youtu.be/zz3eFAqcsmA 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Matthew Hopkins on 2025ApJ...990L..30H Matthew Hopkins (University of Oxford, University of Canterbury) chats about his article on 3I/ATLAS within the context of predicting the properties of the interstellar object population.

Having reached an age when I worry about my health way too much, I have been wearing by Apple Watch to bed to keep track of sleep. It informed me that I was getting miniscule amounts of Deep Sleep (tm). I tested this with a Fitbit and there's an enormous discrepancy. I guess this is well known?

youtu.be/z0th9YvNgCo 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis on 2025ApJ...991..118T Andy Tzanidakis (University of Washington) chats about his article on stars with irregular and aperiodic luminosity dimming events.

youtu.be/A-PG7HYE3iM 🔭 A Conversation with Scientific Editor Enrico Landi Enrico Landi chats about his research and role as a Scientific Editor for the AAS Journals.

youtu.be/2z3oNoDtQXU 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Matias Castro-Tapia on 2025ApJ...991...64C Matias Castro-Tapia (McGill University) chats about his article on oxygen-neon phase separation in massive white dwarfs.

This Friday we held a referee training workshop in Bloomington. Here you see all the graduates of our 4 hour session, along with three editors (including me). This was the first time we did one at a university instead of at a science meeting. The next will be in Baltimore, or nearby, in the Spring

AI models are 50% more sycophantic than humans go.nature.com/4ol1Quq

youtu.be/aIfkfy0aD1A 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Sumi Kim on 2025ApJ...990....4K Sumi Kim (University of Seoul) chats about her article exploring supernova feedback on the satellites of elliptical galaxies.

#Cosmology The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision The baseline result is H0=73.50+/-0.81 km/s/Mpc. by the H0DN Collaboration: Stefano Casertano, et al (incl. @styrofoamplates.bsky.social) arxiv.org/abs/2510.23823 🧪

youtu.be/ItZfa9VgYck 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Prathamesh Tamhane on 2025ApJ...990...36T Prathamesh Tamhane (University of Alabama in Huntsville) chats about his article on star formation in M87.

youtu.be/d9ib_G1b1cc 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Jiadong Li on 2025ApJS..279...47L Jiadong Li (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie) chats about his article on the hunt for white dwarf - main sequence binaries.

youtu.be/2NSL6JxERBM 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Aldana Grichener on 2025ApJS..279...49G Aldana Grichener (University of Arizona) chats about her article on neural networks applied to nuclear reaction networks.

I know so many authors like this. xkcd.com/3154/

youtu.be/Pmxv0BJj35w 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Jirong Mao on 2025ApJ...990...12M Jirong Mao (Yunnan Observatories) chats about his article on the emergence of shocks in low-angular-momentum accretion flow around black holes.

youtu.be/yIdIoOnMP9c AS Journal Author Series: Yujie Lian and Zhichen Pan on 2025ApJS..279...51L 🔭 Yujie Lian (Beijing Normal University) and Zhichen Pan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) chat about their article on pulsar discoveries in globular clusters.

youtu.be/OLqLQQ-ow14 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Naila Martinez on 2025RNAAS...9..173P Naila Martinez (Universidad de Buenos Aires) chats about her article on Sulfur in star forming clouds.🔭

youtu.be/JUgNSPv94LI 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Anicia Arredondo on 2025PSJ.....6..195A Anicia Arredondo (Southwest Research Institute) chats about her article on the near Earth asteroid (142) Polana.

I hope people will repost this Please respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-di... Kids are suffering

youtu.be/9GYyRchGUp4 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen on 2025ApJ...988L..67C Ken Chen (Academia Sinica) chats about his article on the first star-forming clouds.

youtu.be/RDXQzPWouQM 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Daniel Bamberger on 2025RNAAS...9..174B Daniel Bamberger (Northolt Branch Observatories) chats about his article on a centaur in an orbital resonance with Uranus.

youtu.be/zQ4kcvDUQU4 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Ruella Ordinaria on 2025RNAAS...9..175O Ruella Ordinaria (York University) chats about her research note on the Europa Clipper mission.

