Visiting my in laws and now I'm clocked into how data centers are forcing their ways into communities. If we ignore the power (diesel generators wtf?) and water consumption (we shouldn't have to subsidize it)...

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

In other mail related news, and item has not shipped unless it's in the shipping company's possession. Stop calling it shipped just because the shipping label was created. I can print a label too

Here we go again, the box says its the thing I ordered but what's inside the box is not what I ordered. Stop sending me other people's returns if you aren't going to verify they didn't switch it out.

AI doesn't make "mistakes" it never knew what the answer was in the first place. You perceive the mistake as long as you actually know what the answer should be

FFS

Did anything replace NASA's TWSC yet?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My strategy: If I forget about it it'll come when I least expect it.

Started work today with having to submit 4 IT tickets. Not fun. Then I got into a debate with my colleagues about the definition of heliophysics. Very fun 😁

We can argue about whether AI will take my job, but we already have droughts and my electricity bills are already high and I do not need an AI data center causing those things

*The most recent JSTUC slides they do say they will edit rules to explicitly prohibit this going forward. I still think it should be disqualifying without it being explicitly called out because this is actually research misconduct. www.stsci.edu/contents/eve...

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

Overzealous squirrels? A woodpecker? A golf ball? How does this even happen?

If you can't tell when it is and isn't AI slop then you aren't the person for that task. Science is meant to be reproducible, repeatable, and responsible. GenAI is none of those things.

Saw a picture someone took of their ninetails and vulpix and I've been watching for such an opportunity ever sense

A lovely tribute to our friend in planetary science, Candy Hansen

Long overdue!

Caught up on the met gala pics, why are there so many hands?

I've sunk many hours into this game and I'm having a good time

Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.

Me to everyone who enters my house: sorry for the mess, but I actually live here... so you know

I'd rather be playing Pokopia than filing out this paperwork, but the paperwork let's me do science and I need to be an adult about this. As an aside, my autocorrect has had to get up to speed real quick on pokemon names and I've gone stardew deep I have a spreadsheet

I had a favorite mouse (CM Xornet). It was discontinued and I had to endure other mice. They revived it as the MM720 and I bought five in case they discontinued it again. I'm down to 2 and it's discontinued again! Nobody makes a mouse shaped like this anymore 😭

Small beans in the grand scheme of the NASA budget request, but this is the line item I'm currently the most excited about because WE HAVE A REALLY COOL CONCEPT WE WANT TO PROPOSE AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT. 🧪🔭🪐 We *just* got it spun back up and I'm not ready to table it for ANOTHER year 🫠

BREAKING: @whitehouse unveils 2027 PBR, including an encore ask for 23% cut to NASA overall and 50% cut to NASA science, plus zeroed out the Office of STEM. (Read in full on WhiteHouse.org, pages 73-75.) We fought and won this once, we will do it again. #nasaneedshelp #artemisii #PBR2027

If I had to get delayed for four hours at least it was in BOS where the Chase Sapphire Lounge is the nicest I've ever been in But I would like to get home...

More conferences should have a build your own puppy chow at afternoon snack time Happy and full of gummy bears

Should be illegal for restaurants to change their name on delivery apps. If you're a Denny's, I deserve to know

Us: hey amazon this isn't what we ordered please refunded us :sent item back: Amazon: this is so different this can't be what we sent you we're undoing the refund Us: thats why we returned it... So like what, are you going to send it back since we apparently didn't buy that from you????

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.)

I haven't lived in MA for ~5 years and I've scoured my CVS account multiple times and my prescriptions still print out with my MA address

In the game of electric wall charger vs car, the answer is both lose

Been checking the science topics of the proposals approved by the ESO OPC for ESPRESSO. 75% of the time went to one type of proposal. Statistics-focused follow up of transiting systems. There isn't a single proposal focused on discoveries, atmospheres, or anything low-mass planets 🔭#exoplanets

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Imo the arXiv should impose an automatic ban the first time someone submits a preprint with a hallucinated reference in it. Zero tolerance policy.

And it's only as I get into bed that I realize I forgot to recycle my badge 🙃

Behold #aas247 ! A place to leave your badge for recycling. Just outside the exhibit hall.

The loot drops at #AAS247 are purrty good this year!

Talk one at #AAS247 complete. Someday I'll get all my acronyms right 🥲 Regardless, I am happy to talk about what else the HWO SIG group needs and should do as we ramp up activities. We'll soon announce our February seminar to the email list. tinyurl.com/hwo-sig

Up early to see my friends and colleagues at #AAS247. Started on brand with a discussion with my Lyft driver about science. Prompted by him first educating me about a local building with alien lore???

repost with the most recent pic of your pet(s)

Stardew, I didn't deserve this

Lol I got the notification that my package was out for delivery and then the expected date was Wednesday. Husband: so they're just gonna drive around with it for 48 hours? No, dear reader. They are going to lie about delivering it AND keep driving with it

I can't believe the Stray Kids pepero box only has 6 packs! It should have 8 😭

Getying covid and being out for weeks and then coming back to work and having to fire on all thrusters for JWST proposals for the last three days of the deadline was cruel and unusual of the Universe

I am still positive

Praise be Tylenol arthritis

I'm pretty sure I know who at this conference gave me covid and given there were virtual attendance options I am so pissed as I lie here stuck away from home suffering from these horrid joint pains.

I wish ADS had a feature that was like "Did you mean [correct spelling of authors name]?"

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off