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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, to all the thread. But government assessment of universities would need to change away from for-profit, quantity & IF. Many times, the rules for assessment are made by academics who enjoy the status quo, and so we continue with these problems.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the ultimate man is a mix of Queen's Roger Taylor and Christopher Walken?

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't believe I did everything I had on my calendar today plus a few things more. extremely atypical day

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meu periquito é neurodivergente @mahagod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Como é dar aula em 2026:

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wanna play nethack but too tired from working to get my head in the game. that's annoying.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

people really do the "we're gonna use LLMs to do science but we'll try reeeeeaaaallly hard to avoid hallucinations" sigh.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026

Tech companies don’t understand scholarship. ‘Quickness’ and ‘efficiency‘ are not always the right values. Sometimes you don’t want to “answer your research queries faster” and when you do, existing search technology is more than adequate to help you do scholar.googleblog.com/2026/08/quic...

Answering a research question often requires reading through several papers and figuring out how each of them might be useful. You need to track down what each paper says about your question, what methods the authors used to arrive at the relevant results, and what caveats to keep in mind to understand the boundaries.

Today, we are introducing Scholar Quick Read, to help you answer your research queries faster. Search results in Scholar Labs and Scholar search that discuss your question in depth now include a “Quick read” link.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

tenho tanto trabalho burocrático do programa da pós pra fazer que não sobra tempo pra pesquisa e orientar alunos, viu

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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Corollary: if someone is “brilliant” but an asshole to women and junior colleagues, they are not brilliant. They are bad at their job and should be treated as such

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I need a better acoustic guitar. an electric one too.

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Horrible take. As a postdoc at U of Toronto, we unionized. Before, some post docs got $70k/yr, some $20k/yr. After, $50k minimum. Profs thought it was ok to pay a PhD well below poverty rates; sure, you lack funds, but you still get the labour Can’t be a mentor and a master.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What's most upsetting me as a journal editor is that many papers we receive where AI use is disclosed for editing and language refinement actually appear to have been ruined rather than improved by AI. We get what seem like promising underpinning studies, but totally obscured by over-complex text.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

there's North Northern Ireland and South Northern Ireland, it seems.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

QTP with a game released the year you were born.

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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

IA não democratiza o conhecimento. Ela vende o mesmo, na versão que ela quer deixar disponível pra vc, passando pela censura que está imposta a vc. Vc mesmo? Vc não aprendeu nada. Como isso democratiza algo? Democratizar é te dar o conhecimento técnico de como fazer. Essa é a parte cara.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 15/08/2026

It's been almost 50 years (today is the 49th anniversary) since the WOW! signal! A very strong, narrowband radio signal that originated from deep space and lasted for 72s. The signal has never recurred, and we still don't know what caused it. 📸 Big Ear Radio Observatory/NAAPO 🔭📡 #RadioAstronomy

Print out of computerised reading of radio waves from space, with several columns representing different parameters of the signal. On the left hand side a vertical series of numbers and letters is circled (with a pen) with the words WOW! written next to it.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Scotland, where you can see solar eclipses safely without any eye protection! (I had that experience in 2015)

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

beautiful prominence on the eastern limb! (the reddish arc thingy on the left side of the Sun)

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#nethack a nymph stole my wand of lightning, zapped me with it, blinding me, kept stealing stuff, including a wand of striking, that she zapped and killed me. dlvl 4.

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Katharine the Geek (Lesbian Bitch) @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Of course when i went to read the article, Inside Higher Ed helpfully offered to have “AI” summarize the article for me. Anyone who needs or wants an “AI” summary of an article shouldn’t be working in higher education.

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In other words, every studio needs bullshit like this to grant them the illusion of power and control, because the alternative is too nightmarish to contemplate. That no one knows anything, just make good movies. Take risks. Back writers and directors with vision.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

wait for titles like "A study on quantum superconductive fusion for genes using artificial intelligence with dark matter and energy for cosmology and super symmetry to detect new particles in the context of sustainability for the climate & cancer research while searching for Earth-like exoplanets"

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

como só descobri hoje que isso existiu????

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the same principle applies to science. if all funding goes to what's "hot" in the moment, the chance for new improvements & discoveries is smaller, and we lose the institutional knowledge and momentum in several fields

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

eu já vi esse pastel de eldritch horror na minha região

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

the same (should be more) pushback should happen to *any* scientist that uses LLMs. science communication is important; doing science is arguably more important. LLMs use undermines trust, a key aspect for these endeavors

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Patt Rodriguez @pattrodriguez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"A imprensa nunca publica quem fala a favor do fim da escala 6x1" Olha, publicou. E é um video curtinho, bom de compartilhar.

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Cafeteria em SP troca escala 6x1 por 4x3 e empresária comemora aumento de lucro; veja vídeo

YouTube video by UOL

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920. She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics. 🧪 👩‍🔬 Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Black and white photo of Marie Tharp adding detail to a large map of the sea floor , which is probably 6ft x 3ft. She is wearing a dark sweater over a white, collared blouse, and holding a pen in her right hand.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

uma hora pra chegar no consulado, "fechamos o serviço mais cedo hoje, desculpe", 25 pilas de estacionamento (5min, sem tolerância), 1 hora de caminho de volta.

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No One Upstairs @nooneupstairs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026