It’s funny that I’ve had this for a couple of years and it’s just these particular javelina that are vandals. Next step will be to try your method. I did set up a backup inside the fence while I’m away and the bobcats found it.

Not a victimless crime.

Me: “Now that I’ve armored the water station the javelina won’t be able to disrupt it”. Javelina: “hold my garbage bin”

It was great to see LPL grads and alums bringing planetary science perspective to brown dwarfs at the Charting Substellar Worlds workshop this week. Wonderful science and great setting.

Getting hydrated before heading off to this week’s brown dwarf workshop in Monterey.

Baby red.

Forget the World Cup, I found the cable I needed in my box of old cables.

Haven’t seen any bobcats for a while but I guess Mom was busy.

Better shot of the crowded airspace.

The osprey are unperturbed by the air traffic in their domain.

Amazing pilots. “Forward progress has been stopped”.

Fire near my friends we are visiting. CalFire in the job.

It’s so hot that even the lizards are thirsty.

Never used these plates I inherited from someone. Decided today’s the day.

It would be interesting, if sad, to hear from the mother quail who lost most of their chicks as to what happened. “The Gila monster came”.

Two of the early cloud modelers, meeting in agreement at St. Andrews:

Finally had a chance to rebuild and re-armor our wildlife watering station after a very very bad javelina tore it apart and broke the bowl. The quail are appreciative.

I broadly agree with you however will point out that Lodders (e.g., Lodders 1999, figure below) has always said you get both MgSiO3 and Mg2SiO4. Early models tended to pick one species for simplicity. The alkali clouds form at T's below around 900K.

Last Friday I got to see Roger Angel pitching a new space telescope concept for habitable planet direct imaging.

An angle on LAX you don’t usually see.

These are classics available from shop.startorialist.com/_t/c/v3/AADS...

LPL's Ty Robinson talking up our improvement in the USNWR rankings to be the #1 worldwide public university for space science. (hopefully not attributing to his own arrival on the faculty :) )

New US News global rankings for Space Science are out. LPL+Steward looking good.

Encapsulates the reflected light planet program. Jupiters next with Roman and Venus-sized planets to come with HWO.

Perhaps we will have some young ones before too long.

Highlighting my grad student Lori Huseby's paper with @offallingstars.bsky.social on UV irradiation of water world hazes. Exoplanets needs more lab work supporting spectral interpretation and this work helps with our understanding of what happens to photochemical hazes. arxiv.org/abs/2606.06691

Clearly very legitimate.