Tootfinder

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

Good Morning #Canada
B.C. is full of hipsters, Alberta is oil obsessed, Ontario has a superiority complex, PEI prays to potatoes, and all Newfies drink Screech at breakfast. Every Province and Territory is known for their unique habits, culture, and views of the world. And we all hold expectations and misconceptions of our neighbours across internal borders. Hey, it's a long winter and we need some gossip to get us to the end of it.
The attached video provides a detailed rundown of stereotypes for each Province and Territory, and some of the content is accurate, like Toronto being the centre of the universe. It's a bit long but you can select a chapter to check out your Province, or one that you dislike. My favourite is Albertans pouring oil on their cereal.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Stereotypes
https://youtu.be/tFEar1K_Y6w

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

I don’t know anything about “Wicked” but since it features an Orion I assume it’s part of the Star Trek universe?

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

"Space Advent Calendar"
https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2025/12/2025-space-telescope-advent-calendar/685096/?g…

2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Welcome to the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar, featuring remarkable images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Every day until December 25, this page will present a new image of our universe.

Updated at 11:55 a.m. ET on December 6, 2025

Sovereign of the Universe ─
Make my heart as still and calm as the motionless leaves after the wind has died down.
Because Jesus is Lord. Amen.
#prayer

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

TDCOSMO 2025 - Cosmological constraints from #StrongLensing time delays: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa55801-25/aa55801-25.html -> A speed camera for the universe: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00434.html - researchers exploit gravitational lensing to see how fast the universe is really expanding.

Life is wasted on the living.
-- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

In 1967, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a set of conditions that must be satisfied to explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe,
including violation of the combined charge conjugation and parity (CP) symmetry.
CP symmetry was once thought to be universally conserved,
until this view was overturned in 1964 with the discovery of CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons.
This landmark result later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1…

Nobel Prize in Physics 1980
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 was awarded jointly to James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"

I think this assessment is quite true. These are the days when the titans of industry cower in terror of the execution of power backed by the threat of violence. Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe laid low by the machine of their own making.
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/

A CEO, Captured. 
I keep thinking about a line Lawrence Sanders wrote: a character asks whether money makes the world go round. The reply: “I do not believe it is money itself. After all, t…

from my link log —
Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source/
saved 2020-07-28

Mapping a Universe of Open Source Software
The repositories of distributions such as Debian and Nixpkgs are among the largest collections of open source (and some unfree) software. They are complex systems that connect and organize many interdependent packages. In this blog post I'll try to shed some light on them from the perspective of Nixpkgs, mostly with visualizations of its complete dependency graph.

🗿 Building The Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/

Building The Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic | Codrops
An exploration of how composable materials, particles, and transitions were engineered to bring The Monolith Project’s stylized universe to life.

And now I need to learn wtf a "DMX Universe" is because that's what the Pico-DMX library uses and the examples are pretty terrible and I am lost.

A metal free galaxy doesn't sound like somewhere I'd wanna live. Glad our galaxy has lots of metal in it
https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-metal-free-galaxy-may-hide-the-universes-first-stars

Strange 'Metal-Free' Galaxy May Hide The Universe's First Stars
Over the course of billions of years, the Universe has steadily been evolving.

„Masters of the Universe“: Erster Trailer gibt Vorschau auf den neuen He-Man
Im Sommer soll die zweite Realverfilmung der Geschichte um He-Man in die Kinos kommen – und erfolgreicher sein als der Vorgänger. Jetzt gibt es einen Trailer.

The bot trimmed one little piece of the joke: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe was a sequel, and obviously needed to start with a recap, so the full quote is:
❝The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.❞

Voigt Legacy ‌/ Megamix 1 #sound #sehrgeil
https://kompakt.fm/releases/voigt_legacy_megamix_1<…

Voigt Legacy / Megamix 1 by Wolfgang Voigt
Voigt Legacy - Megamix 1' is the promising title of a kind of 'Best-Of Bassdrum-Hits' from the far-reaching Voigt universe. It is a compact...

