A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris:
"[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🤩 woah gorgeous 🙏
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Woah! 10/10🥰
Shaking fists at clouds here, but if it’s clear with you #DoLookUp!
Identical scenes in Edinburgh 😕
🥳 Congratulations Dan!
Wonderful - please give them a huge and enthusiastic high-5 from me!! Clear Skies!
Love this. I always see a Mouse with Taurus - bright nose, two bright eyes, and two sparkly ears :)
Check out this gorgeous sunset/moonset/Venus-set timelapse from last night😍. If you've got clear skies tonight, #DoLookUp! Venus is now below the crescent moon. Taurus is off to the left (looks like a V). The heavenly 7-sisters star cluster (Pleiades) is right below the moon!🧪🔭
ℹ️: stellarium-web.org
h/t to @sciencecentres.bsky.social for their newsletter which pointed me to this fascinating result.
Would you support of oppose a science museum or discovery centre being built in your area? A bar chart showing support comes more from left wing voters than right wing.
Public opinions on new 🏴Scottish science & discovery centres, broken down by voting intentions. Lots of support overall 🥳, but more from the left than the right. Am I surprised? #scicomm 🧪
P.S Check out the 💚 from the @greenparty.org.uk 🤗
ℹ️: www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
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OK youngest (13yo) though it was tremendous. Me, I thought the ratio was a bit high on the dairylea side: tried a quintuple (double chip, dairylea, double chip) which was quite the crumb-fest challenge.... maybe a half dairlylea slice in the future.... decisions decisions 😊
Also it's not yet a promise of extra funding. This is a top-down prioritisation (that I'm sure we all agree with) that ECR funding is our most important cost. But there has been no mention of extra funds, implying even deeper cuts for the projects (Rubin, Simons, ELT, GW etc).
Robin - I salute you! Just sent the youngest up to Scotmid to locate the ingredients..... we just have to try this 👌
Brilliant - a truly wonderful breath of fresh air after all the other doom and gloom news....
Congratulations!!! What a huge success it's already been, and another 3 years is fantastic news!
Oh wow - I love this! Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
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This is too good - I love it 🥰
But now we all want to see the turquoise shark......
Oh bravo - absolutely love this!!!
Big fan of the slinky spring - @astrokatie.com style
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GC8...
👇The latest from RPN on the shake-up of funding at @ukri.org that is leading to ~30% cuts in UK research funding to astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics. Other research areas are now realising that these changes are going to impact their funding too....🧪🔭⚛️
🤷♀️ These are the questions we will be asking! To be honest I doubt they yet know the answer themselves…
For space weather you want @jim-wild.bsky.social
Yes I fear this opens up more questions than it answers....
👆tagging @lucienheurtier.bsky.social @jonbutterworth.bsky.social @si-wills.bsky.social @laurawolz.bsky.social