BMI is dumb and lazy. If you use it as a serious metric/predictor then you are also dumb.

I don’t appreciate enough the simple
joy of being a 10 min taxi ride to the fantastically small, well-connected Cork Airport. Makes having a late flight over to the UK to give a seminar tomorrow convenient and stress free.

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Finally watched Oppenheimer! Fantastic movie. Now on to the sequel

Once again, this is a country with €8 billion surplus this past year, projected to hit over €60 billion by 2027.

Eisenhower planned the invasion of Europe in 8 months. You’ve been working on a department strategic plan for five years?

The funniest thing about this is I passed it to Chaos Carrie and said “would you hire this person?” and she started critiquing it immediately… but the serious parts! And then she caught the silly bits.

I applied to 100 jobs using a resume with the name, 'Kismma D. Nhuhts' and I got 29 interviews.

This is what I've learned about resumes:

Heeheehee, 😁

We’re currently fostering the world’s most criminal cat and this is a thread of his various exploits over the last month.

Do you want to see 30 years of progress in astronomy? On the left is the iconic 1995 Hubble Deep Field. On the right is (a portion of) the 2024 JADES GOODS-N Field, focusing on the same region, but going significantly deeper. It's an insane triumph of technology and effort.

fuck schnitzel

Hi again Bus Éireann. I made it to the south mall (cork) stop in time to be told by the just arriving 206 (to grange) driver that the bus was cancelled (the app updated just as he said this) and I should get the “next one”…. Which at the time was 30 min away! Now even later!

Hey Bus Éireann why is the 206 (grange, to cork) just sitting in the same spot getting later and later? There’s already been a bus canceled this morning and I’ve been sitting at the stop for 10 minutes watching TFI and bustimes.org show the bus just sitting there.

I have family members posting this idiotic shit. But it makes me think astronomers are going about getting funding the wrong way. Let people believe shit like this and suddenly we are powerful magicians crucial for national defense (and defense against the devil too of course)

Real footage of the solar eclipse

Truly do not bother attempting to take a crappy iPhone pic of totality. Use that hyper-brief moment to record it in the camera of your mind. There will be many wonderful professional photos of the eclipse available immediately afterwards.