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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 27/09/2026

🔭 Andromeda before Photoshop Image Credit: Kees Scherer ap260927

A spiral galaxy is pictured that takes up much of the
frame. Many straight lines run through it. In the alternative
image, the straight lines have been removed.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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Science Newsroom - Faculty of Science and Engineering - UG @sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨ Searching for the first generation of stars Else Starkenburg, astronomer @rug.nl @kapteynastro.bsky.social is searching for early-generation stars in nearby galaxies with the international programmes WEAVE and 4MOST to see what they are made of Read more 👇 🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/mat... 🧪 #SciComm

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's a nice paper you got there. It'd be a shame if anything .... happened to it

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Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow does the post title bury the lede! I particularly like the pictured comment.

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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 17/09/2026

Mr. Unthank, who lives in Italy, also programmed a fly to use a car’s blinkers when turning because he was frustrated that so few human drivers seem to use them. “That’s how easy it is,” he said. “Even a fly could do it.” 😳😳😳

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not only Harvard. Universities worldwide have made conracts with AI companies, paying to get more tokens and/or tokens for more advanced LLMs. And yet, some people have "their" research stopped because they run out of tokens. All of this in the current times of scarce and dwindling funding.

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il Post @ilpost.it · 15/09/2026

I criminali informatici non hanno violato direttamente i sistemi di Revolut: secondo informazioni date da loro stessi, si sarebbero serviti di almeno un indirizzo ufficiale di posta certificata delle forze dell’ordine italiane, violato in precedenza ilpost.link/tzasnLnTbc

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Revolut ha consegnato i dati di centinaia di clienti a criminali informatici

Hanno convinto la banca a farseli dare utilizzando una mail ufficiale delle forze dell’ordine italiane, violata in precedenza

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: hcommons.social/@mpe/11725476784142… quite the achievement to get every living Fields medalist together to denounce something to which a handful of them have been actively contributing

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's your list of prompts for creating #MathArt throughout October. Happy #MathOber and looking forward to some beautiful #Art.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're wondering what has been going on in this domain, please do read this.

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here is Holman and Bruner's wonderful paper on why this is so dangerous, and how the same strategy in the past earned a lot of money for pharmaceuticals at the cost of an estimated 100k lives

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Experimentation by Industrial Selection | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Experimentation by Industrial Selection - Volume 84 Issue 5

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

By taking this money, social scientists allow Anthropic rather than the scientific community to decide what the agenda will be in AI research.

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The Risks of Taking that Sweet AI Money

Anthropic is offering $200M to the funding-starved social sciences, but at what cost?

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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 09/09/2026

This surface visualizer is super cool: e-infinity.space/picture-book/ Ping @msmathcomp.bsky.social

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A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 09/09/2026

Just a self-reminder for when the shady unethical behavior of large corporations seeking marketing stunts shadows my affection for mathematics: go on and read Francis Su "The Enduring Value of Math, in an Age of AI" francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...

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The Enduring Value of Math, in an Age of AI

Thoughts I’ll share at the start of my upper division math course

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707Kat @707kat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

- if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. (...)“Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would ruin my career. (...) “If you don’t want me to be nice, then I don’t have to be nice.”

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing 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...

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nieuwe column - English translation to follow.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

I sometimes send people this page: www.astrokatie.com/solicited-ad... which I hope is helpful. (See first paragraph for why I don’t provide individual mentorship to strangers.)

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Solicited Advice — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is very interesting - a blog by a mathematician who was working on a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on finding out that Anthropic has done it in 11 days. It is interesting because it does not concede the field, but says what it does / doesn't do xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...

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FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it

I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Todays substack on AI for paper writing - does it work? (spoiler: no, and you probably don't want it to either) open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tag yourself with your current location!

A map in the style of Tolkein titled 'The Map of Manuscript Earth'. This is something I'm calling 'artography' - and it lists lots of geographic locations on the way to submitting a (scientific) manuscript.

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Soooo.... did y'all get that this is calendar Tetris... or .... no?

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/09/2026

In case you'd like to try reading more than marketing claims and press coverage, this review article covers what makes it feel like LLMs do more than stringing together tokens: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Includes recent research showing the brittleness of 'reasoning' that experts here refer to

Although text-generating large language models have existed since 2018, it is only in the last few years that people have started to talk to them in earnest. The main reason is a series of innovations that enabled engineers to better tailor model output to human preferences and present it in a chat interface. Suddenly language models seemed to be much more than synthetic text extruding machine s (Bender and Hanna 2025) : they behaved as if following instructions, responded in ways that felt intuitive , and even seemed to have a mind of their own (Kockelman 2024). This interactivity, to a large degree enabled by unseen human labour, turned out to be tremendously compelling. My aim here is to demystify this phenomenon and so contribute some interactional building blocks to the sprawling edifice of critical AI literacies (Guest et al. 2026).

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

23 light hours, 47 light minutes, 20 light seconds and counting. Getting real close to a full twenty four hours for the one-way light time.

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Where Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now? - NASA Science

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fixing the issue? Heavens no. But we’ll let you report it when it happens. Good luck out there

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They actually say modulus, but journalists dumb it down. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagin... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man wearing glasses stands at a podium, declaring: "at last we've overthrown the economists! From now on the nation's finances shall be run by mathematicians!" Shortly after, the same mathematician declares: "as of today, money will be denominated in complex numbers. The public's long wait for an algebraically closed currency is at an end!" The next panel shows a news article headline: "ECONOMY CRASHES - Nation's money accidentally rotated 90 degrees, now imaginary. Mathematicians (quoted): "calm down, absolute value unchanged."

