It's really nice to see the Orioles with a bit of a spark. Down 6-1 pretty early and yet they're still engaged. Nice work Blaze

oh no bradish

Gorgeous day for Charles Street Promenade!

The Eisenhower Square for busy academics (and therefore, for much of Bluesky):

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

This is the worst looking photo they could snap of Mamdani 😭

Amazing work and beautiful results @funfactscience.com !!!

Maybe today was the day to hit up Camden Yards

About as beautiful weather as it gets... 25C at Camden Yards

We finally managed to snag an astronaut and the resulting episode is out of this world! Thanks to all who submitted questions, we tried our best to ask them all. Take a listen below to hear about Rex's experience as a space shuttle astronaut open.spotify.com/episode/3804...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

A new paper in Nature finds that engagement-based algorithms on social media amplifies intergroup, moralized and emotional (IME) information + toxic content relative to reverse-chronological feeds, with the largest increases in moral outrage and political content. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Skies of blue In the early 1800s, in the city of Suzhou in eastern China, two striking large-format maps were printed in vivid Prussian blue. via @knowablemag.bsky.social www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhi... Books about Ancient Astronomy at PG www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #Books #Science

Denizens of Baltimore, I regret to inform you that mosquito season has begun.

“‘What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,’ Kim told @nj.com on Monday.” “It’s sad, it’s a sad day.” Senator @kim.senate.gov was among the crowd of protesters when federal immigration agents fired pepper balls. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

Firmly and consistently saying no to your kid is more loving and kind than giving in to their whims. (But, as my dad once said when he let me play video games on a weekday because I was already sick and miserable: rules are made to be broken!)

smh people scared of Baltimore when the real terror is Virginia plate drivers www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...

The Rocky Worlds program has 500 hours on #JWST to detect atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. PUBLIC CHALLENGE: measure exoplanet eclipse depths from real + synthetic JWST/MIRI obs. Members of top-performing teams will present at @stsci.edu in Nov 2026. 🔭 #astrocode www.stsci.edu/contents/new...

AI has now solved the unit distance problem, one of the most famous open Erdos problems.

Come work for us!! I mean, possibly quite literally you might work with me on the coolest Hubble Instrument ever 🧪🔭

I am not ready to face the level of cringe in this to dare watching it, but Frank is a lovely interviewer, and there is backstory about why I haven’t shut up about Arp systems for 30 years.

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

VERY FEW NEWS ORGANIZATIONS ARE REPORTING THIS OUT CORRECTLY: "The House bill, though, does not restore funding levels to 2026 for all of its major programs. Exploration gets a $1.1 billion increase compared with 2026, but science funding would be cut by $1.25 billion." 🧪🔭⚛️

Sounds like commuting Baltimore all right

At @galaxyzoo.org we uploaded new images based on the early data from the NSF Vera Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) today. Exciting times. www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo... 🔭🧪✨

I also worry about some version of Goodhart's law here. If everyone knows AI will determine if their paper is accepted, they will start to write for AI. And since we all have access to AI, we can iterate until our paper is accepted by AI. And then we have no idea if papers are actually good anymore.

Never change, Baltimore www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

"Everything" is one of the comics that will be included in the "Parenting " SMBC comic collection that is currently available on Kickstarter! KICKSTARTER ◆ www.kickstarter.com/projects/wei...

Some might say that having a reliever give up 7 ER in 0.1 innings isn't ideal

When life gives you 韭菜, obviously you have to make 韭菜肉包

STScI is hiring researchers and technical staff! aas.org/jobregister/...

I did not know this.

Mercy Hospital in Baltimore trending for all the wrong reasons, and consistent with our family's experiences: racism from Dr. Atlas is *the reason* why my wife delivered our second child at UMD reddit.com/r/baltimore/...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

I absolutely love what Peabody Heights does in partnership with the Baltimore community. And you're not going to find a better community heartbeat than the Baltimore Beat!

🔭 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr ap260427

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

DESI is doing incredible work for cosmology and astrophysics. But even still it has some spare fibers -- no good targets from its main surveys. So we came up with a hyper efficient way to select extremely low-redshift, intrinsically dim, low-mass galaxies! ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2212.07433

Orioles are on pace to win 81-0

Thankful that ACLU is pushing on this. While I do think there's a place for AI in society moving foward -- dodges tomatoes -- I 100% think that this is not it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL

House SS&T Dems just issued a report re NASA and the FY2026 budget: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval." Calls on Isaacman to "defend" NASA and not do the same w/FY2027 request. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

So cool that Annual Reviews sent me a physical volume of ARA&A 63! A great memento from when I served as a guest reviewer.

I did not have "Allbirds pivots to AI" on my bingo board

Excited to deliver the University of Kentucky astro seminar! First time in Lexington too -- I did not realize how many horse farms there are here! www.as.uky.edu/physics-astr...

This is a wild Orioles game