iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

over the weekend, leon went rogue and compromised six or maybe seven miller high lifes that were in the fridge. the incident occurred on saturday night and also involved a red baron frozen pizza. we are conducting a thorough investigation into how this happened

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

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John Beacom @johnbeacom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Faculty position in Astronomy open to all topics. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That sign comes with a lotta memories. All praise to my wife whose persistence probably saved it from the trash!

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Search "Aella sankey diagram" if you really want to know the answer to that.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More broadly, I've been surprised at how little discussion I've seen framing AI discussions as a religious movement. They are often literally talking about appeasing an unknowable, all-powerful being that controls the future!

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean, have you read about the Berkeley AI alignment sex cult? I wish I was joking.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI does useful and important things but it is important to understand that it *also* threatens to more or less destroy many systems upon which society relies

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you asked me what Mike Tomlin has been doing as a hobby for the past 12+ years, never in a million, billion guesses would I have come up with "Building a meticulously detailed Minecraft city along modern urbanist design principles"

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We made the NY Times!!! 🤩 🔭🧪🎢

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I also found it a bit confusing that the EoI form refers to "your application" when you haven't yet filed one. Maybe "your planned application" or something.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A couple of usability suggestions based on my read: (1) make it clear whether you can apply even if you did not submit an EoI and/or did not get an invitation! (2) Might be clearer to use "full application" everywhere on the page to distinguish from the EoI.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By "circles and lines", do you mean the kind that ADS generates? They're pretty clean ...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...

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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

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Emily Rauscher @astronemly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes! It’s an amazing group of cross-disciplinary experts we’ve assembled. Come work with us on some really cool projects! 😎😶‍🌫️🤩

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mollweide? That's what the CMB ones use a lot.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My "NSF's continued support of physical and mathematical sciences" email has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the email

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today on the #arXiv: @kortizceballos.bsky.social, Berger, and @whereisyvette.bsky.social 2026, "Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet β Pictoris b" - arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720. Beta Pic b shows up quite neatly in L- and S-band radio, with bursts that imply a kilogauss (!) magnetic field.

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Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet $β$ Pictoris b

Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Writer's block in my experience also often means you don't have your thoughts in order. The block means we don't get to see your words. I suspect that many people now work around their writer's block by getting an LLM to do the writing. And thus we get a lot of half-baked thoughts in document form.

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · 14/09/2026

The American Astronomical Society today announced that Dr. Emily Levesque (University of Washington) has been confirmed as the next Editor in Chief of the AAS journals. 🔭https://aas.org/press/emily-levesque-named-editor-chief-aas-journals @publishing.aas.org

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Now I'm asking myself whether this image is AI or not. I think the "handwritten" addition is way too neat?

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Mark C @largecardinal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers to CFD folks today... Source: r/CFD

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do I know anyone that works at OpenAI? Looks like Tectonic is now bundled in the ChatGPT desktop app, which is nice but surely related to the ~30× increase in traffic to my humble webservers

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Come be my colleague! We're hiring for two faculty positions — 1 open & 1 focusing on astrophysical instrumentation — in Astronomy at UT Austin. The Physics department will also be hiring a cosmologist. Feel free to be in touch if you have questions. aas.org/jobregister/... aas.org/jobregister/...

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I can't even imagine how batshit this is going to be

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ASTRON is excited to advertise two positions: the Bell Burnell Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in Space Weather. Both positions are due 6th of November. Let me know if you have any questions! Bell-Burnell Fellow Ad: aas.org/jobregister/... Radio Star Postdoc Ad: aas.org/jobregister/...

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Bell Burnell Postdoctoral Fellowship | American Astronomical Society

ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, is proud to invite applicants to apply for the Bell Burnell Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship is named in honour, and with support of, Dame...

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today in lolcomputers: mysterious Fortran program crash only when its stdout is redirected to /dev/null (!?) Eventually traced *its PID number having too many digits* — a corner of our Intel runtime kicks in in this case and apparently assumes PIDs won't exceed 999999. Beautiful, no notes.

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Virtual Dust Bunny @virtualdustbunny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today is the 25th anniversary of this episode

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Daina Bouquin @dbouquin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In 1965, two cosmonauts fell out of the sky into a frozen forest, trapped inside a cramped capsule far from rescue. Their survival and their journey home relied on an intricate mechanical computer made of aluminum, clockwork, and paper. Listen to ep 17: Dead Reckoning ✨🌍✨ pod.link/1879625858/e...

A small terrestrial globe surrounded by brass gears. Image via Francois Guay https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Voskhod_spacecraft_IMP_%27Globus%27_navigation_instrument,_inside_view.jpg&oldid=1154798491

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'll just mention that in my career I've had to rescue several scientific software projects and the root cause has always been that there was no one that actually understood how the project worked anymore. I do not believe that LLMs will remove that need.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remember tomorrow to vote against Decker and/or for Burhan (if you live in a particular sliver of Cambridge, both!)

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The future of low frequency radio astronomy is space! It is only in space that we can unlock the last part of the electromagnetic spectrum that has yet to be explored. I am fortunate to play a minor part in this team lead by Joe Lazio for the MegaWave Radio Surveyor space mission.

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Carl Rodriguez @carlrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Various pictures of the Roman launch. Definitely one of the coolest moments I’ve gotten to see in my career.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The defining problem of this entire age is the rejection of maintenance.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes, NYC is a special case, etc etc, but still would love to see other elected officials learning from this comms strategy

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hive mind: anyone have experiences to share about bunny.net and/or AWS FrontDoor flat-rate plans? This could make a big difference for your friendly local cloud-backed embeddable LaTeX compiler. github.com/tectonic-typ...

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Eric Bellm @ebellm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Swift reboost mission failing is a huge loss for astronomy. The powerful, flexible operations model the Swift team demonstrated has unfortunately not yet influenced the design and selection of other 🔭 missions. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission - NASA

Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sure do love spending my weeknights trying to figure out how to combat bot traffic overrunning something I built out of love

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We are advertising a Lecturer in Radio Astronomy continuing position at @sydney.edu.au! Looking for someone to broaden and complement our existing research in #RadioAstro, and teach undergraduate #Physics. usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E... Deadline October 11th

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Lecturer in Radio Astronomy

A full-time Level B continuing position, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to join one of the leading physics schools in the country, with outstanding staf...

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

MIT is hiring in planetary science! There is a deep pool of talent out there, especially in exoplanets, so I'm hoping for a flood of applicants to this (these) Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science positions. eaps.mit.edu/about/employ... I am hoping we can get two hires out of this.

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Employment Opportunities

EAPS is an academic community of approximately 40 faculty, 100 research staff including postdocs, and 175 students who study integrated aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, including through partn...

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's cool I happened to be looking for a reason to spend my evenings managing firewall rules

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