As a particle cosmologist I celebrate this on the same day as World Speed of Light Day -Jan 1st. IYKYK #oneone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Qua…

Ben Rose works for Binance, which makes money out of this pointless Ponzi scheme.

Don't do much punditry here, but anyone wittering about the terrible and heinous violation of the Iranian Embassy and the deep respect of the Iranian government for diplomatic norms was probably not reading the newspaper in 1979.

Burns unit? Serious case incoming...

Reading 'The Star Builders' on efforts to develop fusion power. Great title but it refers to people working on fusion as 'star builders' throughout. E.g. 'The star builders have an unusual plan...'

Losing my will to live, or at least to get past Chapter Three.

It's Thursday, time to watch the latest Cosmology Talk!

This one has Russell Boey talking about dynamical friction, supermassive blackholes and ultralight dark matter.

Can it solve the final parsec problem?

Find out inside the video (or next Tweet).

youtu.be/hyf6VtbZ6-c

Talk also featuring Richard Easther and Yourong Frank Wang.

Main paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.09038
Earlier paper: arxiv.org/abs/2110.03428

Frankly, a big day for Good Dogs everywhere. WeRateDogs

Another AI fail. (IYKYK)

If you see 'idea generation' as 'grunt work' then your ideas are probably crap.

This site still has its moments.

I am much happier with the idea that there is something we don't understand about supernovae than I am about w<-1. If you know, you know.

This seems about right.

Not sure how many cosmologists are left here, but curious to know what people's picks would be for working models of inflation right now??

How is this a 'notification'? Strong 'My uncle, who owns this theatre...' energy

Just saying hi to my visible trans friends and whanau.

A new low

Just saying hi to my visible trans friends and whanau.