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Dyqik

@dyqik.bsky.social
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Physicist, immigrant, dog owner and owned by cat.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ada Lovelace Day is coming up again on 13 Oct and, as you know, these days it is almost entirely unfunded. I've been invited to speak at or attend a few events, all of which I've said yes to because the mission won't further itself. I'm also still writing my report...
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026
As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is already close to what the NSF and DOE require in a biosketch (5 related, and up to 5 more for NSF, 10 for DOE) in a grant application. So it's not a big stretch.
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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This was very much tongue in cheek.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And they expect us to believe this is a coincidence. Wake up, sheeple.
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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@mapquest.com gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/...
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Lake Won'tario - MapQuest
Check out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake Won'tario!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wonder if the dementia-ravaged president keeps calling things "America" because he can't remember the real names
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jolene absolutely shitting herself right now.
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1. Tropical Storm Dolly forms in Atlantic
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Palmer, Dolly Parton has been famous for two verified miracles for longer than I've been alive
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.
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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dolly Parton sends signed, bejeweled guitar to Austin drag performer Brigitte Bandit
The year ended on a high note for one local performer after unwrapping a gift sent from one queen to another.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 25/08/2026
if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Photos via Instagram riverreachconstruction, which has turned into a cat account.
There are four men in the photo, one of which is wearing a safety vest. The man in a safety vest is holding a small kitten, who is wearing a tiny hard hat. The kitten in a safety vest.The kitten in a safety vest and tiny hard hat.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is what everyone on that WaPo opinion podcast looks/sounds like
Colin Robinson from What We Do in the Shadows
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Dyqik @dyqik.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As long as I stay in the KSC, and design the rockets instead of flying them, I can last a year in Kerbal Space Program.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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Jack Hanford, JD, LLM @simplyjack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sorry www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Inquest told of student catapult death
A student was killed in a bizarre stunt after he was hurled more than 30m through the air by a human catapult, an inquest today heard.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/08/2026
the first confirmed death of someone fired FROM a trebuchet remains unclaimed so my lifelong dream is still intact
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Any historian who thinks general use ChatGPT-style LLMs understand and improve their research is just falling for the oldest grift of all. Mediums and mystics who claim they can read minds or talk to the dead: 1) Say something vague 2) Adjust when given more info 3) confidently repeat that back
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I thought the whole point of AI is that it's not supposed to look artificial? That's the oddest thing about AI flyers. They're artificial but they're not at all intelligent
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cap’n watsisname @capnwatsisname.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
an uber driver wearing sock puppets on both hands that talk to each other about how bad the steering wheel tastes your whole ride
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Arguably the main message of "A Christmas Carol"
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/11/2023
Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Modeling suggests 1/3 solar coverage in the semi-arid western Midwest would actually increase soybean yields 6% (decrease by 16% in the wetter eastern midwest). The US has 85M acres of soybeans. Pick the most suitable half and you've got all 15M acres we need. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Illinois team tests the costs, benefits of agrivoltaics across the Midwest
A new study found that agrivoltaics can increase or reduce yields and profits depending on the crop and where such agrivoltaic systems are deployed.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...
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Solar Panels Are Helping Crops Grow Better, Global Studies Show - Microgrid Media
For farmers worried about losing land to solar energy, new research brings surprising news: many crops actually produce more food when grown beneath solar
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 02/08/2026
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The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called "boring as hell," but I can't help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, "anybody here tonight from Chicago?" and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering
Homer's like, "and there were forty black ships from...
LOCRIS" and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
lithub.com/how-american...
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
christopher nolan is real? I thought he was just something straight men made up to sound interesting
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
There's a lot in this thread & its multiple & various reply/quote offshoots that i disagree with, & am exhausted by, but i want to focus on 1 that i keep trying to press on: Let's stipulate LLMs *Can* do grad- & even expert-level math & we should prep for a revolution in the field… So what then?…
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
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Suzanne Aigrain @airbornegrain.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Like all my colleagues I'm dismayed and angry at the cuts announced by STFC to UK astronomy, most prominently to Jodrell Bank and the associated radio astronomy facilities.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/07/2026
this problem has been solved via the "when love is gone" scene in the Muppet Christmas Carol, we have no further need of backstory
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don't give a shit what the Founding Fathers thought. They also thought it was good to beat prey viciously with animal bones and to howl at a large black monolith.
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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Beware geeks bearing grifts
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
final score will be 52:48. you mark my words
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the abstraction gives you, the reader/searcher/user, power of choice & direction in the situation; it requires you to engage another layer. the "answer" or "route" is more unmediated, visceral, often apparently satisfying - but much harder to recover from if it's wrong
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