We celebrate Black History Month in Astronomy 112 🔭

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

Breakin' 2: Electric Mayhem Boogaloo

As a GenXer, it's a little weird to have seen so little discussion of Jesse Jackson on this site today. Dude was so omnipresent in the 80s. Like Phil Collins.

If you see this post a Star Trek

Happy Birthday dear Larry

Obla-di, Obla- da, life goes on Long after the thrill of livin' is gone

26 years ago today the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR-Shoemaker) mission arrived at Eros to spend a year studying the asteroid. First NASA mission I worked on.

Biathlon is a really strange sport

Drop a teacher

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but by Donald Trump's rules, that little boy has now won a Grammy

My mom's name was Gertrude but she went by Dotty her whole life because her toddler older brother prounounced Gertie as Dirty

"may" doing a lotta work here. If the model allows a rock:water ratio range of a factor of 100 (as for Uranus) here, that's really not saying much.

Age verification? I watched the Apollo 17 capsule returning to Earth on the teevee

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Stat wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who" or "Transformers".

Huh, do you know anyone in a position of power that could try to do something about this (push for impeachment for instance)? Or is posting to bluesky the extent of your power, Senator?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work "Sorry for the late reply" [I know that doesn't exactly pin it down :^) )

There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!

"The paper is very interesting and well written, and the data ...meet the high quality standards that characterize the authors’ work" Nice start to a referee report :^)

Section 6 of Genesis' Supper's Ready: vi. Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)

"what does a god look like?"

Hey look! Both Laurence Krauss and Avi Loeb met with Epstein in October 2015, 6 years after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes against minors. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I do love it, but Siren is my favorite

Tell me five classes you took in college: Human biology and behavior Philosophy of quantum mechanics Arthurian romances Advanced functional analysis History of jazz I was a physics major

Five 70s flicks that you love and return to time and again The Godfather The Godfather Part II Blazing Saddles Star Wars Soylent Green

Going to Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Milwaukee this summer? Consider presenting in session P10: Quantitative Microanalysis of Terrestrial and Planetary Samples by Electrons, X-rays, Ions, and Lasers. Abstracts are due Feb 13. mmconference.microscopy.org 🧪

It's time for a midweek mood check! Use an image, GIF, or vid to share how you are you feeling today

We could have 4 JWST’s or a science mission at every planet. The NIH could be funded for two years. Or 1.5 years or so of USAID funding, if it still existed. This is how they’re spending our tax dollars. This is our money.

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Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

One of these is a mile from my house

My GenZ daughter loved it growing up but won't go near it now because it was written by a horrendous bigot. Every member of her generation will tell you which house in Hogwarts they belong too, though.

Change a letter, ruin a film. Fart & Furious

And now they have both sides it (of course)

On a bulletin board in an ice cream shop in Cave Creek, AZ 1-24-26

Oreo and S'more relaxing to Bill Evans

Afraid to go home because the agents of the state are looking for her after she witnessed them execute a man.

Well, the @nytimes.com came closer than usual to an accurate headline (accurate would be "Federal Government lies about fatal shooting")

Has the Administration announced an investigation into the latest murder victim's spouse yet?

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers Garbage The Pretenders Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Indigo Girls Aimee Mann

Starfleet Academy is just a Harry Potter movie with spaceships

ah, yes, exactly how I like to be addressed in a message from a student

honestly, I still would have preferred taco trucks on every corner

Watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein last night. It ends with the apparently immortal creature walking off towards the North Pole, and my FIL said, "I guess he becomes Santa Claus now?" and it was perfect

Quote an actor in the wrong film: "Enough is enough. I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane."

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

just asked the ASU Gemini app that I am "encouraged to incorporate into my curriculum" for an illustration to explain why a third-quarter moon rises at midnight. It gave me this. How many things do you see wrong with this image?

Hey #catsky, Did you see that birb???? xoxoxo Short Stack & Dr. Crepes

Ruin a song by changing one letter: 50 Ways to Leave Your Liver