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My hypothesis is that the majority of prominent anti-institutionalists are fundamentally driven by an emotional reaction to said institutions rejecting/criticizing/snubbing/mistreating them at some point, and thus are personal quests of retribution/I-told-you-so/burn-it-all-down/etc.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 13 days ago • 453 comments

Destroy US science leadership because…. eggs too expensive.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Doge is auditing NASA today. This is absurd. The owner of Space X should not be auditing NASA. It’s a massive conflict of interest.

submitted 17 days ago • 1001 comments

Make no mistake. Academia is under assault.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Reliably hearing that NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs are being cut. Did you want to be a scientists? Well, thanks to Musk, now you can’t.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

When I'm wearing my scicomm job hat, one of the best parts is researching a topic in depth. Today my job is to lie back on the sofa with a pot of hot tea with a pile of glorious books.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I am looking to commission some spacecraft CGI animations, professional quality on par with spacecraft deployment videos we often see in NASA/ESA videos. If you have the skills and are interested, reply below and I'll add you for DM follow up!

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Nations who lead in science lead the world. It’s that simple.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

These new AI models are v powerful. It’s transforming the way I work. There’s several projects I’ve put off for years as “very hard” that I’m finally able to make progress on now, it’s like having talented and well-read graduate students that work almost instantaneously. Stunning to ponder future.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps the Nobel Prize committee’s resistance to >3 recipients could be resolved by awarding prizes to experiments/ideas rather than individuals. In such a case, an experiment’s PI is not a direct recipient as we understand it today, quite literally the project itself is remember in history.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

So it’s pretty obvious tariffs will cause inflation and slow economic growth (due to counter tariffs). Inflation seems a primary cause as to why every democratic incumbents lost power across the globe. It will interestingly to see if the new administration’s approval rating changes in a few months.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t thinking turning the government off and then back on again helps the same way it helps fix your Tivo

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

We could live in a much better world if we chose to

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Think about a phone from 20 years ago. Its capabilities are a joke when compared to a modern iPhone. So fast forward 20 years, how will we look back at ChatGPT-4o1 & DeepSeek? What sort of things will future models be capable of? It’s incredibly hard to imagine but you will (likely) live to see it.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

NASA web pages this morning vs this afternoon

submitted 40 days ago • 29 comments

Turning Earth into a giant telescope: arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490 The 'Terrascope' uses our atmosphere as a refractive lens, giving a 1m wide telescope at lunar distance a magnification of 50,000-80,000x!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is a disaster. It feels strange to be living in a nation hell-bent on self-inflicted decay, helpless to do much about it.

submitted 38 days ago • 28 comments

and so began the dark times

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Cool Worlds Podcast #18 Nick Searra - Alien Communication, Golden Record, Future Relics youtu.be/d3U69hlPJsQ

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Sauron needs Gondor for national security reasons.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

My exoplanet predictions for 2025… - someone will claim ambiguous evidence for life (again) - rotational obliquity of an exoplanet measured for first time - lots of white dwarf exoplanet papers

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Being an academic is reading grad school applications on Christmas Day…

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

A question I’ve been thinking about a lot recently… youtu.be/vnl9Xf3wwU0?...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

“Gentle reminder” is the most passive aggressive thing I’ve ever heard

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

How long before journals sell their library of referee reports and responses to AI companies for training models which can end-to-end replicate the research process?

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I think we often forget how profoundly transient the world around us is. Everything you see is a snapshot, a memory that’s already fading.

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

Hung out with Camp Gagnon this morning! www.youtube.com/live/g6KfWbw...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Perhaps I’ve been unlucky but it seems like the peer review process is in a crisis. I have papers in review for >year now & often when we finally got a report it was clear the reviewer hadn’t read the paper properly. I’m also getting inundated with review requests at levels I’ve not seen before.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Do SETI Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem? Yes, yes they do. Paper with @davidkipping.bsky.social accepted! arxiv.org/abs/2407.07097

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

From Wobbles to Worlds - Discovery of The Exoplanet Edge! youtu.be/PJ9c-hpn56o

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

BOOOO NOOOO BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK!!! This image is fake. Let’s not let fake science accounts thrive on Bluesky!!!

submitted 101 days ago • 320 comments

Argentina… www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti...

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Cool visual by NYT on the election results. My assumption prior to the election was that almost no-one who voted for Biden last time would look at Trump’s behaviour and conviction and think “oh actually I’ll flip” but this shows how wrong that was. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Controversial opinion: I don't like the whole starter pack thing over here. I don't favour being fed who to follow by a relatively small number of actors. I'd rather just take the time to curate slowly and carefully again.

submitted 103 days ago • 6 comments

Awesome paper by Daniel Yahalomi just dropped... arxiv.org/abs/2411.09752

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes you stumble across something that you just can’t understand how no one has not noticed it yet.

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Hi BlueSky! I'm a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University where I lead the Cool Worlds Lab, studying exoplanets, exomoons & exolife and sharing our passion for science over YouTube.com/CoolWorldsLab. I post about my team's research, spicy hot takes and whatever's going on in my life.

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Let's see if we can hold two ideas simultaneously: 1. Science is of course "neither red nor blue." It's about understanding nature, not partisan agendas. 2. Science is of course "political." Politics is how we make collective decisions, including concerning science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 107 days ago • 36 comments

Proposals turned into papers on the arXiv... thoughts? If you have a great idea, why post it? Someone else could compete with you next cycle, right? But otherwise, as a reader, it's kind of annoying to see these, I feel like I don't learn much.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

wow what a beautiful Moon tonight

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments