iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 17/09/2026

We're #hiring for postdoctoral research positions at our Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA)! Come do independent research in areas that have strong synergy with CCA or other Flatiron Institute centers. Applications due by October 31st: bit.ly/4iya02C #science #astrophysics

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 15/09/2026

me: ... clod: footgun footgun footgun footgun footgun

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 14/09/2026

Two more days to register for the Gaia Relay! (register by end of September 16)

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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Rolando Valdés Aguilar @rvathz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This should be a scandal. Mathematicians (and scientists in general) should stop using these tools just because it seems from this story that these companies are reaching into people's projects and getting ideas for things to work on to then claim credit.

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sam @samthielman.com · 08/09/2026

this is A. outrageous and despicable behavior by the worst people alive and B. appears to be merely incidental news in a giant breakthrough in mathematics cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

Two proposals were offered to me. The first was that we post our Euler result, and that OpenAI post its Navier-Stokes result the next day. The second was that, after posting Euler, I alone write a paper presenting the Navier-Stokes result, acknowledging that an internal OpenAI model had resolved it. Sebastien twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the "closest
humans to the problem". I declined both offers. I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, "Why would you ruin your career?" I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. The reply was, "If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't
have to be nice." Some time later Levent received a text proposing that he and Sebastien speak one on one, saying, "I don't know if Tristan is being fully rational right now." Levent declined and said conversations should be with me. Sebastien sent
a follow-up email that night requesting to speak with me on Monday, September

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 18/08/2026

Gaia DR4 @esa.int is on Dec 2 🎉 Introducing...The Gaia Relay, coming to a town near you* Dec 1–4 at @flatironinstitute.org Dec 7–11 at @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social Dec 14–18 in @monashastro.bsky.social gaia.lol (*NYC, SB, or Melbourne; otherwise you have to host a meeting!) Are we unhinged? Yes! 🔭

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this episode, we discuss the fact that a globular cluster stream has finally been found in an external galaxy 🤩 it's not just pretty, it also lets us measure the halo mass of the galaxy. Tune in on starxiv.com to hear more 🔭🧪☄️

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 18/08/2026

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Gaia Sprints

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 14/08/2026

first day in 4 months with no meetings and I don't know what to do with all of this time 👀

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 20/07/2026

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 17/07/2026

also relevant: even with the best models, software dev through LLMs can feel like this. but often the nonsensical sandwich cuts are buried _deep_ in the generated code or overall design! www.youtube.com/watch?v=83cD...

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Me VS ChatGPT

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 17/07/2026

some good advice in this thread!

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Denis Erkal @derkal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Interested in a 3 year postdoc working on stellar streams and dark matter? Come join our amazing Astro group in Surrey to work with me and Eugene Vasiliev. Details here and the deadline is July 30th. Let me know if you have any questions! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... 🧪🔭☄️

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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research Fellow in Stellar Streams

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ours...

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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 06/07/2026

Beloved Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus to reopen in Bushwick gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

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Beloved Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus to reopen in Bushwick

The Greenpoint venue closed in 2024.

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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

what if they fought back against republicans instead

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 23/06/2026

whoa - the JWST CMDs of globular clusters in this paper are ridiculous!! arxiv.org/abs/2606.20979

Color-magnitude diagrams of six globular clusters with extremely good photometric precision, which show split and multiple populations.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

THE ULTIMATE SANDBOX (1984) Acrylic on Canvas - 15” x 24” A whimsical portrait of my daughter Alexa that remains one of my all-time most popular images—and a personal favorite! 1/2

With plastic shovel in hand, a 4 year old girl in spacesuit packs a bucket with regolith as she builds sandcastles on the moon. The half-shadowed, cloud-covered orb of the Earth looms in the background starscape. The accents on her spacesuit are pink, and her pack sports a purple monogrammed letter A. Miss Piggy patches decorate her boot and shoulder.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 03/06/2026

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

AF: We could spend the whole of the rest of the day talking about AI but sometimes we need focus…

CD: Oh God, must we?

AF: We must, we must and while we decided to focus on this idea of a crisis of control, do you think that there is one?

