In case you have missed tonight’s #AuroraBorealis you can watch the #Aurora timelapse from the Kiruna, Sweden all-sky camera here, to start your day with some magical impressions of nature’s beauty ✨ Homepage: www.irf.se/en/forskning... Video: alis.irf.se/allsky/krn/l... #AstroPhotography #NightSky

They hate Web 1.0 so much. Everyone please donate to Wikimedia. It's the only big website that preserved that essence of the free, open web we olds used to love. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.

Reminds me of the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers. alignmentalignment.ai

2nd version of my refraction #sundial: in water. Diagram is set under 4.5cm of water. Where the vertical stick goes through the water surface, water is bent and casts a bright spot on the diagram, marking solar time and the subsolar point on the map (The bead at the top isn't even needed). 🔭 🧪

Nouveau numéro pour le magazine « Cadrans solaires pour tous ». PDF à télécharger gratuitement : 👇 🔭🧪#EduSky #sundial

Lorentz attractor in @desmos.com 3D #iTeachMath www.desmos.com/3d/mnm7duxhew

Cat pool. Because everything is better with cats.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad A new kind of road, starting a century ago or so…

This only happens to you once

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan. This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Yup.

'La Physique Pour les Chats' Out now in French from Editions 2042 and Editions Alto more details at tomgauld.com

It's great to see that the piles of money and enormous amounts of electricity and other resources used to train these models has produced such stunning and useful results. And I'm SUPER glad that google now always shows me this garbage.

SCIENCE !

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory

Like, one thing that is really hard to overstate is that at least for webcomics, we are living in a kind of post-apocalypse where social media successfully ate all the traffic. Instead of being a guide to the internet, made up of many sites, they battled to become The Internet. And they won.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

The more you know... (IG: treehousedetective)

My book comes out in three weeks. www.bloomsbury.com/us/contempor...

Venus touching the Moon. #astronomy #moon #astrophotography

Kelling Heath star party is in full swing. Yay! A last minute thought to try for the lunar occultation of Venus this afternoon. Always fun trying to image in broad daylight! Supported by my buddy Martin, @cityspaceastro.bsky.social I was actually quite pleased how it turned out! 🔭 Details in Alt

Es hat etwas gedauert, aber hier nun endlich die entscheidenden Momente der gestrigen Venusbedeckung durch die schmale Mondsichel 😊🔭

In 2011 I wrote a review of Alan Turing's 1948 paper Intelligent Machinery where he considered the case for embodied intelligence. My review was intended for a 2012 centenary celebration of Turing's birth, but no proceedings were published. So here it is. rodneybrooks.com/alan-turing-...

after extensive wind tunnel testing and analysis, I've concluded that airplane mode is a complete scam. it doesn't change the phone's aerodynamics in the slightest.

#BlueSkyArtShow Hey let’s do #Angles the #Desmos way too! www.desmos.com/calculator/a...

#BlueSkyArtShow A #sundial in the #Paris Jardin des Plantes, where shadow #Angles tell the time. #photography

#BlueSkyArtShow The four towers of Bibliothèque Nationale de France in #Paris, like four books open at right #Angles. #panorama #photography

#BlueSkyArtShow Vaguely related… Measuring the changing elevation #Angles of the sun is a simple way to check whether or not the Earth can be flat. (Scoop: my own measurements happened to match what geometry predicts on a globe, not what would be seen on a #FlatEarth. Is anyone surprised? 😜)

#BlueSkyArtShow This isn’t really arty I’m afraid but… it can be a useful trick for amateur astronomers or other people who want to estimate #Angles between two objects seen from your point of view. Extend your arm, and this diagram tells you what angles are subtended by parts of your hand.

Forecast says it's cloudy all night but it's been clear for the last 4 hours. I didn't set up my rig because of the forecast so here's a phone image. Do you see 3 galaxies here? #astronomy #astrophotography #Galaxy #space

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

More from Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia U., at the Athens #Democracy Forum (2 years ago). Steven Erlanger of the NYT was the moderator. youtu.be/VP_SpW-DyQg

Some tidbits about the most recent 1,000 exoplanets: - Nearly half (~490) were discovered with NASA's TESS mission - As a result, their host stars are nearly *10 times brighter on average* than previous stars! - We have found a lot more cool giant planets (Jupiter analogs), with RV and imaging

3×2=6

Full guide to happiness here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/happin... #smbc

OK this title is absolutely wild, but half way in I've got say I'm kind of digging the paper. At the very least I need to go read Serres. philpapers.org/archive/OTTA...

Trust me, you need a purring kitten.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Philosophy Vampires existentialcomics.com/comic/620

I don't know if you can build ethics out of expected value, but I know that if I'm on a deserted island with someone who DOES think that, I'm running in the opposite direction. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bet PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Making pretty patterns is fun. And it can help you to learn geometry! I made a short video about how to make a snowflake in @desmos.com Geometry. Comments and suggestions welcome! #iTeachMath ❄️ www.youtube.com/shorts/EI1RN...

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

Cassini's final full view of Saturn 🪐 a mosaic comprising 11 color-composites captured by the spacecraft in visible light filters on September 13, 2017. The following day it dove into Saturn's atmosphere, ending its mission after 13 years in orbit.