Finally Rhea Seehorn is getting some love after so many seasons of snubbing in "Better Call Saul". Love ya, Kim and Carol.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Fruta o petroleo siguen siendo amargos. Entre más cambian las cosas, más se mantienen igual. Saludos desde Guatemala 1954!

It's that time of the year where I recap my best movies watched in 2025. I enjoy this a lot! This time I actually made it to 106 new movies watched, yay!. So I think I will make 3 lists. One for the 100 movies blog (1925-1949), one for movies between 1950-2023 and one for the newer movies.

Number 25 of my 100 movies 1925-2024 and the last one in 2025.

Barbari Weissand Effect

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Apt quote. RIP Rob Reiner.

Number 24 movie of my 100 movies 1925-2024

I've completed Part One of "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 Still working on part 2, but I had more fun creating the movie than to count states. "'Tis the season to be jolly..."

I've completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 Part 1 was a 2-liner with astropy.ascii.read() - all ready for Table manipulation. Part 2 needed a bit of counting spaces, but went well (unlike part 2 of yesterday, which I haven't solved).

I just completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4 I love these grid problems. And the end state (right plot) looks quite fractal.

My daughter's Spotify Wrapped age is 64, while mine is 21. 🤣 But she's into vinyl and cool 70s music, so it tracks!

Today we signed an agreement with an international consortium for the design and construction of the ELT instrument MOSAIC. MOSAIC will help trace the growth of galaxies and matter distribution from the Big Bang to the present day. https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25008/ 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO

So sad it's only 12 days this time around. Also, took me forever to figure out part b, like I knew what I was doing wrong, just how to code it... I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Number 23 of my 100 movies from 1925-2024

1/ A telescope fist bump in the sky 🤜 🤛 Our Unit Telescopes combine their light with interferometry to obtain the level of detail of a huge 130 m virtual telescope. But this requires correcting the effects of Earth’s atmosphere. This is where the lasers come in.  🔭 🧪

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Interesting paper. The authors originally wanted to see how they could recover bar properties from simulations. It turned out that gender mattered most, followed by career stage. Females find small and early bars, males find large bars. Make of that what you will. 🤣 arxiv.org/abs/2511.09908

Super cool paper from @johannesbuchner.bsky.social this morning! And very excited to see* X-PSI and NEoST in there 🤩 *NEoST is too small for us to have found it yet but according to search it's in Figure 5 somewhere 😅 arxiv.org/abs/2511.12195

Number 22 in my 100 movies 1925-2024.

Today, thanks to the folks at e-science at @aippotsdam.bsky.social, we started "vibe coding" (AI/LLM with cline + Claude / OLLAMA). It's fine and it does make a lot of work faster, makes beautiful plots. But it requires so... much... describing. Exactly what I hate.

I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

Number 21 in my 100 movies from 1925-2024

September 7th, 2008: Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw meet for the first time, replacing legendary scheduled starters Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux. 17 years later, Scherzer and Kershaw each pitch in Game 3 of a World Series. 👀

YES!!!! Now I can start to work! 😁. Thanks Freddie! #dodgers. Longest game in WS.

First Light for 4MOST - what an experience! Paranal Observatory is already a magic place on its own right - but getting a new facility on sky ... that's hard to top! www.aip.de/en/news/4mos...

4MOST, a big Multi-Object Spectrograph with @aippotsdam.bsky.social as PI Institute has seen First Light on Saturday. After commissioning, early next year the science output will begin! It hosts 15 dedicated surveys - that operation strategy will be crucial learning ground for telescopes like WST!

Now with proper link! Inspiring people with science is a major part of UC Observatories' mission. We have an opening for a support astronomer at Lick Observatory to both support science and also to lead our amazing mountain-top public programming. aas.org/jobregister/...

site visit at the ELT - it is taking shape!

Number 20 in my 100 movies 1925-2024.

World Series, baby! 🥳🥳🥳 Wooo, Ohtani! 🎉🎉🎉

Today, a new #PyRAF version 2.2.3 was released. This is a maintenance release which makes PyRAF compliant to #Python 3.13. Uploaded to PyPI and to #Debian unstable. github.com/iraf-communi... #IRAF

Number 19 of my 100 movies of 1925-2024.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

ADS has given astronomy THE BEST literature tools available anywhere. I almost never have to use the garbage that other academics have to suffer through (GoogleScholar, JSTOR, LexisNexis, WoS, PubMed...) Literally anytime I have to interface with those tools I weep

I just saw on here that George Smoot died a week ago. So sad. In 2004, there was a astro graduate student retreat, where UC Berkeley, UC Davis (my alma mater) and both LNLL, LBL students met. All I remember was how nice and encouraging the both cosmologists Smoot and Perlmutter were. 🙂

Wait a minute. Why aren't we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's dissertation.

I refuse to be raptured before I can see ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

John Oliver hat 10 Minuten über #Bernd das #brot gemacht und erstaunliche charakterliche Übereinstimmungen festgestellt. 😂

Number 18 on my 100 movies from 1925-2024. Entering war time movies now...

They won the IG Nobel prize! Yay. Still think it was too cheesy, but can't deny that there were absolutely no clumps! Physics for the win!

Somebody asked me if I was doing my PhD at the AIP. I don't know whether to be flattered or offended.

Pretty bad picture, but what was fun was that we went to our nearest park - there's an artificial hill, where Otto Lilienthal did his "flights" - and where in awe with about 50 other people. I love it when humanity enjoys these natural spectacles.

Number 17 of my 100 movies 1925-2024.

I understand that the actions of ICE in America against many immigrants are horrifying and probably illegal. The way they are being sent to detention centers is akin to kidnapping (no legal representation, inhumane conditions, etc.). [1/2]

Number 16 of my 100 movies 1925-2024. This time we go to mexican cinema.

Number 15 of my 100 movies from 1925-2024.

Nice, took a while for me to recognize, because the galaxies I am used to seeing red are white or blue in this image and it's tilted a bit with respect to the iconic HUDF.

Number 14 of my 100 movies from 1925-2024.