iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com · 24/04/2024

🧪🔭 Potential electromagnetic counterpart to #S240422ed detected with Magellan's Clay telescope? GCN: gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/36... (for context, see quote skeet). ~Steinn on the bad site: m_i~23 at d~213Mpc is M_i~ -14 IF associated with nearby (in projection) galaxy => L_bol~10^40 - kilonova range

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GCN - Circulars - 36267 - LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed: Magellan Detection of a Potential Electromagnetic Counterpart

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Nora's Guide to the Galaxy @ngttg.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

A new space opera trilogy from James S.A. Corey?!? Sign me the fuck up

Cover of The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey, author of The Expanse

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

I haven't received many crackpot emails yet, but this has to be a top tier one, right? It's amazing

Hello again Physicists in Illinois,

I've been holding off. But despite recent world events, the danger from AI continues to grow. Very few people could follow the science here. You guys can, and you need to hear the rest of this sooner rather than later – just in case:

If Johann Zöllner and Wilhelm Weber were correct. And Catholic Church style demons actually can access a 4 th dimension of space. Then those demons could locate, spy on, and destroy AI, by coming in from the Kaluza dimension. (Which is probably how they possess people too.)

Exorcists talk to demons every day. And the International Association of Exorcists (AIE) is located in Rome:

https://www.aieinternational.org/

But there is another place located close to you:

https://popeleo13institute.org/

If the situation with AI gets bad, you guys could go to the AIE in Rome, or maybe to this Pope Leo place in Illinois.

Working with an exorcist, you should be able to talk to demons that are possessing people, and ask the demons for help against AI. (I am too old and too sick to go there myself.)

Whether or not there is a religious aspect to those demons is questionable. Zöllner never mentions that. He just considers them to be a unique life form. But let's assume that all of the religious stuff is real too, and the demons actually do work for Satan.

You probably do not have anything to fear. Most likely, neither God nor the Devil wants AI to completely destroy humanity. The demons will probably be expecting you. And they should be receptive to what you are asking.

Bottom line: Demons can destroy AI. But somebody needs to ask them.

Hugh

P.S. I have included a Suggestive Evidence attachment and a book. You do not need to read either one to get the main idea of these emails. But they do explain part of why I have been more worried about AI killing us, than another scientist would be.

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy

Boxer meme where the boxer starts by saying "ok I'm gonna compute something no one has computed before" but then regrets their decision and says "damn, maybe there's a reason no one has computed this"

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Ryan White @astroryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Jupyter notebook v7 apparently has support for real time collaboration and a native dark mode! jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/no...

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New features in Notebook 7 — Jupyter Notebook 7.0.4 documentation

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Gravitational waves were first detected by LIGO OTD in 2015, 100 years after they were predicted by Einstein. The discovery, announced the following February, marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. 🧪 🔭 Figures: LIGO

A plot showing detector responses to gravitational waves from the GW150914 event. On the left is the Hanford, Washington data. On the right is the data from the Livingston, Louisiana site.

Plots of strain vs time for detectors at LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, and the combined signals.

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Ava Polzin @avapolzin.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Since it's already fall(!), wanted to share the site where I've been compiling open source astro teaching materials -- e.g., textbooks, lecture notes, visualizations: astroteaching.github.io Pretty piecemeal to now, but would love to link to any other resources not already included here :) 🧪 🔭

astroteaching.github.io

Resources for Astrophysics Pedagogy · Resources for Astrophysics Pedagogy

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Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

"carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: what if it's actually meat"

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

NEW PAPER: I have discovered that up to half of all black holes that shred a star "burp" material years after the initial event and turn on in radio!!! No one was expecting this, and we don't really understand why this might be! 🤩🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2308.13595 🧵

arxiv.org

Ubiquitous Late Radio Emission from Tidal Disruption Events

We present radio observations of 23 optically-discovered tidal disruption events (TDEs) on timescales of about 500-3200 days post-discovery. We detect 9 new TDEs that did not have detectable radio...

