When movies go straight to streaming is that the same as when movies used to go straight to DVD?

IT'S BOOK LAUNCH DAY 📖🚀✨ You can now find my first popular science book, Time's Second Arrow, wherever books are sold. Please help spread the word!

The US has produced enough Law themed TV programs to teach us that you go to prison for perjury, but it seems to not apply in real life, as evidenced from the Epstein scandal.

We are still looking for nominations! Deadline is the end of the month! #PrideinSTEM

In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK! Do you know someone who fits that description? Nominate them here: prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧪🔭

We’re bringing our mix of comedy and science to Oxford’s best basement next Thursday, the 19th. Tickets available here: wegottickets.com/f/15055/ Do come, it’ll be a blast.

Last week there was an issue, today I am finally getting my wisdom tooth removed. Tooth is along the nerve so it’s more complicated.

Morgan McSweeney gone! Many more to go, anyone who had a connection to Mandelson (and Epstein) needs to be removed from government.

Listeners to Radio 4’s Inside Science today get an essay from me in defence of astronomy as pure research. Please listen in and let me know what you think. Show starts 4.30pm GMT here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Feeling like Gale Weathers bangs in Scream 3

I love Olympics opening ceremonies, Mariah was amazing. I’m ready to become a diehard expert in a random winter sport for the next few weeks. Go Team GB! 🇬🇧

Sorry for the preview pic in your feed, but we've posted a thoughtful story by @dangaristo.bsky.social that delves into the tangled web of relationships between Jeffrey Epstein and various scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What Epstein and his friends did is the most disgusting thing to happen in modern history, yet it’s barely making it on the news. Why? It needs to be plastered everywhere, the perpetrators names need to be revealed. Victims won’t have justice until the perpetrators are revealed.

Want to learn more about #space and #solarsystem research going on at Oxford? Join us Feb 24 at Jesus College for our big public outreach event: www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/digital-hub-... We'll have short talks, opportunities to ask an expert, and service by the Market Tap! @oxfordphysics.bsky.social 🔭🧪

Last year, based on the previous funding cuts, professors in our field told us to start planning for a backup career. Now we are facing more funding cuts, they should probably just train us explicitly for the backup career.

AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we maintain rigor through open data, simplicity, and human understanding. Don't delegate ethics. Read this article in full via @ox.ac.uk  https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/ #AI #science #research #physics #astrophysics

Olivia Benson would have had this Epstein stuff wrapped up by now

Food tastes better wearing a gown

Harvard needs to take a long hard look at the professors they employ…

Me, on astronomy funding crisis, on the @ox.ac.uk website: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02... 🔭🧪

A significant #SolarFlare is currently underway on the Sun! The flare was so bright, it has caused saturation and diffraction patterns in images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Early data also seems to suggest the flare was eruptive.

Or not. This has been removed for review by the University. (Who asked me to write it in the first place). You can find it here while they sort themselves out: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oxford uni must be so thankful they dodged a bullet with Mandelson

This Epstein situation is like what happened in Marvel: Agents of SHIELD when they found out Hydra were actually ingrained everywhere and running everything

Five classes I took at university: 1. Physics of the Solar System 2. Physics of Exoplanets (mistakenly written as exoplants, we had a good laugh about this) 3. Planetary Atmospheres 4. Physics of Stars 5. Physics of the Earth I loved undergrad, it was so much fun!

Damn, even less time for Europeans, who don’t tend to work during the summer, to write proposals. Mid October worked so well!

The arxiv is increasingly papers that are “submitted” or “in review”, the majority of papers today are like this. I feel like I am in the minority who waits for acceptance.

A New STFC Funding Crisis The outlook for UK astronomy now looks even more bleak than the dark days of the funding crisis following 2008. It looks like a return to the Bad Old Days.

I’m guessing even less ERFs are gonna be given out. Thank god the UK government are putting £2 billion into their “AI for Science Strategy” instead of directly funding scientists…

Netflix be like: here is Law & Order SVU but we only have seasons 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11.

Netflix doesn’t have a thumbs down button, I wanted to thumbs down a trailer it forced on me to indicate never to show me it again. The only buttons are play, +, or thumbs up… companies need to stop using their platforms to push things we don’t want to see

Good news! After nearly 2 years on the waiting list, and 5 years of recurring infections, I’m getting my wisdom tooth removed on Tuesday! So excited.

Has there been an official announcement of when JWST Cycle 5 results will be released? I know it’s usually mid March. I want to beginning plan the celebration/commiseration party.

Trump needs to apologise to us on live TV

People in Reykjavik right now

girl i’m bored let’s make sure we are writing our papers with the values for all the parameters in the simulation

Maybe the approval of the mega Chinese embassy in London is a clever strategic move, coz it would take decades to finish given how slow it takes to build anything in the UK.

Loving the Beckham drama, finally real celebrity drama, none of this reality tv/influencer rubbish. Nature is healing.

If you woke up tomorrow in the pokemon universe, what would your dream starter pokemon be (can be any pre-evolved pokemon). I love learning what people’s first companion would be.

I believe the post a picture from 2016 trend was started by a Gen Z who mistakenly thinks the 2006 aesthetic was the 2016 aesthetic. Like, we are seeing noughties fashion trends and people attributing them to the 10s. Culturally different periods, we are losing ancient texts!

I am really confused with this whole Donald Trump Greenland thing. How is it a security issue? Who is gonna trek through the arctic circle to get to the US? It makes no sense.

The US government is pushing whole milk (for some reason) but I prefer skimmed milk.

A lot of TV shows get worse after a couple of seasons, but The Office US managed to have their best episode in Season 5 Episode 14.

I wasn’t aware that you could just give your nobel prize to someone

I’m so thankful Glee came out in 2009, if it came out today it would get cancelled halfway through season 1

I feel like I heard Jenrick and Farage slagging off the reporters during that press conference, the sky news feed picked up the whispers

Congratulations to Dr Oscar Barragán (@exoscar.bsky.social) on his latest publication that has been accepted to the journal MNRAS! He uses multi-GP techniques to obtain mass estimates of the transiting planets around the young star TOI-451. Read more here: arxiv.org/abs/2601.09438

When I was younger I used to record songs from the radio onto a cassette tape and then listen to them back whilst writing the lyrics down in my notebook

Gen Z do not know the skills it took to take a cute selfie with a Blackberry Curve 8520, Samsung D900, or Sony Ericsson W200