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cosmonist.bsky.social
aka, the grumpy ranting cosmologist. Galaxies of the Universe, UNITE! 🇧🇷 Cosmologist PI Researcher @ The Oskar Klein Centre & Imperial College visiting researcher. https://medium.com/@cosmonist He/Him - ENG & PT (Opinions all mine)
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If there’s one thing I’m SURE conventional academic publishers know a lot of is buying Ferraris (with our money)

A vida de pessoas trans é mais importante do que um mundo fictício escrito por uma fascista nojenta. Leiam outros livros, pelo amor de deus.

What's that you say? You don't have 400 HD TVs to see the #RubinFirstLook images at full resolution? Fear not, surf through Rubin's view of the cosmos with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social skyviewer app! Click the link to visit these little beauties 🥰 🧪🔭 🏄‍♀️: skyviewer.app

I am actually excited about Rubin data and haven’t been talking about it much bc I lost over a week of research time to this shit: "Rubin was not exempt from the changes. Private messaging channels set up for L.G.B.T.Q. members involved in the observatory were temporarily retired." #GiftLink 🔭

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The Aquila meeting "Summer 2025" is about to start tomorrow. Please take this occasion to check all our latest results on www.aquila-consortium.org/publications/

I read it on TikTok that every cat needs a Switch 2 to be truly happy. I bought mine one and he didn’t even care. Don’t fall for this, guys!

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA Pior que isso só aquela paradinha do voto impresso do Bozo

Hi United Statesians Friends, This is what’s happening in Brazil right now: the tyrant that tried to take power by force after losing the elections is being trialled. This is how you deal with a coup attempt in a healthy democracy, not by reelecting the tyrant… (My face of joy for reference)

O Brasil acompanha com atenção a interceptação do #Madleen por Israel, que tinha entre os 12 ativistas o brasileiro Thiago Ávila, diz o MRE em nota. Pede a libertação dos detidos, fim das restrições à ajuda humanitária e aciona embaixadas para assistência consular www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/ca...

There's a clash of cultural values going on in the comments to this post - Brazil, like most countries, considers encouraging racism, rape and incest to be bad and makes it illegal, while the USA calls it The Republican Party and then elects it.

Relevant: open.spotify.com/album/2eia0m...

*Maria Conceição Tavares intensifies*

Do the astronauts on the ISS know what’s happening

Bergsala have absolutely cranked the price in Sweden for the Switch 2, fuck Bergsala! 620 euro for the standard and 680 euro for the mario bundle is insane!

Mandatory reading for the whole astro community!

SAVE COSMIC SCIENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS! I wrote about the current astronomy/particle physics/cosmology 🔭 ⚛️🧪 funding catastrophe in context of all of the other ongoing catastrophes, including what we can do to save our science. h/t to @skylargrayson.bsky.social for posting the image.

After 6 months waiting on my second attempt to validate my ADHD diagnosis in Sweden (I’ve been in this fight since 2023), the healthcare system just told me to fuck off and download Google Keep. I am not joking. If anyone knows how to dispute this, please let me know.

"For every $100 the US government spent, it put 40¢ in the bucket for NASA. And what do we get for that? ✨The Universe ✨" "One of these bills represents, to scale, the federal budget & the other with NASA’s total budget trimmed off the edges. Can you tell the difference?" @philplait.bsky.social

Jones literalmente fazendo podcasters de direita questionar sua ideologia (e da pra assumir que tb é verdade de alguns espectadores) e vcs querendo cagar regra. Fez o merdinha do MBL chorar e dar piti o que queimou ele completamente. Por favor neh. Tá certa a estratégia de enfrentar essa galera.

I see a lot of posts crying about the new NASA/NSF budget and zero posts on collective organisation to protest against it. I understand it’s scary, but c’mon USian friends. Democracy is done on the streets. You’ll not revert this alone in here. The solution to this is in collective direct action.

It’s not about logic or saving money. It’s about demoralising publicly funded research and funnelling the money into private research for growing even more the technokings’ empires. Why give money to NASA if you could be giving that money to SpaceX?!

Just gonna re-up these slides about how the Nazis destroyed German physics 🧪

I went for a walk today and found out they are filming the Swedish version of Bake Off near where I live!

QUE VERGONHA @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social ! Destruindo seu próprio legado! Vergonhoso!

There are no academic jobs in Europe. Move along…

It's Friday, my bacanos so here's a hot take: If reference letters are such a fundamental part of the academic "reputation currency", there should be accountability. If you write an amazing reference to a person, they get the job and do not do their job, you should be accountable for it somehow.

Brazil has presidential elections next year and Google & Meta are openly sponsoring events of Bolsonaro and the far right. I fear this sort of thing will only grow stronger. There's no possibility of sovereignty & self-determination within an Internet dominated by billionaires & US companies.

That fun moment you have and idea, push it as hard as you can and then both data and physics say “NOPE”. Well at least I learned a lot…

Just so people understand the UNGODLY amount of bureaucracy in order to apply for funding from the @erc.europa.eu : I need to write a pre-pre application to be evaluated if I can submit a pre-application that will determine if I can apply to an ERC via the institution I want as a host.