Come for the hideous French 19th century battleship designs and nautical disaster stories, stay for the accurate history of science.

OBAFGKMLTY trains. Makes sense.

😂 little Dutch/NYC election result humor.

Illustrate “edge case”.

I think about this post every day 🧪

And this kids is what we call “over-fitting”.

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Came across this story earlier for…reasons. And I was wondering, like you do, if one could do this with a Seestar.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's

Great governor to have when there’s an emergency.

Horrific explosion at Louisville, KY, international airport, a UPS plane fully fueled and headed for Hawaii appears to have caught fire and exploded on runway. Praying for everyone affected.

Oh boy. Watching the Governor.

This was the plume on the radar. Just to the north and west is campus. The whole city is sheltering in place.

We are watching this in horror. There’s factories and other facilities there. Big trail of buildings on fire. Left engine on fire on takeoff. Bros strike or runway debris?

Local news reporting a plane crash near the airport, apparently a UPS cargo plane. www.wdrb.com/watch-now/

We can see the smoke. It’s huge.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Come for the Firefly quote, stay for the most ironic debunking of all debunkenings. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/kim-kardas... 🔭🧪

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing go.nature.com/3WB8bFS

Inconceivable!

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Ah yes. A feature in intro physics/astro classes as well. There is only one response…

I would like to tell everyone on the blue skies how absolutely amazing this self-made Star Trek Uniform by the Elderkid is. Basically picked up a bunch of sowing skills this week. The parent books never warn you they’ll outnerd you. By a mile. So cool.

I do feel this is silly. Grad school is where you *learn* to science. So if you already led a study…what are you going to learn at this grad school? And yet this is now the requirement it seems and so to get my students in…

I guess it was a good thing someone came by and cleared out the bowl we set out last night. Thanks to technology it’s on camera. I suspect it was a young parent fail and they got off work almost too late to go trick or treating. This way the kid had a good haul.

Since nothing matters anymore and there are no rules, let’s knock out Thanksgiving this week, do Christmas next week, then have six beautiful weeks of that full goblin mode space between Xmas and new years where time doesn’t exist and sweatpants are required dress

Oh hey in the Netherlands, parents automatically get an assistance (€300/mo) once a kid is registered with the municipality. Great system that helped loads of new parents. When problems happened? When it became politically expedient to hunt “fraud”.

There seems to be a range in MPDI journals. “Galaxies” seems mostly fine. Or has that changed?

They literally ruin everything they touch

SPOOKY SPACE PICTURES FOR HALLOWEEN 🎃🌌

Halloween has come and gone. We all remember the Elderkid’s epic costume plan? Well… bsky.app/profile/benn...

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Everything ok there at the NYT?

A haunted house but every room is just another online guru telling you the best way to optimize your morning routine

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

Today in class I said “it ages like a ripe banana” because I could not remember the right aphorism. Anyway.

this brings me unspeakable joy

-NSC, who won big last time promising good governance then literally put the far right straight into power, managed the spectacular feat of going from 0 seats -> 20 -> 0 again in less than two years. I propose that from now on we call doing something brilliantly then falling apart “doing an Omtzigt”

Eerder online dan normaal [DPG] Ionica Smeets ging stemmen tellen: ‘Ontroerend om dit samen met tienduizenden Nederlanders te doen’ https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/ionica-smeets-ging-stemmen-tellen-ontroerend-om-dit-samen-met-tienduizenden-nederlanders-te-doen~ba77d2a2/

Got a haircut today and the place* was fundraising for the local food bank in anticipation of SNAP not happening on Saturday. Lots of people doing this. Very encouraging. *goldenrod barber shop. No idea why it’s called that. There’s a Bigfoot statue outside.

Tasktasktask SQUIRREL! Day.

Oh look! A list of 83 Bible verses about feeding the hungry! No reason! www.openbible.info/topics/feeding

Whoa what is happening in the center galaxy there?!

Oh goody. Does anyone actually know what those data centers are for? The cloud to connect your smartbed[tm] to?

Why stop at a hemispherical dome, when you can have a full sphere around your telescope?!

"I wasn’t sold on reading, but I did like feeling smart, and 'Don Quixote' is like the Louis Vuitton bag of people with depth." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...

More details getting printed.

The fun part of this is trying to guess what venue posted this. These days it could be anyone, except maybe The Onion. (and yes, I read the ALT text)