Andy Rivkin

I'm going to be on the @jococruise.bsky.social, but will be rooting for you while drinking piña coladas. ;)

!!!!!!!

Oh, Emily! So sorry to hear about this, but very glad to read that you’re recovering.

This is Siddhartha Gautama erasure, and I’m not having it.

Woooooo!

Congrats, Sabina!

Oh, they are totally unhinged, regardless of whether or not they’re doing crimes against statistics along with all their other crimes.

YouTube video by JAXA相模原チャンネル ミシェル博士、RAMSESを語る：ニース天文台ミシェル博士とISAS・吉川真の緊急対談

𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐒𝐄𝐒 :
A live discussion between Dr Patrick Michel of the @obscoteazur.bsky.social and Dr Makoto Yoshikawa of ISAS.
#apophis #ramses #destiny+ #PlanetaryDefence #SpaceSafety
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBpR...
At 11.00 AM CET Dec., 3rd
Live from ISAS (JAXA) in Sagamihara
@cnrscotedazur.bsky.social

That unsustainable culture she’s talking about that we’re known for? Xenophobia and White Supremacy.

As we head toward #AGU25, we want to hear from the whole community—attending or not. 🌍

How are you helping science stay strong and vital during this unprecedented time?

Reply (any language welcome!) and your words may appear on our big community board at AGU25.

This is as good a reminder as any that @kenplume.bsky.social and I chewed this movie up in 4 minute bites so you don't have to…
👉👈 unless you want to?
🚂🎅🏻 waffle.media/polardepress...

We head to the airport in a couple of hours, after a lovely (if too-short) Cape Town visit. It's a privilege to be able to travel 7900 miles and spend time with a BFF in gorgeous surroundings and perfect weather, and we're already looking forward to a return visit in the future.

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Ringo Starr is the answer you might expect me to give, but my true interim answer is Bill Murray, I think.

Baltimore Base Ball Club – Maryland Center for History and Culture Top row, from left: Curt Welch (of); John Pickett (2b); Bill Johnson (of); John McGraw (2b); Billy Shindle (ss); Pete Gilbert (3b). Middle row, from left: Lew Whistler (1b); John Healy (p); George Wa...

www.mdhistory.org/resources/ba... For @roperlou.bsky.social

<sharp inhale>

<very, very slow exhale>

Franklin Goes to The Hague

Bedazzled with BepiColombo? Astounded by asteroid sample missions? 🛰️☄️

We've got some fascinating Specialist Discussion Meetings for you this month...

📅 12 December
⏰ 10:30-15:35
📍 Burlington House, London

ℹ️ & 🎟️ Scan the QR code below for the Mercury one

🔭 🧪 🛰️

I named my fists John Lennon and Paul McCartney because they're going to be surprising you with hits decades after you expect them.

A remarkable Ministerial Council for @esa.int & @science.esa.int. Record €22.1 bn overall & historic budget for Science.Thanks to our member states for this vote of confidence & to our DG @josefaschbacher.esa.int for putting frontier science & technology at the heart of European leadership in space

Belatedly (and shamelessly) realizing that I have explored this particular subject before in the past.

Backgammon is a fucking awesome pastime, and I've had enough wine to say that those of you who don't know how to play backgammon are poorer for it.

“Yoo-was-ee-ans” is, I think, how most Americans would think to pronounce it, which almost none ever would care to do.

It’s possible that, toxoplasmosis style, that earworm summoned me to spread it. ;)

Band just asked us if we were “ready to rock”, and I realized that the truly transcendent bands do not ask if one is ready to rock—they instruct the audience that they are in fact ready to rock, and then they rock them.

Cheers to all that. :)

Bandshell in the distance, with musicians performing. A screen saying Jesse Clegg hangs behind them. In front of the bandshell are thousands of people, with trees lining the spectators’ region.

Three people smile for the camera, two sitting on camp chairs among flowers, the third sitting in front of them on a blanket.

Gorgeous evening here in Cape Town, Jesse Clegg is two songs into his set here at Kirstenbosch. I saw his dad in Cambridge back in 1989, so it’s making me feel a bit old. But the thing they don’t tell you is it’s not always bad to feel old. :)

<picks up fresh local nectarine, looks out at the sun-washed vlei stretching out toward Table Mountain, palm trees swaying from a gentle sou’wester>

The nectarines are particularly tasty this week.

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