#citizenscience with gorgeous new images from ESA's Euclid mission - great stuff.

This is a really nice analysis of the impact of proposed satellite constellations on ground-based astronomy. 🔭☄️

One thing that might otherwise get lost in the margins is that these satellite constellations would waste many, many billions of euros of government funding spent on telescopes.

This article definitely makes me want to visit this museum

Glad you're able to bike and that you're able to find treatments that work. Good luck with the MRI, hope it gives some definitive answers!

The Strokes ended their Coachella set with the song "Oblivius", highlighting US involvement in the overthrow/deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Omar Torrijos, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Juan José Torres, Martin Luther King Jr, Jacobo Árbenz, Salvador Allende, Jaime Roldós, and destruction in Gaza and Iran.

Science Committee Democratic Staff Report Reveals Details on NASA’s Illegal Implementation of Trump’s FY2026 Budget Request Without Congressional Approval | House Committee on Science, Space and Techn... The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Science Committee Democratic Staff Report Reveals Details on NASA’s Illegal Implementation of Trump’s FY2026 Budget Request Without Congressional Approval. democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is searching for an Astronomical Optics Scientist possessing a combination of astronomical, computational and technical expertise to characterize, optimize, and model the optical performance of observatories: https://bit.ly/4vvuzjW

A spiral galaxy, seen tilted diagonally from upper left to lower right. It has a blue-white, glowing spot at its core. Its oval-shaped disk glows faintly blue throughout with light from its many stars. The disk is filled with waves and strands of bright red dust that swirl around the core. At places there are holes torn in the dust, while elsewhere it forms dense clumps that glow orange. Several tiny, distant galaxies appear across the background, which is black.

Infrared light highlights warm dust and bright star clusters in this image of galaxy NGC 5134 captured by #NASAWebb. Billions of small stars create the galaxy’s faint blue glow. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, A. Leroy.

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💥 I'm delighted to announce that I'll be giving the 2027 Haley Lecture for Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in March next year

🙏 watch this space for more details, and potentially some other US talks >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

Wait what

A black square labeled “29 Cyg” at upper right. In the middle, a white star symbol is surrounded by a small blue trapezoid that widens from upper left to lower right of the star. The is star labeled with a capital A. The trapezoid indicates where the star’s light has been blocked by a coronagraph. To the star’s left beyond the blue trapezoid at 8 o’clock is a fuzzy white blob labeled with a lower-case b.

Weighing in at 15 times the mass of Jupiter, super-chonky 29 Cygni b is massive enough that it could be considered a brown dwarf. However, new data from #NASAWebb shows that it formed like a planet, not like a star: https://news.stsci.edu/4v59Ljj 🔭

OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is searching for a Software Development Project Manager to support the Data Management Division: https://bit.ly/4tCw3qW

Filing taxes in the US is straight up dystopian

Hugely important issue:

New simulations reveal the cold, dusty reality of galaxy formation Leiden scientists lead COLIBRE, a groundbreaking set of cosmological simulations. By including key missing physics, cold gas and cosmic dust, they offer the most realistic picture yet of how galaxies ...

Very long running project. Glad this is eventually out in yhr wild!

Our new model of galaxy formation is out!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness This study evaluates the effect of proposed constellations -- ranging from current deployments to mega-constellations and very bright reflector concepts -- on direct trail losses, diffuse background, ...

Nice new (peer-reviewed) analysis of the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based astronomical observations. By Olivier Hainault from @eso.org 🔭https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09427

EU complaints system buckles under pressure of AI Regulators complain of surging workload and bottlenecks as citizens turn to AI to interact with officials.

Filing a complaint or writing a funding proposal has never been more easy with the help of AI assistants.

The EU machinery is starting to realize that.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Today’s lesson on dark matter brought to you by Wemby 🔭🌌 #victorwembanyama #roty #nba YouTube video by San Antonio Spurs

Describing dark matter at an NBA press conference
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2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList

Massive and important positive news...

#NSF #GRFP awards are out.

2,599 awards!
+
1,440 Honorable Mentions.

A significant boost from last year.

Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!

& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Marathon diplomatic talks that could have been an email

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

Ebike advertisements make themselves.

I politely request to see your Bark at the Park dog photos from tonight 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Denmark-bound tonight 🇩🇰 for the Charting Cosmic Dawn conference next week. It’s not always easy to carve out time from my MIRI management work to really focus on research so this will be fun.

Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

remembered a good tweet

This was of course before people realised red light preserves night vision. 🔭

Laura there are quite a few candidates for that category, we need to know.

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

I need to know more about this 👀

That's amazing, I had no idea!