Please spread the word! In addition to becoming an important part of the MESA project, the person in this role would have opportunities to collaborate on scientific software across CCA, which has a vibrant, interactive community of scientists and code developers.

Me trying to learn string theory

There's something deeply pathetic about rejecting every aspect of Christianity *except* the parts people use to justify open racism and supremacy.

It is too early in the year for this shit

Ok it's kind of unreal that I can just plus Claude Code into a repository from the terminal, ask it to look for issues with the timestep in our multiphysics code, and it finds a potential issue that's been there for 15 years (and even shows who introduced it and how to fix it).

The problem with teaching a dynamics course is it constantly makes me want to go on sidequests in my research. By which I mean someone please stop me from working on tides!

This is a cool result, but also as a GC person I'm wondering how many GCs there are just lurking in these galaxies. Is it enough to significantly change the number density of GCs in the Universe (currently about 1/Mpc^3).

I do have a concern here: the original recording of a faculty member without their knowledge occured *before* there was any policy. If they've rescinded this policy, but not explicitly stated that they won't do that again, it seems like they can now record us *without* notification or consent.

#paperday! RR Lyrae stars are a common, dependable Population II distance indicator, and provide an independent tracer of early star formation. We test the feasability of RR Lyrae research with archival JWST data using nearby dwarf galaxy WLM! 🔭 On the arXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2602.21205

Starting off my lecture with "a little perturbation theory is good for the soul".

Great thread on Kishalay De's disappearing yellow supergiant in M31. It likely formed a stellar-mass black hole, but quietly!

Twenty bucks says I know who wrote that.

Intrusive thought, but I would pay real money for a special episode of The Pitt where every character, except Noah Wyle, was played by a Muppet.

Lot of great astronomers on the list this year! Congrats @yymao.bsky.social, among others!

Damn ADS is struggling....

Bold of someone to send me a manuscript to review without actually asking me if I will review it, then getting annoyed when I haven't reviewed it yet.

Bad Bunny’s pan-Americanism has me once again pondering the Worldwide Latina belt.

Praise him

I recently heard someone say the key to recovering from deep burnout is becoming comfortable with being unremarkable, which I think is really good advice for former academics coming from spaces where the primary currency is individual accolades within an interminable productivity arms race.

This is crazy, you can apparently find whole email conversations between Krauss and the Arizona State dean and legal team in these files as he was forwarding them to Epstein (and Woody Allen?) for advice.

Playing life on hard mode (giving a colloquium that doesn't mention LIGO).

Seeing AI-generated images for anything scientific, even conference advertising, is really starting to raise my bullshit alarm.

Janna Levin?!?!

RCSA, @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, the Leinweber Foundation, and Kevin Wells are funding the research of 7 collaborative teams in the 2nd year of #Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST, a 3-year initiative to ignite discovery with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social's Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

Prue is 86?!

Our campus newspaper is On It®

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Amazing

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Sounds about right lol

2025 was an eventful year for gravitational waves! Here is a brief round-up of some of the biggest gravitational wave news stories from last year:

When I worked as a waiter in Louisiana we’d get this woman who’d call once a week, immediately ask “yall hiring?”, and then hang up. Gonna channel her vibe while looking at professor jobs in Canada this morning…

We need more drag queens with STEM degrees

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I think we don’t talk enough about how *insanely wasteful* the money in politics is at all levels. If this campaign can actually use that money to improve people’s lives (and sell themselves in the process) that seems like a huge win?

The irony of this, while most of the board of governors and trustees have switched to signal to avoid public records requests, is both insulting and why no one is going to be putting real content into their syllabi anymore.

Vance is what would happen if the most petulant debate bro you knew from high school found the fortune-teller machine from Big.

I mean this is literally it. The only case I’ve found that’s useful so far is coding, because I can easily (and *rapidly*) test whether it’s working. Anything where I have to manually check every fact and every citation is actually slower than doing it myself.

I mean this is literally it. The only case I’ve found that’s useful so far is coding, because I can easily (and *rapidly*) test whether it’s working. Anything where I have to manually check every fact and every citation is actually slower than doing it myself.

I can think of more than a few physicists and astronomers for whom this is true.

If you don’t recognize this your pecan pie will never know the adoration of God

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

From Neev Shah @neevshah101.bsky.social : Do black holes have a family tree? Read more in today’s bite! ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/11/21/g...

It’s real upsetting having to go to a conference and pretend everything is normal while ICE is snatching people off the streets of my home.

👀 👀 👀 On the other hand we've been running LIGO for like 10 years at this point, so a once in every 6.2 years false positive rate may make it hard to say anything definitive.

Little concerning the number of senior astro faculty I've heard of (in the past week!) that are leaving the US (2 to China and 1 to Canada so far).

i’m excited to announce that i am hiring (again)! i am looking for a postdoc in computational astrophysics that’s excited about models of stellar transients and multi-messenger astronomy to join my group (star stuff @ steward) at @uarizona.bsky.social! apply here ✨💥: aas.org/jobregister/...

Ok it's time for AOC to primary Schumer

Mail should have an option to add "Very sorry for the slow response" automatically to the header of emails...