Expertise is going to be more valuable in the age of AI than before 👏🏻

Mamdani: Too often, a working New Yorker is trying to find any extra dollar they can to make ends meet—then they look at city government and they don't see the same application of effort.

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

The NITARP 2027 application is now available! NITARP gets teachers involved in real astronomical research. We partner small groups of educators with a mentor professional astronomer for an original research project. The program runs Jan-Jan. Applications due 15 Sep 2026. 🔭🧪🎢

The State of CSS survey is out! It's shorter this year! Please go take it! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Big boom in Beantown! GOES-19's GLM (Geostationary Lightning Mapper) caught a large flash over Boston, MA a little after 2:10pm Saturday. This was likely a bolide (meteor fireball) entering Earth's upper atmosphere. ☄️ #Boston #boom #meteor

Whoa. The alleged fireball shock wave registered on seismometers!

ohh, that is what I heard!!! Cooool!

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

47% of respondents in this Kaspersky study of 7600 people reported experiencing tech enabled abuse in the last 12 months: lp.kaspersky.com/global/tech-...

As more and more students begin using A.I. to complete assignments, professors across the country are changing their approach—and losing their hope. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

The reason for turning buses into surveillance vehicles is to generate more revenue, according to the source with knowledge of the plans. After GI Partners, an investment firm, invested $300 million in BusPatrol, it has “been pushing the company to find alternate revenue streams,” the source said.

Hey Bluesky peeps, I'm looking to speak to astronomers that are looking for alien life in unusual ways - think Ceres, weird technosignatures, unexpected exoplanets, etc - for a story in the BBC. If that's you, or you know someone, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!

"Furthermore, many male professors but no female professors share the ‘silent standpoint’ that female candidates for professorships (in general) are less qualified than male applicants." *Seeeeeething in the corner*

Full policy PDF is linked in the thread. This is *excellent* stuff. It starts with recognizing the ubiquity of AI and the possibility it will be a product that future lawyers may use. And then it is clear in its framing that education is the last place AI should be allowed.

blogged: Google just spat in my face dbushell.com/2026/05/20/g... — go on then, one last blog before my holiday 🫩

NEW from me: News headlines adopted Trump’s deceptive framing of his new $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...

Check out Effective Practices for #Physics Programs (EP3)! The site is a collection of practice guides developed and reviewed by experts in the physics community. Learn more ➡ ow.ly/sGsS50Kj4YH #physicseducation #physicsteachers #physicsresources

The Trump/Blanche "settlement" fund purports to be challengeable only by those who colluded to create it. ... 1/5 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

A 1-minute sample of my newfound Bromance with William Shatner… [From his backyard in Los Angeles]

Instant classic new paper from @dalcantonjd.bsky.social and friends. First sentence: "The Universe is a very odd place filled with strange and wonderful things." ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJS... 🔭

Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming was born #OTD in 1857. She led the Harvard Computers, a team of women whose work revolutionized modern #astrophysics.🔭 +ID'd the Horsehead Nebula, 1888 +Cataloged 10,351 stars +Discovered 310 variable stars +1st discovery of a white dwarf star #WomenInSTEM

They're really trying to speed run going back to Jim Crow.

From @astroneal.bsky.social: The email asking you to referee your first paper is coming. Here’s a practical, step-by-step guide for that exact moment, built from the AAS peer review workshop. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/05/08/writing-your-first-referee-report/

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀May 06, 1859 Alexander von Humboldt died in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 In 1817 he made the first graph of isotherms, showing mean temperature around the world by latitude and longitude.

“One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

an entire ecosystem of entertainment at my fingertips. but what do we choose, a 1 hour history of the Hittites

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Breaking news: Republicans in the Tennessee state House adopted a plan aimed at giving them an additional congressional seat. The vote came in response to a Supreme Court decision last week that weakened the Voting Rights Act.

If you are paying for Claude and you claim to care about astronomy or the night sky - think again. 🔭☄️ SpaceX's orbital data center plans would *ruin* ground-based astronomy & the night sky. Anthropic are partnering with them.

They told us to make the headlines conversational what can I say www.wired.com/story/using-...

We are officially at 68950, but that doesn't include 29 Starlink satellites launched May 1 and 45 rideshares launched May 3. We estimated we would hit 68999 on May 9. Time is running out. We will be making additional changes, like changing the default format to CSV. Watch here and spread the word!

NEW: Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.

explore different views of the Phantom Men...Galaxy and see how a simulation is trying to explore the bubbles seen in JWST images #astronomy #astroedu 🔭 📊

"The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2026" report which was prepared by NCSES under the guidance of the recently-terminated National Science Board is now out. The report covers the state of STEM education, US R&D vs. China, and translational tech.

May the FOURTH be with you! Here's a snazzy new way to appreciate NASA imagery alongside simulations of the Phantom Galaxy, brought to you by @cosmicds.bsky.social, launched tonight at the @museumofscience.bsky.social projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/bubbling-gal... #maythe4thbewithyou

"But but but AI can forecast the weather really well!" Scientists: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

High-redshift galaxies 🤝 brown dwarfs Keeping us all on our toes! 🔭 arxiv.org/abs/2604.23668

“The university ‘limited the work of Dr. Wu, partly closed her lab, broke up her research team, reassigned her grants to her white male faculty colleagues, and left her isolated.’ After the investigation, Northwestern allegedly ‘cut her salary for lack of funding’” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

🔭 Large Scale Structure of the Universe Image Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II) ap260423

The last images of Hubble that were this clear were from the last servicing mission in 2009. You can see Hubble in several of the photos in this NASA gallery: www.nasa.gov/gallery/sts-...

Oh look. Another “really bad idea” to fix climate change. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/c...

Hey do you like Hubble? (yes) and do you as an astronomer have Thoughts on what it should do in the coming decade? (also probably yes) Why not write a white paper on future science with Hubble? How to use its unique abilities in the Euclid/Roman era. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is incredible and absolutely awesome inspiring. I don't know the last time that we (certainly, I) had such a crisp view of the venerable telescope. IT'S A REAL THING!! UP THERE!!🥹 #astronomy 🔭