Really looking forward to this! Come join me in London or online.

Really enjoyed the US CBP agent chilling on the jet bridge next to my outbound British Airways flight from Seattle, prognosticating how they were excited that “in the next 5-10yrs AI will replace all White Collar jobs, and the only ones left will be Blue Collar” /s

Every time I see people complain about doing peer review “for free” for community journals I lose my mind further. If you’re a salaried academic this is your job! The money would come from the community anyway in these journals! In every industry people fought to convert piecework to wage or salary!

I also see a frequent “suggestion” that University Libraries (or departments) should absorb the costs in the absence of grants/agencies… and just guess which way University Library budgets have been trending the last 20yrs

About to take off on 10hr flight to London… they just called boarding complete! 😀

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Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.

We have PhD positions open in my group at Macquarie for radial velocity exoplanet projects!

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

So Australia 🔭 friends, who’s inviting me to visit in 2 years?! Also, I think Cool Stars 24 in Sydney would be perfect… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_e...

StarCraft XWing vs TIE Fighter

Minecraft…

I know basically all the astronomers on the planet seriously doing SETI /searching for Aliens… 👽 haven’t shown up in our data yet. So if ET is in Obama’s DMs, they’re ghosting the rest of us. www.reddit.com/r/aliens/s/n...

Racists the whole lot of them and all their supporters

Oxford friends, go to the AoT Oxford launch event in a couple weeks!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/astronomy-...

Roses are red Sunflowers are tall Sweep the midterms Then impeach them all

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

😬 Grant awards from the National Science Foundation continue to lag behind 2025. See 🧵 in the quote post below. 🧪

“Don’t blink. Don’t even blink”: Arima+ on “An optical transient candidate of ≲ 2-second duration captured by wide-field video observations” where they look up into the Earth’s shadow to capture these very fleeting events. I’m not sure of their interpretation, but it’s fascinating. #astrodon ☄

When I was 16 I spent a life changing week at Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. One afternoon a fellow camper played Fashion Nugget, and I was instantly made a lifelong fan of Cake. RIP www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

At least for now, there is no longer a legal basis for the EPA to take action on climate change. History will see this for what it is — an embarrassing, anti-scientific backslide that will jeopardize the well-being of billions of people and countless ecosystems for centuries to come.

I think about this quote at least once a week

Reading Hogg's paper with great interest this morning... This is a point I've been trying to explicitly make for years to students from day 1 in working with me. This project is FOR YOU, not me. If I "needed" it done, then I should do it.

Get to know some of our staff and scientists through Rubin Voices! Each feature introduces you to someone helping make NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory a reality. Bonus: each one includes a trading card, so you can start your Rubin collection. Can you collect them all? 🔭🧪 🔗: https://bit.ly/3ZvDHXm

Cool, can we do that now then?

“If Trump lets me out of here I will super duper say that he didn’t do anything wrong!”

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

“NASA actually might go back to the moon now so please give me more contracts”

Super Bowl AI ad barrage definitely felt like a desperate plea for main street acceptance by Wall Street/VCs.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

THE SEAHAWKS ARE SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS!!! What an AMAZING game!! 💙🏆💚

For absolutely no reason, I was just recalling when Puerto Rico got hit by a hurricane and had massive power grid failures, and then blatantly corrupt deals led to people suffering without power for months, and money never arriving to help?

Barbie2 looking lit

Happy “Oh, 2 min till kick off, better subscribe to this stupid streaming service and then cancel it in 4 hours” to all those who celebrate

Had to pull this out from storage today… go Hawks!

Interesting. I always wondered what fraction of Twitter chatter was bot-to-bot…

Still tickets to hear all about what makes the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) the next leap for ground-based astronomy and how its survey of the night sky is going to completely change our view of the Solar System - Feb 19 7pm in Belfast nisciencefestival.com/event/beyond... 🧪🔭

Astronomers/physicists: is the postdoc job market this year ultra difficult? I know seven people with no job offers right now, and I feel like they would have had many offers in previous years. In my career, I have never seen this lack of jobs at the postdoc level before. 🔭

Today’s adventures in roux… halfway there!

So he says he selected it for posting without watching it all and “a staffer” posted it, so… then he is responsible, not “a staffer” and he won’t apologize.

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

Man, y’all remember 2015? It was a lifetime ago… let’s go Hawks!

Racist garbage continues to emanate from this President and his White House.

The real voice of Kermit...

It's that damned staffer again, Tonald Drump. I'm sure they'll be fired quickly, since this administration only hires "the best people"

Binary Star xkcd.com/3203/

There were never any racists in America. MLK was a democratic hoax, and Jim Crow is just an excuse by people with TDS. We’re not at war with Venezuela. We’ve always been at war with Venezuela

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.