I knew that Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe had written an article claiming Archaeopteryx fossils were forgeries, but not that they'd written an *entire book*.

www.nature.com/articles/324...
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Watching Ratatouille again brought home just what a wonderful, joyful, gorgeous little song this is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lS...

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’

Patrick O'Brian is a great conservative writer. Taking advantage of the Ganesh brouhaha to write a post that I have been wanting to write for at least a decade, if Sam Goldman didn't get there first and do it better www.programmablemutter.com/p/patrick-ob...

I'd like to announce the availability of version 1.0 of PyImfit [https://github.com/perwin/pyimfit], a Python wrapper around the (very) fast, flexible, C++-based galaxy image-fitting program Imfit [https://github.com/perwin/imfit]. 🔭 (1/7)

I received, as one does, a spam email encouraging me to submit an article to The American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research; the email address header was “Dentistry & Oral Science”, so maybe that's what I'm supposed to be doing now... (1/6)

This is SO cool. A little more about it here: www.arthurganson.com/beholding-th...

Join the James Webb Space Telescope imaging team on a colorful journey! Science visuals developers at STScI pour a lot of work into processing Webb’s full-color images, which begin as black-and-white exposures.

This playlist takes you step by step through the process.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Watching a talk about exoplanet spectroscopy, and the speaker has just referred to a long-slit spectrograph as a "1-D IFU"... 🔭

Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find arstechnica.com?p=1996901

New paper! (in press at MNRAS)
I present a study of barred spiral galaxies in the local universe aimed at finding out how many have inner bars (making them double-barred) and how many have nuclear rings. (1/7) 🔭🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2312.12893

"They attend classes but make no effort to learn anything….The expense money which they have from their parents or churches they spend in taverns, conviviality, games and other superfluities, so they return home empty, without knowledge, conscience, or money." www.medievalists.net/2023/09/medi...