this.

I mean, you don't really need a translator

People do realize that when we fund NASA, we’re not just strapping cash to a rocket and launching it into space, right? Those investments create jobs, support local businesses and drive innovation, all while expanding the frontiers of human knowledge.

this can't be real

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.

The Australian Academy of Science posted this reaction to the government's decision to withdraw Australia from ESO (which I had not heard about?!) 🔭 science.org.au/news-events/...

deja vu, not this again

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Latest episode of Instant classics is on Antigone: the young woman who stood up to tyranny and paid with her life. Or is there more to it?

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

The same people that a few weeks ago were boasting about the security of their tool

Cuts to UK Astronomy? It's all about the base(line). A short post on LinkedIn highlighting that the effective cuts to UK Astronomy funding are not some far off possibility - they have already started. www.linkedin.com/posts/profji...

Thinking that everything you see is AI-generated is as bad as thinking nothing is AI-generated It's harder than ever to know what to believe, but you're lost if you believe nothing

In case anyone’s wondering about the terrible weather lately: I got a new telescope 🔭

Immigration is awesome.

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

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

“Vice President JD Vance thinks aliens are visiting earth and that they are Demons” is the most “I wish Carl Sagan were alive” moment I’ve had in a while.

This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.

Less than one week after this post, the theoretical particle physics grants have been ruthlessly cut. PDRA positions are down by ~70% compared to the last funding cycle. Some groups cannot even hire postdocs for the next 4 years. This is on top of an effective 100% hiring cut for October 2026.

Finally, Payel gave a quick shout out to what seems like an incredible piece of work recommending best practises for improving the situation for minorities in Astronomy. 🔭 ☄️ arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Renormalisation is a central concept in modern physics. It describes how the dynamics of a system change at different scales. A great way to understand and visualise renormalisation is the Ising model (some math, but one can follow without it ) 1/13

It's true: Tuberculosis is more than a disease. It's a form and expression of injustice. atmos.earth/for-john-gre...

Devastating, but sadly not surprising...

Useful paper by Ting on biases in ML arxiv.org/abs/2412.05806 Very related to things Villar and I said in arxiv.org/abs/2405.18095

Happy 50th anniversary to the Areceibo message, now 0.2% of the way to its target, the globular cluster M13, 22,180 light years away.

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I'm glad to see lots of new people in this site since last week, especially astronomers and physicists. I wonder what happened 😅