Red Storm Bravo Rising.

I am an astronomer and I approve this message 🔭☀️

Nice result by Farhad Yusef-Zadeh et al. Although "surprising" is a strong word, given that we have known most of this (flares vs. quiescent state, flares every few hours, orbiting hotspot) for about 20 years. 🧪🔭 #astrosci

"... large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering ..." 🧪🤖 #AI

Provisions the authors of the German constitution of 1949 included for reasons. Today: freedom of the arts and the sciences.

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

After the storm. ⛅️

Not only by dog standards. Else than some humans I happen to know, he at least knows how to organize a manuscript. 😏

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

Erfolglos fahnden deutsche Polizisten seit Jahren nach dem mutmaßlichen Wirecard-Milliardenbetrüger und Agenten Jan Marsalek. Jetzt hat ein Rechercheteam um den SPIEGEL ihn in Moskau enttarnt.

Groundbreaking new image! The EHT reveals the dynamic environment around black hole M87*. The 2021 image shows a distinct shift in polarization patterns, tracing changes in magnetic fields near the event horizon. eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

Check out our new results on the M87* #blackhole w/ @ehtelescope.bsky.social ! We now have 3 frames in a 4yr "movie", including polarisation ⇔ magnetic fields. It's like tracking extreme sunspots just outside a black hole, the brightness and fields flip, yet the shape stays the same bc...gravity!

Yes. #Linux

Well, I have experienced quite a few NFRs myself ...

Today I learned, from an H. P. Lovecraft story of all places, that the word "Eskimo" was originally (also) spelled the French way. ❄️

If I get this right, in August the market share of – #Windows10 increased – #Windows11 decreased 🤔 Maybe everybody should switch to #Linux already.

"... evidence is piling up that AI is failing to deliver in the real world. The tech giants pouring the most money into AI are nowhere close to recouping their investments. Research suggests that the companies trying to incorporate AI have seen virtually no impact on their bottom line." 🧪🤖

보안 키보드, 보안을 해치고 있습니다 1. 한국 인터넷의 흔한 풍경, 보안 키보드 은행이나 공공기관 사이트에서 로그인하려고 하면 어김없이 등장하는 것이 바로 보안 키보드입니다. 키로깅을 막는다는 명목으로 화면에 뜨는 가상 키패드죠. 사용자는 마우스나 터치로 일일이 클릭해 아이디와 비밀번호를 입력해야 합니다. 표면적으로는 안전을 위한 장치처럼 보이지만, 실제로는 시대에 뒤떨어진 낡은 보안 방식에 불과합니다. 2. 불편만 크고 보안 효과는 미미합니다 현대 브라우저와 운영체제는 이미 키로깅 방어 기능을 상당 부분 갖추고 있습니다.

Gentle reminder: "getting hacked" sometimes means you forgot to lock the door to begin with. Also, shooting the messenger is always a terrible idea. 🧪🤖

The Path

It's paper day! 🧪🔭 Our latest paper investigates galaxy merger rates and their environmental dependence at z<0.2 using high-resolution Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) data. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...

한국의 eSIM 정책 문제점 분석 서론 해외에서는 새 기기를 켜고 액티베이션 마법사만 따라가면 eSIM이 자동으로 이전되는 경험이 보편화되어 있습니다. 반면 한국은 여전히 IMEI/EID 전산 등록과 재다운로드 수수료(2,750원)가 당연한 절차로 남아 있습니다. 저는 이 구조가 보안 명분을 앞세운 과도한 통제이며, 결과적으로 소비자에게 비용과 불편을 전가한다고 판단합니다. 1) 자동 이전이 ‘가능한 기술’인데, 왜 한국에서는 막혀 있습니까 애플은 공식 문서에서 eSIM Quick Transfer/Carrier…

#Summer ☀️

#Merdeka 🇲🇾

Sabbatical year is over 🫩

Was ſagt ſie uns für Unſinn vor? Es wird mir gleich der Kopf zerbrechen. Mich dünkt, ich hör’ ein ganzes Chor Von hundert tauſend Narren ſprechen. What nonsense is she telling us? My head is about to blow. I think I hear a whole choir of a hundred thousand fools speaking. — Goethe

Regular reminder: renewable energy, generated at scale, is cheap beyond compare. 🧪☀️

Better idea: go to Malaysia and order a Kopi Gao. ☕️

Vega-C would be a great candidate for a mass-production launcher. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have considered the possibility 😒 🛰️🚀🧑‍🚀

Today I learned that certain deep-sea sponges live long enough to track Earth's climate over time. 🧪

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🛰️ Four laser links and a cat? ESA has wrapped up its interplanetary optical communication campaign with NASA's Psyche spacecraft. The successful campaign demonstrates Europe's readiness to support the future of high data rate, deep space optical communication. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Today on interstellar comet ☄️ 3I/ATLAS, this time from our team with ESO's VLT: the coma shows rich atomic nickel! This entirely natural metal emission from grains was only recently (last 4 yrs) identified in Solar System comets, was in 2I/Borisov, & now in 3I. 🔭🧪 Rahatgaonkar et al, ApJL submitted

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SPHEREx Discovers Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in Interstellar Object 3I-ATLAS spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla... #SPHEREx #3IATLAS 🧪🔭

I've said for a long time that Korean students are the true heirs of the Viennese coffee house intellectuals. ☕️

The government set next year’s national research and development (R&D) budget at 35.3 trillion won ($25.3 billion), a 19.3 percent increase from this year and the largest allocation ever, in the first such proposal under the Lee Jae Myung administration. buff.ly/HiZv3Ur

Talking space-VLBI – specifically, our #CapellaVLBI mission proposal – in our annual department workshop. Fun as always! 🧪🔭🛰️🚀

Here's the official e-telegram announcing the newly-discovered moon of the planet Uranus, found by a team using JWST 🔭 . Its temporary name is S/2025 U 1, and it will eventually get a Shakespearean name (as is the convention for uranian moons). Circular orbit so likely a natural satellite.

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The work of Hanbury Brown, Twiss, Little, et al. was an amazing sequence of discoveries indeed. 🧪🔭

Regular reminder: "getting hacked" usually means "somebody got your password". 🤖

Happy Liberation Day / 광복절! 🇰🇷

Cute. And surprisingly accurate. 🔭

"The problem is so widespread that the publication of fraudulent science is outpacing the growth rate of legitimate scientific publications." 🧪😬

Bye bye, @eumetsat.int's Metop-SG-A1 and Copernicus Sentinel-5A! It was a pleasure taking you to space. Your journey of scientific discoveries starts now. Over and out, @esaearth.esa.int 🫳🎤 📸 @esa.int - P. Carril

Seoul really should encourage employers to let their staff work from home. (Yes, that's only possible for white collar workers, but reduces traffic and makes commuting a bit easier for those who cannot avoid it.) 🚍

Everyone should read @astrowright.bsky.social posts on Avi Loeb and the 3I/Atlas is a spaceship thang. As always Jason cuts to the core with details. It's an interstellar comet folks... that's cool enough (and I work in the "looking for aliens" field). sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

"Es ist jedenfalls zu begrüßen, dass Menschen agieren, experimentieren und Lösungen suchen, statt ständig die Hände zu ringen und an Widerständen zu verzweifeln" 💯

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management. medium.com/@steve.desch...