Reposted by Eric BellmDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities. 1227141
Reposted by Eric BellmJustin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...sdross0.github.ioWhat would orbital data centers look like from your sky?500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser. 39266
Reposted by Eric BellmSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026Our department is trying something new this year. We're using a short form "expression of interest" for grad admissions. You can take a look/learn more about it here: astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...astro.washington.eduGraduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of WashingtonThe Department of Astronomy is accepting applications to our graduate program for Fall 2027 admissions. 125111
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nice to see some progress on gender equity in the uh, two decades since my all-time favorite Onion headline: theonion.com/male-bonding...theonion.comMale Bonding Leads To Bail Bonding 010
Reposted by Eric Bellmghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026what's the most insane hiring shibboleth you've ever heard, non-coffee edition 14956126
Reposted by Eric Bellmkottke.org @kottke.org · 24/09/2026Kids who are too young for social media are chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. Kid says: “I think we just like looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments." Nature finds a way. [kottke.org]kottke.orgThe 🔥🔥🔥 New Social App: NPR Podcasts Comments Section on Spotify{Ira Glass voice} On this week’s episode of This American Life, the story of middle schoolers too young for social media chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. From the transcript: And it was j 0269
Reposted by Eric BellmCole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve written EXTENSIVELY about how we have over-indexed on trying to get researchers to contort themselves into pretzels to protect research that is (by definition) supposed to be widely shared, while stuff that is actually sensitive is frequently not treated as such. 162
Reposted by Eric Bellmgabriel @gironda.org · 22/09/2026pick your mental illness: is the computer your god now? are you terminally bored with your career as a programmer? have you gotten really into philosophy? have you destroyed your family finances with twenty claude max accounts and a plan to slopcode your way to unicorndom? 3512
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Unfortunately I can't escape the memory of her similarly-executed pictures of crying kids: slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comThe fuss over the photographer who makes kids cry.Like many people, I dislike having my picture taken, and the fact that I love to look at photography, to think about it, and sometimes to write about... 100
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Congrats to the PRIMA team. I'm still bitter about what happened to STROBE-X though 020
Reposted by Eric BellmIan Hutchins @bihutchins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Does giving reviewers a "golden ticket" to greenlight acceptance in #PeerReview yield more influential papers than accepting the runners-up? Not in computer science, apparently: arxiv.org/abs/2609.19552arxiv.orgFunding the runners-up beats a golden ticketA golden ticket allows one reviewer to advance a proposal that the rest of a panel would reject. We assess its score-based rationale by comparing minority-support ranking with other rules for allocati... 021
Reposted by Eric BellmDaniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Giant telescope project rejects La Palma as backup site | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgGiant telescope project rejects La Palma as backup siteU.S.-led Thirty Meter Telescope declines €1 billion Spanish offer to build the observatory on the Canary Islands 43310
Reposted by Eric BellmErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We're all having such a bad time 719454
Reposted by Eric BellmJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result 'rogue AI' does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story" Gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...wsj.comOpinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to BeForget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do. 21570223
Reposted by Eric BellmDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's probably best to avoid giving real numbers to any of these things without first applying some rigor and data, but I also think people can't remain principled to epistemic ambivalence, so "fraud is rare, errors are common" is a decent stopgap heuristic which is justified in most fields. 041
Reposted by Eric BellmDanny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…  491913302
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was so mad to see the return of the zombie "day between semesters". It's in the CBA it looks like. 010
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'm hugely proud of my spouse Cameron, whose book "The Sacrament of Paying Attention" is now available for preorder! cameronbellm.substack.com/p/book-cover... 040
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Never give it up. I did and I regret it every time I have to pull the dumb thing out of my pocket 030
Reposted by Eric BellmQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556449
Reposted by Eric BellmJRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt. 6861132009
Reposted by Eric BellmHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious. 733540736
