#SilentSunday
#SoundOn

More dollars are being made outside of the US than in, because that's what oil and international trade uses. The end of petrodollars will undoubtedly bring about big change.

"For the first time, the countries that want to forge ahead with the energy transition cannot be held back by the naysayers":

1-minute backyard astronomy!

Episode 2: Centaurus A 🌀

Have you met this excellent Galaxy? Have you seen it in radio light? Have you seen the jets from the supermassive black hole?! 💨

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🤷 Simply a consequence of national-level austerity policies affecting research across EU countries, driven by budgetary or ideological reasons (or both)?

Thinking about this more, the 2 and 3 year bans are real career killers… who’d hire a tenure track candidate, or an (associate) professor that has one of those hanging around their necks?

Schrodinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

The giveaway was ""Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty burger!"

A flowchart to find out if you're mansplaining. The first step is "did she ask you to explain it" and if the answer is yes, not mansplaining. This goes through various other scenarios, the funniest/saddest of which is "Do you have more relevant experience" and if the answer is "she has more" then it's "definitely mansplaining" while if the answer is "she has more and is a well known expert" then it's "Just stop talking now"

I am... really tempted to pin this to the top of my account... Print it and put it on my office door... send it as my email signature... wear it around my neck at conferences....
www.bbc.com/worklife/article/2018072...

Everybody be cool this is a robbery!

Job: directeur van het klimaatcentrum! Onbepaalde duur contract, niveau A4, gebaseerd in het Pool Ruimte te Ukkel, om het team te leiden. Deadline 4 mei. #ClimateJobs
Vragen over het KMI of FWIs zijn welkom, ik ben voor dit vacature niet betrokken maar werk op het KMI.

Every satellite is loaded with technology, so it’s only right that our largest satellite gets some new tech on board. A future Artemis mission will install seismometers on the moon to learn more about the internal lunar structure, and monitor how the surface behaves during moonquakes and impacts.

Just a tranquil video clip 😁

Watch these linear #waves calmly superimposing without being disturbed. 🧪

🌍 Meet Julia Pfeffer - Early Career Scientist

📌  Julia Pfeffer, a French research engineer with strong expertise in the monitoring of the global water cycle with satellite geodetic measurements. Since September 2020, she has led the activities in satellite gravimetry d...

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Bruce Springsteen letzte Nacht.
❤️🖤
Hört was er zu sagen hat..

The tiny outback Australian town of Cooladdi, population two, is up for sale. It could be yours for $400,000 The new owner will serve as the Australian town’s postie, publican, cook and shopkeeper

Astronomers -- should we start a GoFundMe to buy this town?

It's got basic infrastructure, roads, and an extremely tiny population.

Additionally, it's under dark and quiet skies.

We can build observatories here!

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

From Chanda's lips to everyone's ears.

so many people don't understand the structure and the history of how we've gotten here. I'm going to enjoy the space pictures with one hand while I plot & scheme & dream how we get to space not chained to the military industrial complex.

It *is* possible.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

a man with long hair is standing in a hallway in a house . ALT: a man with long hair is standing in a hallway in a house .

I got a chuckle out of it. Hope you do too.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.29964

First Detection of Exoplanetary Cannabinoids: Evidence for THC and CBD in the Atmosphere of K2-18b We report the first unambiguous detection of cannabinoid molecules in an exoplanetary atmosphere. Using 420 hours of JWST observations combining NIRSpec and MIRI instruments, we identify spectroscopic...

arxiv.org/abs/2603.29700
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AI privileges product over process. In art and writing, process is the work that develops our ideas and is what creates the human connection across space and time. AI robs us of process and connection. The current model for AI is theft all the way down: our work, intelligence, growth, & humanity.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Bob Dylan puzzles fans with Patreon debut Bob Dylan has baffled fans after launching a Patreon featuring historical fiction, and, seemingly, AI generated content.

The Times They Are A-Changin'
#bobdylan

www.nme.com/news/music/b...

To produce and preserve knowledge in the pursuit of truth.

Et docere et rerum exquirere causas.

To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.

Paying for the Open Journal of Astrophysics Everything is going well at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won't be sustainable in the long run, either, if we continue to grow at the present rate. TCompare us with the Diamond Open Access publisher SCIPOST, which has a long list of sponsors covering its costs; we have none. I know that money is very tight in astrophysics these days but if you have access to any potential sources of funding - then please consider supporting OJAp!

Paying for the Open Journal of Astrophysics

Everything is going well at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won't be sustainable in the long run, either, if we…

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa.

My oh my...