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@startswithabang.bsky.social Great to see it out in the world — enjoy! (And let me know what you think…)
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As someone who owes his passion for science, and his career, to early glimpses of the Apollo launches, I hope that Artemis II is just as inspiring today.
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fimage-scaled.jpg\")
We thought we knew the shape of the universe. We were wrong | Scientific American — the topology of the Universe and our COMPACT collaboration. (The subhead conflates topology and geometry, but the article gets it right.)
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1217/","date_published":"2026-03-24T14:47:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 14:47","date_timestamp":1774363629,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116284821631903008"]}},{"id":"86798929","content_html":"@defjaf.bsky.social Yes! Thanks again for an amazing audience!
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mhqk276rkk2v","date_published":"2026-03-23T17:02:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 17:02","date_timestamp":1774285355,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86787680","content_html":"Most ideas that disagree with the dominant scientific paradigm in any field are certainly wrong — even though the dominant paradigm is probably also wrong.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1213/","date_published":"2026-03-21T11:10:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-21 11:10","date_timestamp":1774091449,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116266910588668946","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mhkw7n6jl22y","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DWJQsd1kecM"]}},{"id":"86527267","content_html":"In honor of the coming vernal equinox, my first cycle ride into work since October.
\n![\"Man](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2FIMG_1047-scaled.jpeg\")
Thanks to Richard Marshall — and a fantastic audience, especially! — for a great evening of cosmology, cosmological tensions, and beer @pubsci.bsky.social.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fimage-2-scaled.jpg\")
Off to The Old King’s Head for some cosmology.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fimage-1-scaled.jpg\")
Last day of regular teaching for the academic year — two hours of tutorials and the final lecture of my cosmology course (for the aficionados, we will be working toward the processed power spectrum of density perturbations).
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1199/","date_published":"2026-03-16T17:30:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-16 17:30","date_timestamp":1773682256,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116240050441711799","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mh6yj3jvjm2x","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DV9C9poCWhk"]}},{"id":"86217066","content_html":"Preparing to go on stage for 12 Last Songs at Battersea Arts Centre.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2Fimage-scaled.jpg\")
Why did I only just learn about Floyd Cramer’s “Last Date”?? (Thanks, of course, to Andrew Hickey’s 500 Songs podcast episode on “For What It’s Worth”.)
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1187/","date_published":"2026-03-12T22:16:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 22:16","date_timestamp":1773353773,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116218524334916434","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mgvgm4uxmp2x","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DVzQeCsFDx1"]}},{"id":"85765674","content_html":"The Random Universe reviewed in Nature:
\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1183/","date_published":"2026-03-08T14:00:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-08 14:00","date_timestamp":1772978424,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116193976693752560","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mgkjr6m2t32g","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DVoGCm7kcf2"]}},{"id":"85629434","content_html":"\n “The sun and the stars and the edge of the Universe are inaccessible, but no more so than the interior lives of other people,” writes astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe in his intriguing book about epistemology, probability and cosmology.\n
Appearance: 12 Last Songs, Saturday, 14 March 2026 at Battersea Arts Centre: A live exhibition and performance “about work and how we spend time. Making a living. Finding your passion. Watching the clock.” It starts at noon with a midwife and ends at midnight with an astronomer (me!).
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/03/1177/","date_published":"2026-03-06T11:13:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-06 11:13","date_timestamp":1772795619,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116181934732328934","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mgf6n7hiyl2k","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DVinlHJkfMu"]}},{"id":"85550674","content_html":"My kid took The Random Universe into school for International Book Day.
\n![\"Child](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F03%2FIMG_9033-scaled.jpeg\")
Maybe this Green victory will convince Labour that there is no point in pandering to the pro-Brexit anti-immigration right (who weren’t going to vote for them anyway)?
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\npodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p…
\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mexxxwykz22m","date_published":"2026-02-16T11:44:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-16 11:44","date_timestamp":1771242262,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"84367113","content_html":"Podcast appearance: I discuss The Random Universe on Scientific Sense with Gill Eapen. (Or on YouTube for the video version.)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/02/1170/","date_published":"2026-02-16T11:01:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-16 11:01","date_timestamp":1771239713,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116080036974000008","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DU0R-VnkcsL"]}},{"id":"84134740","content_html":"Officials targeted what they thought was a drug cartel drone, but turned out to be a party balloon.
\nNever attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
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@help ok, that’s weird. It is in my version of the jsonfeed (and rss). Any (wordpress? Hosting?) settings that could somehow affect this?
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