Jim Baggott

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Yes and they should be utterly ashamed

🚨WATCH: NASA REVEALS THE NIGHT SKY FROM MARS — A VIEW UNLIKE EARTH’S NASA has shared a rare glimpse of the Martian night sky. Unlike Earth, Mars has a much thinner atmosphere, meaning less atmospheric scattering of light and a different view of the cosmos.

This is really good. It is precisely the lack of this kind of clear-speaking condemnation within the Green party that makes me nervous about its future.

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

Sitting in the garden enjoying the warm Spring sunshine, listening to Säde singing ‘Smooth Operator’, and realising I don’t know if ‘Kilarno’ is a real place. 😳

Manuscript submitted. The book is now officially ‘in press’. Stay tuned for a publication date. @yalebooks.bsky.social

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

The Beeb fails to mention that this new series is based on a book by Aiden Truhen, which is a pseudonym. @nickharkaway.com Looking forward to it. 😎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform is attempting to rabble rouse to avoid scrutiny of their actions and the campaign for caps on all political donations - share this to stand up for this debate and protecting our democracy from the crypto billionaires.

Jodrell Bank’s e-Merlin network still faces closure in 2028 Government says it will not save telescope network, despite Burnham pledge www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

‘Legitimate concerns’.

We should add this one to Bill Clinton’s ‘But I didn’t inhale’. Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks filmed undercover www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current BBC News editorial policy … in a nutshell.

So this is what Moseley’s blackshirts look like in 2026.

Good morning. As a (comparatively) successful author I feel it’s time to branch out in my career. As a result, I’m excited to be stepping into the world of professional football. Since I’m physically incapable of playing football at a professional level I will be hiring what I call a “ghostballer”

Well I think I am liking this new +ve PM! In response to @sarahrussellmp.bsky.social on Jodrell: "there must be a way to save #JodrellBank and I give her a commitment at this dispatch box - we will find it" Brilliant Burnham! Can you now save all the other epic projects that have also been cut 🙏🔭

I suggest you mentally discount ‘tantalising’ and emphasise ‘very early days’. A single event does not a new particle make.

Just come across this analysis of accusations of pedophilia against Schrodinger by Magdalena and Martin Gronau at Berlin ZfL, published this year. The text is in German, but here’s a translation of a key section: share.google/IWX2xazRIM6x...

Lovely surprise to see @itspetergabriel.bsky.social playing ‘Here Comes the Flood’ in the latest episode of Silo(S3, E9). 😎

🔭 Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses Image Credit & Copyright: Tim Martin ap260825

Tonight's final Lunar Eclipse time lapse.

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

Did you know you can see the planets during the day? This is Saturn, photographed 11 minutes after sunrise on 11 June 2021 from Monterrey, Mexico. At the time, Saturn was 1,346,765,000 km from Earth, or about 75 light-minutes away. Credit: Daniel Borja

Every map slices the ocean apart to keep the land whole. This one does the opposite: on the Spilhaus projection, every ocean on Earth is one connected body of water, with a year of real satellite-tracked currents flowing across it. Data: NASA OSCAR + NOAA OISST #oceanography #cartography #dataviz

Morning all. Would you like to see one more Eclipse photo? Just ran through my video files of the event and it seems I had a photobombing plane. Awesome! That's it. No more material to share 🤣 #astronomy #astrophotography

RIP Bill Oddie. I can still hear John Cleese yelling ‘kids programme!’ But the Goodies appealed to everyone’s inner kid. TV presenter and comedian Bill Oddie dies at 85 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hard to know yourself from the inside. Astronomers are still figuring out what our home galaxy looks like; a new study reveals updated locations for the Milky Way's spiral arms. This is where we are. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

‘Whispering’ Bob Harris was such an iconic personality during the prog rock boom in the early 70s. I still occasionally watch sets from the Old Grey Whistle Test on YouTube. Get well, Bob. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those curious to learn more about this point, see here: aeon.co/essays/shut-...

Those who can’t get to Hampstead Theatre before 2 May might like to try tracking down this gem: a TV movie based on the play with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg, Stephen Rea as Bohr, and Francesca Annis as Margrethe.

Me too. A good source for anyone interested in this episode is the book below, prompted by the success of Frayn’s play. Bohr drafted several unsent letters primarily in response to the interpretation given by German physicists presented in ‘Brighter Than a Thousand Suns’, by Robert Jungk.

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I know that times are dark. But here’s a cheery thought. In days gone by, we would all be obsessed by morbid existential questions. Why am I here? Who am I? What is the purpose of my life? Now, in these modern times our questions are framed by a new obsession. Will my package arrive today?

In 2011, Microsoft ran a spoof campaign highlighting GMail’s use of private mails to develop targeted advertising. Take a look at this video, 'Gmail man videos' share.google/8XIqUlI0xFAU...

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This is an absolute disgrace. So the values held by society haven’t changed in 323 years (Isaac Newton was elected president of the Royal Society in 1703)?

Alternative headline: ‘Astronomers are still arguing about the dark energy equation of state’. Dark energy just got even weirder and why the Universe may end in a 'Big Crunch' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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