Leftovers as fodder for tasty eggy breakfast fanciness. Just saying.

Karaoke league is completely unhinged.

Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Honestly could put that on my tombstone.

Really rooting for a battle pug Easter egg in Dune 3.

Always here for the Atreides battle pug.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

My mother: You’re responsible with what you post online, right? Always respectful?
Me, about to post my definitive ranking of "most cancellable impact basins:" Yeah, absolutely

#astromethods #astrocoding #astrocode ☄️🔭

Please spread the word! In addition to becoming an important part of the MESA project, the person in this role would have opportunities to collaborate on scientific software across CCA, which has a vibrant, interactive community of scientists and code developers.

Protest sign with an old woodcut picture of a guillotine and printed words saying “Are we there yet?”

I mean…

Billy Corgan meeting Homer Simpson: “Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.” “Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”

Also one of my absolute favorite Simpsons gags.

My pumpkins?

Smashing.

And no matter how impervious to shame I typically am, I feel a little bit humiliated putting on my flaccid face underwear.

Also, the “paying people to give intellectual blood to the silicon stone” was not something I’d anticipated.

But of course that’s what being done.

For sure. I have an enormous list of things I fret about how humanity manages this transition. And agreed that anything where teaching or learning is involved has a complex set of risks.

If we’re tossing out more bearable unvented options, I find the Kimtech n95s to be way more comfortable to breathe through. They have a big air chamber, and never trigger that “can’t get enough air” feeling.

They do, however, look like underwear. Classic tidy whities.

Indeed.

What happens when researchers (especially those with data/code/text-heavy activities) have been conditioned to rely on hours a day interaction with advanced models have to deal with whatever monopoly companies demand they (or their institutions) pay? How exactly is that gonna work?

Universities that had IT infrastructure gave up much of it to switch to “free” tools from Google (Gmail, Drive, etc), who then changed from an unlimited plan to a throttled-by-data-size-unless-you-pay model after the transition to Google was baked in. The same thing will absolutely happen here.

Something I’m genuinely curious about: can academic research financially afford to go all-in on AI?

We used to have to pass the hat to cover buying a new laser printer.

Gotta move to deciles.

🔭 Storytime! This paper consumed my soul for a month and it turns out that you have to look at your 2D spectroscopic data. Thread... ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024OJAp...

You all have been CRUSHING it!!!!

Two decades ago, billionaire spending accounted for just 0.3 percent of federal campaign contributions. Now the 300 families we examined are giving an average of $10 million each — equivalent to the combined voice of roughly 100,000 typical donors.

2/7

Both. I think the negatives make it easier to perceive details, and also, they closely mimic the Arp originals. So, both science and vibes.

I have definitely thought about putting them in a book format. I made a version on the AAS Zendodo that’s more of an atlas-atlas (fewer plots, skips the photometry), but something more browsable would be nice. The file was too big for a self-publishing option though, since it needs hi-res.

More like some Philip Glass piece where they play a note every year.

The “How long does it actually take?” video for this paper would not be inspiring, in the least.