Is this… is this a laksa?

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

North Korea on track to have a female executive before the United States.

Do not keep your lip chapstick in a drawer next to a glue stick. Ask me how I learned this.

I see we are at the 'demanding expensive and impractical wunderwaffen that nobody in the military is actually asking for' stage of things.

Flying through #Dulles Airport this week? Don't forget to check out the new James Webb Space Telescope exhibit in the corridor between the Metro station and the main terminal. If you missed it, you can still read about it: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-403 🔭

🚀The Roman Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is OPEN! Unlock new discoveries with the Wide Field Instrument—your science starts here! Apply for funding to analyze Roman data, perform theory/lab research, and propose new observations. 🔭☄️ 📅 Deadline: Mar 17, 2026 (5 PM PDT) 📝 bit.ly/4q3jbbL

Not typically into dumpster diving, but spotted this in my buildings recycle bin.

高市早苗ばかやろ何です

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Aren’t these villains in One Punch Man

Most telescopes in Maunakea now shut down until day crews can check for safety.

Cultivating the Miyamoto Musashi style of chopstick technique.

The 1.5 yr old has achieved tri-lingualism with precisely one word: “No no no!”, “ない!“, ”不要！”

I get the appeal of slow travel, but taking a sleeper train for a 7km journey is probably taking things a bit too far.

Will be practicing bushido on my veggies from now on.

The fact that my Steam Deck is docked to a big monitor and keyboard/mouse really says something about what kind of gamer I am. www.ign.com/articles/ste...

Unless I'm mistaken, the UK pledging to defend Belgium has had a 2/2 record for starting World Wars. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The supermarket has decided to stop carrying the 1.5 yr old’s favorite cereal. Now have a tiny crack addict to deal with at home.

Always check the primary sources… like TikTok

You know you've lost the crowd when Fark.com calls you a dipshit.

Incredible paper. These dinosaurs could literally have seen the Yucatán impactor with their very eyes.

Intergalactic gas-tronomers! At IPMU (outside Tokyo), we are organizing a workshop (March 16-19 2026) about circum- and inter-galactic gas in honor of 40 years since Art Wolfe's discovery of damped HI systems in absorption. Abstraction submissions are open: indico.ipmu.jp/e/dlas_at_40

"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the US🇺🇸😖🚀 www.planetary.org/articles/400... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social 🧪

🗿 The moai really walked New evidence shows Easter Island’s giant statues were engineered to 'walk' upright using their curved bases & forward tilt. A 4.3-ton replica moved 100 m in 40 min with just 18 people, & no logs or sleds. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm 🧪 #Archaeology

The number of UK-related problems that just translate to 'UK parents can't be arsed to do parenting'.

It's great that FRBs are now becoming common enough that it's possible to have more than one in a single calendar day, but working on two interesting FRBs with the same date stamp is a pain in the ass!

TW: raw meat Forgive me, father, for I have sinned. Saw this 1000g A5 Wagyu steak in the supermarket and could not resist.

Isn’t this Zach Galifianakis?

Paper day, but a bitter sweet one. The last paper out of CLAMATO, a project we started 12 years ago with a crazy idea: how about we try to do Lyman-alpha forest with galaxies not quasars? So many ups & downs! Am grateful to Ben Zhang for shepherding it over the finish. arxiv.org/abs/2509.07453

Just lie back and enjoy the tranquil of absolute zero entropy.

In case you haven’t been following the saga of the NZ father who disappeared into the bush for a few years with his four children, DO SO! This is an insane ending.

A few years ago, UK SciTwitter got mad when the Royal Society published a report showing that scientists who have had a chance to work abroad get a career boost 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is a stunning visualization of the black hole mass data!

Tips and resources for those who would be interested in pursuing an astro PhD outside this US and applying for programs this Fall, put together by Floor Broekgaarden, Ana Lam, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Deana Tanguay! 🔭 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

This is a great summary of what we've learned about the earliest epochs of the Universe from JWST. You can read the preprint — which has the same material — at arxiv.org/abs/2405.21054 if you can't access the article on the Nature website. 🧪☄️

11. Don't forget to tear open a person's chest once a month at the top of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan and offer their heart as an offering to the deity Huitzilopochtli.

Do not give AI root permissions, ever.

Hello, I'm an astrophysicist in a film. I wear a white coat at work at all times, look through large telescopes with the eyepiece (with the dome lights on), and am able to crank out analyses with fancy 3D visualizations after 20 seconds of frantic hammering on the keyboard.

The most manly thing I have ever done was, while trapped in the middle seat of a long-haul flight, to brush my teeth and just swallow the toothpaste.

Personally not looking forward to the number of applications we’re going to get, but please don’t hesitate to apply if you have a sudden need of a postdoc position !

Lecturer position for physics or astrophysics in Malaysia's best university, Universiti Malaya! Contact @norhaslizayusof.bsky.social‬ for more details! Great department, great colleagues, great food, great weather! What more do you want. career.um.edu.my

When I saw this poster I got excited that we were going to get a film about one of the greatest astronomers of the 20th century. But on second glance, I don’t think Sir Arthur ever hip-fired automatic weapons.

My expression after convincing the toddler to eat his veggies.

At Kavli IPMU, we have openings for postdocs who were displaced from their previous jobs for whatever reason. Please consider if this is applicable! IPMU is an international research institute working on astro, math and physics, with English as the working language. www.ipmu.jp/en/job-oppor...

Something fun detected by my Aussie colleagues working with ASKAP: a 'fast radio burst' detected from dead NASA satellite dormant since 1969. Was fun watching this discovery unfold from the sidelines on the team Slack, starting with initial discovery of a DM=0 source! www.space.com/astronomy/as...

The foodie life has been sidelined since the little one was born, but managed to sneak out with the wifey for lobster ramen at Ebimaru. Unapologetically decadent!

This is the fastest I’ve ever stopped clicking on a linked article once I saw who wrote it.