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eyes *are

This is one area where human eyes beyond the capabilities of AI alone. The goal is to create a virtuous circle between human pattern recognition and machine learning classifying, with each learning off the other. And I love how the effects of dark matter are so beautifully visible 🔭🧪

People been talking about Rejoin again and whether joining the euro would be a good thing or not, presuming that we might either have to, or a campaign would have to presume that we would, even if some kind of Swedish waiting room reality was possible, or even less likely, another opt out.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

I caught this yesterday while driving to work, and it's a lovely item. Tagging the 🔭🧪 feeds because Lucy's new book Up will surely be of interest to astronomers and to scientists in general

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Yup. The UK Home Office is a basket case. The unlawful ban on Palestine Action, with pensioners being arrested under anti-terrorism legislation, is just insane. What on Earth are the HO doing appealing it. And the Cass review, FFS. Sweeting, Mahmoud, McSweeney et al have done so much damage

Some of it's populist polemical half-truthful press articles whipping people into a frenzy. And that can happen anywhere

OU position: academics "remain free to use terminology they judge to be academically appropriate, in line with their professional expertise." Also ‘Ancient Palestine’ has not been prohibited in teaching and is still used. This petition is weird. I don't know about the BAE thing though.

Ah there’s a separate exoplanet definition. I’m sure it’s all tremendously useful

(Factual but tongue firmly in cheek btw :)

You'd think so, but that's not in the minor planet definition... Although to be fair it does also require "is in orbit around the Sun". But unless we take that to mean "solar system barycentre" then it would mean there are zero planets in the solar system.

Coffee time 🔭🧪 conversation:
- The Sun is orbiting around the solar system barycentre
- The solar system barycentre wanders in and out of the Sun's surface (Jupiter & Saturn are really quite massive)
- Therefore the Sun has not cleared its orbit
- Therefore the Sun is a minor planet

Ah good idea but unfortunately it's for my institutional email so I don't have that option :/

a man is saying cast it into the fire Alt: Elrond, played by Hugo Weaving, saying "cast it into the fire"

I've given up trying to turn off @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social from Outlook web, which keeps reverting my choice, so time for #AdblockPlus Block Element

What do we want? Clickbait!

When do we want it? The answer will shock you!

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Lady farting a rainbow

Love finds you when you're ready ❤️

US Astronaut Christina Koch using an experiment facility on board the ISS

Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

#Artemis websites I am watching today:
Main commentated broadcast:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...
Uncommentated feed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rwf...
Flickr photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Telemetry feed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtZ...
Amateur-produced live timeline:
x37b.nl/artemis/

Finally some clarity on the #STFC budget: it's falling in real terms as UKRI spending rises. A conscious decision has been made to decrease UK funding for fundamental physics, despite all the evidence that our blue skies research is key for economic growth.

Thank you @resprofnews.bsky.social!

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

That’s not what those emails say, or imply

It’s ‘just’ some of the most horrible men on the planet talking to and about each other

I’d easily believe a compromised position but this isn’t evidence for it

Amateur astronomers with telescopes equipped with video cameras are requested to look for impact flashes on the Moon tonight, to coordinate with #ArtemisII observations. Details here: www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash

Are we *sure* the FIFA Peace Prize went to the right person?

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

This is why the 25th Amendment exists.

This is the purpose of having the 25th Amendment.

To not use this power to remove the president is not a passive act, a mere option: it is a positive decision to misuse the constitution.

“Low-cost medical, dental, and pharmacy plans” though