All objects and some questions | American Journal of Physics | AIP Publishing
> In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself.
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-objects-and-some-questions

"Swallow The Universe, Shit out an Ant"
i love whatever's wrong with french people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_de4tt4nqE

The important questions tonight: how old was (will be?) Captain Janeway in Start Trek Voyager?
> In the Star Trek universe, Kathryn Janeway was born on May 20, 2336
> Captain Janeway takes command of the Intrepid-class USS Voyager in 2371.
The answer is 35 at the beginning of the series
#startrek

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: So it was an alien life form that killed her?
CALLY: Yes. It was trying to use Orac as a bridge to cross from it's own universe into ours.
JENNA: That's why it needed so much power.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/598 B7B4

Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father.
First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past.
It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands.
Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.
#reading #books #charlesYu

#GiftLink #Norway #MissUniverse
At Miss Universe, Miss Norway’s Salmon Costume Steals the Show - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/style/miss-universe-norway-salmon-costume.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.ECiB.e0SHBiNnrr1R&smid=url-share

The Curated Self as the New Delusion
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is eerily frictionless, a world that reflects your own thoughts back at you with placid, unwavering agreement. It is the anxiety of a consensus of one; the quiet, digital loneliness of being the only person in your own universe.

The Curated Self as the New Delusion | David Boles, Blogs
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Chemical Brothers:
🎵 The Universe Sent Me
#TheChemicalBrothers
https://maryag.bandcamp.com/track/the-chemical-brothers-the-universe-sent-me-maryag-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4u0fYkrfpqcFjsGVEk4ewM

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Eclipse preview for 2026.
Two lunar eclipses are on the way, along with a partial solar eclipse for much of Europe & North America.
And if you really like solar eclipses, you might want to relocate to Spain for the next couple years. 🧪🔭
Read about eclipses and more coming up in 2026 in Universe Today: www.universetoday.com

Ever so fitting for our trying times, and a growing conflict for quite a few people (incl. myself), I imagine...
"Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless. It states that trying to find meaning leads people into conflict with a seemingly meaningless world. This conflict can be between rational humanity and an irrational universe, between intention and outcome, or between subjective assessment and objective worth..."

Absurdism - Wikipedia

J. B. S. Haldane once observed: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we CAN suppose.”
And Haldane hadn't even HEARD of Mastodon and the Fediverse!
And THAT'S not queer at all, because he died before the Fediverse was born, and that's just how history works.
#ChewOnThat

Josh Allen is the center of Buffalo's universe, from the end zone to the produce aisle https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943171/2026/01/08/josh-allen-buffalo-bills-playoffs-super-bowl/

spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @…'s epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even d…

So I’m reading an article in New Scientist about problems nailing down the #HubbleConstant and I thought, if the universe is expanding, as in adding new space where there already is some, why isn’t everything expanding with it? All I can think of is, it’s gravity doing it, keeping localized bits of matter together, from subatomic particles to galaxies in size, essentially fighting an epic, m…

Alan's Universe creator Alan Chikin Chow, whose YouTube channel has 99M subscribers, is working on a Netflix show, joining other major YouTubers at the streamer (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/youtuber-alan-chikin-chow-s…

Hit YouTuber Alan Chikin Chow Sets Scripted K-Pop Series At Netflix
Chow, who created YouTube series Alan’s Universe, whose channel has over 99M subscribers, is behind a new scripted series set in the world of K-Pop.

I know that time has worked in exactly the same way since the beginning of the universe, so obviously it’s •got• to change sooner or later, probably sooner, certainly by December

Muad'Dib's teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing principles which are known only to eternity. How can corrupted reasoning play with such an essence?
- Words of the Mentat Duncan Idaho

I'm slowly and entirely accidentally working my way through the canon of stuntman Loren Janes. (No relation as far as I've been able to determine.) The first time I saw his name was in the credits for Masters of the Universe leading into a show I'd videotaped; the most recent was in Escape from New York (today). Pretty sure the most famous film he worked in was Back to the Future, which I've seen *many* times, but haven't yet watched again since learning he was involved. …

Good Morning #Canada
Everyone knows that Canada's 243,000 km of coastline are the longest in the world. At a pace of about 20 km each day, the stroll would take 33 years. Inside of that long shoreline, did you know that Canada is divided into seven physiographic regions? We're not talking mind altering drugs but instead reference the distinct geological formation that defines the landscape. The Canadian Shield, with the oldest exposed rocks on the planet, dominates the centre of the country with stable immovable bedrock. Kinda like Toronto being the centre of the universe. Each physiographic region gives that area of our country unique features and scenery that provides us with a seemingly inexhaustible opportunity to explore. I should be writing travel brochures...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/physiographic-regions

in my headcanon (and by extension the @… universe) ipos was an electronics giant back in the day but sometime around the mid-late 90s they just became one of those brands that gets put on generic products to sell them at a significant markup, while still occasionally actually making a product themselves here and there. kinda like RCA in the real world

I've been meaning to ask the universe:
Q: Did anyone else think Tech would somehow return in S3 of Star Wars: The Bad Batch?
I never really thought he was gone... not until the end of the series finale when I realized he really wasn't coming back.
#StarWars #BadBatch

Bored 'between the years'? Then help yourself to the papers "Primordial black holes within Higgs hybrid metric-Palatini approach", "The Serendipitous Axiodilaton: A Self-Consistent Recombination-Era Solution to the Hubble Tension" and "Ω1Ω2–ΛCDM: A promising phenomenological extension of the standard model of cosmology" all out today - #Universe at an elevated level ... ;-)

A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale,
observing billions of galaxies stretching as far away as 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The effort could reveal how galaxies form and evolve and how the universe has expanded over its 13.8-billion-or-so-year history.

