iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Okay, but the robots we have sent to space already are not remotely agentic. They’re barely more than clockwork machines. They enable human perception to travel beyond Earth, but they aren’t minds. Why build artificial minds to explore in our stead? They won’t be human!

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New iron-bearing compounds identified as potential water reservoirs near Earth’s core (This is good news for Venus terraformers, as Venus should have this too.) idw-online.de/de/news877034

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New iron-bearing compounds identified as potential water reservoirs near Earth’s core

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Even if a technology is transformive and fully integrated in the daily lives of people that doesn't mean its gonna make any money. Take email for example. Gen AI could end up being likethat, except email service costs are miniscule by comparision.

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ON THIS PALINDROMIC DAY (10.01) at 21:00 JST (12:00 UTC), the IAU 100 Hours of Astronomy kicks off with a Martian moons fest 🛰️ Hear about JAXA's exploration plans, the science of the MMX mission and the adorable Idefix rover, and a Q&A with me where I say everything I know about MMX in 10 minutes 🔭🧪

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Mission: Mars. Unravelling the mysteries of the Solar System with MMX

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Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our latest episode is live! I joined Dr Nicole Buckley 🎉🎉🎉 for our first episode since she passed her PhD viva to talk about some great recent papers from the astro arxiv 🔭🧪☄️

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PRIMA probe @prima-probe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PRIMA has been selected as NASA's first Probe Explorer mission! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Rendering of PRIMA spacecraft against astronomical nebula background

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Knud Jahnke @knudjahnke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In November, #ADS wants to switch all searches over to #SciX. Currently, for me, complexer searches take factors of many longer in SciX than in ADS. One benchmark that I have takes 7s on ADS, 40s on SciX. Do you have similar experiences? #astronomy #literature #papers

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asteroids are better. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sure. And meanwhile C-type asteroids contain water, all 5 nucleobases, amino acids, sugars, PAHs...

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Dan Lansdowne @danlansdowne.mow.haus · 07/09/2026

RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The messenger changes, the message doesn't: "I'm a nut who doesn't think he's a nut"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/09/2026

I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is amazing; everything is very stupid. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 08/09/2026

To shed light on an early stage of planet building in our solar system, Hubble and #NASAWebb examined Trans-Neptunian Objects—mysterious, frozen planetary building blocks that never formed into planets. This is the deepest such survey to date: news.stsci.edu/4zX3fgY 🔭

An illustration of a roughly spherical, rocky object against a black background speckled with distant, white stars. The rocky object is the color of red clay and is pockmarked with craters and other geological scars. At the bottom left corner of the illustration in gray lettering is the label “Artist’s Concept.

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billingboroughobservatory.bsky.social @billingboroughobservatory.space · 08/09/2026

☄️ **NEW: Meteor Radio at Billingborough Observatory!** 📻 We're now listening for the radio echoes produced by meteors entering Earth's atmosphere, day or night, through cloud or sunny skies! See our hourly activity and individual detections: meteor-radio.billingboroughobservatory.space 🔭

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Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello @europlanetmedia.bsky.social #EPSC2026 here in Den Haag! Looking forward the #3I/Atlas keynote today, plus I will be presenting some @cometinterceptor.bsky.social related-work in the small body dynamics session SB12 later, and I also have another talk Thurs. Gonna be a busy week! #PlanetSci

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Asteroid CERNQ52 entered Earth's atmosphere today over the ocean south of Indonesia. It was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona only hours before its demise. At 80 cm wide, it would have caused no damage. I had to exaggerate the size here, so you could see it. 🔭 #astro

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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What really happens during public sky-watching events? Joana Marques reveals new insights into family and community learning in the AER session of the 7th Shaw-IAU Workshop. Have you registered for this year's IAU OAE Conference on Astronomy for Education yet? 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N637...

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Observations of the Sky with Families: Joana Marques at the OAE’s 7th Shaw-IAU Workshop

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Taken and released by whom? VLT-GRAVITY? LBT-SHARK?

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Dr. JB Vincent @comet-toolbox.com · 04/09/2026

I will attend the Planetary Defence session (MITM3) in person at #EPSC206 (Posters on Monday, Orals on Tuesday). Come see the latest updates on Hera, RAMSES, and many other missions ! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2026/ses... #PlanetaryScience

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Session MITM3

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is Sar2901 a mini-moon or space junk? Even the Minor Planet Center isn't sure. The astronomy community is divided. More observations in November should help settle the debate.🔭 #astro

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 01/09/2026

We need your eyes! 🖥️ Introducing Rubin: Blobs and Blurs, a new citizen science project using NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data. 🔭🧪 We’re on the hunt for faint, blurry galaxies that are dominated by invisible dark matter & often hard for computers to identify. zooniverse.org/rubin

A promotional graphic in bilingual English and Spanish titled "NEW Rubin Citizen Science Project on Zooniverse." The center features an astronomical image filled with stars and galaxies of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. A large teal ring labeled "RUBIN BLOBS AND BLURS," magnifies a faint, smooth galaxy. Below on a charcoal background, text reads "Help discover some of the faintest galaxies in the Universe! zooniverse.org/rubin" (and also in Spanish).

