Look, it's been a while since I wrote thousands of words on some dumb American soccer thing. So I decided to research & write the definitive story of Striker, the most beloved mascot in World Cup history. Not that anybody asked for it. On @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Oh you do NOT mess with Chaco Canyon!

England putting on a clinic for what happens when you don’t defend anywhere on the field.

Okay, incredible. Such a clean goal!

This whole game is just going to be England and Argentina taking turns falling down. Regardless of contact.

That call is BS and it was a handball!

Have I mentioned recently that you can join SatHub at the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky? We absolutely need your help: cps.iau.org (Regrettably not on BlueSky, but we are on LinkedIn, and the bad place, because, you know, guess where all the sat bros hang out) 🔭

Hate it. 🔭 Also the article didn’t mention it is expected to disrupt behavior, migration of wildlife. Or that at least some plants need rest too…

NEW: NSF VLA Maps a Hidden Hydrogen Shell Around the Orion Nebula Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array studied a previously identified expanding bubble deep in the Orion Nebula, making new discoveries ⤵️ (1/3) #RadioAstronomy #VeryLargeArray #OrionNebula

WOW. Mbappé strikes again.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Riding to the observatory in the Swedish winter. 😁 🚲

Holy shirt, EGYPT!

It’s possible to restrict AI in education. Norway isn’t the only one. Univ of Western Australia is doing it too. Who else?

Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson expresses a Calvin-esque sentiment in a cycling self-portrait he drew for his college yearbook Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill! Born July 5, 1958

This ref is utter shit.

Decided Spain-Austria was boring so decided to watch US-BIH instead (couldn’t do 2am last night for the live broadcast).

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

A damning critique of the University of Nottingham’s plans to make staff in physics redundant, from both a Nobel Laureate and a former university president… who happen to be the same person. 🧪 (www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelis...)

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

HI Galaxy Science with the SKA. Jing Wang et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26999

MBAPPEEEEEE!

🔭 Truly horrific how regular this has become, but please consider signing this letter. I did my undergrad at Sussex Physics & Astronomy and can honestly say I would not have finished my BSc (let alone subsequent PhD!) w/o the genuinely compassionate, supporting staff there. They do not deserve this.

here's my sky & telescope story on new measurements of the low-frequency radio sky background: 🔭 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Oof poor Japan.

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

An absolute travesty. As I describe in The Edge of Space-Time, @sciam.bsky.social played a huge role in shaping my journey as a budding scientist. I fully support @sciamunion.bsky.social ✊🏽 🧪

Context for why Haiti and the Haitian Revolution was so important: 1. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the only known slavery uprising that led to the founding of a state free of slavery and ruled by non-whites/formerly enslaved. /2

Good work NOAA researchers. Everybody else, take note: bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

🔭 Keogram: The Sky in 2025 Image Credit & License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">License: Cees Bassa (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) ap260621

Women make history at the men’s World Cup 🙌 Referees Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo, and Kathryn Nesbitt become the first all-American women officiating team at the World Cup. They will referee the Czech Republic vs. South Africa match.

*Tied with four women (Marta, Sinclair, Ebi, Sawa) and one behind Formiga, who played in SEVEN!

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

once again putting out a call for a historian up for doing a podcast episode on Princess Cecilia Vasa with me. The most glorious no-fucks-given agent of royal chaos that dynasty ever produced. Spread the word.

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

The Dutch doing this in fuckin Dallas, Texas is very funny to me, an American who has seen Cowboys fans who represent one of the most valuable sports teams on earth never approach this level of enthusiasm this century.

From @jessicawluther.com, in our magazine: Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. To counter this, we need to look at gender-expansive athletes in a detailed and holistic way.

Saibari scores for Morocco, it's 1-0

Rewatching #USAPAR and dang the referee’s view feature is cool.

Hypothesizing that this is the least accessible World Cup yet. Between siloed access by country (highly variable in availability, not always free), crack down on illegal streams (not necessarily bad but), really poor self promotion on the FIFA site (an own goal), stupid ticket prices & visas… grr

Okay Bsky, so who is posting video highlight clips of World Cup goals, saves, fouls, bloopers, etc? I’m really missing the dodgy video streams and self edited clips here, and searching in multiple languages is not getting me too much further yet…

Well, I think it’s fair to say that @tv4.bsky.social really bombed today. The ability to pay for a viewing package was down for essentially the entire #MEXRSA #WorldCup2026 game. :/

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

Planetary Science xkcd.com/3255/

Here's a gift link. It's a very important article for people to read: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

My digital drawing of Hickson Compact Group 44 (HCG 44) and its atomic hydrogen (HI) content. More details on its HI content can be read here: arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03775 #SciArt #procreate #radioastronomy #astronomy #science

Chalmers University recently unveiled its new visual identity. What do you guys think? 🙃

A highlight of my undergrad years was being a coäuthor on some maser papers with Phil using pre-commissioning VLBA antennae. I also found an anomaly in the data that led to our teasing out a bug in the correlator. :)