CD: I think AI is the money-losing-est thing the human race has ever done, I think it's grossly oversold and I think that the capital markets have lost their minds because of the confluence of large tech monopolies that have saturated their markets and need to convince investors that they can keep growing despite the fact that they have 90% market shares and the fact that they have a large customer base of bosses who are just infinitely excited at the prospect of firing mouthy workers who know how to do things that they don't know how to do and replacing them with software that compliantly does whatever it's told.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

news.chanda.science

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

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zoë hackshaw @theastrozo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Did you know that stars have fingerprints? To help you search for them (aka to view how different types of stars have characteristically different spectra in the Gaia RVS region) I created this visualization below, best viewed on desktop! zoehackshaw.github.io/kiel_explore... Happy exploring! 🧪🔭

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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

PROPHECY AT 1420 MHZ. youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am I wrong though?

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

THE ASTROPHYSICIST (2008)  Acrylic - 24" x 36" When I started this painting, the major theme concerned the power of the human intellect to light our way into the universe.   The balls in the picture came from a conversation I had with my son Adrian. 1/5 #art #bookssky 🪐📚

In a desolate parking lot, a young man in jeans and t-shirt lies back on a grassy island to shine a spotlight straight up into the night sky. Sparsely stippled, the heavens are awash in celestial vision as if touched by the clouds of a nebulae, rendered delicately in lavender over dark blue. Power runs from the light the man holds to a nearby car battery where jumper cables are clamped to the terminals. Fanned facing down, a book lies discard on the curb next to a soccer ball, which lies in the grass just beyond the man's head. Below the curb at his feet, a basketball rests on the cracked blacktop.

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BOARDS OF CANADA @boardsofcanada.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

INFERNO. 18 TRACKS. 70 MINUTES. 2xLP, CD, DIGITAL. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 20/04/2026

A cool demonstration of @astropy.org + SunPy functionality with Artemis II! sunpy.org/posts/2026/a... 🔭

A coordinate-aligned view of the solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II mission.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 20/04/2026

Reminder: we are hiring a Research Software Engineer @flatironinstitute.org !

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madsabaoth @matte-gender.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

i will keep reiterating it but the mRNA vaccine is one of the most important human inventions in history, next to the printing press and the solar panel, and the fact america is abandoning it is frankly anti-human in all ways possible

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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Our feeds

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 03/04/2026

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

Graphic with the text "Action Alert: AAS urges advocacy against proposed cuts to science in President's Budget Request"

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 10/04/2026

🪐 🤝 🌌 Join us at the Planets in the Galactic Context workshop at the @flatironinstitute.org this September! The goal is to identify and define exciting questions at the intersection of exoplanet and Galactic science. Apply by June 5! planet-galaxy-workshop.github.io 🔭 #galactic #exoplanets

Cartoon of a spiral galaxy with planets swirling around.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/04/2026

No one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.

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Work in Progress: How we're tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson)

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Here's the full chute deployment and splashdown of the Integrity capsule containing the Artemis crew (at 1.5x speed to fit within the Bluesky video limit). Welcome home!

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/04/2026

This is so horrifying on so many levels. Again, please call your members of congress and beyond - The states should fight this hard too. The impact is ... difficult to comprehend.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 10/04/2026

The Center for Computational Astrophysics @flatironinstitute.org is hiring a new Research Software Engineer to work on @astropy.org and to support the software and computing efforts within the CCA. Apply by May 22! apply.interfolio.com/184639 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

CAUSEWAY (1992) Oil on Canvas - 48" X 36"   The colors came from a foggy morning walk at a reservoir near my home. 1/4 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ca... #art

View from behind as a nude female with deep bronze skin stands at the edge of a causeway that gradually slopes into gray green water. With a white blindfold knotted over straight black hair, she can't see the path ahead but she can surely feel foggy atmosphere on her bare skin and the water on her foot as she takes a tentative step forward into the unknown. With each step, the rough stone path is textured with fossil record (trilobites, ammonites, plants, fish, etc). A glass triangular pyramid rests on the stone in the immediate foreground. Pylons set with red bicycle reflectors jut out of the water beside the causeway. The material of the posts changes from rough wood to carved stone to formed metal as the causeway descends symbolizing the progression of technology running alongside evolution in the fossil record.

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 06/04/2026

lol at the rogue floating Nutella in the Orion capsule #ArtemisII

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 03/04/2026

You can also encourage your Senators to sign letters in support of robust funding for our science agencies: NASA Science: aas.org/urge-your-se... NSF: aas.org/urge-your-se...

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Urge Your Senators to Support NASA Science | American Astronomical Society

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