Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission, apparently now targeting March 6-11

THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED. #Cosmere #BrandonSanderson #Mistborn

The Pleiades star cluster (M45) captured over 25 hours. The blue glow is starlight reflecting off interstellar dust. The surrounding brown structures are the Integrated Flux Nebula, incredibly faint clouds lit by the glow of our entire galaxy. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #m45

This is globular cluster NGC 2419, also known as the Intergalactic Wanderer, found in the constellation Lynx, where globular clusters wouldn't normally be found. It orbits the Milky Way every every three billion years and its orbit takes it further than the Magellanic Clouds. #seestar #astronomy

Got married to my now wonderful Wife Sandy!

January 7th is National Old Rock Day! Well here is an old rock! These white circles are cross sections of Archaeocyathids. These were a type of sponge that built reefs during the Early Cambrian. This comes from the the Forteau Formation in southern Labrador, Canada. Over 516 million years old!

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Stuff like this makes me so sad... Libraries are magical places. #Science #Space #NASA

There's a famous Feynman interview where he explains why ice is slippery. It turns out there's more to the story involving shear-stress and slippage of disordered ice layers. Things we experience every day still generate novel thought and research. #Science #Physics journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Hey Martians, did I mention we now also have a video of epic Phobos passing over a Martian dust storm near Pavonis Mons? 🌪️🌋🥔 Video & full info: flic.kr/p/2rNN8wk Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY @esa.int Mars Express HRSC 300 MP Photo quoted below Easy zoom: easyzoom.com/image/674026

"Faculty would prefer more emphasis on teaching and somewhat more on service than they observed in practice. The largest disconnects were the overvaluation of publication numbers and grants and undervaluation of publication quality in research" #Science #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1007/s442...

✨This NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope image shows the Westerlund 1 cluster, a group of massive stars located in our galaxy which are nearly as bright as a million Suns each. 🌌🎄🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/The_exotic_stellar_population_of_Westerlund_1

What's next? We'll be allowing young earth creationism in astronomy 101? #Science #AcademicSky #EduSky

A fairwell to #3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor, as now it is moving away both from the Sun and Earth. It has dimmed to about mag 12 and has a tail pointing towards the Sun. It will continue getting dimmer and won't be visible in just a few months. #cometWatch #astrophotography

No raptors this morning but I did find this handsome specimen 🪶 (ID in alt-text)

The Core (2003) is a guilty pleasure movie for me. It makes like zero scientific sense, and yet I kinda love it. #Science #Geology #Movies #xkcd

When Star Trek the Movie came out back in '79 it had a much criticized sequence of shots where the camera basically drools over the Enterprise (1701A) in dry dock. But I was the target audience. I hope we get a Bird of Prey next. We probably also have enough […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

We got to the final listed track, track 15 "The Fate of Thomas Light" and it's the saddest bit of music I've listened to in awhile. Everybody in the Bandcamp livestream was devastated. This can't be the end of Act III. #Protomen #Music #RockOpera

The stanning of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in this account continues Image credit: Victor Sabet, Julien De Winter

We're almost to the end of Act III. It's been a wonderful journey. #Music #RockOpera #Protomen

Comet 240P/NEAT has now a small fragment (B) that is bright enough to be seen with modest telescopes. The nucleus shines at about mag 12 while B is two magnitudes fainter. #cometWatch #astrophotography

Join arXiv! Want to make an impact on open science? Come help lead the team working on arxiv.org, one of the most integral websites for open scholarly communications and scientific discovery. blog.arxiv.org/2025/11/24/w... #arXiv

I love #Quasars! This is 3C 273, brightest in the sky, by #HST #Hubble, 2.5 billion light-years away. The bottom blocks out the supermassive #BlackHole showing more detail. The "L" is a jet, possibly from a disrupted dwarf galaxy. #Science #Astronomy #Space. See: esahubble.org/images/opo24...

This week's Act III #Protomen is "The Dream." Amazing call back to Act III and it's cool to hear Emily again in the story, even only as a memory. #Music #ConceptAlbum #RockOpera. We're getting to the endgame now.

I missed last week's #Protomen Act III drop. Last week was “The Redline” + “A Show Of Force” #Music #ConceptAlbum #RockOpera

This is a gorgeous photo of SN 1987A taken by the Hubble. #NASA #Space #Science #Astronomy #Physics Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Su...

Should #PeerReview in STEM be paid work? I'd think so. I read this blog with fair reasoning. #AcademicSky #Science #EduSky Blog: jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-move... I also found a journal article which tried this exact thing and found benefits: doi.org/10.1257/jep....

Good. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Here's the @archive.org webpage since the official website is down now: web.archive.org/web/20251105... Absolute disgrace.

New #Protomen! I'm so thrilled to post each and every drop until #ActIII is fully out. theprotomen.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...

This is why I don't trust charter schools to replace public education. The greed and mismanagement without public oversight is horrifying. #AcademicSky #EduSky #Education

It turns out you can order free hard copies of the NRL Plasma Formulary book from the US Navy. www.nrl.navy.mil/News-Media/P... The PDF is also freely available. Making my tax dollars work lol. Though with the shutdown, I don't know if they'll respond. #Physics #Science 🧪⚛️

#TIL the mathematician #Fibonacci (b. 1170) was one of the early promoters of the Indo-Arabic numeral system in Europe in his 13th century book Liber Abaci where he also printed the now famous Fibonacci sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... as a solution to the "rabbit problem." #Science #MathSky 🧪🧮

This City Made Us! #Protomen #Music #RockOpera Act III drops continue with this rerelease of the 2015 EP song. theprotomen.bandcamp.com/track/this-c...

Thanks #Google #AI for giving me some nonsense. #Science #Chemistry 🧪

Now here's an example of one of the more useful applications of #AI and #MachineLearning within #Medicine. AI-assisted doctors are significantly better at detecting breast cancers in women. This kind of usage directly saves people's lives. #Science #MedSky 🧪💊 Source: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I recently gave a presentation on #AI which covered in-part the dangers of over-reliance in #Medicine. While lots of attention is on #Education, with good reason, even experts are at risk of "deskilling." #AcademicSky #Science #MedSky 🧪💊 Source: doi.org/10.1016/s246...

I won't stop #Protomen posting until Act III is fully out and dropped. Calling Out is a great song. #Music #RockOpera youtu.be/z2Wh3hq2EPQ?...

I'm glad my alma mater saw the light and said no. #UArizona #EduSky #AcademicSky

Psst. #Physics peeps. If you irradiate lithium-6 with half MeV deuterium ions, you cause #Fusion of the nuclei into two alpha particles aka helium-4. #Science #NuclearPhysics.

Scientists predominantly use X and LinkedIn for professional scientific networking, but with Bluesky and Mastodon in recent years hoping to break through as alternatives. https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/communities-of-scientists-are-emerging-on-bluesky/ cc: @davidchavalarias #helloquittex […]

More Act III posting. Today's juice is The Storm and Buried in the Red! Continue the new songs #Protomen! #Music #RockOpera #ConceptAlbum.

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!! Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute. Doodle a squid and then show it to me. The world is cruel but squid are good.

Second week of new songs for the #Protomen final album Act III: This City Made Us. I've waited like 16 years for this! No Way Back is an absolute banger. #Music #RockOpera #Rock theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Do sub-millisecond pulsars exist? “NO” Is that’s a way to start a talk! #Pulsars2025

This is my favorite #Jazz album and my first #Japanese #CD. Flying Beagle, 1987, is by Himiko Kikuchi. The dog's name is Boogie and is absolutely the reason I originally listened to this.