Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

I got a chuckle out of it. Hope you do too. arxiv.org/abs/2603.29964

arxiv.org/abs/2603.29700 🔭 🧪

AI privileges product over process. In art and writing, process is the work that develops our ideas and is what creates the human connection across space and time. AI robs us of process and connection. The current model for AI is theft all the way down: our work, intelligence, growth, & humanity.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

The Times They Are A-Changin' #bobdylan www.nme.com/news/music/b...

To produce and preserve knowledge in the pursuit of truth. Et docere et rerum exquirere causas. To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.

Paying for the Open Journal of Astrophysics Everything is going well at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won't be sustainable in the long run, either, if we…

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

Saw a "masculinity expert" on Twitter describe the typical male marathon runner's body as "low T" and thus should be avoided. But this was exactly the physique of a 28-year-old Gary Cooper in the 1929 film "Wolf Song." Like Brando, Cooper also represented a form of ideal 20th century masculinity.

Vuelvo a subir esta imagen sin ningún tipo de contexto para que sea compartida por aquí todas las veces que queráis.

Dude why are you trying to argue this with a seismologist?

I wasn't prepared for how much universities operate like corporations, and how that economic mindset trickles down to colleges and departments My classes in 2019 were capped at 48 students. By 2025, minimum class size was raised to 150 - more economical than filling tenure track faculty positions

NEW on Wonkhe: Universities serve purposes beyond market demands. Jim Dickinson asks if the pendulum between planning and markets is about to swing back - and what that should mean to protect student interests bit.ly/3XDc1z6

amazing

There is also an undercurrent of, "Well, Silicon Valley has decreed that the future is a bunch of jobs no one sane would want, because the robots will have the meaningful jobs, but it's the only jobs there will be, so we have to prepare everyone to do the only jobs we've decided there will be."

Wavy undular bore clouds propagate along a front advancing south through Texas.

Not only is ai absolute garbage but it’s also an important skill to learn where and how to get your references from, that work for you, your art and your voice I like to take random pics when I’m out This little photo gives so much! Amazing fence Solid cloud and light Random clutter

Filmed at Linggi anchorage by Belgian crew

Today’s 22° halo around the sun.

The #moon is today three days old. Still with plenty of #earthshine (aka the Da Vinci glow). 🔭 🧪 #AstroPhotography

Did you know what causes Ice Ages? It is the Earth’s orbital cycles, known since Milanković computed them in the 1920s. When you drive a climate model with these cycles, it will correctly reproduce the sequence of Ice Ages as we know it from paleoclimate data. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

The people who want college to be manageable, affordable, full of mental health resources, and a valuable learning environment are the exact same people trying to keep LLMs out of it. It's the same goal.

Today is the official first day of spring (in the N. Hemisphere). We passed the equinox on March 20 at 2:46pm (UTC). (Figure: Cosmografia, 1544 – Sebastian Münster).

Good to be doing solar again. My processing is very rusty and I'm now trying to replicate my old Photoshop workflow using Affinity. Finding this tricky and needs more work to get what I'm after, but ive lots more data from yesterday morning to play with 🙂 🔭

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🚨 HELIOPHYSICS ALERT 🚨 Steel yourselves, #heliophysics friends. [1/7] #NASA has shared its budget guidelines for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It's bad. Here's what we're being asked to propose to in our upcoming Senior Review:

There's a genre of post on here which I find a little puzzling --- people complaining about not being able to have a "civil" or "nuanced" conversation about "AI" because they get piled on by the haters. A short 🧵>>

A while ago, I started playing around with some world building for a fictional setting. The obvious place to start was with astronomy. I thought I'd share some of that on the blog. 🔭 jrekier.github.io/bit-blog/pos...

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

"he'd be dead by June"

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

Bumblebee queen learns how to use protective door in less than 24 hours

🚨Paper alert🚨 In our new study, we show how internal waves shape the seafloor and affect sediment distribution and resuspension. Check it out here in open access 👇 doi.org/10.1002/esp....

The plot of this ep is the Enterprise computer said Kirk killed a man by jettisoning prematurely even with a visual record, and its been taken at face value, but everyone is just believing the machine because its a machine, and that is insanely relevant now as it was probably hypothetically then lol

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014)

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

Though it is a sign of the apocalypse etc. that ragebait recipes are a functional marketing strategy in our society.

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

Episode 43 of the Kilauea eruption is a BEAST. They just zoomed out and uhhh this may be on its way to setting a record for tallest lava fountains. What on Earth. 😍🌋 Cam 2 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

One of These Sunspots (Is Not Like the Others)

A reminder from Simone de Beauvoir on International Women’s Day.

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue. I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe. They also didn’t pay cover 🖕