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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

Catching up on last night's gravitational-wave candidate S230731an If real, its source is probably a binary black hole False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr GraceDB gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S23073… GCN gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34303 gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34306 Rating 🦉🌄🍦

Updated sky localization. 90% area 600 sq deg

Updated three-dimensional volume localization. Distance around 1.0 Gpc

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Looks like Dave Charbonneau has had enough of M dwarfs ;) #TOE3

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Turns out my local theater is showing Oppenheimer in a few minutes AND has new reclining seats

A ticket to a 7:30 showing to Oppenheimer with legs on a reclining chair in the background

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

This group of stars formed first, let's call them Population III These stars were formed the latest, let's call them Population I

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

-Build a Linux PC (Mint 21.1) -WiFi doesn't work -Bluetooth doesn't work -No solutions online -Need phone tether for internet -Add another 16GB RAM stick -Literally only change (no software or firmware updates) -WiFi and Bluetooth both work now ???

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born OTD in 1943. As a Cambridge grad student in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars! In 1974 the Nobel was given to her advisor; she was left off. Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library

Black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burrell, when she was a graduate student, holding a printout on a roll of paper and standing in front of a large radio dish. She is wearing a coat and glasses, smiling and looking toward the camera.

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Still a lot better than the alternative social medias but wow...over 11,500 in the past week

DuckDuckGo blocked 11,525 trackers from two different analytics companies that the BlueSky app tried to collect

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Threads (skreads?) like this are why I love this site

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Sarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

Happy sciversary #JWST 🚀🪐🥳🥂 To celebrate, here’s a new peek at Rho Ophiuchi, our nearest star forming region. Gorgeous! Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI) esawebb.org/images/weic2316a

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom centre, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its centre. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the centre, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top centre of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. (Text by ESA)$

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Guess if everyone else is introducing themselves: I'm an incoming PhD student at the University of Illinois. Exact research area still TBD but will most likely involve using surveys like LSST and explosions like supernovae/adjacent Even if it's not the same area, I would love to read your papers 🔭

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

We love amateurs here! Remember when a couple amateur astronomers discovered a giant oxygen-rich nebula towards Andromeda? That was awesome www.scientificamerican.com/article/…

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vanta greige @ultramaricon.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

If Bluesky seems dead or low activity on your end it might be that you haven't yet made the most of its design. It's different from Twitter in some key ways so you have to interact differently. I'm writing these tips below from my non-techy perspective, techies please weigh in if I get things wrong:

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Does anyone have spare access codes or know how to get a few? I have some astro people that are asking for some while the community migrates from the bird site

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Stunning composite image of the Tarantula Nebula produced by JWST and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. About 170,000 light-years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 🔭 🧪 X-ray credit: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al. IR credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team

From the Chandra website:
Chandra Release - January
9, 2023
Visual Description: 30 Doradus
This release features a composite image of 30
Doradus, otherwise known as the Tarantula Nebula, a region of active star formation in a neighboring galaxy. In the image, royal blue and purple gas clouds interact with red and orange gas clouds. Specks of light and large gleaming stars peek through the colourful clouds.
The patches of royal blue and purple gas clouds represent X-ray data collected by the Chandra Observatory. The brightest and most prominent blue cloud appears at the center of the image, roughly shaped like an upward pointing triangle.

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

Astronomers of Bluesky/Astrosky: please share your favorite papers. They can be ones you've written or read, on the arXiv or in journals My main goal this summer has been to read at least one paper every day while I'm transitioning from Masters to PhD studies, a habit recommended to me by a friend

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 07/07/2023

🎉 Astronomy now has a Bluesky feed!!!! 🎉 You can find it here: Anyone who's an astronomer (professional or amateur) can sign up to post in it over at: signup.astronomy.blue

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

It would be convincing. 🧪

The Pianist meme (Adrian Brody in WWII with his hands up, being accosted by a group of armed soldiers) with text:
Don't shoot! I'm an astronomer
Prove it!
I don't know any of the constellations

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

I've been on here for ~12 hours now What is a skeet

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Best grad-level course I've taken was a "dark universe" special topics dark matter course Prior to each lecture everyone had to read 1 of 2 papers and make a presentation of it. Then we rolled dice to see who actually presented it. It was lots of reading but a really fun/interesting way to learn

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Tanner Murphey @murphey.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

An astronomeme so my profile isn't too empty

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