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.

In my professional capacity, I cannot emphasize enough how much an alien spacecraft nearly 7 miles wide headed towards Earth is not happening.

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.

Here's a little tip some of you may appreciate: if you add '-ai' to your query, Google will stop showing you that very annoying overview answer that's usually even more wrong than what regular AI throws at you.

In Aspen where food is so expensive I’ve reverted to my grad school diet of instant ramen. But BSky has decided to keep showing me random skeets of Japanese food 😓

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

My entire reason not to go into planetary science tbh

MFer *flew* from San Jose or Moffett to Monterey!?!?

Modern day British English is so cringe. WTF is ‘leveling up’.

This is easily 2x better than any other news interview I’ve ever seen.

Incredible! The worlds largest digital camera is now online!

Had a telecon 8am Japan time and 7pm US Eastern time, with multiple children and babies clearly heard in multiple folks' background noises 😀

The passing of a giant. #cosmology 🔭 In my 1st year as a grad student in Princeton, I did a short project with him on primordial BH accretion (n.b. this was way before LIGO made its detection). I was constantly in awe & never felt good enough for him... (1/5) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

The first of millions! The Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has begun science operations, and I had the pleasure of leading the first night’s observations of the 360-night Strategic Program. ~2000 high-z galaxy spectra exposure, in 0.6 arcsec seeing! #cosmology 🔭🧪

I can’t. I’m not a white man. (Also, I have had zero past interaction with UMich — never even visited so no idea how I ended up on their mailing list)

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you: aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

It’s fine. China will land the first woman on the moon.

Points to the sign again 👇🏽

Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed

Just give me back Friendster is all I’m asking.

Multiple cosmologists and astrophysicists now sweating their papers on galaxy bias. #cosmology 🔭

As my baby boy approaches his 1st birthday, not only has he forced himself onto our bed at night (as of 6 mths ago), but now he sometimes ends up sleeping literally ON one of us. Whatever sleep training is, we appear to be doing the opposite.

That mix of pride and trepidation as my baby learns to throw stuff.

Very glad that the Australian government has announced they will extend funding of the Anglo-Australian Telescope until at least 2027. So many surveys depend on this facility - which for so long has been a vehicle for bringing wonderful astronomers to Australia to use it and growing our community.

Must read every word, it puts where we are in context with the rest of the world, not a one man dictatorship, but ‘Competitive Authoritarianism’ it also has rays of light, which we sorely need! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Cooked rice for my family's dinner only to realize at dinnertime that I had forgotten to add water to the rice cooker. How's your day going?

Hey, everyone. Let's share Rose's website as far and often as possible. Her name was scrubbed from NASA's website thanks to orders to erase women in STEM. Rose fought through poverty and homelessness, and every time I look at the moon, I think of her. www.rosedf.space/explore