Chris Lintott

Sharks, of course, display notable asymmetry…

Lintott & Pretty's Universe Of Music | Cambridge Junction Book tickets for Lintott & Pretty's Universe Of Music at J3 at Cambridge Junction. What’s the connection between astronomy and jazz? From William Herschel (discoverer of Uranus and professional musici...

Cambridge! We’re bringing a Universe of Music to you next Thursday.

This show features shells, black holes, music, planets and more - do come if you can!

www.junction.co.uk/events/linto...

White powdered scattered on a floor.

Dressing room debris after my Universe of Music Show with Steve Pretty in Cambridge last night. The suspicious white powder is from conch sawing. Honest.

Will the first ball even make it to second slip?

Academics….

This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯

I was fine until what had been a 4 page paper but had grown to more than 20 pages got a final report that said 'Perhaps this is now too long...'

I shall tell you the story.

Man, that paper nearly killed me. 17 revisions.

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@lsstuk.bsky.social and @vrubinobs.bsky.social need your help to train our computing systems to sort through the tens of millions of alerts we will detect every night during the Vera C. Rubin Observatory #LSST survey. www.zooniverse.org/projects/ebe... #capturethecosmos

I’ve polted a poltroon, but he deserved it.

There was an attempt to add Triangulum minor a little later…

Congratulations!

I know it’s hard. But you can’t possibly go to an academic conference that imposes restrictions on freedom of speech like this.

Interesting. Given that the loss of the tower would presumably prevent the onset of summer, Oxford should be grateful!

I figured it’d be something like that! My informant was most upset

@oldenoughtosay.com Heard a new Oxford building story today. Allegedly Magdalen Tower was almost entirely replaced, stone by stone, in the eighties. Any truth to it?

Astronomers: I'm having trouble installing the SPARCL-client. Is this a known problem?

What We Don't C: Representations for scientific discovery beyond VAEs Accessing information in learned representations is critical for scientific discovery in high-dimensional domains. We introduce a novel method based on latent flow matching with classifier-free guidan...

New paper's out! First result from excellent DPhil student Brian Rogers - machine learning for scientific discovery. (I'll post a thread explaining in a bit). arxiv.org/abs/2511.09433

Any idea whether James is injured?

@mikamckinnon.bsky.social is your definitive source on this. I suspect in their native state they're pretty cold.

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Opening of Star Trek Voyager's 'Death Wish':

CHAKOTAY: Its trajectory is erratic, & our sensors aren't detecting any stellar or planetary gravitational fields that could account for its motion
JANEWAY: Then you're saying it isn't a comet
CHAKOTAY: And yet it looks, feels, & tastes just like a comet

Yeah. Not looking good right now

Not unless it’s really spectacular

It is cloudy in Oxford

I was fine with wine sausages. But surely not for breakfast

Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain join the team to answer viewers' burning queries about space.

Sky at Night always used to have an early repeat - and we're back, with our collaboration with the Curious Cases team on at 7pm tomorrow on BBC4. Please watch if you possibly can - support your local science program! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Londoners! Drink excellent wine and chat with me about space, next week: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cosmology-...