Skulls in the Stars

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

Hey let's do a #FakeBookTitleFriday in honor of JD's new book coming out!

So when I got my tenure approval letter some 15 years ago it was dated April 1 and to this day I’m not completely sure if I have tenure

I love that the modern definition of "software innovation" is "the same app, but runs 10% slower and all the buttons are in different places"

I am still amazed that my cat Rascal trained me to give him an ice cube in his water and I have no idea how he did that.

My latest optics paper just got published! https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-34-7-12319

I feel like my life goal is to be like that Islamic Golden Age scholar who died by being killed by a pile of his books collapsing on him, but LEGO

The Artemis splashdown livestream starts in a couple of minutes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhDuOHMp0A

Book 9 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Dead Astronauts, by Jeff VanderMeer https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/04/11/dead-astronauts-by-jeff-vandermeer/

New plan: everyone on Twitter just tweet a random location they think Mush is at, and we’ll know who’s correct based on who gets suspended

New book blog post -- book 11 for the year! The Lost Village, by Camilla Sten. https://skullsinthestars.com/2026/04/23/the-lost-village-by-camilla-sten/

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Will be looking for lots of #DungeonsAndDragons folks in the near future! Been playing ever since 1st edition, and have been playing a lot of 5th edition lately. Also been doing #OldSchoolDungeonsAndDragons threads on twitter that I'm going to carry over here, about classic D&D stuff!