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

Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reform’s Zia Yusuf, the son of Sri Lankan Muslims:

Zia Yusuf ∞
@ZiaYusufUK
X.com
The front runner being foisted on the people of Holborn by Labour to replace the former Prime Minister Keir Starmer in our Parliament was born in Somalia.
Do you understand what's happening?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hope every person who made the editorial decisions around this story has a long, hard look in the mirror, and then resigns.

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astronomie.nl @astronomienl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrofysicus (1964-2026) www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/in-me... English: In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrophysicist (1964–2026) www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in... 🔭

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In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrofysicus (1964-2026)

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★ govert schilling @govertschilling.nl · 24/07/2026

r.i.p. ralph wijers 😢🔭 www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/in...

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In memoriam Ralph Wijers, astrophysicist (1964–2026)

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Foteini Oikonomou @astro-foteini.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy to be in beautiful Görlitz this week for the Kavli-IAU Global Coordination workshop. Thanks to @samayanissanke.bsky.social and the team for bringing us together.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

World View: A change in UK policy jeopadizes the future of UK astrophysics - By Catherine Heymans

The latest budget proposal announced by the largest UK science funding agency threatens to severely affect UK astrophysics research. My colleagues and I are fighting back.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

An death just like George Floyd: In Dublin, Ireland, Yves Sakila, a Black Irish Congolese man, appears to have been killed by criminal justice system actors who kneeled on his neck moments before he died. Yves Sakila mattered. Black Lives Matter. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DYfk9HWiPx...

Solidarity with the Irish Congolese community. RIP Yves Sakila.
LA COMMUNAUTÉ CONGOLAISE EN DEUIL
R. I. P YVES-SAKILA
C.C.I
Congolese Community in Ireland
Order • Discipline + Unity
C.C.I présente ses sincères condoléances à la famille éplorée et à toute la communauté congolaise.
Que son âme repose en paix.
Tu resteras à jamais dans nos cœurs.
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In our hearts forever,
never forgotten.
C.C.I - Ensemble, restons unis dans la solidarité.
Order • Discipline • Unity
Vigil Tomorrow (19/05) 12pm, Henry Street.

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• IRISH NETWORK AGAINST RACISM
INAR Statement on the death of Mr Yves Sakila: Monday 18 May 2026. Dublin.
The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) is very concerned about the news that a man, believed to be Mr Yves Sakila, has died from suspected asphyxiation following his apprehension for an alleged shoplifting incident in Arnotts in Dublin on Friday 15 May. Nobody deserves to die for being suspected of shoplifting. Something clearly went terribly wrong. News of the tragedy is doubly shocking as some newspapers have reported that Mr Sakila is said to have "become unresponsive" after Gardai arrived on the scene.
A very disturbing 4m44s video has since emerged which appears to show the man on the ground being subdued by several men, who appear to be security guards and management at Arnotts. One of the men is seen to shift his weight onto his knee to drive it into the neck and head region of the subdued man. The man on the ground is heard shouting in distress as several men are kneeling on his body and the men shout several times for him to "stay down" while holding his neck and pinning his body to the ground with their combined weight. By the end of the 4m44s video we have seen, the man appears motionless. Gardai do not appear to have arrived on the scene at this stage.
Shane O'Curry, Director of INAR said "At INAR we are extremely disturbed by the reports of the incident, and we extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mr Sakila. We are very concerned that this case appears to have the hallmarks of a case of excessive use of force. The death of a black man in such circumstances is extremely worrying, and we urge the authorities to thoroughly investigate all of the circumstances leading to this man's death, in order to ensure minority ethnic community confidence in the criminal justice system."

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

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Samaya Nissanke (she/her) @samayanissanke.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Super excited that we @the new German centre of astrophysics have become major partners of the wonderful optical facility the Zwicky Transient Facility! With @DESY & @AIP. www.ztf.caltech.edu/new/dza-join...

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ZTF news - DZA joins the Zwicky Transient Facility

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"I am most concerned about how the power of AI could be abused" 'Godfather' of artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio, tells #Newsnight of his fear of "a world where the decisions are taken by a few CEOs"

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The Elders @theelders.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

CALL TO ACTION | Governments must act now to manage AI for the public good Elders and leading Artificial Intelligence experts urge governments to tackle escalating AI risks to ensure technology serves humanity, rather than endangering it. Read in full: theelders.org/news/governm...

We reject claims that governments cannot or should not regulate AI: because technology moves too quickly, because companies will regulate themselves, because geopolitical competition matters more than public safety. These narratives are all misleading.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 17/03/2026

Life is actually pretty simple

Meme says
I don't want a city on mars
I don't want AI in every app
I don't want date centers in space
I want clean water
I want affordable healthcare
And I want bees to survive

It shows snoopy fishing and dreaming of the day ;-)

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

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Samaya Nissanke (she/her) @samayanissanke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

HT National Academies of Science, Engineering and medicine

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Samaya Nissanke (she/her) @samayanissanke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Why are we as astronomers in 2026 still orbiting billionaire “courts”? When even Nobel laureates turn up to these events, what message are we sending about our field?

