I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

This workshop aims to develop methodologies for combined data analysis and build a roadmap for advancing the field of cosmology while also utilizing GW insights to tackle key challenges in stellar and extragalactic astrophysics. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @samayanissanke.bsky.social

1/ “Don’t mention the children. Don’t name the dead children. The people must not know the names of the dead children. The names of the children must be hidden. The children must be nameless. The children must leave this world having no names.” Michael Rosen youtu.be/tENn0dTF2eY?...

Annie Lennox, Vanessa Redgrave y Guy Pearce son algunas de las estrellas que han prestado sus voces para un recital del poema 'Don't mention the Children' de Michael Rosen. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/h6uJ

The Brian Eno-organised show is set to take place tomorrow and is the UK's largest fundraising concert for Gaza. It will be exclusively livestreamed on YouTube.

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Charlie Kirk treated gratitude like it’s a hate crime.

This woman calling @lbc.co.uk yesterday about Charlie Kirk and “free speech” was brilliant. Vanessa Feltz flummoxed.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

you probably should mention it’s a far-right rally in the headline

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Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

128 new mergers between black holes and neutron stars. Today we're revealing the biggest ever update to our count of gravitational wave detections. New data from May 2023 to January 2024 has more than doubled the number we've seen. 🧵 1/3 @ligo.org #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves 🔭 #GWTC-4 #O4a

Rai Weiss passed away this week. As LIGO spokesperson he often asked presenters at meetings to explain how their work would actually improve LIGO. Keepong us all on target! He never really stopped: the photo below is from a LIGO meeting when he was in his 80ies. #gravitationalwaves #science

#InMemoriam Rainer Weiss. Republication of: Electromagnetically coupled broadband gravitational antenna. #GenRelativGravit 54, 153 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s107... Editorial note by David H. Shoemaker. Gen Relativ Gravit 54, 152 (2022) doi.org/10.1007/s107...

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration will greatly miss our friend and colleague, Professor Rainer Weiss, whose immeasurable impact on gravitational-wave astronomy will be felt for generations to come ligo.org/professor-em... Our thoughts are with Rai's family and friends

A free, democratic and independent Ukraine. That's what you are fighting for. That's what our efforts are all about. We are with you, for as long as it takes. Because a free Ukraine is a free Europe. Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!

Guy Pearce Remembers ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’s Terence Stamp As “A True Inspiration, Both In & Out Of Heels’ deadline.com/2025/08/guy-...

RIP Terence Stamp. Goodbye General Zod, Chancellor Valorum, Jor-El in Smallville, and Prophet of Truth in Halo 3. Terence Stamp was also in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Red Planet, Last Night in Soho, Miss Peregrine, Big Eyes, Alien Nation, Wall Street, and many more movies. He was 87.

So deeply embarrassing for the United States. Trump legitimized Putin and his illegal war on the world stage and got absolutely nothing in return. Not even a single step toward peace. Everyone involved in this charade should be ashamed.

“The most enduring images from Anchorage, it seems, will be its grotesque displays of bonhomie between the dictator and his longtime American admirer.”

With the arrest of a reported Geuzenbond member on alleged terror + weapons offenses, worth reupping this from Sept 2024 - members and leader marching in Antwerp with members of 🇧🇪 far right group founded by a former soldier convicted of terrorism + weapons offenses www.instagram.com/p/DAN8DH-t-_...

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Trump is child's play for Putin.

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...

IDF spokesperson: Al Jazeera is Hamas Sky presenter: No, Al Jazeera is an international news organisation.

genocide /ˈdʒɛnəsʌɪd/ noun the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. "a campaign of genocide"

Once the language of hate is normalised this sort of incident becomes inevitable

Poem @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social wrote a few months ago & posted on X as a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed. 💔

Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.

Israel has killed five Al Jazeera journalists during an airstrike in Gaza, the news outlet reported.

“Civil disobedience on conscientious grounds has a long and honourable history in this country” -a law Lord jn a case defended by Keir Starmer in 2006. Now look. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/70319/...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Families of Israeli hostages kept captive in Gaza are calling for a nationwide general strike next Sunday, in protest of the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to expand the war and take over Gaza City: cnn.it/4llWdK3

Delighted that my #RoyalMail assisted postal correspondence with 95yo Mr Pritchard continues. In his 1st letter he asked about cosmology, so I sent him the best book there is (if you haven't read @astrokatie.com's The End of Everything, you should). Good news - he loved it: "Astonishingly good!" 🤗🔭

What an absolute waste of time and resources.

Trickle-down authoritarianism: the UK government bans the Palestine Action group—but at the grassroots level, all manner of minor functionaries interpret this to mean that the Palestinian flag as such is a mark of criminality. Predictable.

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The uncertainty about the Hubble constant produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age for the universe, for one thing, or to be certain of its exact size

Hamas’s crimes do not excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Jewish state is a democracy. Its leaders should hold themselves to higher standards than terrorists

Israel permitted an average of 19,734 tonnes of food aid a month into Gaza in the five months to July—just 32% of what the UN’s World Food Programme says is necessary. The consequences of hunger and destruction will linger for years to come

The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪 Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"What happened in Hiroshima & Nagasaki must never be repeated. The destructive force unleashed and the immeasurable suffering (…) remain a grave reminder to us all, even 80 years on – namely, that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." – Foreign Minister Wadephul

Wowing visitors with immersive and educational displays, planetariums in Germany are now inscribed on @unesco.org's #IntangibleHeritage list. Germany is home to the world's oldest continuously operating planetarium, pictured below, which opened in 1926 in Jena.

It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.