iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My god… it’s full of point spread functions…

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’m not a massive 𝕏 hater or anything but zomg most of the things pushed into my feed there are people dunking on criticisms of Musk as our first trillionaire. It’s not shocking but I wish it were.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Ever wonder why human body temperature is 98.6? Why you take an infant to the hospital at 100.4? Why Americans worry about temperature at 18x the precision of folks from the rest of the world?? www.xkcd.com/3248/

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 21/01/2026

OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is searching for an Archive Analyst, with a focus on user‑facing documentation and tutorials, to help advance our state‑of‑the‑art astronomical data archive. Python experience required: bit.ly/3YQDM7y

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Dr. Scott W. Fleming @scottwfleming.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I’m hiring! Looking for someone with excellent communication skills, knows Python, and wants a career enabling science by creating user-facing content for astronomers. This is a full-time, long-term position that does NOT require a PhD! recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/... 🔭 Apply by Feb 21st!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sushi Shō on Solano ave. The sushi chef running it was so particular he couldn’t find anyone to work for him except his wife. So they only sat about half the seats. The sushi was absolutely unreal. And he would (lovingly) instruct you on how to eat it. Closed before 2008 and I still think of it.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

She also said, of the Harvard astronomical plate archive, “there are more fish in that sea than have been drawn from it” This is how I see our data — a vast ocean teeming with discoveries yet to be caught.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Look folks, I get that AI has lots of possible negatives, and I think it is important that we honestly discuss them. But man, if I see another AI-centered article about datacenter power use that shows the dramatic growth in power use from 2021-2023 I am gonna lose it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Petition to measure RA and Dec in decimal hours. Hare-core observers get their precious hours, the rest of us can use the decimal system and have symmetrical coordinates as god intended.

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Scare-ed Skullnick @jaredskolnick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This work by my collaborator Blakesley (with support from yours truly) is based on data made much more easily available by MAST! This paper would not have happened if we (esp. adrian lucy) hadn’t made this data so easy to use! Go @mast-news.bsky.social !!

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

As a person who has professionally done my own research on a number of things, let me say: I do not want to have to do my own research on most things. I am happy for experts to do research in their fields and publish their finds, and for service providers to read and summarize it for me.

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Franck Marchis @allplanets.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🚨 A 50% cut to NASA science is on the table for 2026. This would kill missions, halt discoveries, and threaten thousands of jobs. The American Astronomical Society makes it super easy to tell Congress: fund NASA science. Speak up here: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

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NASA SMD Dear Colleague Action Alert | American Astronomical Society

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“The Hubble Image Similarity Project” by RL White & @jegpeek.bsky.social - what a cool idea! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17688. See also the WIRED article by @sarahscoles.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/this-c...

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

90% of these images are of the ISM. There I said it!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Already built and on budget and on time!

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

David Brooks is ready to take it to the streets and Senator Van Hollen has demonstrated admirable resolve and compassion for a constituent in danger, let's make this the flapping of butterfly wings that causes a tornado

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

ok exactly how massive was the binary that caused this gravitational wave signal

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Awesome to see UV telescope genius Aaron Tohuvavohu among this brilliant crowd!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We are gonna make true 3D images of the cold neutral medium at milliparsec scales for the first time using light echoes from Cas A!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m having a challenge characterizing some of the noise in my jwst images. (1/f)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I have confirmed this is true. NASA's probationary employees were not terminated today. No reason was given.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

You know what? We shouldn’t announce people’s pedigrees when they give colloquia. #showerthoughts

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This has been such a great project to work on. It's just astonishing.

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Dr. Scott W. Fleming @scottwfleming.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

If you are at #AAS245, be sure to stop by the STScI booth and the MAST table there! Check out our mission tables (HST, JWST, Roman), see our accessible tactile displays and sonification options, talk to MAST staff on to see how to use our modern search tools to enable your research!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

If you get carsick looking at your phone as a passenger, try these weird dots!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you are a science professor you should know that this semester (perhaps for the first time in history) there may be dramatically different levels of access to AI tools (based on $) that can solve very advanced science problems.

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Karin Sandstrom @karinsandstrom.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Well this is awesome: about.usps.com/newsroom/nat...

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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 16/12/2024

I'm generally apathetic towards AI. When I participated in user studies of this tool, I could maybe finally see a way that it could help astronomers do research. Awesome work by Iyer et al, including @jwuphysics.bsky.social, @jegpeek.bsky.social. 🔭🧪 ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJS...

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pathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy

The exponential growth of astronomical literature poses significant challenges for researchers navigating and synthesizing general insights or even domain-specific knowledge. We present pathfinder, a ...

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I see a lot of this sentiment, and I respect it. I also want us always to take a moment to ask "what does knowing facts mean?" and "what does it mean to reason?". It's a rare opportunity to think philosophically, which I think is always good to take.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Well, I feel I have finally joined the ranks of online astronomers— I have had my first Tim Tam Slam.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

While I do think Nobels should be awarded to results, not people, this flex always gives me a smirk, I must admit. Yes there are 5 signs.

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Zonule of Zinn @emkawe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It was the Busta Rhymes It was the Wusta Rhymes

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/11/2024

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On my way to UC Berkeley tomorrow to give colloquium and fondly remembering my days of trying to stay awake through them 🥰 If you are looking for a speaker in the spring drop me a line!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

if you astronomers haven't been to r/askastronomy yet I recommend it. I especially like that we have a developed a way to respond to most "what is this cool patch of stars I just took a picture of" questions: with r/itsalwayspleiades

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Method and science both rad as heck. I love when astronomers get creative.

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Did we get over this over this year?

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

TIL: SMOS is the VLA, but tiny, in space, and pointed down. Huh!

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Josh Peek @jegpeek.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌 Holy crap Milky Way enthusiasts, get psyched! Roman Space Telescope has selected a Galactic plane survey as one of its main activities in the first 5 years. This would produce a catalog of 100,000,000,000+ stars and a dust map that extends across the Galactic plane!

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