Minas Karamanis
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Astrophysicist and proud cat dad. He/him Blog:
https://ergosphere.blog
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Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
about 2 months ago
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How can this be a real article and not satire? 😳
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Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet. Here's how to prepare | Fortune
Here's how Mayor Mamdani's tax agenda could reach the Teterboro ramp — and which airports, ownership structures, and strategies offer the most protection.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/new-york-private-jet-tax-mamdani-teterboro-port-authority-elevate-aviation/
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Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️🌈
2 days ago
“Speed and volume of code generation are not the same as correctness, security, or verifiability—and in domains where all three are non-negotiable, the calculus looks very different.”
#GenAI
#SoftwareEngineering
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Ron Filipkowski
4 days ago
Pretext for the next war, same as pretexts for the last wars. Some old story, same old song and dance.
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If you use an LLM to help write a paper, you're responsible for the outcome. Obviously. I just doubt that this will applied equally. Junior researchers, minorities, and non-native speakers will be held to a standard that senior names with institutional protection quietly won't be.
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Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/preprint-server-arxiv-will-ban-submitters-of-ai-generated-hallucinations/
6 days ago
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Please sign this. Nottingham's Physics & Astronomy department is one of the best in the UK, and 56 of its staff have just been told their jobs are at risk because university management blew money on vanity projects. If this can happen at Nottingham, it can happen anywhere.
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7 days ago
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Samantha Brennan
9 days ago
Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...
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A Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.
Work at an Indiana University biology lab was halted amid federal scrutiny, affecting dozens of researchers. “The damage is significant and mounting,” the department chair told The Chronicle.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-defended-a-postdoc-who-was-deported-now-his-lab-has-been-suddenly-locked-down
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NY Times Pitchbot
11 days ago
Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
11 days ago
"the data we stole from you to profit off wasn't good, do better"
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Alejandra Caraballo
12 days ago
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
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Catbus
12 days ago
don't worry everyone, chuck is on the job!
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Kat Abughazaleh
13 days ago
Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense:
tinyurl.com/katandre
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"Prestigious fellowship opportunity" is sometimes just a funny way of spelling "networking event for people who already know each other"
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15 days ago
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Alan Richardson
17 days ago
More proof that these guys have got to meet students from places other than Harvard and Yale.
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Alex Hanna
18 days ago
Remember when in 2015 the Boomers were telling us to stop buying avocado toast
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Just finished Schild's Ladder by
@gregegansf.bsky.social
and I think I need to lie down for a while. Ultra hard sci-fi where the physics is the load-bearing wall of the plot. Take the math out and there's no story left.
18 days ago
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
18 days ago
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
19 days ago
remember that dumb time in the aughts when richard dawkins was like, The Smart Guy
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Hank Green
20 days ago
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
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Captured SN2026kid in NGC 5907 (the Splinter Galaxy) last night from my backyard! Only 3 minutes of exposure with my Seestar S50 were enough to pick it up. The core collapse of a massive star about 40 million light-years away, caught with a smart telescope from my driveway. 🧵
22 days ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
23 days ago
CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service
www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/BaltimoreSciFi/posts/10174520520925192/
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paulpro
24 days ago
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Damon Kiesow
24 days ago
Congratulations to the U.S. for building an educational and economic powerhouse envied around the world and then dismantling it because colleges were so bold to give lip service to non-discrimination efforts.
academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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the missing scientists conspiracy is just three body problem for people who didn't read three body problem. if aliens wanted to cripple earth science they would simply continue to defund the NSF. much more efficient than whatever this is supposed to be
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What’s With the Dead or Missing Scientists - NeuroLogica Blog
The latest social media buzz involves a list of scientists who have either died or gone missing over the last three years, with the implication that there must be something nefarious going on. The FBI...
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/whats-with-the-dead-or-missing-scientists/
25 days ago
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
25 days ago
Our brave Stephen Miller is using his pregnant wife as a human shield.
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Dan Garisto
26 days ago
Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.
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Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
https://democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-lofgren-reacts-to-latest-trump-scheme-to-undermine-science
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Not sure who needs this today, but here it is. Mary Oliver, "I Worried"
26 days ago
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Tristan Lee
27 days ago
The greatest threat to journalism right now is the complete normalization of Israel murdering journalists. Authoritarian governments learn from each other: this started in Gaza but will not end there.
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Today we remember the Armenian Genocide, and alongside it, the Pontic Greek and Assyrian genocides carried out by the same hands. My mother's family are Pontic. This history lives in us. Δεν ξεχνώ. We remember.
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27 days ago
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Sarah Tuttle
27 days ago
I'm actually trying to imagine my career if I never sat at dinner or had drinks with creepy men. (To be clear, once I know someone is a creep I try to steer clear. But sometimes you've just got "vibes too late" or someone is... directly in the path.)
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Mark Harris
27 days ago
To be clear: These people want us dead. Erasing us from history makes erasing us from the present easier, because if we don't have a past or a heritage, how real can we possibly be?
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Shannon E French
27 days ago
Well, wonder no more, my friends.
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Gilles Louppe
27 days ago
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Kat Tenbarge
28 days ago
When the president is a heinous abuser, when many of the most popular celebrities are heinous abusers, when the richest people in the world are heinous abusers, when the people developing new technology are heinous abusers, well that’s how you get a culture that incentivizes abuse
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Miranda Yaver
28 days ago
Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.
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and unlike the former, politics provide lots of direct evidence of the latter
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Katie Mack
29 days ago
As a reminder, NASA's entire budget, *including* human spaceflight (which is about half of it), is already less than 0.4% of US federal spending. As a comparison, defense spending, even when NOT actively starting wars, is more than 10% (with a huge increase proposed for FY2027).
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Sean Carroll
about 1 month ago
Cartoonish evil will always be with us. But we must change things so that people like this are typing whiny manifestos to each other, not running the world.
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DrSinBin
about 1 month ago
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Astrobites
about 1 month ago
From Tori Bonidie and Skylar Grayson: The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/04/16/budget-request-fy2027/
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Back to work to save science funding! All you need to know about the FY2027 Budget Request
The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science...
https://astrobites.org/2026/04/16/budget-request-fy2027/
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Adam Conover
about 1 month ago
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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M. T. Anderson
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Kevin Elliott
about 1 month ago
This is what happens at concentration camps
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Emily Hunt
about 1 month ago
It's pretty dumb to see people still going after the bluesky team about yesterday's outage over them using AI for coding, when this had all the signs of a DDOS attack. I also have HUGE concerns about the use of AI in society & software, but shouting at someone for the wrong reason persuades nobody.
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Mar Hicks
about 1 month ago
babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped
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Skye
about 1 month ago
AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”
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Unless someone has a genuine need, they should use public transport more often
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about 1 month ago
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Annalena Kofler
about 1 month ago
I just came across this cool tool: Ranks of Disparity
vis.csh.ac.at/ranks-of-dis...
which explores whether applications to a job or conference were evaluated fairly compared to others from different backgrounds. It nicely illustrates why choosing the best candidates is not fair!
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Ranks of Disparity
An interactive explainer and tool to understand ranking fairness, detect bias, and explore equitable outcomes using examples or your own data.
https://vis.csh.ac.at/ranks-of-disparity/
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