"Itt állok előttetek egyenruhában, talán most utoljára. Amikor esküt tettem, hogy az életem árán is megvédem, titeket láttalak. Köszönöm. Megtiszteltetés volt titeket szolgálni." Mi is köszönjük, százados. 🫡

That loud sigh of relief you just heard was me after I got this email from an Iranian colleague after nearly two months of radio silence...

The enshittification of Artemis II, thanks to rampant AI slop and people not stopping for like half a second to THINK before they hit repost...

NASA also published a version in Near Infrared light that has even more clarity than the color version. youtube.com/shorts/SJ7aM...

This was captured by MARS Scientific for the Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI) team at NASA Langley Research Center. They have some absolutely massive tracking telescopes so the sharpness and clarity of this video is just stunning. marsscientific.com scifli.larc.nasa.gov

This is possibly the most incredible tracking video of a rocket launch that I have ever seen, and Shuttle had some really incredible videos too! Just look at those gorgeous flame dynamics and then the booster separation... 🔭🧪 #Artemis

Holy Orion and backlit Moon, Batman!

Ha szeretnétek tudni, mi az a Máté-effektus, Merkely nagyon szépen megfogalmazta. Nagy teljesítményt kellő kutatási támogatással lehet elérni, pénzt viszont annak adjunk, aki nagy teljesítményt ért el, és ebből szépen kinőnek a harácsoló orvo- izé, tudománybárók, a többieknek meg reszeltek.

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Here we fucking go again

I love this. I'm tempted to print this quote on cardboard and bonk my undergrads on the head every time they're terrified that I'll be disappointed that they made a mistake or couldn't solve a problem on the first try. Failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Orbán Gáspár csádi tervei. Nincsenek szavak.

Japp, még a Szabó Bencés videókat se volt időm mindet végignézni...

Business built on explicitly and flagrantly ignoring copyright gets big mad and very conscious about copyright when its about their IP.

A nyilvánosság elé áll Hrabóczki Dániel, akit Gundalf néven ismert meg az ország nyilvánossága a titkosszolgálati botrányban. A 444-nek elmondta: az Alkotmányvédelmi Hivatalban tett meghallgatáson valótlanságokat állított. Teljes videó a 444-en: buff.ly/g6Q57NC

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

prompt was helpfully in the alt-text

And this will all come to pass, just like we've been driven around by millions of fully autonomous Tesla robotaxis for years noew in tunnels that spread under cities, sometimes hopping into the Hyperloop to watch the next SpaceX mission launch to Mars. Yeah, Elon never talks bullshit.

Mega-Elon AI data centres in space? Absolutely loving @adambecker.bsky.social on why Musk hasn't entirely thought his 'genius idea' all the way through. The vacuum of space is an excellent insulator, filled with SSD-damaging radiation 😬 📻 Full Podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Actual quote from recently, in a class test where AI wasn't allowed: "But how can I write code without AI?" 😐 Watching ChatGPT do your homework is *not* learning. A lot of students are vibe studying through their degrees and not gaining basically any knowledge of what they're doing

Hungarian leadership of the research network (HUN-REN) and the main funding body (NKFIH): fresh postdocs should go abroad, learn new things, _then_ bring that knowledge back to Hungary. Postdoc jobs abroad:

Lord I miss astrotwitter on days like this Source www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-... But mostly @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

...after burning $80 billion on this abomination. That's about 3.2 in "annual funding for NASA" units.

Well my grad student's proposal (on a subject she's working on with another group) didn't get through. Again. <sigh>

8% acceptance rate is utterly brutal for so many of the community but there are only so many minutes in a year. 525600 moments to capture the wonder of our universe. Congratulations to all those with time for their science &use it with the knowledge that you serve the whole community 🖤 #JWSTcycle5

This line from James Gleick has been in my head rent-free for months: "Using ChatGPT to write your term paper is like bringing a robot to the gym to lift weights for you." (www.nybooks.com/articles/202...) So I abused GPT-5.4 into illustration this self-criticism.

Nice to see all the Mercedes boys on the podium LOL

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

Once again these jackasses are not serious people. As a professional astronomer, I deeply, passionately do not care if Pluto is a planet. But I am damned certain the POTUS has zero authority to decide this.

<Serious Mike Brown voice> We’ve killed Pluto once, we can kill it again.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Every AI video is like someone made a collage out of magazine cutouts and wants me to be impressed with their ability to glue

The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)

The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.

Happy International Women's Day! Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general). arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465 🧪🔭☄️👩‍🔬

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.

Dianna made a new Physics Girl video!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3... (in case you didn't know, she's been suffering from long COVID and for a while barely had the energy to _exist_ let alone do anything, like literally anything, and still prone to crashes, but this is magnificent)

From Tori Bonidie and Magnus L’Argent: Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/26/reflect-orbital-ai-data-center/

I want to repeat comments I already made on this plot since some news outlets seem to ignore them: Hubble will not reenter until early 2030s. The curve here is alarming, but will flatten out as we hit solar minimum in the coming years. I still think it's time for NASA to take action on a reboost.

Restrictions on international researchers at NIST stand to be the latest blow to the US research community. #physics #quantum

"there are certain situations where AI can do superhuman things, but you know, so could forklifts" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iitq...

Will an AI hold your hand, Sam? Will and AI cry on your shoulder, Sam? Will an AI share a coffee with you to talk about life, Sam? Will it look into your eye and say thank you for everything and will you vision suddenly blur from tears? Go to hell, Sam.

"majority opinion joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, two of Trump’s three Supreme Court picks" "Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s other appointee, wrote the main dissent, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito" I see a pattern emerging here...