My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

Sam Neill: An intelligent performer with a personal warmth that always shone through

Words can’t express how happy we are with the event and with the venue everyone should get married now

Pictures forthcoming, but I am married 🙂

I also added a bonus lecture to my MESA summer school on integrating stiff reaction networks: zingale.github.io/mesa-labs/re... as with the others, it is a collection of Jupyter notebooks that you can run. #astro #astrocode

i am just a man chasing the experience of playing outer wilds for the first time again

Gun to my head i would not be able to find a good thing to say about GitHub actions

this is fine

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

After 10 years, I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social. A few thoughts on the decade: www.arfon.org/stepping-dow... The EiC call: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/05/call... #opensource #openscience

Before GitHub https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116484051725139878 There are too many good reasons to minimize or eliminate one's GitHub usage and footprint: the increasingly flaky service and clunkification of the web UI, in-band advertising for their slopIfication tools, their recent switching of […]

The Ghostty founder is leaving GitHub When you read his blog post, I want you to keep this image in your mind mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

yesterday I reported on GitHub employee concerns about reliability and leadership, and then hours later GitHub suffered a catastrophic outage 😬 www.theverge.com/news/918001/...

This is the aspect that bothers me the most about AI, and is why I still refuse to use e.g. Claude Code for now. It's obvious that this tech has uses (+ MANY dystopic ones too), just I also don't endorse big tech being allowed to dictate to the world that ownership of writing/music/art is over

In San Diego for a software citation workshop! Remember: scientific software is as crucial a piece of infrastructure as instrumentation and deserves such recognition :) softwarecitationworkshop.ucsd.edu

Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump after Jan 6. Republican SCOTUS appointees gave him immunity. Republicans in Congress today stand idly by as he unleashes death and destruction across the globe. We are now at the whims of a mad king because GOP leaders have refused to constrain him.

Not impeachment or the 25th amendment but a secret, third thing (criticizing his tax policies) on a day he threatens to wipe out a civilization

"It's a distraction"- maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Doesn't matter if it's all an elaborate conspiracy or a desperate tantrum from a dying man who wants to nuke *something* before he goes. What matters is that millions of people in Iran might die because of it. Don't lose sight of that.

We’re in hell

⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!

It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.

Very embarrassing work from the NSF

Looking at the AAS jobregister lately, it seemed to me that there are less positions available in all categories than in previous years. Wanting to quantify, I used the wayback machine to check on the number of postings in the January-March window and it is quite depressing.

my basic “should I use generative AI” rules: * the 3 D’s of automation are Dirty, Dull, & Dangerous, and Dull is the only one applicable—so stick to that * dont use it for any task where doing it yourself would improve your skill at that task * “hard to guess, easy to check” format + ALWAYS CHECK

This piece is about CS conferences, but it speaks to a larger trend. What are we, as individual researchers and scholarly communities, doing to prevent epistemic poison? What can we do to preserve and maintain the quality of our knowledge in this era of bullshit and slop? ⚗️ 🧪 #SciComm #Ethics

It’s infuriating and dispiriting how cozy scientists and science communicators were with Epstein. Not just creeps like Krauss and Horner, but former SciAm editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina corresponding with Epstein in 2014-2015. “He’s done so much for science, I think that deserves some fun!”

The academy continues to impress

Here we go again

God I missed Detroit

Heading to god honoring Michigan … maybe the worst day of the year to fly (had cancellations..) but god I miss it

Traded code crashes for snowboard crashes

command line app called chat (subtitle “is this real”) that takes a number at the command line and prints yes if real false if complex

Hi #aas247 people! Just saw some slides from an education session about astronomy majors across the country that looks super relevant to the new astro program we’re trying to start in Oregon. Anyone know where the full report lives, or can share the full slides? 🔭

Rewrite substantial parts of technically functional (albeit ugly, outgrown its scope) code or implement features necessary to make a production capable product? Easy

Christmas Day is finally here, and that means two things: Lord of the Rings (extended) and a day full of hobbit meals

Christmas time

This year in GitHub: 72 merged PRs for a total of 912 commits — and more to come (and more uncounted on gitlab). Not too bad but pushing for more next year!

How it feels when optimizing code

Monday night

Went to Michigan over thanksgiving and got to take a god honoring nap

im not much of a football fan but i feel strongly that we need the weaker teams regularly playing in the snow

DTW brewery crawl

No it’s actually an elite level code development strategy that i left that unused variable there. The warnings tell me “finish implementing this” every time i compile

PBS always serving the public good

(Rushing to make another contribution to PBS !!!)

What's another song about Boats, Ships or Sailing? 🚢 🎶 ⛵️ On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Lake Superior during a storm, killing all 29 men aboard and inspiring Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot to write a song about the tragedy, "Wreck 0f The Edmund Fitzgerald." 👇