Universities brought life and livelihoods to college towns across America. Falling student enrollment is now pushing many of these towns from boom to bust—with no end in sight. on.wsj.com/3YW02xo

What did international students at Harvard do this week? Discovered a new way to tackle malaria: embed anti-parasite drugs in mosquito nets In experiments, this eradicated the malaria parasite from 100% of mosquitoes:

my dad is a beast. he's turning 60 this year and learning python/torch/ml for the first time with grok/chatgpt for his mechanics research exploring physics-informed neural nets. llms are helping him speedrun whole new avenues for his research in record time. absolutely wild.

Jasmine! Ask her questions about space if you have them 😎

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is 43 years old today. The crew of The Enterprise returned and not only gave us one of the best Star Trek movies, but one of the best movies ever made. The Mutara Nebula sequence is amazing, along with a sublime James Horner score.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.02907 A very good review article on high-contrast coronagraphy: Kenworthy & Haffert 2025, ARAA in press

Yup. This is the danger of calling science "political". In addition to being factually incorrect, the label makes science vulnerable to changing political whims: just another special interest of this or that party instead of the transformative, ____-blind thing that it is.

Today, NSF announced an add’l 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the total to approx 1,500. #NSFGRFP supports grad students as they pursue their dreams, build STEM skills, & become the next generation of innovators & leaders.

#TMT’s Dave Andersen recently attended the Canadian Astronomical Society (#CASCA) conference in Halifax, 🇨🇦 where he provided a project update including community engagement in Hawai‘i, design maturity, and comparative performance advantages. Learn more about these topics in our

My textbook on statistical machine learning for astronomy is now on arXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12230

thetimes.com/uk/religion/ar… The Pope is apparently a fan of astronomy ...

Today, on Juneteenth, we commemorate the end of slavery and reflect on the history of racism in the United States. Learn more at: ow.ly/Lsli50WbB09

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 The paper everyone is apparently talking about now. LLMs may have a role in education in some focused cases, but don't outsource your thinking to them.

nature.com/articles/d4158… I think this is a good idea

science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/… Anne-Marie Lagrange strikes again :)

.Sen. Elissa Slotkin: "We should ban cell phones in every K-12 classroom in America." Full video here: c-span.org/event/public-a…

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