<What I imagined science outreach would be> "...and that's how thinking about guitar strings can be used to understand the Higgs mechanism." <What science outreach sadly is> "OK, so first off, the Sun is really bright. So jot that down."

A master class by Jerome Powell.

A message on the Camden Yards scoreboard: No more fireworks tonight as the Orioles have hit too many home runs.

I so want to see this mission go. I mean JFC the damn thing is going to fly around from place to place on, like, Titan. What can possibly top that?

Every story is a science story. Join us and @transjournalist.org for a free, interactive workshop on incorporating science into any beat this Thursday, May 7. Register at members.transjournalists.org/event-666210...

Top quality herding commentary "Waffles can't come to the phone right now."

Pete Hegseth is sitting at the CBS News table tomorrow night.

I-83’s new art murals redefine graffiti cleanup

The federal government is now working to deport a mother who shared a child with a worker killed in the Key Bridge collapse: http://www.wbaltv.com/article/deportation-key-bridge-collapse-victim-zoila-guerra-sandoval/71122572

New study published in JAMA estimates that the introduction of 988 may have prevented over 4000 youth suicides 🥹#suicideprevention jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

No word back from PepsiCo yet. What time do you think their Chief Marketing Officer knocks off for the day on a Friday?

Now accepting sponsorship opportunities for advertising on The Tom the Dancing Bug Review. I have a hold for a possible limited exclusive for PepsiCo, but open to other inquiries for potential partnerships.

Spent the night at a lock house on the C&O Canal. Highly recommend!

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

Collected on April 23, 2026, by one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites, this image of the Hubble Space Telescope from above was acquired from only 61.8 km away.

The gold standard dose/response relationship.

fuuuuuuck

I know the whole world appears to be going in the other direction. But someone is going to make an authentic appeal to basic morality and justice one of these days, and that person will become President of the United States.

In 2020 PT worked with a data visualization artist to map the first 30 years of Hubble's scientific observations and her final product was great. But I still have a soft spot for the video I made before we hired her that shows all of the observations each year.

Fish crows say one or two words at a time. Fish crows live in communities. How do fish crows keep a community together without communication? I ask a fish crow expert, the answer is the usual: I'm wrong. lastwordonnothing.com/2026/04/24/l...

My thoughts on the RFKJr hearings on @pbs.org he cherry picks data to fit his rhetoric, misspeaks on vaccines, and doesn't understand that without CDC staff in programs like drowning, smoking prevention, and maternal health that these programs don't function www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Mb...

I guess I'm a nun

New Fox poll is absolutely crushing for Trump: *Approval on economy: 34-66 *Approval on inflation: 28-72 (!) *Dems now lead GOP on economy *55% say Trump mentally unfit for office On the pod, @gelliottmorris.com is so illuminating on all these numbers and much more: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

but why did they put the Internet in the thing I use to write

The sun will rise in #Baltimore #Maryland tomorrow at 6:16, 80 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 19:52, 59 seconds later than the day before.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Check out this video based on an article UCS Global Security Program Senior Scientist Dylan Spaulding was interviewed for on plutonium pit production issues. You can make a difference: pledge to be a voice for peace and science.

that is not a cockadoody word

The #X37B spaceplane #OTV 8 photographed from Leiden, the Netherlands, earlier this evening. Canon EOS R10 + samyang 1.4/35 mm at f2, 4 seconds 800 ISO. @dutchspace.bsky.social

It’s not hard to understand. Maxwell is blackmailing Trump and Melania by threatening to release her discovery files. Trump has to pardon her. He’s asked republicans in congress to provide him an excuse to do so. (This is all speculation on my part. But it seems pretty obvious.)

In case anyone was wondering.

600% of a number is 6 times that number. (600% = 600/100 = 6.) If a price goes up by 600%, it goes up by 6 times the original price. If a price goes DOWN by 600%, that means the new price is less than the old one by 600%. It’s the old price MINUS 6 times the old price. That’s a negative number!

This is still absolutely false, mathematically, but it's also a lie about what he actually said in the hearing (he said $600 and $10, which, again, is also incorrect). Anyway here's my thread about it from yesterday: bsky.app/profile/astr...

Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. Story by Ben Mueller & @irenatfh.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ctOSqM

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

see also: the 35 years and $32 billion in funding of basic research that gave us mRNA vaccines

Wasn't there once some issue where the President's son was supposedly (though without much evidence) profiting off of his father's Presidency and it was the worst thing in the world during the last administration...

“Apart from the facility's existing seismic qualifications, it's not clear that this particular building offers any advantage over alternatives that could have, and should have, been considered [under NEPA]”, Spaulding said.

This was a fascinating answer that has stuck with me: www.motherjones.com/media/2010/0...

Gasp; per SpaceX: "Our initiatives to develop orbital ​AI compute and in-orbit, lunar, and interplanetary industrialization are in early stages, involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability" www.reuters.com/world/spacex...

/5 I used to search the child’s name regularly, out of a sort of sullen residual malice, to see if he’d been revealed as a serial killer or something, but recently realized he’s over 40 now and figured it would all work itself out. All I am saying is that SBF may not have gotten timeouts.

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“The claim that we need new pits just to maintain a safe and reliable arsenal just doesn’t hold water,” scientist Dylan Spaulding wrote... “The reality is NNSA has thousands of existing plutonium pits in reserve and should investigate options for re-use before one more pit is produced.”

The sun will rise in #Baltimore #Maryland tomorrow at 6:18, 81 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 19:51, 59 seconds later than the day before.

A report showing the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, according to people familiar with the decision.

Cleaning the top of ceiling fans GOOD GOD 😵‍💫

I'm having a hard time believing my eyes with water data this year. The Colorado River mainstem through Grand Junction was flowing at 54 cfs last night. Not a typo. 54 cfs. Last year on this date it was flowing at 1,420cfs. Even in 2002, the driest year on record, it was at 690cfs on April 22.

It’s good! It is a good space to be in!

Does anyone know what happened to the Real Property Search on SDAT's website? It's been down for "emergency maintenance" for days. I'm assuming it was hacked?