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A satellite re-entering every 3 minutes. Seems fine.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

🍂 What if a black hole born from the merger of two black holes merged with another black hole? We may find out thanks to gravitational waves, such as those observed by the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration in autumn 2024. Let's learn about these signals!

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

The money does not go into space. The money does not go into space. The money does not go into space. Sure, the money helps us in exploring and understanding the universe, but the money actually goes to people, to local economies, to universities, it provides jobs, and gets young people into STEM.

The solution to homeless people is giving them homes.

A few months ago they let me walk around the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex at night. Don't know if it was the desert rain, watching skyscraper-sized antennas swivel to catch signals from beyond Saturn, or just my fillings buzzing from the radio signals, but I had goosebumps all night.

i gotta say one more thing having worked in animation for years now, calling this "animated" is a fucking mortal insult. completely get fucked. animation is a creator thoughtfully and painstakingly giving something life. this is fucking nothing compared to animation

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friendly neighborhood barred attorney telling you to never put your ID on your phone

You can say Merry Protein again

I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them

Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed

Here are the child vaccine recommendations as of November 2024. Keep them with you, advocate for your kids, get the vaccines they need to stay healthy and promote immunity for the whole community. #Health #CDC #vax

Bra om fler kände till!

Nice and cool version of this song!

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

More of this kind of rich person, please.

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Återigen har @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se skrivit dagens viktigaste text (om AI): "Istället för att fokusera på lösningar för att peka ut vad som lurar människor behöver vi framtidssäkra för en befolkning som inte vågar tro på någonting alls. Som inte går att övertyga, ens med riktiga bevis." >

International conventions should not be held in the U.S.

Improvements ahead! A team at STScI recently launched a full suite of enhanced Jupyter Notebooks for scientific analyses with Hubble. The upgrades improve the functionality of the repository, as well as the DrizzlePac software suite: https://bit.ly/3XJAXVh 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

It's easy to forget we live in a future with a fully operating space station with multiple docking ports for various spacecraft. www.space.com/space-explor...

Happy old year

A really nice Astrobites article about our recent discovery of two really interesting black hole binaries observed with @ligo.org and @egovirgo.bsky.social!

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

Game for cool people

Have you ever wanted @astropy.org tutorials on: – spectroscopic data reduction from a raw FITS image, – computing galactic orbits from Gaia measurements, – cross-matching astronomical catalogs? Check out the redesigned learn.astropy.org! Announcement from @numfocus.bsky.social below. 🧪🔭 #astrocode

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110 Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger? ligo.org/science-summ... #O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪

Our next webinar will introduce our latest #GWTC4 release and the associated data (papers arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080 and arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079) Tomorrow at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Free registration wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ☄️🔭

A universal mystery 🪐 Recently published research co-authored by UNLV astrophysicist Carl-Johan Haster gives insight into black holes and fundamental physics. #UniversityResearch #Science #Physics #Astrophysics www.unlv.edu/news/release...

We’re closer to solving dark matter thanks to these black holes! OzGrav PhD student at ANU, Aswathi, was part of the analysis team of the GW241011+GW241110 special event paper. Here she explains how these events helped refine our understanding of dark matter. youtube.com/shorts/wW4yp...

A really nice article in AAS Nova about our article that was published today!

I'm incredibly happy to share the amazing results we in the @ligo.org, @egovirgo.bsky.social, KAGRA collaborations have made public today. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... We are today announcing the observation of two new Binary Black Holes, GW241011 and GW241110.

Two #blackhole mergers, GW241011 & GW241110, detected a month apart in 2024 are helping scientists learn how black holes form, spin & evolve. Researchers from OzGrav & ANU, incl. PhD student Aswathi P Subhash & CI Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun contributed key analysis. www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-bl...

this is the people's ballroom

Stairway to heaven #LIGOHanford

How it feels citing your old papers: (Me et al. 2024b) = "per my last email" (Me et al. 2019) = "told you so!" (Me et al. 2009) = "as the prophesy foretold"

Cosmologists! We have a faculty job going here in Oxford - happy to answer questions. Brief version is that this remains a great & collaborative place to do science and the students are superb. 🔭 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP628/a...

Schweiziska tågbolaget SBB planerar i vår att inleda natttågstrafik mellan Malmö och Basel eller Zürich. Trafiken finansieras av en flygskatt - idén är ju att fler ska ta tåget. Tänk om den svenska regeringen haft liknande visioner. Men det är förstås för mycket begärt av Tidöpartierna.

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

See that small, moving splotch? That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter. A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS last Friday

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Dame Sarah Mullally has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical position. on.ft.com/3Kywkdg