ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

The Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) prototype antenna has achieved First Light! 📡 The prototype passed several tests to prove its functionality, taking observations both independently and in collaboration with the NSF Very Large Array. #RadioAstronomy #Astronomy #ngVLA #NextGenerationVLA

Point of Science 2026 starts today! Here are the events in Göteborg for Mon, Tues, Wed: pintofscience.se/events/gothe... 🧪

It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

One time when I told a lawyer I was an astronomer they told me that was the first case of international intellectual property law, bc Kepler took the data & ran across a border with it, & part of the issue was whether the data belonged to Tycho the man, or to the office of Imperial Mathematician…

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wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Alongside the majority of my colleagues in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham, I have received a letter telling me I am at risk of redundancy. To my physics friends - please sign this letter to help us save our amazing School nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

Hope in the horror: the starchy, binary New York Times profiled a Black, queer, agender, woman physicist poet profiled today. PS Her new book is wonderful.

A really rare, cool (and permanent) position has just opened up in the Physics dept of my institute, Uppsala University @uu.se 🇸🇪 for an Associate Prof with specialisation in physics/astro education. An amazing chance to research your own topics *and* education as a topic! #scicomm #iTeachPhysics 🧪🔭

When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event

Congratulations to David Attenborough -- who spent his free time as a teenager riding his bicycle around England's East Midlands region searching for fossils -- on his 100th trip around the sun. One of his secrets? "If I can bicycle, I bicycle." Happy #BicycleBirthday, David! Born May 8, 1926

Quick, LEGO, please take my money!

This is wonderful! A video from CSIRO about #RadioAstronomy in Australia in the mid-1900s -- even before Murriyang was built. They call galaxies "spiral nebulae" - it's that long ago. It's ~17mins long but very much worth it - like a time capsule! (HT George Hobbs via internal comms) 🔭📡🧪

Would you like to be part of citizen science astronomy? We invite you to classify gravitational lens candidates in so-far unreleased #ESAEuclid data: "Space Warps – ESA Euclid DR1". #ESA #Euclid #astronomy #GravitationalLensing #science #CitizenScience.

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The FIFA Council just amended its governance regulations to allow Afghan Women United to compete in official FIFA competitions. Take a second with that.

#OTD 93 years ago 📡 An engineer named Karl Jansky gave a 12-min presentation at the US National Committee for the International Union for Radio Science to a small group of people. It marked a significant turning point in our understanding of the Universe. #RadioAstronomy 📸 NRAO/AUI/NSF

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya has become the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

For all my friends who are into slow TV and may not know this: Sweden does a live broadcast of the annual moose migration every spring, kinda how we Americans broadcast eagles nesting every year. It is definitely a spring slow-TV feel-good fix. www.svtplay.se/den-stora-al...

Everyone’s favorite train! 🚄y Mc🚄🫥

Great explainer on the ongoing Nordic Nuke Debate™️ and the 3 strategic options facing the region. With 🇸🇪 history of non-proliferation, everyone from top policy experts to grandma in the local paper is debating US extended deterrence, european nuclear sharing, and even Nordic domestic development.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

The Netherlands: must be almost wadlopen season! 😁 Where does the land end and the sea begin?

Only a little sad that ankylosaurus didn’t make the top 7. Honorable mention is okay I guess. Cheers to the being part of the dinosaur renaissance. 🦖 🦕

The Nice Observatory at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur is stunning. The building was built by Charles Garnier and the dome by Gustave Eiffel! Definitely worth a visit.

Big fan of the slinky spring - @astrokatie.com style www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GC8...

"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵

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Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Long holiday weekend calls for some bike packing and sleeping outside.

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

From Monday, but… Good evening Göteborg, ya beauty.

Today I discovered there’s a Guinness shortage. 😥 “Do you know why?” I ask the bartender. “Too many young people drinking it.” Young people, please go back to (or learn to appreciate?) IPA. 😘

It's finally happening!

With a policy as sweeping as the IOC’s, “fairness" in women’s sports is actively making sports less fair for women. Because of this policy, it is now harder for women and girls—both cis and trans—to follow their Olympic dreams compared to their male counterparts.

This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

🎉 Making plans for Easter 🎉

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

Hey Maine, seems there’s no need to settle for a Schumer-picked elderly centrist OR a shady Nazi tattoo guy! Very progressive candidate also running to defeat the Republican who is concerned about Trump but not concerned enough not to vote for all his shit. Check out her platform, it’s good! ⬇️

The Wisconsin Badgers win the NCAA women's hockey national championship

Shockingly in this day and age, air travel *can* be painless. For example, this week I flew from direct Sweden to Germany & back, checking-in online, going through security, staying in a hotel, and I was *never* asked for ID(!), didn’t have to take off my shoes, wasn’t bombarded by gambling ads.

Initial conditions: m1=65.2 m2=60.4 m3=40.3 (solar masses) v1x=-0.797 v1y=4.903 v2x=0.772 v2y=-5.36 v3x=-0.298 v3y=3.366 (km/s) x1=27.0 y1=-22.0 x2=-9.0 y2=-31.0 x3=-29.0 y3=17.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

Lord I miss astrotwitter on days like this Source www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-... But mostly @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

In 1932, two newlyweds packed a folding kayak with: • hard-boiled eggs • chocolate • strawberries • two bottles of brandy Then they pushed out into the Black Sea as refugees from the Soviet Union. 🧵 (1/8) 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪 #histsci Image: George Gamow

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Only from American women. They give the rest of the planet's women all 24 hours. Makes you think.

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman