too late for this election but any party pledging to repeal the inverse square law would have my vote

“POTUS thought he was past his best and, for the greater good, should resign and hand off to someone younger and more able” Tenured profs:

🆕 Attorney General's Office has started following People Selling Mirrors

"to guide the eye", as they say

Ignacio Martín Ignacio Martín nos habla sobre una #astrofísica excepcional cuyo trabajo ha cambiado la forma de “ver” las #galaxias tanto literal como metafóricamente. Hoy, en El Día, Sandy Faber, Obama y los guanches. IAC Astrofísica eldia.es/sociedad/2024/…

... and if you get the job, that line will still be at the bottom of your never-again-edited website in 2044

Equally true (on both counts) for scientific papers...

today's nobel winners though...

remember when doodle was useful?

And I've updated my list of astronomy journals that publishes anything at all: ApJ, MNRAS, NatAst, A&A. No comment on which is preferable, but feel we under-appreciate just how different astro publishing is to many/most other fields.

Always enjoyed going to Space House for TAC meetings

Enjoying the implication that my hunter-gatherer ancestors gained some advantage by being sceptical about interferometry, or by not liking UVES.

Autumn

Texture

Towers

De eerste publicatie van metingen met het mede in Nederland ontwikkelde WEAVE-instrument is een feit. Stof remt schokgolf bij iconische groep sterrenstelsels. Nieuwsbericht: astronomie.nl/nieuws/stof-re… Arnaudova+ in MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/article-…

Els primers resultats científics de #WEAVE aporten noves dades sobre els #xocs en el grup de galàxies del Quintet de Stephan 💥 🌌 Aquest sistema galàctic és un laboratori ideal per comprendre la caòtica i sovint violenta relació entre #galàxies 🗞️ Investigadors de l’#IEEC a

Universities have in place some of the most advanced systems in the world to stop students using AI to produce their work

Christmas