Speaking ill of the dead is rude, and usually pointless. It causes pain to their families and arrives too late for them to improve their behavior. However, when people insist on deifying someone who, when alive, was a terrible person, I’m willing to make an exception.

youtu.be/Jx5SxWqpjjI 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Richard Zeebe and David Hernandez on 2025AJ....170...71Z Richard Zeebe (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and David Hernandez (Yale University) chat about their article on stellar flybys of the solar system and their (lack of) effect on the Earth.

youtu.be/68AbtPxLR0M 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Steve Howell on 2025ApJ...988L..47H Steve Howell (NASA Ames Research Center) chats about his article on the tentative detection of a companion to Betelgeuse.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

youtu.be/Vo_da26rWfE 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Abril Sahade on 2025ApJ...986L...5S Abril Sahade (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) chats about her article on a new form of solar eruptions.

youtu.be/yFPUNuY-MFI 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Fatemeh Rahmanifard and Hafeez Islam on 2025ApJS..279....2R Fatemeh Rahmanifar and Hafijul Islam (University of New Hampshire) chat about their article on the interaction between the interstellar medium and the solar wind over a full solar cycle.

youtu.be/dtFZVYWeGdA 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Juan Ignacio Espinoza-Retamal on 2025AJ....170...70E Juan Ignacio Espinoza-Retamal (Universidad Católica de Chile) chats about his article on exoplanet spin-orbit alignments.

Wavefunction Collapse xkcd.com/3134/

Excellent news for my Canadian colleagues.

Hallucinating or rather... spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinform...

youtu.be/-HQK2jUW-hc 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Stephanie (Alex) Brown on 2025ApJ...982..133B Stephanie (Alex) Brown (Stockholm University) chats about her article on neutron star tides and testing General Relativity.

youtu.be/kMzJY2q9yYo 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Maude Gull on 2025ApJ...986...25G Maude Gull (University of California, Berkeley) chats about her article on the lowest metallicity contact binary candidate observed to date.

New review in BMJ by @nicktsergas.ca: "Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2" "People who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean." www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Taking the Marc train to DC where I will bike to the K st. Offices of the American Astronomical Society (as I do every Friday). Will let people know if I am threatened by armed criminals.

Some personal news. 🔭 aas.org/press/ethan-... Announcing one’s retirement two years in advance may strike a lot of people as excessive notice, but I expect the search for my successsor to be time-consuming (and I was determined not to extend my tenure beyond the announced date).

In a book draft I once referred to Dobson as "America's foremost advocate of child abuse," which he was (see "Dare to Discipline"), but the publisher made me take it out.

youtu.be/DLWT10kNiJQ 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Rosemary Pike on 2025PSJ.....6..156P Rosemary Pike (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian,) chats about her article on a small object in an unusual orbital resonance with Neptune.

youtu.be/tXdSTzYiEKc 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Ludmilla Kolokolova on 2025PSJ.....6..137K Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland) chats about her article on the DART ejecta. (Stuff we blew off an asteroid on purpose.)

Elder god of The Astrophysical and Astronomical Journals.

youtu.be/r1WAea9sVvE 🔭 Emily Pass (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) chats about her article on the population of exoplanets with and without atmospheres.

We have a thin strip of land, planted with trees, between our property and the road to our west which belongs to the Loyola University. The good news is that they finally trimmed them and pulled out the deads. The bad news is that the urban deer have a clear sightline to our backyard garden.

youtu.be/qKoZPqCnQXM 🔭 Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Lisa Prato (Lowell Observatory) and Ronan Kerr (University of Toronto) chat about their article on the effect of newborn stars on their environment.

Meet the Losers Who Still Want to Read and Think With Their Own Brains

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. - W.I.B. Beveridge (1908-2006). (Thanks to Chris Lintott for tracking this quote down.)

youtu.be/UD6SSqrNZe0 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Daniel Tamayo and Samuel Hadden on 2025ApJ...986...11T Daniel Tamayo (Harvey Mudd College) and Samuel Hadden (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysic) chat about their article on mean motion resonances.

Trump burns everythng to the ground www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

youtu.be/ssiQzZLbyX0 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Caroline Haslebacher on 2025PSJ.....6..133H Caroline Haslebacher (University of Bern, Southwest Research Institute) chats about her article on Europa's tectonic features.

youtu.be/CIZ7ZlIl9Ao 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Joaquín Espinoza-Troni on 2025ApJ...986..228E Joaquín Espinoza-Troni (Universidad de Chile) chats about his article on magnetic holes.