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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – a cathartic savaging of western hypocrisy over Gaza

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Everyone blaming the people who didn’t vote/for Harris because of the genocide should absolutely shut the fuck up after reading this because the Harris campaign actively refused to campaign for their votes and that’s a campaign problem not a voter problem

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

It's paper day! Together with @sijme-jan.bsky.social and led by exceptional (2nd year!) PhD student Jip Matthijsse, we look at the Streaming Instability in dust with size distributions and how the resulting clumps have different size distribution from the initial one arxiv.org/abs/2502.01752 1/n

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

There's a star about to become visible to the naked eye...once again! Tune in to the latest episode of #ChasingStarlight to meet T Coronae Borealis. Erupting every 80 years or so, it will shine bright enough for you to see it with the naked eye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZPp... 🔭 🧪

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Hind Rajab. Today is one year on since this little six year old was killed (my daughter's age) - and then so were the two brave medics who came to rescue her, as agreed by the IDF, as she cowered in her family car with her family dead around her. I will never forget this story.

submitted 29 days ago • 61 comments

a lot of junior faculty are worried about tenure cases given the funding uncertainty. While it's not at the same level, invited talks carries weight with tenure as well. If you are on a colloquium committee this year, perhaps try focusing on some of the bright junior folks in our field. #astro

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"remarkable proposal" CNN is having trouble spelling 'ethnic cleansing'

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

He'd like to facilitate ethnic cleansing

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"I'm astonished that Musk is actually saying that, because he must know about the time-scale." The only way to send astronauts to Mars in the next four years would be on a 'one-way suicide mission,' cosmologist Lord Martin Rees tells Andrew Marr.

submitted 36 days ago • 66 comments

ADL seeing students wearing a keffiyeh: "This is like wearing a Nazi uniform and marching in to Poland arrest them all" ADL seeing Elon Musk doing multiple Nazi salutes: "Calm down lol he's a good guy trust us"

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

I like a lot of things about Joe Biden, but what he "delivered" to the Palestinian people was a loud, screaming reminder that their lives, bodies, & children hold no value for the US government, and to the Palestinian people in Gaza, he delivered the munitions for their genocide.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

45 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the bill. House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 49 days ago • 17 comments

The New York Times asking very challenging questions... Next up: what are the drawbacks of ethnic cleansing?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Registration closes this Friday for my upcoming @workshops4gaza.bsky.social workshop this weekend with the incredible @divyampersaud.com about the ethics of space exploration! Don't forget to register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rei...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Sverre Arseth was a legend in stellar dynamics. I never met him, unfortunately, but he was the PhD supervisor of my PhD supervisor's PhD supervisor

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Happy birthday to “the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy”! Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin completed her thesis on January 1st, 1925*. She found that stars are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, counter to the idea of the time, that the Sun and Earth were made of similar materials.

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Been recently interested in things historical scientists/astronomers got weirdly wrong. For instance, Kepler thought the sun magnetism is the reason behind orbit ellipticity. Galileo was very wrong about tides, and about Kepler's work. Newton got all of that right, but he was a vengeful arsehole 🔭🧪

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

It’s weird how scrolling on this app you wouldn’t know that Israel burned down a hospital yesterday in Northern Gaza, or it murdered 103 Palestinians, or that that 4 children froze to death…

submitted 61 days ago • 28 comments

"a little 4yo boy playing in the sand in his yard. The cmdr suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach 3x and left. ... I asked the cmdr: "What's your story?" He told me: These kids need to be killed from the day they are born."

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

Another brilliant and important woman in physics who is not as well known as she deserves to be.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

“Gisèle has waived her right to anonymity, saying she wanted to make "shame swap sides" from the victim to the rapist” We all stand behind Gisèle. I hope this sliver of justice will bring some peace to her and many other women.

submitted 70 days ago • 17 comments

Our institute is advertising a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position on Astronomical Data Science and Machine Learning: aas.org/jobregister/.... The position is broadly defined and explicitly also open to researchers with a background in planetary and exoplanetary research. Please share! 🔭💻👩‍💻

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

"A woman with a child is shot waving a white flag. Starving girls are crushed to death in line for bread. A cuffed 62 yo man is run over, evidently by a tank. A database documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza." Database: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments

Exciting new paper by Mohammad Farhat yesterday on arXiv: "Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth-Moon System", by Mohammad Farhat, Pierre Auclair-Desrotour, Gwenaël Boué, Tim Lichtenberg, Jacques Laskar (arxiv.org/abs/2412.07285). 🥳🤯

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Video games are innocent but anyone who mained a Khajiit character in any Elder Scrolls game cannot be trusted

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments