Super excited that we @the new German centre of astrophysics have become major partners of the wonderful optical facility the Zwicky Transient Facility! With @DESY & @AIP. www.ztf.caltech.edu/new/dza-join...
"I am most concerned about how the power of AI could be abused"
'Godfather' of artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio, tells #Newsnight of his fear of "a world where the decisions are taken by a few CEOs"
Governments must act now to manage AI for the public good
We reject claims that governments cannot or should not regulate AI: because technology moves too quickly, because companies will regulate themselves, because geopolitical competition matters more than public safety. These narratives are all misleading.
CALL TO ACTION | Governments must act now to manage AI for the public good
Elders and leading Artificial Intelligence experts urge governments to tackle escalating AI risks to ensure technology serves humanity, rather than endangering it.
Read in full: theelders.org/news/governm...
Meme says I don't want a city on mars I don't want AI in every app I don't want date centers in space I want clean water I want affordable healthcare And I want bees to survive It shows snoopy fishing and dreaming of the day ;-)
Life is actually pretty simple
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
HT National Academies of Science, Engineering and medicine
Why are we as astronomers in 2026 still orbiting billionaire “courts”? When even Nobel laureates turn up to these events, what message are we sending about our field?
Children in Lebanon are experiencing devastating mental and emotional exhaustion.
UNICEF and partners are responding to the needs of children on the move, in shelters and in hard-to-reach areas, but what children need is an end to hostilities.
Civilians in Lebanon are already paying an unbearable price with children, health workers and journalists amongst those killed – the latest attacks will only escalate this devastating human toll.
https://bit.ly/3OfrTWV
Bernie Sanders on Lebanon
#ethniccleansing #landgrab #warcrimes #Netanyahuisawarcriminal
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Article III of the Genocide Convention makes it clear that not only the person who issues the genocidal order is guilty. Genocide itself is of course a crime, where genocide means the intent that Trump expressed, and actions such as killing members of a group, causing members of a group serious harm, or “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” -- which would of course include actions such as destroying access to energy or water. But also defined as a crime are conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, attempts to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide.
"The reason we have a notion of genocide, and a convention on genocide, is to define certain actions as always and definitively wrong" - Timothy Snyder, "the President speaks genocide"
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2
Sharif University was also a center of anti-regime protests.
A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"
It's a good day to remind everyone that you should live your life so that Ronan Farrow never has a reason to write a story about you.
We live in an economic system that needs to expand and endlessly consume and the current space program is part of that story. spacenews.com/the-lunar-mi...
Trump Truth Social post
Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization.
Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do?
Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.
You’ll want to read Moriba Jah’s op-ed in @nature.com on “the wreckage of ambition without accountability” - how not to screw up the Moon
#ArtemisIi 🧪🔭
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Work! Come join us!
"Staff Scientist, AI and Machine Learning in Physics" in the newly formed AI-group at @nikhef.bsky.social
inspirehep.net/jobs/3136923
Congratulations to second-year DPhil student Mitchell Yzer on his highlight talk at UKExom! He gave an amazing overview of how to detect technosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres using the ELT! Lots more exciting work to come out of his research!
Oh that is awful, I am so sorry, after so much work by so many people.
The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review.
What are we going to do?
I find it horrific that everyone on this site is swooning over Artemis when Pete Hegseth is talking about bombing Iran to Stone Age. It is like living in an alternate universe.
What value this mission provides:
-- PR for Lockheed Martin, whose weapons have been used for the genocide in Gaza
-- Learning how to fly to the moon in this way
-- Preparing for a future mission to land on the moon
-- Advancing prep for commercialization and militarization of space
-- PR for US
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was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please
Photo of trans flag with text on flag which reads, “There are trans people here.”
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Solidarity today and everyday with trans and non-binary folk who claim space unapologetically. As governments turn trans visibility into a matter of “ideology,” we must refuse to see trans lives as a debate and instead nurture trans joy, safety, and belonging.
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
Yes! We would love to see you and the growing family. So thrilled and delighted for you all ❤️ enjoy this magical time!l
