“South Korea's air force suspended the wingman pilot, who has since left the military to work for a commercial airline.”
We’re supposed to feel better about this?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Will community air monitoring bring 'Cancer Alley' cleaner air?
Armed with sensors and real-time data, community groups further their fight against dangerous air pollution in Louisiana.
Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/...
#chemsky 🧪
Photo of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory brick building. An L and G have been pasted over the N and M, making the sign say Astrology instead of Astronomy.
#AprilFools Still the best prank our summer students have ever pulled. 😅 This photo is not edited - the students physically placed an "L" and "G" on the NRAO building!
#Astronomy #Astrology #NRAO #RadioAstro
“Germany's new defence spend target is 5% of its GDP….But still those spends fall short of Russia's, estimated 7.1% on its military in 2024.”
BBC not able to do arithmetic. German GDP is more than twice Russia’s. Germany outspending Russia on defence in absolute terms.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Photo of a flap on an airplane at landing with a clear imprint of a shoe
Fairly sure there shouldn’t be a boot mark on the flaps
Forensics: National Academies of Sciences says no to political demands it remove climate info. 🧪
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
— Read on arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/
Good for starmer.
A mother polar bear and its three cubs sleeping on the ground. The mother is laying sideways and two of the cubs are resting in her body. Another cub is resting sideways next to them. By Christopher Paetkau.
A young lynx throwing a rodent in the air. Its standing on its back legs, one front leg in the air. It has its mouth slightly open. By Josef Stefan.
Time is ticking! There isn’t much time left to vote for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award. 📸🥇
Discover the images selected and vote until 18 March: brnw.ch/21x0HTQ
What’s the difference between horns and antlers? 🫎
If you didn’t know there was one, you’re in good company (at least with our social media team…) 👀
Find out what horns and antlers are made of, who has them and how they differ in this week’s Surprising Science!
WATCH: Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
In January, we asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to Ariana tell her story:
📽️ @joannashan.bsky.social
NYT Magazine Crossword puzzle today, 94 down, “alternative to X”
Friends, our website for 40 year olds has arrived!!!
Bezos is supporting the antiscience regime including via censoring science in WaPo coverage. please buy from a local vendor. Or find it used on ebay. 🧪🔬🌏🔭 #StandUpForScience #GrabYourWallet
We reinvest back into our journals through our expert Editorial Office, ensuring a high-quality peer review process. Additionally, we promote authors’ work & showcase the research we publish through blogs, online lectures & in-person events, making science accessible to all (3/4). 🌍🧪
Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍
The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)
This is important!
A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%
🧪 #policy #education
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We are in agreement. I only note that the advice found is conflicting.
Would it then be “the data doesn’t…”
Hmm
www.britannica.com/dictionary/e...
A plural verb should be used with "data" in formal and technical writing such as in scientific writing.
The data are being recorded.
So then, in formal, academic, or scientific writing you should write "the data don't indicate…"
Paper newspaper with author on the cover for her research
Check out the front page today for our local paper, Eugene’s own Register-Guard!!! 🤩
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'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.'
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Evolution over 25 years of SN 1987A at 9 GHZ, showing it growing bigger and w more details over time
Detail of SN 1987A w scale and beam size (resolution)
Happy s39th birthday to SN 1987A- the closest to us since the invention of the telescope! 🥳
Always a good excuse to share my cross stitch evolution over time in radio of SN1987A. Everything is to the correct scale etc bc cross stitch is the original pixel art.
🔭🧪 #sciart
New temperature record in Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Trump’s crackdown on environmental defenders and peaceful protestors - targeting groups like XR with FBI investigations - should concern us all.
Trump will stop at nothing to appease the billionaire polluters that helped get him elected. 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It will be trivial to find LLM experts, possibly even LLM LLMers. The valuable astronomer will be the one who thinks outside the LLM box. The one educated to think astronomy as opposed to do astronomy. The doers will be 10/$ The saturation/dilution of knowledge problem is the one that concerns me.
It is always the case that the generation of people who can use the new tools appear to do better/output more, until they become the majority at which point the quality matters. The challenge of being closed loop on LLMs is the quality is no longer assessed. Thus the saturation effect.
Even aside from how do deal with LLMs, he has collected a dense set of pretty deep observations on astronomy and the astronomical community.
"Every person is a human being, whose personal development is more important than our short-term scientific accomplishments" - and more bangers in this from David Hogg (spoiler: it's about AI!) arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181 🔭
Hello everyone!
I interviewed Assist. Prof. Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf from Michigan State University recently. He has a quite intriguing career with graduate works, observatories, supernovae, and also computational metascience. Check it out >>
youtu.be/6kq09EICVZk?...
#astrosci