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The CDC recently downshifted current and historical COVlD levels into lower categories. For example, 6 of the 8 states normally classified as High or Very High have been downshifted to "Moderate." This is Part 2 in our series on the CDC "Bluewashing" ethics crisis.

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you have a personal academic website? The entry form for our 2026 Websites Contest is easy to fill out. I hope you'll enter to win an award! -Faculty -Professors -Researchers -Scientists -Postdocs -Grad students -Independent scholars -Research labs/groups theacademicdesigner.com/2026/best-pe...

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Best Personal Academic Websites Contest 2026

Entries for the 4th Best Personal Academic Websites Contest open on June 11, 2026 and close on October 11, 2026. CONTEST LINKS Official Contest Rules Entry Form Contest Rubric Download Flyer Thank you...

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 31/08/2026

um, no? calling it a planet in 1930 was the actual mistake. but we fixed it and are all good now thanks.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sure, Just like (243) Ida, and roughly 15% of all NEOs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyl_...

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Dactyl (moon) - Wikipedia

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The unspoken premise is that Planet == Interesting, Not Planet == Not Interesting. Those of us who study Not Planets beg to differ.

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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The battle is between Smart and Dumb. So far Dumb is still winning. I'll keep you posted. #TheGreatBigStupid

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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"public trust in planetary defense depends on getting the facts right, even when getting them wrong would be more exciting"

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New Paper Tackles Misinformation About Asteroid Impacts - B612

A new paper tackles misinformation about asteroid impacts and planetary defense. Read the full paper today.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

As LLMs get better at certain tasks and much more convincing, it's a useful exercise to ask about a subject you know intimately. Here, ChatGPT 5.6 diagrams the wrong game, doubles down, then finally admits its mistake. It cites a paper that doesn't exist, doubles down, and finally confesses again.

ChatGPT query: Diagram the enquist model of agonistic signaling

[poster output]

User: This is fucked up. So you just made that up.

ChatGPT: Yes. I did, and you’re right to call it out.

My first description was not a faithful account of Enquist’s model. I supplied a plausible generic sequence for agonistic assessment—“initial assessment → signaling → reassessment → escalation”—without having verified that those were actually the stages or assumptions in Enquist (1985). Then, when you challenged the “prior information” point, I compounded the problem by giving another specific reconstruction instead of checking the source first.

I’ve now checked secondary material explicitly discussing Enquist’s 1985 model, and it describes the model as one in which players choose among possible displays/actions in an agonistic game, with the evolutionary question being when those choices can constitute honest signaling. That is importantly different from the staged assessment process I initially gave you.

So: do not use either of my previous stage descriptions as a representation of Enquist (1985). I should have looked up the paper/model before answering a source-specific question.

ChatGPT: Yes. You’re right — again.

The poster actually says:

Enquist, M. (1985). “Communication during agonistic encounters.” In R. R. Hinde (Ed.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 15, 65–106. Academic Press.

And that citation is not the original Enquist model paper I should have been using.

I made three separate errors here: I generated an unverified citation, then misreported what the poster said twice. That’s a basic source-handling failure.

If you want, I can now do this properly: verify the actual Enquist agonistic-signaling model from the primary paper and give you only the real sequence/stages, with no reconstruction.

User: The paper on the poster doesn't even exist.

ChatGPT: Correct. That poster citation is fabricated. I generated a title and book chapter that do not exist.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

☄️ An asteroid may be a comet in disguise. A newly discovered meteor shower has been linked to asteroid 2023 VN9. Its orbit—and the trail of meteoroids it left behind—suggests it may actually be the surviving remnant of a comet that broke apart long ago. 🧪 🔭 🔗 www.seti.org/news/new-met...

Side-by-side sky maps dated 16/7/26 and 17/7/26 showing dense white star points and colored clusters (green, blue); a white arrow highlights a small cluster that shifts left between dates, indicating a newly discovered meteor shower.

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Aperture masks. Various patterns block or unblock portions of the field, for wave-shaping purposes.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seriously, I’ve gotten about eight emails from these companies wanting to record me and my workflows *on my own equipment and time*, so they can then go monetize my skills and experience. The nicest response this will ever get is an internal “hahaha no” and a block.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026

Struggling with the term “genuine information” in this context but yeah your bot doesn’t work for you.

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You mean amateur-created. 100% suspect. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cul...

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The Cult of the Amateur - Wikipedia

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 27/08/2026

We’re #hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's Education & Public Outreach team! 👩‍💻👨‍💻 You'll build interactive, data-driven web experiences that bring Rubin data and science to the world 🌌 👉 Learn more and apply soon: ow.ly/Jajv50ZFUQf 🧪🔭☄️

Night sky filled with stars above Rubin Observatory with text: "We are hiring: Senior Full Stack Engineer"

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 26/08/2026

➡️ Follow @stsci.edu for the most up-to-date information on this weekend's scheduled launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. 🔭 #NASARoman Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.

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Rubin LSST:UK @lsstuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BBC Science Focus magazine has published a round up of the best images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social since it released the First Look images a year ago. Feast your eyes... 🔭 www.sciencefocus.com/space/vera-c...

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The world’s largest camera has taken its most mind-blowing images yet | BBC Science Focus Magazine

The Vera C Rubin Observatory has the largest digital camera ever built. Here are the most stunning images from its mission to map the universe.

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