twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

Offshore detention is a moral and financial black hole, bought to you by the Labor Party.

More “Magellanic Clouds” in the sky—because I’m so good at running the simulation in my head—and what-not for sure. What I love is the notion that living in a just-before-cosmic-noon MW would mean we would never predict the coming turnover in the SFRD.

Has anyone done a simulation of what the night sky would look like at cosmic noon

Reform UK

#60mins #60minutes #auspil #nauru #albanese

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

What’s happening to British universities right now is a tragedy www.bbc.com/news/article...

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

And we're talking, like, eugenics fanboy racism - very ugly stuff

virtue signalling is good actually

Most unfortunate & we did use deconvolution on HST before and after the fix. It helps even diffraction limited systems. Article implies that SA didn't need a hardware fix, just a good algorithm, which is deeply wrong. It's one thing to improve resolution - another to imply a defect needing repair

I just wanted to comment on some of the media coverage of our recent AMI papers - we regret a comparison in the press release with HST, which has been amplified in the subsequent coverage like in the linked article. This has got a bit out of hand and we've edited the PR to emphasise this.

Did you know? In 2025, the U.S. quarter features Vera Rubin, honoring her landmark discovery of the existence of dark matter — a tribute that perfectly coincides with the first light of the Rubin Observatory(@vrubinobs.bsky.social), celebrating her enduring legacy in unveiling the unseen universe.

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Let me make it easier and cheaper for you, without having to invest billions of dollars.

emotive butlerian jihad now: the machine may not wear a human face.

I swear that every month we come up with a new possible explanation for the Fermi paradox

this paragraph could apply in so many science contexts

NASA's budget has long been as large as the next largest space agencies (CNSA and ESA) put together. There is simply not any replacement for everything now being threatened. And the labs and a lot of the hardware are not portable.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Europeans and Australians hearing Zohran Mamdani talk about social welfare: this is normal, standard policy, extraordinary to hear an American politician talk sense like this Europeans and Australians hearing Mamdani talk about immigration: this is so far outside regular politics. beyond belief

I think we as a field would actually be happier if we all collectively admitted that things are very bad right now, instead of pretending that everything is fine, and that all of us will somehow be the lucky ones.

No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.

Love astronomy, astrophysics, and science communication? Come join the Astrobites team! Applications due November 26th. 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/10/31/a...

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

would be bonkers if a bunch of rocket scientists had to leave the US for Europe because of fascism.

As feds seal off labs from staff at NASA Goddard in prep for hasty evac+demolition, union reports: “Closure activities are proceeding during the government shutdown, which may be illegal under the Antideficiency Act and further endangers property.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪 www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...

This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪

We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end. The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭

As NASA closes Goddard Space Flight Center, Union says: “High profile missions currently supported by the public, Congress and/or the President (e.g., Roman, Dragonfly) will be immediately harmed or endangered.” 🧪🔭

Trump is at best being very harsh on the Dulcinian Heresy here

Big congrats to Jennifer Burt, Xavier Dumusque, and Sam Halverson on finishing their epic (instant classic) Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics article "Precise Radial Velocities"! arxiv.org/abs/2511.01954 contains some great new graphics for talks on #exoplanets #EPRV #DopplerSpectroscopy

If even half of what is in this article is true, the effects may set #NASA and US space program back **decades**. #AAS #astrophysics '“In terms of future missions, once this lab goes away, we won’t be able to do anything like it again,” one Goddard employee said.'

The South Brisbane greens walked so that zohran could run

Why do the racists hate New York and London? Because both cities are an incredible mix of different people and both cities are incredibly successful.

People are going on about Zohran Mamdani but in Sydney we have Clover Moore and you can never take that away from us.

Zohran and this moment shows us that another kind of politics is possible: one that’s grounded in justice, led by those most affected, and fuelled by hope. The lesson is clear — change doesn’t trickle down. It never has. It’s built from the ground up.

tbh the Major League Cricket's main problem is the team names, Mumbai Indians New York vs the ungoogleable San Francisco Unicorns

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

This is a mandate. Americans are free to call close family members “aunt” if they damn well want to

American culture needs rituals, and Andrew Cuomo losing an election twice a year would make for a good festival calendar

he did it, he actually did it, I'm so happy about this

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

you cannot do inference without making assumptions 💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...