I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Piercing xkcd.com/3145/

It’s #FatBearWeek!! Today you can vote for some real chonkers—I’m supporting 128’s yearling and 503–vote here by 9pm eastern: explore.org/fat-bear-week

I am such a sucker for a good 99p book and you should be too

happy day I’m not a ghost! 👻 But yeah, here is your yearly reminder than (a) I’m bi, and (b) I draw stuff sometimes? 💖💜💙 #BisexualVisibilityDay #BiGirl #QueerInSTEM #BiVisibilityDay

This is a really cool #astroedu and outreach resource - create personalize sky domes that you print to paper - NOX MINIMA (www.nox-minima.net/en) from André Bessa (School of Science and Technology at UFRN, Brazil) #astronomy

It as long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "A Case of Identity," p. 61 #highenergyastro #particlephysics

okay please go vote for taenite it’s from SPACE

it really says a lot that “straight men who have sex with men” is a category

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

NEW WRITING: I talk about a new memoir that’s set to debut next week from Gazan physics student Wasim Said, aspiring astrophysicist, who has created a forceful record of the genocide. I also share parts of my conversations with Said. The book is a must read. #BookSky 🧪⚛️🔭

Ah yes, the three primary colors

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

If you're going to be talking about Autistic people and Autisticness: Neurodiversity is a quality of groups, not individuals. Neurodiversity includes everyone, including neurotypical people. Autistic people are neurodivergent, but neurodivergent is not another way to say "Autistic".

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Scientists can regain public trust by a) being honest in their work and b) not being so proudly inaccessible in their writing. The best physics writing uses different kinds of stories, and I also tell my own. aeon.co/essays/to-un... @aeon.co #scicomm #writing #editing #publishing #highenergyastro ⚛️

So I’ve had the idea of trying to make a “Rosenshine’s Principle in Action” type thing but focussed on higher ed. Has anyone done something along those lines before? Or have any related recs? #EduSky #UKEd

The nox-minima dome: a tangible alternative to flat star maps for astronomy education. A. Bessa https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21195

Hope UK university will follow. “Our duty as educators is the cultivation of critical thinking and intellectual honesty, and it is not our role either to police or promote cheating, nor to normalise our students' and mentees' avoidance of deep thought.” #academia

A generation of academics torture themselves in order to boost student satisfaction scores, and then the bosses decide students will be just as well off with a chatbot that tells them "Your work is deeply satisfactory — more than that, it meets the criteria for an upper second"

Debate culture works as political indoctrination because it combines people debating in bad faith with naive, often privileged, people debating in good faith. Bad faith approaches allow for lies, bullying, and manipulation. It will always be more effective for them, and it's a mistake to enable it.

This is all he said.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

They are literally canceling culture

Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA" Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?

The official number of exoplanets has surpassed 6,000! And you can access data on all 6,007 of them right here at IPAC 📈 🪐 Watch the video & read all about the center of the exoplanet universe (also known as NExScI!) here: www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/the-nas...

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone… Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!! (You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣) www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

so has anyone every written it thought about how best to apply rosenshine’s principles to high ed? #CogSciSci #Pedagogy

We still have no idea who the shooter is or what their motivations were

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

::slowly stands while clapping::

lol this is what they fired him for saying

a selection of US scientists and foreign collaborators:

charlie kirk lived and died in the america that charlie kirk wanted to exist

A gentle reminder that you can ask (as in pay) Black people to talk about Black British history any month of the year. Not just October…

hey i love seeing your cat pictures but more than that, i love reading the adoring, complimentary alt text you all write about your write about your cat like lil poems 🥹

god I’m so sick of hearing the stupidest people doing the most asinine thing possible every damn day

In Welsh mythology, the Milky Way is known as Caer Gwydion ("The fortress of Gwydion") or Llwybr Caer Gwydion ("the path to the Castle of Gwydion"), after the mythological figure Gwydion fab Dôn. #FolkloreThursday

after railing against bloom’s taxonomy, am I about to suggest it to a colleague??? #teaching

anyone got any tips for best practice setting up a moodle (or other online course organiser)?

Anyone know a good place to get stargazing binoculars in LA?

someone asked me if we use microwaves in the uk microwaves

... if you watch a Frankenstein movie and don't walk away assured in your understanding that the creature is the sympathetic one and the doctor is an evil fucker, either: - The director did something very wrong. - You missed the entire point. Like all of it. A glacier sized point. Enormous. Huge.

I am trying to start using bluesky instead of threads so I’ve swapped the position on the apps on my phone screen and it is working GREAT

Americans, I am once again begging you to consider that sometimes people aren't in America and may be discussing their own bad governments on the niche microblogging website. Please. I am begging.

I honestly feel like ChatGPT is going to yield a whole new level of dementia in future generations because folks have just stopped using their brains. It’s really quite harrowing.

roses are red gold is the key

I love how I come on here because I’ve seen posts elsewhere saying #Bluesky is thriving, but now I’m on here I see posts saying it’s dying 😂

Pro tip for covering pregnancy-related arrests: don't use the word 'infant' before finding out what actually happened. More often than not, these are miscarriages, but outlets will repeat the language cops use - smearing women in the process www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...