Put science back in the driver’s seat Put science back in the driver’s seat

Don't miss my new op-ed on how space science is getting demoted to hitchhiker status at NASA:

spacenews.com/put-science-...

#32 Chris Lintott - Technosignatures, Citizen Science, Scicomm YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast

Full interview at
youtu.be/qI3DAXM0-do

3I/ATLAS and Avi Loeb YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast

Possibly my favorite part of my recent interview with @chrislintott.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/tdL65...

#32 Chris Lintott - Technosignatures, Citizen Science, Scicomm YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast

#CoolWorlds Podcast Episode 32 is now live! @chrislintott.bsky.social on Technosignatures, Citizen Science, Scicomm
youtu.be/qI3DAXM0-do

Love will always win

I love all the astronauts but is it ok to have favorites in Glover and Koch?

NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Let’s goooooo!

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Reflect Orbital finally have some numbers for their underwhelming service.

50 Watts per square metre for 20 minutes* in 2030 if they launch 5000+ satellites. This requires 750 satellites and if they charge $5000 per satellite per hour then this will cost just $750,000.

www.reflectorbital.com

Also interesting to consider how we’d distinguish between primordial BHs evaporating versus artificial ones

“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”

William Jennings Bryan, 1896

“The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.”

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below.”

A telescopic image of a flat, inclined fuzzy disc with bright rings and dark gaps, all concentric. There is a small blob in one of those gaps. An inset that zooms in on the centre of the disc shows a second blob in another gap.

A new solar system in the making?

For the second time ever, two planets have been directly observed forming around a host star. Our VLT and VLTI have helped astronomers confirm the presence of a second gas giant orbiting the star WISPIT 2. 

More: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2604/

🔭 🧪

Are Wormholes Actually Possible? YouTube video by Cool Worlds

Are Wormholes Actually Possible?
youtu.be/z90spjws6z8

I need to see its phase curve

You have to feel sorry for folks who study the Epstein regime... arxiv.org/abs/2603.15810

The Royal Astronomical Society logo over a purple, starry background.

The RAS is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by Elon Musk's SpaceX and Reflect Orbital.

We have opposed the plans with @eso.org and the International Astronomical Union. Find out more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun (TARS) for Interstellar Payloads The concept of exploring space using solar power is energetically appealing, but interstellar solar sails typically require extremely low areal densities (~g/m^2). This work explores an alternative ap...

Nice! But TARS…

arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

6/10

Dr. Sally Ride in orbit aboard the space shuttle Challenger

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Sally Ride (1951-2012), Ph.D. physicist, educator, and the first U.S. woman in space. As a member of the Rogers Commission, she helped bring to light the O-ring failure that led to the Challenger disaster. 🎢⚛️⭐️🔭🧪🪐 1/3

Everything’s political, but some topics are more politicized than others

a woman in a pink chef 's hat is eating a strawberry ALT: a woman in a pink chef 's hat is eating a strawberry

let it be known that my achilles heel is cadbury mini eggs

See bsky.app/profile/davi...

GPT is v unreliable for citations, I hear Perplexity is much better but haven’t tried myself

For sure, to be clear I don’t think it’s mysterious why this is happening, there’s numerous very obvious factors.

Climate change is of course well trodden here. If I make a video warning about raising temperatures, one half of the US will actively avoid it, and to some extent the opposite is true (but less poignantly). As an educator I want to challenge someone’s thinking, not just reinforce their biases.