Physics I -Playwriting from memory

This is particularly important to remember when what you are attending to is not paperwork, but horrors on your phone. Your kids always need you more than the internet does.

As National Security Adviser, I was often at the UK’s HQ in Helmand, Camp Bastion. Too often, the tannoy would announce medevac helicopters inbound. The huge base w’d fall silent, out of respect for the young men or women who were fighting for their lives. No, they had not stayed a little back.

We have a webinar next week with @ukbiobank.bsky.social on the Nightingale metabolomics data. We did a table read today, and it is shaping up really nicely. Please do come! 300 people have registered already and there are only np.inf spaces left! www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/use-our-data...

My quote of the day The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln

You could look that up on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...

The muddy Charles. youtu.be/62XRy-jFCm8?... RT with your home river.