Passing through Frankfurt heading to Heidelberg for a week of catching up on all the line intensity mapping excitement.

🌌 Astrophysics + stats = cosmic discoveries Prof Daniel Mortlock from Imperial Physics Imperial Sciences takes us through Bayesian methods in the search for quasars from the early Universe. Online or in person—no registration required!🙌 📅 11 December 👉 ow.ly/2S6h50UhAw3

Save the date: 16-20 June 2025 SKA Observatory General Science Meeting: A New Era in #Astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO in Görlitz, Germany skao.int/en/science-use…

🇨🇦 Early career researchers at Canadian universities can now apply to NRC Canada's Canadian SKA Scientist Program. It aims to develop future leaders in science and technology, and create a network of SKA experts across the country! Deadline: 12 Jan 2025. 🔗 loom.ly/_Ct7wwQ

Are there grants in the UK for mid-career sabbaticals targeted at “you could do good things, but your life got nuked by acts of man or gods” type circumstances? That seems like a thing that should exist.

The first air crash investigation on another world has concluded that the crash of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars was caused by the inability of the navigation system to track the relatively featureless terrain. This resulted in a touchdown with too much lateral velocity,

Looking forward to Daniel Mortlock’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture on “The Universe, Probably”

If you missed it or want to see it again watch Professor Daniel Mortlock's inaugural lecture "The Universe, probably" on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-Jh8…

“My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays” A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most interesting bug hunts in Ubuntu’s history. It all starts with some goofy pattern matching.

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Happy new year!

A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/

Best of 2024: There's a long road between financial uncertainty and collapse. David Kernohan chats to Sam Sanders at KPMG about the other routes struggling providers might take wonkhe.com/blogs/what-uni…

🚨Calling astronomy grad students! Want to build your data science skills while preparing for the deluge of Rubin data? The LSST Discovery Alliance is accepting applications for the 2025 Data Science Fellowship Program! Learn more & apply by Jan. 22: lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/programs/data-…

It’s a bit disappointing to see so many centre right parties just completely lose their grip on reality.

Stay safe LA people. These fires sound terrible.

When George Ellery Hale climbed Mount Wilson, a nearly 6,000-foot peak rising high above Pasadena, in 1903, he had a vision for building a new and bigger window to the cosmos. We hope this window remains open for many more years of discovery.

Well almost all the individuals I follow have moved to bluer skies or given up the ghost. Sad to see the dystopian and toxic landscape Twitter has become. Time to hibernate in the hopes of a spring after the long fallout winter.

📡We are on Le Parisien "Le désert chilien d’Atacama, considéré comme le plus aride du monde, en partie recouvert de neige" leparisien.fr/environnement/…