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 06/04/2026

Children in Lebanon are experiencing devastating mental and emotional exhaustion. UNICEF and partners are responding to the needs of children on the move, in shelters and in hard-to-reach areas, but what children need is an end to hostilities.

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Amnesty International USA @amnesty-usa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Civilians in Lebanon are already paying an unbearable price with children, health workers and journalists amongst those killed – the latest attacks will only escalate this devastating human toll. bit.ly/3OfrTWV

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Lebanon: Urgent Call to Protect Civilians as Death Toll Mounts Following Brutal Escalation in Israeli Attacks

Civilians in Lebanon are paying an unbearable price with children, health workers and journalists amongst those killed.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"The reason we have a notion of genocide, and a convention on genocide, is to define certain actions as always and definitively wrong" - Timothy Snyder, "the President speaks genocide" open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Article III of the Genocide Convention makes it clear that not only the person who issues the genocidal order is guilty. Genocide itself is of course a crime, where genocide means the intent that Trump expressed, and actions such as killing members of a group, causing members of a group serious harm, or “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” -- which would of course include actions such as destroying access to energy or water. But also defined as a crime are conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, attempts to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide.

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Sharif University was also a center of anti-regime protests.

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 06/04/2026

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

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Top University in Iran Bombed - Daily Nous

Early this morning, Sharif University of Technology, Iran’s leading technical university, was bombed. As of the writing of this post, it was unclear whether the bombing was carried out by the United S...

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's a good day to remind everyone that you should live your life so that Ronan Farrow never has a reason to write a story about you.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/04/2026

We live in an economic system that needs to expand and endlessly consume and the current space program is part of that story. spacenews.com/the-lunar-mi...

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The lunar mining gold rush is coming – and success requires bridging two worlds

Traditional mining expertise plus space startup innovation will equal the winning formula for lunar resource extraction.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 07/04/2026

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

You’ll want to read Moriba Jah’s op-ed in @nature.com on “the wreckage of ambition without accountability” - how not to screw up the Moon #ArtemisIi 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Moon belongs to all of us — not just countries that can afford to reach it

As humanity blasts off into a new space race, we need a model of exploration that emphasizes stewardship of other worlds, not exploitation.

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Ivo van Vulpen @ivovanvulpen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Work! Come join us! "Staff Scientist, AI and Machine Learning in Physics" in the newly formed AI-group at @nikhef.bsky.social inspirehep.net/jobs/3136923

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INSPIRE

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Congratulations to second-year DPhil student Mitchell Yzer on his highlight talk at UKExom! He gave an amazing overview of how to detect technosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres using the ELT! Lots more exciting work to come out of his research!

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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review. What are we going to do?

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I find it horrific that everyone on this site is swooning over Artemis when Pete Hegseth is talking about bombing Iran to Stone Age. It is like living in an alternate universe.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

What value this mission provides: -- PR for Lockheed Martin, whose weapons have been used for the genocide in Gaza -- Learning how to fly to the moon in this way -- Preparing for a future mission to land on the moon -- Advancing prep for commercialization and militarization of space -- PR for US 🔭

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. Solidarity today and everyday with trans and non-binary folk who claim space unapologetically. As governments turn trans visibility into a matter of “ideology,” we must refuse to see trans lives as a debate and instead nurture trans joy, safety, and belonging.

Photo of trans flag with text on flag which reads, “There are trans people here.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026

Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

His lapel pin appears to be a noose.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/03/2026

Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. ft.trib.al/aSDzL0l

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The Economist @economist.com · 08/03/2026

“Some will say our aspiration [for diplomacy] is naive,” notes Spain’s prime minister. But what is “truly naive” is believing an escalating exchange of drones and missiles will lead to anything good, he argues

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Pedro Sánchez: No to war

It is naive to think that escalating conflict in Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 09/03/2026

'This war will finally kill off Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu has united Israelis behind conflict with Iran; no one will stop West Bank annexation' | ✍️ Max Hastings

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This war will finally kill off Palestinian statehood

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AstroArxiv @astroarxiv.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy in the 2040s. Samaya Nissanke et. al. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14546

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Centre Cosmos, sciences et sociétés @cosciso.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

👩🏻‍🔬 📡 #FemmesEnSciences | Dans le cadre du projet 🇪🇺 PICO, suivez la conférence de Samaya Nissanke, spécialiste en #astrophysique #multimessager et en #ondesgravitationnelles #DESY, #DZA, @unipotsdam.bsky.social 📅 11 février, 12h30 sur YouTube. À ne pas manquer ! 🔗 www.youtube.com/@PicoProject...

Affiche de la conférence du professeur Samaya Michiko Nissanke : "Navigating the cosmos: my journey and reflections as a woman in astronomy".

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals". www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

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Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals

The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...

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