POV: You have an early alarm set for an early flight and you’re worried you’re going to oversleep. (Not shown: the number and variety of travel-related stress dreams throughout.).

En route to #AAS247 via LAX with apparently every single other person traveling this holiday season as well as a likely not insignificant number of people stranded by the airspace closures. Mask up, folks! PS. Check out my oh-so-official looking NASA blue polo shirt! 👀😂

LET'S. GO.

It’s New Years Eve. I did enough this year. YOU did enough this year. Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

PUBLIC TALK: January 3, 2026, 7:30 pm PhD student Natalie LeBaron will explore how the universe transforms simple hydrogen into the rich diversity of atoms that build planets, life, and everything we see around us. 🔭 🧪 👩‍🔬 #bayarea Sign up at our Meetup: www.meetup.com/sj-astronomy...

It’s New Years Eve. I did enough this year. YOU did enough this year. Bring on 2026 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

A soft, small, hopeful thing.

we wouldn't need a new year if they didn't keep making them shittier and shittier all the time

For anyone that is going to #AAS247 🔭, there's a pre-conference workshop on neuroinclusion on Jan 3rd, 10am-4pm that still has space for those interested (any career stages) The workshop will include: - Practical neuroinclusive teaching and mentoring strategies (they work for everyone!) (cont.)

Lemon, like, and bitters count: 9 #sundaysesh

Okay in FULL disclosure I was just asked to re-give a talk I gave two years ago at a workshop and I said yes since it’s a re-give and on a day I don’t have another talk.

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 8

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 7

Boooooooooooooo.

Annual viewing of It’s A Wonderful Life in the books, kids in bed, all the food in the house eaten. 2025 has been a longer and more challenging year than most, and honestly? That means I’ve been incredibly lucky to date. It IS a wonderful life, and I’m grateful for it. Merry Christmas everyone. ✨

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 6

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 5

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 4

Hey #exoplaneteers - we are hiring a new software developer on the NASA Exoplanet Archive and ExoFOP, to backfill someone who left this year. We've had good success hiring exoplanet folks with strong software skillsets into these positions! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...

*checking back in on American news* Someone tell me the Patriot Games are a deepfake prank before I spent another nanosecond wondering.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

NO THANK YOU.

Dear Email Client: When I click Reply All, I *never* want to be included in the 'All'. I'm the sender. I don't need you to send me back a copy of my own email. It's me.

What's SO galling about this argument is that it's just an unoriginal regurgitation of scare tactics that have worked (!) in the US, with no attempt at all to make them logical or relevant to this situation. A 50-year-old man was galvanised by uni protests? It's tired and transparent and ugly.

Hey America, turns out it IS possible to talk about gun reform immediately after a mass shooting. Australia is saddling up to do it for a second time in three decades. (NB. Our more conservative political party was in power last time, lest you wish to blame woke left ideology for our gun laws.)

An example of the best of humanity to hold up to the dark: my wonderful uncle, an ebullient larrikin/lifelong firefighter, passed away this year. This is my first return to a Jim-less Australia. Yesterday, his wife gave me his old Akubra and told me he was proud of me. I miss you so much, Uncle Jim.

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 3

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 2

Lemon, lime, and bitters count: 1

❤️❤️❤️

Forbidden chocolates.

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Christiansen's Conjecture!

Me wondering if the new JWST spectrum of a TRAPPIST planet is flat and then reading the paper title. We need a Betteridge's Law of headlines for atmosphere papers. Any paper title that doesn't claim the presence of a feature will be about a flat line.

Okay internet help me out. What’s the modern day equivalent of the iPod Touch? I want to get my daughter a device she can stream Spotify on and Bluetooth her AirPods to, that isn’t an iPhone or an Apple Watch.

DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight. ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.

(And yes, the water spray bottle in the lower left of the frame is there because of that 'some other cat'.)

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. "World War Three has been going on for YEARS, but everyone has been too distracted by the *commercials* to notice." --"The Final Programme", 1973 film of 1965 novel.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Easy peesy!

Also because we had it on vhs.

First time I saw it was when I lived in the US. I was the only person in the entire cinema who laughed at the “fridge magnate” joke. 😂

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.