We now fade into the West. (Trains permitting). See you next year in Oxford. Or UCL. Or St Andrews. Or Birmingham. It’s probably Birmingham.

We’ve been unable to think of anything to satirise about today’s plenary session. If you spotted anything please DM us.

Following controversy at the #nam2025 quiz last night, we have now confirmed that Robert Massey *would* win in a fight with four squirrels. The results of the quiz are therefore unchanged.

If you missed the STFC executive talks at #nam2025, then the take home message is that it’s all great and there’s loads of money.

A reminder for spectroscopy colleagues: it is against the meeting code of conduct for your talk to consist entirely of you saying the names of chemical elements followed by numbers.

Fortunately if you really want to avoid human interactions there’s a plasma physics session.

This morning features three sessions on how to interact with human beings. The organizers are trying to tell you something.

Board game night clarification: Risk is banned due to “the incident” at a previous meeting. Diplomacy is permitted, but instead of countries the teams are Observers, Simulators, Theorists, and Cosmologists. Keep it friendly out there #nam2025

Board game night update: to facilitate a more authentic experience, Pandemic will only be available on Zoom. #nam2025 #toosoon?

Really Awesome Smokes To Inhale?

Ordinarily, @leighfletcher.bsky.social’s plenary on gas giants seen with JWST would make any exoplanet observers feel bad about their life (and spectral modelling) choices, except there aren’t any here this week #toomanyconferences #exoclimes

Reminder: following the departure of the Moon Palace, the best place to buy weed at #nam2025 is now once again the RASTI stall.

The seating plan for tonight’s dinner is simple: sit opposite anyone whose paper you are refereeing, to the right of your PhD supervisor’s arch rival.
On your left is the person who will get the job you want. Otherwise, alphabetical by the third letter or your name written in Greek. #nam2025

All purpose astro conference programme

A bearded man gives a presentation with a laptop, wearing a pink shirt and a suit jacket. No aliens are visible.

SETI has come of age. Look, the presenter has put a suit jacket on for serious science! #nam2025

Good news at #nam2025 : new investment in instrument building in the UK. Bad news: it consists entirely of the leftover Lego from the creativity session. First come first served!

Attendees are requested not to through copies of Binney & Tremaine onto the stage during today’s plenary. Those things are heavy. Chanting along with your favourite derivations is, of course, encouraged #nam2025

#nam2025 apologises for the overcrowded rooms. We didn’t expect you to actually go to sessions.

Senior RAS employee confirms aliens interfering with conference #iwanttobelieve #nam2025

A speaker addresses an audience who are mostly heads down. A screen in the distance appears tiny.

Remember, the conference is on zoom because without zoom you don’t have a hope in hell of seeing the slides. Grad students: you can hide a lot in small text, just claim big things and hide the rest #nam2025

We’d planned to return for #NAM2025 but the conference wifi won’t display this account. Or the program. Or anything about NAM. Is the conference itself now unofficial @robertmassey.bsky.social ?