The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.

🔭 #planetsci

I need to explore more of central & eastern Europe now I'm in Austria, but this sure looks a lot more filled in than before my PhD!

A new investigation from @globalwitness.org has found that AI chatbots are sharing climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation, and are most likely to push this content to conspiratorial user personas.

America began as an experiment in displacing indigenous people with violence, and Greenland is one of the few places in North America where that didn't happen: 90% of the population is of indigenous descent, higher than almost anywhere else in North America. It would be *awful* if the US invades.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

timeline cleanse

IPAC has landed in the desert 🏜️ Come say hello to your favorite science and data center in the expo hall at #AAS247 in Phoenix, AZ! @aas.org @press.aas.org 🔭

At the AAS meeting this week? Find Kyle if you'd like to get some free sticker swag for your laptop! 🔭☄️

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

Vienna has a lively astronomy department - consider applying to the below if you'd be interested in a four year (!!) position here: 🔭☄️

It's always just about oil in the end

CNN just pointed it out, but since no one has posted it yet, I'll be that guy. Here's today's round of Kill Your Inner Mercator: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Venezuela in a way your brain can handle

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Britain and the EU need to bite the bullet and start talking about America no differently to Russia or China

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

@bot.astronomy.blue joke please

Going to be at the AAS meeting in Phoenix next week? Find me (or visit my poster on Monday) to pick up an AstroSky Ecosystem sticker! Send your friends too.

where did 2025 go how is it already over 😅

Yes, my wedding has a website Yes, I have also included modelling of the expected temperature on the day Yes, I did this by fitting a Bayesian model to 45 years of temperature data Yes, the wedding website has an easter egg with a little link to find a writeup of how I got the numbers

I've started to see arguments that we have to get used to AI Slop coding even if it isn't great, because it's fast. Humans could go faster, too, if they're allowed to turn in stuff that only sometimes works. Such a fascinating double standard that will in no way come back to haunt, naw.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Meanwhile, every morning for my commute I step onto a metro train that: - runs every 3 minutes - carries nearly 1000 people at a time - is fully electric - costs €1 / a day for unlimited citywide transit on buses, trams, or trains - has nearly 100% reliability Oh, and it has automatic doors. 😇

I *was* excited to make a twenty ingredient vegan sausage roll pastry thing this Christmas, but instead I'm now excited that I was finally able to eat a 'proper' meal (pasta with butter lol). Getting ill at Christmas is one thing, but also losing your appetite completely?? Eurghhh

Ok, look, planetary scientist here. The likelihood that college grads will be “exploring the solar system” in 10 years is 100% dependent upon what happens to the budgets ar NASA, NSF, amd other science agencies today, and even in the very best cases they’ll be doing it while here on Earth.

Sighhh, we are both way too ill to travel (and don't want to infect parents) so have cancelled our Christmas plans. Currently suspecting that we both caught COVID. Shout-out to anyone else who managed to get ill on the worst day of the year to get ill 😅 bonus points if your partner is also ill too!

Announcing atproto.science! #ATproto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing research, so we started @atproto.science to help bring together researchers, build community, and explore what's possible when science meets cutting-edge open social network protocols! 🧪 >

I saved up all of my vacation days for Christmas, and now on the first day of said vacation I'm ill 🫠 My partner caught something on one of her last days at work, which I caught. So now we both get to be ill over Christmas 🫠

This is a really amazing opportunity for astronomy students! 🔭☄️ It's always also very oversubscribed, so make sure to apply to a few things if you want to do a summer research internship

The first data from NASA's SPHEREx mission are out! Check out this video, showing the entire sky in infrared light. The Milky Way runs as a band across the center. Each frame shows a different infrared wavelength, with light from stars, hot gas, and cosmic dust. 🔭🧪 www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-s...

The first SPHEREx full-sky images are out! This is an awesome new mission that's super under-rated. It has a really interesting way to take data in 100 different colours 🔭☄️

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

Ever wondered how many bins to choose when making a histogram of data? The answer is that you shouldn't choose a number of bins yourself! ☄️ #astrocode Here's a little notebook explaining how to make less biased histograms:

Microsoft made an ad for Copilot that's so misleading it might as well be lawsuit material Fantastic article where the writer proves that it can't do ANYTHING shown in the ad - including videos of it not working 👀

But like wtf is that mix of black and silver, just pick a colour my guy

I wish Framework laptops came in black, I think that silver laptops are often kinda ugly 😅

The next tool from astral.sh just came out - a fast Python type checker (that's also less harsh than some other options.) I'm really excited to try ty on my code - I absolutely despise Pyright/Pylance in VS Code, and am excited to have a fast alternative.

Expansive near-infrared views of the Milky Way taken by #NASARoman are now formally defined and the planning is underway. Learn about all the science that will be made possible by Roman’s Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey: bit.ly/4aU4Mdq 🔭☄️

8:50am and I am already on my third cup of tea I think I am ready for Christmas break 😅

Incredible that we live in a world where the President of the United States freely gloats about the deaths of political adversaries, yet when RandomBlueskyUser952 writes that [redacted] was a [redacted]-hole they get permabanned and lose their job

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

New paper led by Fabian Polnitzcky & with @sratzenboeck.bsky.social + @joaoalves.bsky.social: based on the ages of stars with infrared excess in Sco-Cen, it seems planet-forming disks last around twice as long as previous estimates suggest - giving twice as long for planets to form. 🔭☄️ #exoplanets

Mind-blowing new paper just out! 🧪 A research team used #Gaia to create the most detailed 3D census to date of OB associations within ~1000 ly from the Sun. Result? 🔭 57 groups of massive stars — twice as many as we knew before — that were born together and are now slowly drifting apart. 1/4

The collaborative features in @zed.dev outlined in this blog post just sound shockingly good and innovative. Once Zed has Jupyter notebook support it will be my main IDE. It's so much nicer than VS Code - less bloat, more stable, and super fast.

A really cool new paper by @alexis-space.bsky.social just dropped! 🔭☄️ OB associations have been written about for centuries - but thanks to data from @esa.int's Gaia satellite, we can now make increasingly better maps of them in 3D.

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