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Dogs too? An anecdote:

"Here's your regular Sunday morning treat" (msg: we're going out to breakfast and you're not coming)

A Sunday first: "We're taking you with us today"

Following Sunday: "Here's your treat"

Dog rejects treat, knows he's not going if he takes it, eyes & posture say let's go

A quick mention that Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...

@styrofoamplates.bsky.social - as one of the authors, if you give a public talk on it or know of others, please post

#cosmology

Dillon Brout gave the first public talk on this new paper and the H0 Distance Network today at the CfA ITC luncheon

There were 3 talks at the lunch, this is a direct link to the start of Dillon's talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nzV...

#cosmology

GitHub - AYelland/AstroWiki_2.0: These are supplementary notes for the MIT Astrophysics division oral qualification exam. For online version, see website linked below. These are supplementary notes for the MIT Astrophysics division oral qualification exam. For online version, see website linked below. - AYelland/AstroWiki_2.0

Now using Obsidian for markdown notes, so looked for good examples covering its features => AstroWiki, study notes for MIT Astrophysics Oral Qualification Exams. Available as GitHub repo and website, d/l it for your own edits.

GitHub: github.com/AYelland/Ast...

Site: publish.obsidian.md/astrowiki

A favorite for its colors, composition, and calming effect

Use Case: Quickly identify what was said about :topic in list of multiple yt talk videos (e.g., at a conf), including timestamps to those segments

Tip: Use google's NotebookLM, add talk urls to a notebook, then ask your questions. The AI uses the transcripts as source to provide the output.

A slide from Dragan Huterer's talk where his take is that the LCDM tension and Hubble tension are different: "No apparent relationship (afaik)". One factor he mentions on the slide is that the Hubble tension gets worse in the w0waCDM model.

Dragan Huterer's DESI 3-Year Analysis talk yesterday at EuCAPT Virtual Colloquium

cds.cern.ch/record/2945960

A little teaser at 43:27: Are the LCDM tension & Hubble tension related?

His take is no, they're different, from segment "5 facts about hints for DDE (and Hubble tension)" starting 38:26

YouTube video by Cool Worlds Podcast #26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds

#26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds
youtu.be/HSZtn0yKPBI

The Oct 6 - 10 STScI NHFP Symposium has 2 sessions of #cosmology talks.

Videos stream the entire session, I broke out links to the individual talks at: jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=...

Symposium site:
www.stsci.edu/contents/eve...

Symposium session playlists:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Unusual number and variety of #cosmology talks released just yesterday & today (so far):

GGI Galaxy Clustering event (12)

Schrödinger Inst: Cosmic LSS event (6)

CosmoVerse (1)

CMB Bharat (1)

U of Minn (1)

Links at cosmology researcher talks database app: jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

A foggy photo of the famous Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California. The bridge even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby_Bridge

Bixby Bridge, Big Sur, California, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby_B...

The best raison d'être

I can't tell what it is, but one of them looks like a giant version of his breakfast pancakes 😀

We’ve just started the workshop Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics, organised by @cosmohahn.bsky.social, Cornelius Rampf & Cora Uhlemann. A full week of exciting talks and discussions is ahead. 🌌
📎 Info: www.esi.ac.at/events/e576/

What #cosmology papers have a publicly available author's talk/lecture?

The Cosmology Researcher Talks app has those links, e.g.

Adam Riess - 2509.01667

Bhuvnesh Jain - 2508.14019

Eiichiro Komatsu - 2509.13654

Mikhail Ivanov - 2507.01667

Vera Gluscevic - 2503.15592

jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html

Definitely one of the most magical moments in Philly sports history was the Flyers' first championship in 1974 against the Boston Bruins. And Bernie Parent was named the MVP of the playoffs. What a valiant team that was!

Quote from film/book "Tracks" about Robyn Davidson's mostly solo 1,700 mile trek across Western Australian deserts with 4 camels and her dog:

"It seems to me the universe gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these gifts was dogs."

Just found out about Anna's Archive, the FAQ calls it "The largest truly open library in human history"

annas-archive.li/faq

Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27...

A note of thanks to @anitaleirfall.bsky.social, saw it from an article she posted

I found this very interesting: 56 slides of Berkeley Cosmology Group 2025 introductions, one slide per person on their research and interests. Many are active on bsky.

==> cosmology.lbl.gov/talks/BCCP_2...

BCG site cosmology.lbl.gov & seminars page cosmology.lbl.gov/sem_bcg_futu...

#cosmology

Green is one of my least favorite colors, yet when I see all these green-themed images you post, they clearly capture the beauty of the color and I like them all

Tensions in Cosmology 2025 For registration click here: https://www.physics.ntua.gr/corfu2025/registration.html

Tensions in Cosmology 2025 conference in Corfu, Sept 2-8

indico.cern.ch/event/154469...

There are ~80 talks and almost all have slides, as did previous events in the series in 2023 and 2022 (no videos). Database app for searches (+ note separate talk videos app): jrdmb.netlify.app/crsl.html?s1...

On the grade/elevation plot inlay, the max grade I remember seeing is 29°, but the cyclist said there were a couple sections where it's up to 35° Yikes!!!

YouTube video by mrpercussive Riding up Marin Ave, Berkeley - Steepest Hill Berkeley

I couldn't imagine anyone actually doing it, but on a whim I did a search and well, they do...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRG...

Though I wouldn't recommend the Marin Ave climb 😂

In the spirit of sharing previous materials on the topic by you & others that are still available online:

10 Qs www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/10...

Tenerife conf: www.youtube.com/user/Philoso...

UCSC conf: hipacc.ucsc.edu/IPC2013.html

Bibliography: www.philcosmo.uwo.ca/bibliography...

Training Week - Advanced School on Precision Cosmology and Dark Matter - YouTube

GGI workshop: Advanced School on Precision Cosmology and Dark Matter, Aug 25-29

Available now, more upcoming

Julien Lesgourgues: CMB and linear theory, 3 lectures

Hongwan Liu: Cosmology beyond ΛCDM, 1 lecture

playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

website: www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

GitHub - susam/muboard: Self-rendering and distributable mathematics chalkboards Self-rendering and distributable mathematics chalkboards - susam/muboard

Easily create a .html file that self-renders BOTH Markdown and LaTeX syntax within it. Doesn't even need hosting on server - just open in browser & page self-renders with internet connection. A one-liner header does the magic.

The Muboard tool by Susam, creator of other great tools, like TeXMe.

From your time perception research knowledge, any thoughts about ability of certain athletes to stay calm & focused in critical moments & see the field of play in slower motion. Quarterback Joe Montana was legendary for that; e.g., as described in this 80's Time mag article: time.com/archive/6859...

Yeah, had these exam anxiety dreams for decades, but another powerful type lasted even longer - a euphoric feeling of being back at uni or arranging to go back, walking and exploring the campus, settling into living space, etc. I suspect these are archetypal dreams.

Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest… Dogs have been our muses, our mentors, and our playful …

Didn't know about this animal air transport rescue group, but a favorite-ever read was "Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship", published 2003 by The Bark of Berkeley, CA. A memorable collection of writings about the dog-human bond .

www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...