Alex Riley

Andy Robertson. Wow.

They've outdone themselves today

Unfortunately, this is a very good football game.

@DudeDarkmatter @cwru that's a great view of the holy oil can, tho!

@AstroAlysa this article really shaped my thinking on this question nytimes.com/2022/06/05/opi…

If I already had kids, I'd just try to make the best of the situation (they'd be quite privileged compared to the majority of folks who'll be facing the effects of climate change - especially in the short term). But I don't have kids yet, so should I just not?

Does anyone else who wants kids (but doesn't have any yet) worry that you're just damning your potential future children to a really horrendous life because of stuff like global warming?

@alexanderpji 🙋

signal boosting for any #BlackInAstro colleagues new 4 year postdoc fellowship, for people with <2 years postdoc experience, can take it anywhere in the UK, can apply regardless of nationality

I think Spiderverse and EEAAO's success demonstrates why MCU and other multiverse stories aren't working. Two ways to go about a multiverse story: 1) "Look at all the different worlds out there" 2) "Look at all the different *yous* out there" Here's why option 2 works. (1/x)

Playing around with ONS' data on prices and this is something I hadn't realised before. The variation in the price of a pint across England has increased *massively* in the last decade or so.

Fireflies xkcd.com/2802

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

@michelle_lmc @surreyastro 👀👀👀

hate how relevant my undergrad Civil Liberties and Con Law classes have been lately

TWO papers on the arXiv today! In the first, Gandhali Joshi asks whether the number of bright satellites around a galaxy tells us about its recent merger history – and yes, it does, but only for about 4 Gyr after the merger. arxiv.org/abs/2307.02206 (1/2) (funded by @ERC_Research)

academic conferences are wild. $1000 in flights and lodging. talk about your work for 15mins. hear some questions that are more of comments. go to the plenary. a senior scholar says something completely out of pocket. "this is not who we are." overpriced cocktails at hotel bar.

A quick reminder to all NAM participants tomorrow - any "more a comment than a question"s must be given in Welsh. It's in the code of conduct

Astro1982 is released in the wake of 13% inflation; huge cost and schedule slip for Hubble; Reagan in ’84 upends NASA priorities toward Space Station Freedom; OMB proposes canceling AXAF; Challenger tragedy in 1986 fundamentally changes the agency and grounds the shuttle program

Good things come to those who wait, either in mixology or science. Here is the recipe for a Millisecond Pulsar:

The Rosetta Stone of academia