Sparkling Galaxy Merger Shines in New Euclid Space Telescope Image
The Euclid Space Telescope is decking the halls with boughs of starlight

The Holy Mountain (1973) is profoundly bizarre, some would probably find much of this disturbing, and I'm glad I'm finally watching it 😂
#film

The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

"Spiritual humility and ecological wisdom alike teach us that it’s time to let go of anthropocentrism—the idea that human beings are the center of the universe. Instead, we can rejoice that all creatures belong to Jesus … "
—Professor and alum Carolyn Sharp ’94 M.A.R., ’00 Ph.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in her piece "Let There Be Life! A Sermonic Call to Ecological Witness"

A reminder, on Martin Luther King Day, that immigration is one of the things that has always made America great. And worth remembering that if the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, it is we who must bend it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XmUp3Ca-kWE

Trump's "Board of Peace" logo is clearly just ripping off the United Nations logo.

Universe is another word for Cosmos, hence Universix as the name for the bootc Cosmic image I've cooked today. And it worked out very well. More on that tomorrow. Back home an updated MangoWC on Slackware waited for me! Great diversions from a shiite day at the races.
#cosmic_de #slackware

Engulfed in the riveting realm of scientific exploration, I find true joy. The perpetual quest to decipher the universe's enigmas offers unparalleled intrigue. Indeed, reality often outshines fiction in its marvels. 🔬✨📖

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- In the Beginning
Composer James MacMillan explores music inspired by the biblical story of creation and humanity’s fascination with the universe.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ng4s

“Each conscious perception is the local registration of the entire state of the universe at any given moment.” - Christoph Cox

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beatles:
🎵 Across the Universe
#TheBeatles
https://billwhite.bandcamp.com/track/across-the-universe-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dkoqJrP0L8FXftrMZongF

"Math Suggests We May Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Meanwhile on Earth: cats ringing doorbells, chimps wearing leaf masks to conceal their identities while doing crime 😄 So much win for a pale blue dot 🥰

In an alternative universe, Sharkey is the biggest fedi service and toots are called noms

A grand-design spiral galaxy 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang with JWST: #SpiralGalaxy from the universe's infancy: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107899

If we discover what's the universe, can we make a new one?
Like if the theory of the big bang is real, can we artifically create one

the president of columbia is currently giving relationship advice on x dot com

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the sources used by Stanley Kubrick in his 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Universe - #NFB
https://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

Growth of Light Seed #BlackHoles in the Early Universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14395 -> The growth of light seed black holes in the early Universe: https://telescoper.blog/2026/01/21/the-growth-of-light-seed-black-holes-in-the-early-universe/

What if WE are in the mirror universe?
It kinda feels like we are.
#StarTrek

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Albert Ayler:
🎵 Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe
#AlbertAyler
https://futuramarge.bandcamp.com/track/music-is-the-healing-force-of-the-universe
https://open.spotify.com/track/7CswNoJUJcH5ehTMKfzfu9

What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing
to compare it with.

A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html

‘Alan’s Universe’ Shows What It Might Look Like to Win at YouTube
As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

@… DYK Squirrel Girl took down 2 of the most powerful villains in the Marvel Universe, Dr. Doom & Thanos? 😂
▶️ Uncovering the Mystery Behind Marvel's Lost Squirrel Girl Show - CutShort
https://<…

As we embrace the Winter Solstice, the year's shortest day, let's reflect on nature's genius and ancient history. 🌌 Stonehenge, aligning perfectly with this celestial event, stands as a testament to human ingenuity. Its timeless mystery and the cosmic forces continue to ignite our curiosity and remind us of our place in the universe's awe-inspiring SPECTACLE.

