There needs to be a place called "Pho Sho"

The dirty secret of democracy & the thing we always need to guard against.

Well observed. Zohran vs e.g. Platner

Tragedy! Long, great tradition in UK astro. research, for not much $ invested. Cutting it is insane, esp. if this is simply facilities elsewhere are eating the limited $.

Amen!

Pub!?

"AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high."

Gorgeous! -High cirrus clouds of ice crystals in an atmosphere that's puffier but way less dense than Earth's b/c of lower gravity. -Old craters show lack of change over a LONG time (no tectonics, only weak Mars-quakes, little erosion).

Annie Lennox can go for it!

So interesting! Clearly, Aughinish needs to be prohibited from exporting to Russia & associates. They can diversify. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Aaand it's over! If Ireland can power 25% of electricity demand with SOLAR, literally *anyone* else can. It's the cheapest way, you're not polluting & you're not reliant on terrible regimes! Win-win-win!

Amen! Wind+ Solar+ Batteries + Interconnectors are the future & will lower electricity prices. Limits on Data Centers too!

Fingers crossed for PRSTV! Then the ~6 party system that underpins the apparent ~2.5party FPTP system in the UK will emerge. Hopefully can save UK from its worst elements.

Wonderful! In 1892, the diesel engine is patented & GE is formed. Sherlock Holmes appears in a book & Liverpool FC & basketball. The seeds are all there!

This is the way. Build LOTS of apartments (small & large), drive down rent (e.g Auckland, Austin) & help solve homelessness.

Indeed!

That's a great line-up!

Wait, what? You can do that?

Nice write up of the paper. These planets around supermassive black holes are insane!

C'mon. Rule 4: Do not mess with farmers.

Our friends in LVK @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social have released a fresh new installment of merging binary black holes throughout the Universe! arxiv.org/abs/2605.27226 This is great! tl;dr: AWESOME, we can FINALLY start constraining things! 1/n

Say 10 impacts/day. Earth surface area about 200million mi^2. Say volcano base is 10mi^2, odds are about 2million:1 per day. In a yr, 5000:1. If this volcano has been live-streamed for a few yrs, close to 1000:1 that you would see something like this.

Today's winner!

This would be the best thing the UK could do to inhibit the political instability of the last 15yrs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Yeah, this was a LOT of fun to put together!

OMG, how did I miss this one!? Root canal (and amputation!) 60kyr ago! Our Neanderthal ancestors were clever. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/s...

So, so, bad! 😀

Last minute deals are likely to be pretty decent. Might pay to wait!

Dance, little turtle, dance!

Barney Frank was an inspiring, insightful & clever pol. I still remember hearing him speak & his brutal takedown of the electorate: if you're not outraged by X, then you're stupid or you're not serious. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is the way! Wind+batteries should be (& will be soon) most of Ireland's power.

1/n So, this was a very fun paper! Led by Bhupendra & Wlad with contributions by me & @saavikford.bsky.social among others. The densest population of planets in the Universe may be around active supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies! & the planets are weird! arxiv.org/abs/2605.19241

Accurate!

"..conditions written in the 1980s, when all you needed was 1.5 publications & a bottle of scotch in a drawer." Painfully true.

Today's winner!

OMG this is brilliant! Jacques Tati (M. Hulot!) as an eccentric French 2nd row who got his start pantomiming games for the crowd after the actual game he played in! Brilliant!

Boom! Today's winner!

Clue: Whenever it's "not about the money", it's always about the money.

Ooh, this sounds great! Weimar as a crucible for so many strands in modern German history: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Yet another reason to go to York, my favourite small city in the UK! Cool Brigante hoard from ~pre-Roman times! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Lads, learn from the US, please! The utterly venal, corrupt guy is NEVER the answer, even if you're pissed off. It *can always* get worse & the corrupt guy will make it MUCH worse.

Yeah, the Civil War still isn't over.

Build baby build!! MOAR!

Ouch. Although I would happily do the calculations for Prof of Geocentric Astronomy! ".. might otherwise scorn our hidebound institution in favor of innovative civics centers, private think tanks, and parents’ basements." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Interesting. The need to stay humble in Science. A problem that will get worse with AI. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yes. Issue is #$T colliders (to probe ~few orders of magnitude more in energy) are not politically possible. Future is in Astrophysics. We can probe a very wide range of energies and try to predict signatures of possible particles. www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-...

75,000 forms of ice (& counting). Quantum + phase transitions! Amazing stuff! www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-d...

This one is great. If Collins had survived, how would he have responded to the rise of fascism in Europe? Would he have gone down that path? Or would he have driven down a more practical, economic development path (before Lemass)?

Fascinating stuff. The Carthaginians thought these new guys, the Romans, would make deals like everyone else. They underestimated Roman bloody-mindedness, the expansionist nature of their system & their willingness to transform their naval efforts.

We don't pay enough attention to this: the role of luck! It's probably the dominant factor in most outcomes. Stochastic all the way down baby!