#bloomscrolling some kind of sage?
On the occasion of Chile’s Astronomy Day celebrations, we will launch the first public night visit tours at our La Silla and Paranal observatories — the first programme of this kind in Chile!
Discover more: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/annlang26003-es-cl/?nolang
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📷 A. Trigo/ESO
Or an American war criminal. Or any of the sort of people Trump pardons … although I guess those at least get investigated and often convicted first.
#bloomscrolling nasturtiums (I think!) at the middle
School garden.
I miss the old days of Abby Gazebo
Still boggles my mind that these ink watercolors can look so 3D sometimes.
#bloomscrolling lupines
It's that time again! The Math Routine Collaborative is meeting this Sunday, 3/15/2026 with @karencampe.bsky.social
Come participate in the Same and Different routine, and unpack how to facilitate it in your own spaces. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday!
www.strongermath.com/mrc
#bloomscrolling is this a california flannelbush?
California poppies #bloomscrolling
@kenwhite.bsky.social could use “dignified transfer hat” but that was actually literally a fucking hat already.
I have written a blogpost about the multiset coefficient, if that's the sort of thing you might be interested in. mpaldridge.github.io/blog/multise...
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
Book recommendation: Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan
I read this early in my PhD, and it's been with me ever since. Chapter 1 grants a superpower that I cannot imagine living without.
The happiest of book birthdays to Nobody's Baby by @oliviawaite.com, the sequel to Murder by Memory! 🚀 👶
Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
From my front yard today
werewolf influencer named lycan subscribe
🧵 1/ Happy International Women's Day! Oddly enough, this is a post for men.
It's not angry or accusatory. It's a thread asking you to use this occasion to make us feel, and be, less alone in battling inequity, and giving you some ideas of why, what, and how. 🙂 I really encourage men to read it.
We find that children from low-SES backgrounds are viewed as more hardworking than smart -- as "strivers." Children's stereotypes on this topic are correlated with their parents'. 👇
Happy International Women's Day!
Perfect time for me to (re)share our white paper on increasing the retention of women in professional astrophysics (really full of suggestions that broaden participation in academic science in general).
arxiv.org/abs/2512.24465
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I’ve heard don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This looks more like a case of don’t let the awful make you embrace the bad, or something like that.
I think they figured out the time guards only work Monday through Friday
If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
I know it's a lot of promo today, but:
1) it's bandcamp friday, when artists get max $ from the platform
2) that money isn't going to me; the album is a rent relief fundraiser
3) the EP opens with a clip from an Octavia Butler interview that flows into one of the best 24 bar verses I've written:
Young @jpawlik.com was drawn to The Last Unicorn for reasons they couldn't explain and that their mother and friends definitely misunderstood. In a time before they had the vocabulary to talk about their gender, at least Jey had Schmendrick.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/gender-goals...
Strong recommend if you are interested in cosmology. The videos are succinct – most around 6 minutes long – and the explanations are satisfying. Same goes for the "Quantum 101" videos.