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/09/2026

You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

world <- ne_countries() |> filter(sov_a3 != "ATA")

ggplot(data = world) +
geom_sf() +
coord_sf(crs = "+proj=eqearth") +
theme_void()

A basic world map using the Equal Earth projection

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European Mathematical Society @euromathsoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Looking for mathematical opportunities? 🔎 The EMS website lists job vacancies and upcoming conferences, workshops, schools and other events from across the mathematical community. 💼 Jobs: euromathsoc.org/jobs 📅 Events: euromathsoc.org/events

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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pura potenza. La spettacolare immagine che vedete mostra la contemporanea presenza di tre tempeste tropicali sul Pacifico centrale e orientale; due sono uragani maggiori (Lowell e Karina), la terza (Marie) diventerà un uragano nelle prossime ore. 1/5

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Dan Schroeder @dvschroeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First EIA, then Energy Institute, and now @ourworldindata.org have abandoned the "substitution method" of defining primary energy and instead adopted Chris Wright's preferred method, making the impact of hydro+PV+wind look 2.5x smaller than it actually is. 😡 🔌💡 ourworldindata.org/primary-ener...

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How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts

The Energy Institute no longer uses the substitution method to estimate primary energy. Here’s why that matters for our charts on energy.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 30/08/2026

Reaction Diffusion in Photoshop- Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat

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Kate @kit-ty-kate.exn.st · 27/08/2026

noblogs.org maintainers Collettivo Autistici / Inventati, have been declared terrorist organisation by the U.S. cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

Today we were made aware that the US Government has targeted a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy with disproportionate sanctions as anyone can read in the Treasury Department Statement, the State Department Statement and the related Executive Order.

We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations.

We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering.

Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.

Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri”

Stay human

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Daniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been saying for some time that we should use AI systems to produce better work, as opposed to, say, more PDFs. One simple thing we can now do is identify and fix lots of extant errors in the literature. 1/17

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 19/08/2026

Once again: university courses HAVE to change if we want our students to keep learning things. AI hinders education. Learning always requires effort, and effort-shortcuts always impede learning

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

👀 Alt-text: Graph of average exam score for Chinese secondary students vs homework score where students using AI for homework show an anticorrelation at above average homework scores whereas exam scores for students who never used AI are correlated with exam score. 🍎 #AcademicSky

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Frans van Heest @fransvanheest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

NWO kiest 'praktisch' voor Microsoft als ruggengraat van zijn digitale infrastructuur, mede door SURF-licenties. Straks stromen daar de "kroonjuwelen" doorheen: subsidies, financiën, relatiebeheer. Open source is voor de kern uitgesloten, juist nu SURF en universiteiten van Big Tech af willen.

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NWO bouwt nieuwe ruggengraat onder digitale 'kroonjuwelen' op Microsoft - ScienceGuide

NWO heeft "praktisch gekozen" voor Microsoft als ruggengraat van zijn nieuwe digitale infrastructuur, mede vanwege de via SURF beschikbare licenties. Op het platform moeten straks gegevens stromen tus...

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Francis Su @mathyawp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A beautiful reflection on what math is about, and how human understanding is formed, even the an age of AI. I plan to assign it as reading in my advanced analysis course this Fall. From my colleague Jon Jacobsen in the Mathematical Intelligencer: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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In Praise of Acoustic Mathematics - The Mathematical Intelligencer

The Mathematical Intelligencer -

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A conference in honor of Jean-Pierre Serre on the occasion of his 100th birthday will be held in Paris on September 15 and 16, 2026. Speakers: Pierre Deligne, Ramon van Handel, Peter Sarnak, Maryna Viazovska, Don Zagier and possibly Jean-Pierre Serre. www.reddit.com/r/math/comme...

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From the math community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the math community

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is a really interesting story, and good news! It's also well written.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

Story time! Six years ago, my first book, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), came out. It was fun to write! I got to share all my cosmology fun facts and dig deep into all the ways the universe might end. I had SO much fun with it, I thought, "maybe I should write another book?" 1/?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is how it’s done. 👇🧵

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Voor wie geen Spaans leest hier in het Engels. Hoe terecht de reactie en de woede ook is vrees ik dat we in Noord-Europa de extreemrechtse geest niet terug in de fles krijgen. Maar goed, toch maar eens kijken of er iemand sorry durft te zeggen. 2/ www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Sánchez condemns ‘polarising’ reaction of some EU countries to Ceuta border crisis as death toll rises – Europe live

In letter to Brussels, Spanish PM hits out at ‘selfish and illegal’ responses after tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco to Spanish enclave

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ironically less crazy than that thing SBF said to Tyler Cowen. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ev-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. Two men are talking, the first asks "if you had a choice between ten trillion dollars OR flipping a coin for a 50% chance to win twenty trillion dollars and a shiny button, what would you pick?" Smugly, the second man answers "obviously the second thing. Can you even math?" The caption below the comic reads "People who think Expected Value maximization is always logical weird me out."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 31/07/2026

why are you introducing the idea that this software "has spiraled out of human control" before you've informed your readership these hacks occurred because the companies didn't air gap their automated hacking software or conduct tests in truly secure environments?

"The incidents have rattled security specialists and computer scientists. For years, A.I. researchers warned that because the technology was advancing so rapidly, it could soon spiral out of human control — a worrying science-fiction scenario that the industry had long warned would become a reality."

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

📉 Western Europe’s hottest June on record – C3S 3️⃣ bsky.app/profile/cope... Read the article: climate.copernicus.eu/intense-heat... ⬇️

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