Obituary: George Smoot (1945-2025) Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow go.nature.com/4pzpLqj

Thanks for the memories, Apple Photos!

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

aurora popping off in hobart tasmania

Sugar gliders are cute

This could come in handy

We are offering 4 PhD scholarships in #physics and #astronomy topics @sydney.edu.au Including: * FRBs with @manishacaleb.bsky.social * Quantum critical points with @domwilliamson.bsky.social * Nanostructured materials with @boriskuhlmey.bsky.social www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

Beware. Got pulled aside at the airport because my empty #fountainpen triggered security. It looked exactly like a fountain pen on the x-ray but they were terrified by its threat and needed to see it and disassemble it to be sure it was OK. Security incident barely averted. Sheesh

This is your final week to apply for the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship. A 3 year position open to women in any area of #Physics or #Astronomy at the University of Sydney @sydney.edu.au Deadline: 16th November ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️

here's the process video for the Bub looking at Bub drawing. graphite on vellum.

Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner. As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day! #histSTM #chemistry #physics #OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜

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.

🚀 Our 2025 Progress Report is here! From the launch of the ADAM Platform to #AsteroidDay’s 10th anniversary and the #SchweickartPrize, this year marked real progress in mapping and protecting our solar system. bit.ly/4ohfuP2

Smiski glows in the dark. The only light in the photo is his own phosporescence. He's about 3cm tall.

Password to louvre surveillance server upgraded to “louvre1.”

Formal verification is great but not sufficient and not a cure-all.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Aw.

Tuna Dancing (hi @tinybabbyboy.bsky.social )

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This is a very nice blog post because it is not afraid to explain hard work in terms of simple concepts. go.dev/blog/greente...

Happy to see someone outside Google rebuild/verify Go toolchains. Thanks @agwa.name! www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve... "So far, Source Spotter has successfully reproduced every toolchain since Go 1.21.0, for every architecture and operating system. As of publication time, that's 2,672 toolchains!"

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

I am SO excited to share that the fantastic @cassidyjames.com is joining @roost.tools as our OSS Community Manager! Hear from Cassidy on this (very) exciting news cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joi...

from stream yesterday (hi @jasonantoon.bsky.social )

Going back to watch one of my favorite GopherCon talks of all time to see if I can figure this out 🕵️ I recall some profile pics in an early email system at bell labs www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw_...

Bit of history there.

I recently learned the vet’s ticketing system takes photos and the front desk enjoys them immensely. Fast forward to text message threads that are just snoots asking for refills.

bub and thing

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

I really do like Golang being "batteries included". It took only a few hours to write a moderately featureful TLS-terminating reverse HTTP proxy that used nothing outside the built-in libraries. The only compromise was using JSON for the configuration file. I would have preferred textproto…

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

To implement robust mitigations across Geomys, I did a survey of open source project compromises in 2024/2025. Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided. words.filippo.io/compromise-s...

Excited to announce that we are advertising the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship. A 3 year position open to women in any area of #Physics or #Astronomy at the University of Sydney @sydney.edu.au Deadline: 16th November ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

Congratulations to the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, László Krasznahorkai, who looks just like someone should look if they have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (And no, I had never heard of him. Congratulations nonetheless.)

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

current state of bub

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety. This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

this is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen from my friend charles a brilliant genius

quickie of Buddy

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Thinking not for the first time about how the Clash song Spanish Bombs is closer chronologically to the Spanish Civil War than we now are to the song.

waiting room drawing

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I swear using @cuelang.org is like having superpowers Just CUE-ified the lexicon for permissioned spaces, so much easier to have consistency and readability. The JSON form is generated into the expected directory. github.com/blebbit/atpr... #atdev #atprotodev @atproto.com

before and after hegseth's directive

tuesday

This only happens to you once