Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

@telescoper
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Theoretical astrophysicist in Ireland specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it (e.g. jazz, opera, poetry, crosswords). Editor-in-chief Open Journal of Astrophysics, @OJ_Astro
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5535-2850
Work Pagehttps://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/peter-coles
Blog (Personal)https://telescoper.blog/about
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Here's a #Haiku on a theme of A.E. Housman:

Loveliest of trees?
Not yet, but soon there will be
Bloom along the bough

#Haiku on a theme by Housman

Old MacDonald had a farm...

Here's an interesting review of astrophysics papers on arXiv, including pertinent comments on the absurdity of the publishing system and this mention of @OJ_Astro

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12303

Snowdrops!
This one has generated a helluva lot of traffic to the blog!
This book looks right up my street. Not that I'm pedantic myself, of course...
Joshua or Lazarus?
From Private Eye:
Future Jorge: "There is no progress, no revolution of ages, in the history of knowledge, but at most a continuous and sublime recapitulation of AI slop."
Identify the Mystery Object...