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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Also completely and openly trying to make sure US republicans get reelected in the midterms. Thanks, G7

David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the G7 releases oil to lower prices it even further strands and delays tankers in the Strait. It’s already a humanitarian crisis in the Strait. The West doesn’t care about workers, ever. Use your stupid oil-sale money to rescue the crews, you mfs. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

G7 to release up to 100m barrels of emergency oil and diesel reserves

Leaders agree a coordinated drawdown after surge in prices and Donald Trump’s threat to cut off US supplies

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good idea! But I (think I) explicitly restricted to *contemporary* research astrophysics.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hahaha what an honor both of you have in this one very short story.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’d love it if everything got a 20-character alphanumeric string; that would really help us combat the AIs.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hmmm. You are making me reconsider my life choices even harder than I am already.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The insane thing is that when an asshat with no authority renames the Gulf of Mexico, Google and Apple Maps immediately modify their maps to appease. So when will they update Lake Ontario? Fuck these sycophants!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Mark Carney 🇨🇦 pledged to give all tariff revenue back to all Canadians in equal shares (by a tax credit say), the tariffs would be revenue-neutral and not effectively inflationary. And US products would be even more (relatively) injured (because Canadians would have extra $ to buy alternatives!)

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hahaha there’s no bottom

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you are in Lausanne for #eas2006, there’s a panel on Friday about AI and astronomy publishing featuring yours truly, plus people with actual expertise. Session SS44a at 13:15!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Marla Geha (Yale) at @flatironinstitute.org talking about spectroscopy of the absolutely tiniest galaxies!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I’m prepared to coadvise!!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Yacine Ali Haïmoud talks pulsar timing @nyuphysics.bsky.social last week

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I hope everyone who checked out @hogg.bsky.social’s white paper on the implications of LLMs in astronomy and shared it across slack channels similarly perused and amplified this white paper of best practices for broadening participation in astronomy!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And yes, by the way, we have noticed that arxiv decisions seem somewhat personal, and definitely opaque. It’s why I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting a competitor with community governance.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

During the decadal surveys, arxiv has generally taken “white papers”. That’s why, strategically, I called it a “white paper”. But I was definitely afraid that it would get rejected as non-academic. Also why I had a solid bibliography (a sign of realness).

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Cannon’s my hero. Hence The Cannon!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/02/2026

MUST READ: The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪 Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

thenerve.news

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hahaha I have it on the brain because @terrahunting.bsky.social is thinking about target selection, exposure time, and cadence.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

(This is at fixed cost. If you have choices with different price tags, you have to convert information to dollars (at least marginally!). And then you maximize long-term future-discounted free cash flow.)

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Future-discounted, because you’d rather get information now than information much later. Long-term, because your goal is to support the whole research program, not just the current paper.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Information (inverse variance on your parameters of interest, or KL divergence between prior and posterior), because that’s the thing you get more of as you observe more. . . .

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hot take: If you are thinking about observation planning, and if you have choices, you should choose the plan that maximizes your long-term future-discounted information gain. . . .

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I appreciate it!! I wrote that as a PhD student and first published it as a postdoc. If you ever meet someone (or ever become someone) who wants to update it to match the contemporary world, let me know!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Very much appreciate the shout outs! I love what you do for our field.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hahaha uncomfortable with that naming convention but fair.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I cite a medium post by Josh bloom on this point. Denario authors also admit this.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The AAS is already getting enormous numbers of slop submissions, I’m told by @chrislintott.bsky.social this morning.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

NSBP / NSHP are my people!!

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’m so proud to be a jury member for The 2025 International Kindness Olympiad (haha that doesn’t exist because how could kindness be important??)

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Itai Linial @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about stellar problems at supermassive black holes

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I mean the helium matters too?! And the love?

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Excellent piece by @briles34.bsky.social on writing in the discipline. It’s depressing that we think that theoretical physics expertise is not just more important but INFINITELY more important than writing to… *writing* PhD dissertations (on any subfield of astro, say). arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493

arxiv.org

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy

Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are tra...

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Was it even 36 hours? I think it was more like 29

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The main thing that it all makes me—Palestinian genocide, ICE kidnappings, tariffs, H1b visas, infinite detentions without hearings, all make me—is sad. Tired and sad. Love to all, and strength for this journey.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Probably too late though; it’s hard to revoke such agreements.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

That’s why they build all those alien megastructures.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Cantiello @kantyellow.bsky.social at @flatironinstitute.org explains, in terms of fundamental physics, why we won’t be simulating stars in full 3D, ever. I likey.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Josh Ruderman @nyuphysics.bsky.social talking about freeze out and freeze in of dark matter candidates.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

My colleague Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) wrote a nice blog post about political things on campus, academic freedom, and our @aaup.org lawsuit. voelkerrechtsblog.org/academic-fre...

voelkerrechtsblog.org

Academic Freedom on Trial

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Many universities on lockdown after black faculty were sent extremely racist death threats and threats of racial extermination. Stay safe out there. Black faculty at NYU received extremely frightening emails today.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It’s back to school, but not for anyone in Gaza. We all have responsibility for the scholasticide, the killing of students, and the destruction of educational infrastructure.

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David W Hogg @hogg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This is a good (long!!) newsletter covering many things related to academic freedom, with an NYU bias. I learn a ton every time this comes out.

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