https://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3mabxsaka2k2rNational Science Foundation significantly downgrades the review process of its proposals... 🧪 https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant-review-process-reducing-influence-outside-scientists18 Dec 2025 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabxsaka2k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m6zrmw54pc2hI disagree with a significant fraction of this article, but still it's an interesting and thought-stimulating read on an issue I've been grappling with... https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself 🧪02 Dec 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zrmw54pc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m6zqqlybc22tESA/Webb picture of the month - image of interacting dwarf galaxies NGC 4490 and NGC 4485. Interaction between these galaxies led to a recent starburst and formation of star clusters. 🔭 https://esawebb.org/images/potm2511a/02 Dec 2025 20:09 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6zqqlybc22thttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m6wx7xik522zSchrödinger's plates: the plates are simultaneously whole and broken and we won't know their true state until we open the cabinet... ) p.s. This month marks the 90th anniversary of Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involving cat in a chamber.01 Dec 2025 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wx7xik522zhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m6plla2ndk27A fantastic image by @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social https://cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea_into-the-galactic-plane 🧪🔭28 Nov 2025 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6plla2ndk27https://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m5jwd4o6ys2aFood for thought/discussion. 🧪13 Nov 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jwd4o6ys2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m5ft63wff222Aurora over lake Michigan tonight. In the background are Castor, Pollux, Jupiter, and Procyon. 🔭12 Nov 2025 04:34 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ft63wff222https://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m52p6mrwek2j(Adler) Planetarium eclipse... 🔭07 Nov 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m52p6mrwek2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3m3x7jcqtbs26"Beyond Hubble": a workshop aimed to trigger cross discussions between observers and theorists on our current understanding on galaxy morphology and kinematics, with an emphasis on revisiting the Hubble Sequence in the modern-day galaxy formation framework. https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/beyondhubble 🔭24 Oct 2025 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3x7jcqtbs26https://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lz52abg66c2h18 Sep 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz52abg66c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lwsmhgltok22I used this from the Opticks in my PhD thesis: it seems probable to me that God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable Particles of such Sizes and Figures and with such other Properties and in such Proportion to Space as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them20 Aug 2025 04:42 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwsmhgltok22https://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lsu4g3po2s2kA new fantastic image of M82 by JWST NIRCam, showing a biconical outflow of gas and dust from this starbursting galaxy. 🔭🧪 https://esawebb.org/images/potm2506a/30 Jun 2025 21:20 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsu4g3po2s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lqugjv3vc22qIn case you've been contemplating moving elsewhere in our Galaxy... https://bsky.app/profile/phdcomics.com/post/3lqs3woouwc2v [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jun 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqugjv3vc22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lqnfhklnrs2iCourtesy of @karpathy.bsky.social02 Jun 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqnfhklnrs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lpjvngrlyk2zThis may not be obvious, but a paper like the Naidu et al on the new distance record holder galaxy arxiv.org/abs/2505.11263 would normally be submitted to Nature. The fact that it was submitted to the @ojastro.bsky.social signals a major shift in the field. 🔭🧪 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.1126319 May 2025 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjvngrlyk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lpjur6v6ws2znot yet sure whether this is useful at all, but an interesting concept: each arXiv paper is a star and the nearest stars are papers on related topics: soarxiv.org It only has papers up to April 2025 rn (if you lose your cursor, hit Esc to recover it). 🔭 https://soarxiv.org/19 May 2025 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpjur6v6ws2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/grumpy1.bsky.social/post/3lje6g5kack26If your next European adventure does not pan out, Illinois has alternatives to offer...02 Mar 2025 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:balnyseohlm5mj2mmp3ort5x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lje6g5kack26