Should #PeerReview in STEM be paid work? I'd think so. I read this blog with fair reasoning. #AcademicSky #Science #EduSky Blog: jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-move... I also found a journal article which tried this exact thing and found benefits: doi.org/10.1257/jep....

Good. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Here's the @archive.org webpage since the official website is down now: web.archive.org/web/20251105... Absolute disgrace.

New #Protomen! I'm so thrilled to post each and every drop until #ActIII is fully out. theprotomen.bandcamp.com/track/hold-o...

This is why I don't trust charter schools to replace public education. The greed and mismanagement without public oversight is horrifying. #AcademicSky #EduSky #Education

It turns out you can order free hard copies of the NRL Plasma Formulary book from the US Navy. www.nrl.navy.mil/News-Media/P... The PDF is also freely available. Making my tax dollars work lol. Though with the shutdown, I don't know if they'll respond. #Physics #Science 🧪⚛️

#TIL the mathematician #Fibonacci (b. 1170) was one of the early promoters of the Indo-Arabic numeral system in Europe in his 13th century book Liber Abaci where he also printed the now famous Fibonacci sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... as a solution to the "rabbit problem." #Science #MathSky 🧪🧮

This City Made Us! #Protomen #Music #RockOpera Act III drops continue with this rerelease of the 2015 EP song. theprotomen.bandcamp.com/track/this-c...

Thanks #Google #AI for giving me some nonsense. #Science #Chemistry 🧪

Now here's an example of one of the more useful applications of #AI and #MachineLearning within #Medicine. AI-assisted doctors are significantly better at detecting breast cancers in women. This kind of usage directly saves people's lives. #Science #MedSky 🧪💊 Source: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I recently gave a presentation on #AI which covered in-part the dangers of over-reliance in #Medicine. While lots of attention is on #Education, with good reason, even experts are at risk of "deskilling." #AcademicSky #Science #MedSky 🧪💊 Source: doi.org/10.1016/s246...

I won't stop #Protomen posting until Act III is fully out and dropped. Calling Out is a great song. #Music #RockOpera youtu.be/z2Wh3hq2EPQ?...

I'm glad my alma mater saw the light and said no. #UArizona #EduSky #AcademicSky

Psst. #Physics peeps. If you irradiate lithium-6 with half MeV deuterium ions, you cause #Fusion of the nuclei into two alpha particles aka helium-4. #Science #NuclearPhysics.

Scientists predominantly use X and LinkedIn for professional scientific networking, but with Bluesky and Mastodon in recent years hoping to break through as alternatives. https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/communities-of-scientists-are-emerging-on-bluesky/ cc: @davidchavalarias #helloquittex […]

More Act III posting. Today's juice is The Storm and Buried in the Red! Continue the new songs #Protomen! #Music #RockOpera #ConceptAlbum.

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!! Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute. Doodle a squid and then show it to me. The world is cruel but squid are good.

Second week of new songs for the #Protomen final album Act III: This City Made Us. I've waited like 16 years for this! No Way Back is an absolute banger. #Music #RockOpera #Rock theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

Do sub-millisecond pulsars exist? “NO” Is that’s a way to start a talk! #Pulsars2025

This is my favorite #Jazz album and my first #Japanese #CD. Flying Beagle, 1987, is by Himiko Kikuchi. The dog's name is Boogie and is absolutely the reason I originally listened to this.

Hmm. 🤔 Enrollment in bachelor's degrees in #Physics seems to have fallen off a cliff in German universities since the pandemic. Anybody know if this trend has reproduced itself in your country or in another STEM field? #EduSky #AcademicSky #Science 🧪⚛️ Source: www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...

TIL that popcorn is an ancient snack with evidence going back to 4,700 BC in Peru via radiocarbon dating. That's potentially older than the potter's wheel! #Science #Archeology #History 🧪 Source: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse (Penrose coordinates) shows how #BlackHoles form with radius (x-axis) & time (y). The star's surface (white) becomes the "antihorizon" of the BH (upper half diamond) with a singularity (cyan). #Physics #Astronomy #Science 🧪🔭⚛️ More info: jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/bh/col...

Excellent ambient from @quietdetails.bsky.social here: quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/monolo... If I were to put it into words, it's wind chimes as you sat in a wooden rocking chair while reading a book on a chilly day.

I'm obsessed with #GUNSHIP right now. gunshipmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tech-n...

What's the best #Science or #Mathematics websites you know? I'm going with #Wikipedia @wikipedia.org. Some honorary shoutouts to: MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com HyperPhysics hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.... Feynman Lectures on #Physics www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

A close-up video of the young Great Blue #Heron that I'm calling Hairy Floofhead. #birds #wildlife

Rest in Peace Jim. You were an inspiration. #NASA #Space #Science #Engineering #Apollo I'll plan on taking a picture of your intended landing site on the #Moon. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...

