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Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
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(I could be wrong about the straight-passing part. To my knowledge, the only people who have ever really been *surprised* to learn I was bi were folks who assumed I wasn’t actually into men at all 🙃)
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As a cis bi person with a fairly straight-passing sort of presentation I’m not always as “out” as I would like to be (although it is on my Wikipedia page if you go looking) but I think I will try to find ways to maintain some kind of visibility; I do think it’s useful and important!
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So many people get caught up in this idea that being wealthy means they are Clever and Important and therefore must have an Impact on the world 😒
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I already miss him so much 🥺
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Oh man that sucks
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I love her
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He really, really gets it
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It is surreal to be bombarded with constant op-eds about how we must finally admit that lockdowns, mask mandates and school closures didn't work.
Yes they did! COVID death rates were driven by lax policy and low compliance, mostly in red areas.
acasignups.net/23/03/01/mar...
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But this would violate the unbreakable axiom “they’re all good dogs”
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I didn’t know you were in town!
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Yeah. And there's hope that SOME of those people who are losing their ability to do science in the US will go elsewhere, but between the lack of adequate funding overseas and the impracticalities of moving, a huge number will just leave science. The whole world will just be less capable.
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Some data sets are actually being destroyed! For no reason!
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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😍
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Absolutely
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As an astrophysicist, my evaluation of the timescales here and the prospects for dealing with existential threats tells me that the best way to hope to someday deal with the Sun expansion problem is to support basic scientific research and universal human thriving on Earth today.
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Between this and the em dash thing I’m starting to wonder if these LLMs are trained entirely on my own writing
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I would assume it’s either that Isaacman was too invested in actually doing some science at NASA to be acceptable to the administration or he saw how the agency would be completely gutted by the proposed budget and decided he didn’t want to be at the helm of that sinking ship anymore
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And NSF has not faired any better in the proposed budget - tools for action on that are here: www.savensf.com/take-action
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If they can manage that, maybe they can get to advanced mode where they also understand that the article authors almost never get to choose the headlines either 🙃
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Making this happen WITHOUT ChatGPT would be significantly more work
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Amazing