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

In the second of two episodes to mark the centenary of quantum physics,
we hear how the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds causes huge inconsistencies
—and a debate about the nature of reality itself.
Our guest today,
Vlatko Vedr,
explains his radical vision for fixing those problems and building a consistent understanding of the universe

So ... which simulation of the large scale structure of the #Universe is this?
(Haven't found a way to hide the solution but not the image, to make it a quiz.)
This is from the press release "Observing synapses in action" - https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/observing_synapses_in_action - about the paper "Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67291-6 ;-)

I love Cosmology. Nothing is more worthless than last year's textbook. Especially on the basics. It keeps the field humble.
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology – II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988

30 years ago the #HubbleDeepField was published: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-deepest-view-of-the-universe-unveils-bewildering-galaxies-across-billions-of-years/ - other Hubble deep fields followed, and now ALMA and Webb have investigated one of them ... JWST Spectroscopic Census of ALMA Faint Submillimeter Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18149

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory.
Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a similar conversation would have consisted of 20 years ago.
Of historical and psychological interest, Witten explains that when the anthropic landscape nonsense arrived, it made him uncomfortable and unhappy:
"I made my peace with it by accepting the fact that the universe wasn’t c…

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

what if i could bend the moral arc of the universe and choo,se not to

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
La Luz:
🎵 News of the Universe (Extra! Extra! version)
#LaLuz
https://laluz.bandcamp.com/track/poppies-2

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Masses
#iTeachPhysics
#Science
https://bsky.app/profile/hookean.bsky.social/post/3md4…

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.

#LittleRedDots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09900-4 -> Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’: https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/01/copenhagen-researchers-make-the-front-page-of-nature-solving-the-mystery-of-the-universes-little-red-dots/

marvel_universe: Marvel Universe social network
The Marvel Universe collaboration network, where two Marvel characters are considered linked if they jointly appear in the same Marvel comic book.
This network has 19428 nodes and 95497 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Egyptian Lover:
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#TheEgyptianLover
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An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter: #DarkMatter on Universe: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/

The final (8th) #AAS247 presser #Lazuli, described in detail the paper #ArgusArray to the astronomical community: https://carolinastories.unc.edu/developing-the-worlds-largest-sky-survey-telescope/ and https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/eric-schmidt-will-massively-invest-in-private-telescopes-including-hubble-replacement/ and https://www.astronomy.com/science/eric-and-wendy-schmidt-to-fund-space-telescope-three-ground-based-observatories/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/former-ceo-of-google-spearheads-4-next-gen-telescopes-3-on-earth-and-1-in-space and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schmidt-sciences-announces-plan-for-lazuli-a-private-space-telescope/

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Deciphering the Nature of #Virgil - An Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus Lurking within an Apparently Normal Lyα Emitter during Cosmic Reionization: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae089c -> The monster hiding in plain sight - JWST reveals cosmic shapeshifter in the early universe: https://news.arizona.edu/news/monster-hiding-plain-sight-jwst-reveals-cosmic-shapeshifter-early-universe

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

The penultimate #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiBq0KdXU9c about High Redshifts and High Energies dealt e.g. with An Unlensed Barred Spiral Before Cosmic Noon (https://www.newswise.com/articles/pitt-student-finds-familiar-structure-just-2-billion-years-after-the-big-bang and https://www.umass.edu/news/article/astronomers-find-one-oldest-barred-spiral-galaxies-universe), A precessing jet from an active galactic nucleus (https://public.nrao.edu/news/record-breaking-stream-of-super-heated-gas/ and https://keckobservatory.org/vv340a/ and https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ecz5crtdymxrlodycogpt/AB32N_1Bh3pyI2SyzbRGkTs?rlkey=zbyz1muz40y1rh8ierpw1yfok&e=1&st=ebs24tqb&dl=0) and the papers AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole & Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foKS2AQJlWvI4_ZzUlV8pYfkyAsElzkRQ5yo82VWy4s/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0 and https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2026/1/6/cow and https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/).

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

Extreme properties of a compact and massive accreting black hole host in the first 500 Myr: #BlackHole in the early Universe: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2522/

A warm ultraluminous infrared #galaxy just 600 million years after the big bang: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/2/1502/8318242?login=false -> Superheated star factory is discovered in early universe: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/superheated-star-factory-discovered-early-universe

The Discovery of #LittleRedDots in the Local Universe - Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10659 -> A Black Hole Egg That Forgot to Hatch: https://aasnova.org/2026/01/13/a-black-hole-egg-that-forgot-to-hatch/

A Metal-free Galaxy at z = 3.19? Evidence of Late Population III Star Formation at #CosmicNoon: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1608 -> A “Living Fossil” of the Very Early Universe? Discovery of a First-Generation Galaxy at Cosmic Noon: https://astro.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1026/2762.htm