iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 13/10/2026

How professors spend their time

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Diagram courtesy of NIST. But I agree completely

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ncfa.bsky.social @ncfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very exciting news! Big congratulations to Francis for a well-deserved recognition! And big congratulations to all our friends in @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social!

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Wyatt Walls @wwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why don't you trust me?

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Nathan 🎃 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bro, the Pope sent the White Sox letter, they’re going to the World Series.

Letter:

To Jerry Reinsdorf
Chairman of the Chicago White Sox
was pleased to receive the kind letter that you sent following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February
2026).
In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster
bonds of friendship
and solidarity among
people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Pope Leo XIV

The Pope wearing a Chicago White Sox hat

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a reminder...

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty wild graph from ESA's latest space environment report, out this month. It anticipates hundreds of collisions in orbit in the coming decades. The report also says that three satellites/rocket bodies enter Earth's atmosphere every day on average at the moment 😶

Graph of cumulative space collisions from ESA environmental report

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh for goodness sake. What are we doing?

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Johan Jönsson @johanj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Min absoluta favorit bland forskningsprojekt under en tid när etikprövning såg lite annorlunda ut var när den danske näringsforskaren Mikkel Hindhede 1911 bestämde sig för att potatis nog var allt man behövde äta. Så han satte sin assistent på att bara äta potatis i ett år.

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

22 years. I'll be 60 when this stops working. Incredible.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Almost let the day pass without posting this one!

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Bruksdöd @bruksdod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jag är så gubbig att jag brukar dra detta exempel: Jag började undervisa 2013. Då kunde jag utan problem slänga ut källtexter från Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Sokrates etc och ställa frågor som eleverna kunde svara på. De läste ca 5 sidor från varje och svarade sedan på frågorna.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/09/2026

At the Antimatter Factory at CERN there are vacuum cleaners in cages. Those cages are there because when you vacuum the experiment hall, you might pick up some radioactive material, and so the vacuum has to be in a time out until enough half-lives of the contaminant have elapsed.

A bright yellow cage marked RADIATION with vacuum cleaners inside it

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve again been asked “why do sharks stick their dorsal fins out of the water?” This happens because shark’s dorsal fins are on top of, and therefore higher than, the rest of the shark. And sometimes the shark is in shallow water or near the surface. Hope this helps! 📷: a scene from Jaws

Scene from Jaws showing the shark’s dorsal fin sticking out of the water.

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Sofia Zettermark @zettermark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Jag: visst begås fler litterära mord än verkliga i Sverige? Middagssällskap: Neeeej tänk på alla gängkriminalitet Det sker ca 100 mord/år i landet. Man får anta att alla deckare innehåller minst ett mord va?

Deckarutgiving i Sverige, 500 böcker per år

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/08/2026

I’m sick of Artificial Intelligence. Why not Artificial Wisdom? Artificial Charisma? you get it

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Confirmation that Jodrell Bank Observatory has lost funding (via the e-Merlin project) under STFC cuts, as first reported by RPN in early July www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Polanyi calls knowledge that isn't written down in texts or drawings but that exist within people and groups of people as "implicit/tacit knowledge". The loss of this unwritten, often unspoken, knowledge is often considered to be one of the reasons why institutions lose the capacity of doing stuff.

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Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm consumed be "externalities" that private companies quietly distribute across humanity for profit while preaching narratives about "progress". Add in "Shifting Baseline Syndrome" and most people don't notice what's happening until it is too late. Some underlying verifiable facts 👇 ✨🔭🧪

Cartoon illustrating satellites crossing the night sky circa 2030, seen from a wilderness area. A child asks, "What is that point of light that doesn't move?"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

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Jonathan Pritchard @pritchardjr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Horrified to learn that the Particle Physics and Astronomy groups at Sussex University are facing a proposed 35% cut in staff numbers! That would be devastating to a high quality department.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The scientific method in action

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

You should always try to help your friend!

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

elizabethginexi.substack.com

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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keefemitman.bsky.social @keefemitman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

When you look up at the night sky, you're looking out on a vast universe that is constantly in motion and ever evolving: planets orbit, stars twinkle, and black holes collide. Moreover, thanks to @ligo.org, we know that the "spacetime fabric" also evolves as gravitational waves ripple through it!

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What the first LIGO detection would look like up close

YouTube video by SXS Collaboration

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Carl Haster @haster.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Collaborations released our fifth catalogue of Gravitational Wave Transients. This is extra exciting for us here at @unlv.edu as the flagship publication (dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P260015...) was led by Leo Tsukada, a postdoctoral research fellow at the @ncfa.bsky.social.

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Hey Bluesky peeps, I'm looking to speak to astronomers that are looking for alien life in unusual ways - think Ceres, weird technosignatures, unexpected exoplanets, etc - for a story in the BBC. If that's you, or you know someone, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!

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Rachel P-M @rpmastronomy.com · 23/05/2026

This is bullshit

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Cartoon where a large scary space monster addresses a sea of graduating students: "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords- wait, why are you all booing?"

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/05/2026

This is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*

Three crescents. Top: the Moon. Midde: Mars. Bottom: Earth. Background: the infinite black of space.

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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
@arxiv
authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
Thomas G. Dietterich
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
Thomas G. Dietterich
@tdietterich
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
Thomas G. Dietterich
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The University presents this as 'Future Nottingham' but it absolutely guts the arts and humanities. They want to sack 40% of the Dept of English, for example. Languages will be cut entirely. If that's the future, it's shit (and very far from what a University should be)

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What a legend. 91 years old, Nobel laureate in physics, basically jump-started the field of cosmology as we know it, super nice guy, and just continuing to write random papers for the love of the game.

A new paper out today from Jim Peebles on “The Extended Plane of the Local
Supercluster”

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