Brilliant!

Silence/stillness as a timeless means of dealing with life: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Hilarious!

critical support to the teens of dc, who i keep seeing filming tiktok dances in front of guardsmen until they abandon whatever post they are at

Great idea! The 35 under 35 stuff almost never pans out (would be interesting to study why: probably Poisson stats).

Heh! Back to FDR!

Reform delenda est

Gen-X looks into the Abyss! (Looks brilliant) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Banish narcissists to the fringes again! Social media just amplifies them & makes us all stupider & traps us in their silly vortices. Historians will have an absolute field day with this era!

This was totally a cut scene in Idiocracy!

Dark. Brutally accurate. Who knew that the Enlightenment had such shallow roots in medieval peasant soil? We clearly are not teaching enough people *how* to think for themselves.

Social media has encouraged the worst of us & the worst in us! We'll need to regulate this before it rips democracies apart.

Very good!

Dark!

Every narcissist in Ireland is running for (mostly ceremonial) President! Political weather's getting stormy (see below)

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Yep. Bragg was the capstone of a free liberal-arts education on the radio (R4). The difference between education and schooling.

Fascinating stuff. Healthy regions -> Healthy core. UK forgets this & drives rightist populism/fascism. Argues for EU/US regional support model. peterfrankopan.substack.com/p/empire-ine...

Heh!

Brilliant!

Accurate! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/esc...

Where AI can actually make a difference. Vast number of potential combinations to be sorted: find the ones that might work.

This is amazing! Inducing an immune response by placing a cream on the skin of mice. New vaccine skin creams in our future? Very cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Your reminder that we live on a tiny ball of rock 93M miles from a giant nuclear fusion reactor that occasionally blasts out super-heated plasma at thousands miles/second.

Great stuff! The late night talk show you didn't think you needed, but DO!

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This is very insightful & helpful for this moment.

This could be associated with the Seyfert AGN bump at lowish z. Very interesting. If real it should become more significant by the end of O4. Let's see!

Sad news. Rai was great; an example for how senior folks should behave with junior folks. RIP

So, what can we say about the latest GWTC 4 catalogue? In some ways, it's not too surprising, it's a 'firming up' of the clues we were getting from GWTC 3. But there's a couple of neat things: So, AGN channel perspective follows 1/n

Today's winner!

That would be very stupid. Then you'll have a revolution.

This!

The latest O4a catalog & population papers are out! Well done to all our friends at @ligo.org and @egovirgo.bsky.social on the hard work that went into this. Lots to dig into! arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083

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Yep. Was just thinking this in Old South Church, while looking at a cartoon of George III riding roughshod over rights. Here we are.

So, @xevra.world leads a great paper out today on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2508.13412 on how the recent event GW231123 detected by @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social could've happened in an AGN. With @saavikford.bsky.social @spacekaila.bsky.social @astrowithemily.bsky.social @jakepost.tech & McFACTS crew!

Bingo! Europe appears to be waking the fuck up to the US disaster (US mainstream media not so much).

Indeed!

Today's winner!

I mean there's Lysenkoism & anti-enlightenment thinking (RFK) but there are strong parallels to Maoist social vandalism as well! newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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. Fear has always been the strongest political lever.

The "and [your discipline] " at the end of the title.

DC Hardcore!

Sweet! "100 percent of those beans have seen some shit. It was handcrafted next to a rusty fire escape in Brooklyn by stone-cold motherfuckers with nothing to lose. It hardened from its molten state in a kitchen that moonlights as an unlicensed kickboxing arena."

So,the Mamdami media folks are killing it (brutal, funny, direct) & they need to run the national Dem campaigns in '26 & '28 if we're going to win.

"suggesting that those with both high psychopathy and low cognitive ability are the most actively involved in online political engagement."

The fractality of human life!

This is very cool! Since the star is in a binary, it'll be really interesting to see how the candidate planet behaves (I'm guessing resonances play a role here to keep it stable-ish). Competing tugs from a 0.9Msun star at 10-40AU will play a role!