I know it’s not a competition but I think when we look back we’re gonna be the most holy shit impressed by what MIRI has done

bummer about the lack of an X picture. I know what I'd put for the letter ("X is for X-rays that come from deep space") perhaps highlighting the rocket flights in the early 60s where the first astronomical X-ray observations were being undertaken

(As a fan of chocolate it's a great and very sobering article from @lararhiannon.bsky.social, but I just can't get over the weird graph similarities, like even down to the fact that 1 year is about 1 micron on the chart what is going on)

this is from a paper I'm putting together of a 300 K brown dwarf and it's kind of insane how similar it is

it’s so perfectly watchable, it just moves, it sings and dances, I want four hundred more Hail, Caesars

It’s a brown dwarf! It’s not a mystery! It’s still an exciting distant brown dwarf, so I wouldn’t call it mundane.

Yeah, Creeks really sits with you afterward, oof.

I remember at the Hollywood Bowl how he started noodling around on something I didn't recognize, and he started singing weird, and then it turned out he just had the capo on the wrong fret:

(I've seen Bon Iver twice, once in support of 22, A Million at the Hollywood Bowl where Patti Smith opened for him in the rain and it ruled, and the other was in support of his self-titled album at Hollywood Forever cemetery at DAWN, you had to show up the evening before and camp, it was magic)

22, A Million is a triumph of art, just a brilliant and complicated look at fame filled with strange texture and sonic landscapes and you're right to praise it

(SABLE, fABLE is pretty goofy by comparison, kind of a low-key stoner album)

I guess the theory would also be that he himself developed the Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 while he was faking the footage so that he could use the lens during Barry Lyndon?

I hate conspiracy theories! We went to the moon! Many times!

There's an overwhelming amount of evidence for the moon landing (the retroreflectors, pictures we've taken of the site since landing there, the moon rocks we brought back, etc etc), but we live in a time of conspiratorial thinking. When times are chaotic, people grab onto anything that "makes sense"

Generally it’s always asked in good faith! People want to learn, but they’re getting most of their science news from short form videos and news headlines.

The reality that “science is complicated and nuanced and often it’s difficult to know what the evidence says” is not easily communicated.

In my intro Astro class this week we were discussing the moon and a student asked me if “people thought the moon landings were fake” and another student brought up some of the TikTok “evidence.” It happens frequently with me.

Oh wow, it’s exciting (and intimidating!) to be on such a big stage for this talk!

youtu.be/jScHcISI2is?...

Imagine how a stadium would go apeshit at this beautiful nonsense

I'm a life-long Star Trek fan. Here's me, as a child, dressed as Data, wearing a costume my mom sewed, with my little brother. And here's me also, a few years ago, talking with John de Lancie (Q!) on stage at an event, giddy to be so close to someone so omnipotent.

wait didn’t he graduate from emory

I was just up at the same observatory that Brule visited and the thing is he was right we do use these big dirty churches full of junk to look at stars

I finished it and I cried and cried and it’s something very special to have on my shelf, something that can directly tap into this vast warehouse of important emotion, it is an immense work and I never want anyone to try to “adapt” it I want it as it is, perfect, and forever