Reposted by Eric BellmEd @notdred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I don’t think the giant infotainment screens in new cars are *good* but to be honest I think the actual problem is drivers just straight up looking at their phones while driving 2945419
Reposted by Eric BellmGT @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light 269269747838
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026There was an article with exactly this title a couple years ago (I do not know if it has changed) maxread.substack.com/p/threads-is...maxread.substack.comThreads is the gas-leak social networkPlus: What's up with Miami? And is 'Oppenheimer' a super-hero movie? 010
Reposted by Eric BellmClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44604834
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly knew about people playing her records at 33 rpm back in '77! Cf. Slow Ass Jolene: soundcloud.com/hangarcat/sl... www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...soundcloud.comSlow Ass Jolene“Jolene” has been covered numerous times, but despite how it sounds, this is not a cover by a pretty-sounding dude. It’s a 45 rpm record of Dolly singing that has been slowed to 33 rpm… Found this 000
Reposted by Eric Bellmthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026he doesn’t look a thing like jesus but he talks like a juggalo 1848
Reposted by Eric BellmTessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026As for me and my vote, Suzy H. and Walden F. both really capture how I feel by Election Day. 544328
Reposted by Eric BellmMatt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026lol finally an NIL story that doesn't suck www.jsonline.com/story/sports...jsonline.comMarquette freshman volleyball player has hot-selling '6 Beers' jerseyMarquette volleyball player Allie Beers is learning that her last name is a money-making asset in the NIL space of NCAA sports. 434350
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It turns out there's a really nice paper! ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXi...ui.adsabs.harvard.edu 010
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Swift reboost mission failing is a huge loss for astronomy. The powerful, flexible operations model the Swift team demonstrated has unfortunately not yet influenced the design and selection of other 🔭 missions. www.nasa.gov/news-release...urldefense.comNASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission - NASADue to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an 1204
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026and then shipping it to China! web.archive.org/web/20150326...web.archive.orgExporting the Colorado River to Asia, Through HayAs the West suffers long-term drought, experts look for ways to save water while still supporting local farmers. 180
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026static.klipy.comMarshawn Lynch's Iconic Golf Cart RideAlt: Marshawn Lynch's Iconic Injury Cart Ride 011
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026"What I'm saying is that there is nothing unique about the frequency with which cyclists as a class break the law when compared with drivers or pedestrians. And even if cyclists broke the law more flagrantly, that would not negate the need to share the road." 001
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Way back in 2008 someone wrote "The Myth of the Scofflaw Cyclist" that made exactly Katie's point with humor and statistics, and despite that, drivers are still making the same dumb arguments online. web.archive.org/web/20080901...web.archive.org 110
Reposted by Eric BellmOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/ 253674798
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Anyway, apparently all the physical locations are now closed and the mochi-making business was sold to a holding company. www.nosh.com/news/2017/mr... 3/3nosh.comWhy ‘Mr. Bubbie’ Sold His Mochi Ice Cream EmpireLongtime Founder and CEO Keith Robbins sold Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream to Kenex Holdings, a Chicago-based investment company, after almost 32 years of business. Financial terms of the deal were not di... 100
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Most of the ice creams had humorous, slightly salacious names--e.g., a Thin Mints-type mint chocolate chip was called "Come Here, Little Girl." You can get the gist from the t-shirt below (which sits in a drawer as there's no appropriate context in which I could wear it). 2/3 100
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Memory lane! In summer 2004 I was in Hawai'i for a research program at the UH. We lived in an extremely dumpy apartment by the freeway and Bubbies was a brick-and-mortar ice cream shop a few blocks away. They had mochi but also excellent "normal" ice cream. 1/3 100
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Putting my prediction in now--Seattle Public Schools won't start instruction until the Tuesday after Labor Day. 100
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I'm speculating, but I believe at least some of those folks would sacrifice the rest of humanity if it meant they could upload their own personal brains to a computer. 1142
Reposted by Eric BellmPlate Stealer @platestealer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Fun fact, Cyan and Key (Black) are typically the colorants that stand up to uv radiation better than Yellow and Magenta, leading to what I call the "Gyro Look". So they really are doing the best they can 2307
Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is told with more good humor than I could manage. Prop 13 really destroys inter-generational solidarity in California... 0132
Reposted by Eric BellmPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks! 98145493383