Had the pleasure of a couple of encounters now with the brilliant @WilGafney regarding her #WomensLectionary project. I'm extremely excited to see where it goes, and having lots of thoughts about translation and gender and such matters. I feel like I'm fortunate to have a bunch of friends who do translation in various forms (h/t to @jeannette_ng here, who does fascinating things with Chinese poetry). Yet even for me it's so easy to forget that the Bible as we read it in English is not the original text.

At a meeting at ESAC, Madrid (do we have a hashtag yet?) to discuss ultraluminous X-ray pulsars - some of the most extreme accretors in the Universe! Tim Roberts (@TYorkshirebloke) opens on the observational features of ULXs/ULXPs. We spent 15 years having ferocious arguments about the size of the black holes in these objects... and then we started seeing pulsations!