Tiny black dot on Saturn. Early this morning, I photographed a rather rare astronomical event, a shadow transit of Saturn’s largest moon Titan across its parent planet. This is a composite of two frames. Questar telescope /Olympus camera. Observed from metro Chicago. #astrophotography

The suspension of @teorth.bsky.social and the other #UCLA #NSF grants is unconscionable. Anybody interested in history should read about David Hilbert and "There is no mathematics at Göttingen anymore". #Science #MathSky #Mathematics #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Shame! I was hoping to book a trip to visit K2-18b to visit some aliens. Still a strong signal for liquid water! #Exoplanets #Astronomy #Science #Biology #Exobiology #Space #JWST 🧪🔭🧬 arXiv: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted a faculty position of Academic Professional in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, starting January 2026. #Physics #AcademicSky #GeorgiaTech #EduSky #Science ⚛️🧪🎉🎈🎊🥳

#Crocodilian snout bumps = integumentary sensory organs (ISOs). With 4,000 (American alligators) - 9,000 (Nile crocodiles), each is a dome of touch cells that fire at just 0.08 mN or more sensitive than our fingertips! #Science #HerpSky #Biology See: Leitch & Catania 2012 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

I'm digging the #GitHub style post activity, but for my #BlueSky posts. Thanks @blueskymeter.com! :)

The #CMB spectra temperature fluctuations can be broken down using spherical harmonics e.g. monopole + dipole + quadrupole + etc. Like a bumpy potato, the lower order ℓ-multipoles make large-scale bumps; higher order ℓ make tiny bumps. #Science #Physics #Astronomy🧪⚛️🔭 Source: doi.org/10.1086/513698

3/n 🧵 Here's a zoom in to remember: Phobos over Olympus Full-size (130MP) image & details: flic.kr/p/2rggHKy Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck CC BY 🧪🔭

The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. And crossing in front of it, one of the smallest moons, Phobos. Photographed from Mars orbit. Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck (@andrealuck.bsky.social) CC BY

(1/n) Why do we believe in dark matter when we can't directly see it? The distinction between a "direct" and "indirect" is more a spectrum than a binary. Galaxy rotation is fairly indirect and could be explained by something like modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). #Science #Physics #Astronomy 🧪⚛️🔭🧵

What's your #Science hot take? Mine is that I'd sooner believe the Moon is made of cheese than that there isn't dark matter in our universe. It's so convincing once you learn a little about it. #Astronomy #Physics 🔭⚛️🧪 I adore this website about the #CMB: background.uchicago.edu/~whu/interme...

Uranium ore is mostly U-238 - an isotope with a 4.5-billion-year half-life. The fissile star of the show, U-235, makes up just 0.72% of natural uranium. That tiny fraction? It's what fuels reactors and bombs alike. #Science #Physics #NuclearPhysics #Isotopes Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HE...

Good use of AI: Setting up little shotgun mics and protoboards on trees to record, detect, tag, and visualize bird vocalizations around my house.

Very cool homemade cloud chamber showing the radioactivity of radon gas accumulated from uranium ore and explains why basements should be ventilated. #Physics #Science #Uranium #Radon #Radioactivity

The distinction between "old IBR" (borrowers before 2014 at 15% discretionary income; 25yr forgiveness) and "new IBR" (borrowers after 2014 at 10% discretionary income; 20yr forgiveness) for #StudentLoans is completely nonsensical, cruel and punitive for older borrowers. #AcademicSky #EduSky

The #TopQuark decays too fast to hadronize. Its lifetime (~5×10⁻²⁵ s) is shorter than #QCD timescales (~10⁻²⁴ s). So we see a "bare" quark decay: t → W + b, before confinement. A rare clean look into quark physics. 🧪⚛️ #Science #ParticlePhysics #Physics Image: commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To...

Hey @altmetric.com I have a publication which has managed to generate two different records. Could you have them merged for me? Or point me to who I should bother about it. 🤣 link.altmetric.com/details/1783... link.altmetric.com/details/1688...

#TyrannosaurusRex modeled for the American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org, New York in 1913 and 2020. Notice the original incorrect upright position, tail dragging, and three fingers! We've come a long way in understanding dinosaur anatomy. 🧪🦖 #Dinosaurs #PaleoSky #Fossil #Paleontology #Science

I am always appreciative of ASCII visualizations. Good stuff @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy

I found this utterly charming #Drawing of acanthodians from the Early Devonian (aka early jawed fishes) which were precursors to modern cartilaginous fish and #Sharks. #Evolution #Biology #Science #PaleoSky 🧪🧬🦈 Image Credit: Stanton F. Fink commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Me...

New #Science paper day! 🎉⚛️🧪 We employ the #Physics Standard Model + FLRW #Cosmology to describe the Universe's compositional evolution from #QGP to electron-positron plasma. Rafelski, J., Birrell, J., Grayson, C. et al. Quarks to Cosmos. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2025). doi.org/10.1140/epjs...